Affiliates
Your society already gives this advice. Get paid for it.
30% of every subscription payment and 10% of every service, for the 12 months after someone first buys through your link or your code. One monthly subscriber who stays the year is £144.
Say this out loud
Affiliates are paid. That is the whole arrangement, and you have to tell people: We earn a commission if you buy through this link or code. It does not change what you pay. A code never changes what anybody pays. Your members are charged the published price with it or without it, and the commission comes out of our margin, not out of their pocket.
What it pays
Two rates, because the two things cost us different amounts. A subscription is content we have already written and a few pence of hosting, so a real share of it can go to you. A CV review or a coaching hour is an evening of an actuary’s time, and the same share of that hour is not there to give away.
Monthly
£12£39.99 at 30%, every month they stay, up to a year
Annual
£75£249.99 at 30%, on the year they buy
Lifetime
£119.70£399 at 30%, once
CV review
£3.90£39 at 10%, each time they buy, for a year
Cover letter review add-on
£1£9.99 at 10%, each time they buy, for a year
Mock interview
£6.90£69 at 10%, each time they buy, for a year
1-1 coaching
£6.90£69 at 10%, each time they buy, for a year
A member who subscribes monthly is worth £12 a month to you for as long as they stay, up to a year. One who buys a CV review is worth £3.90. Thirty members doing the first is £360 a month.
Codes earn from the day they are issued.
A link to post, and a code that works without one
You get both, because your society reaches people in two different ways. A link is the easy one: somebody taps it in your Instagram story or your newsletter and there is nothing for them to remember, beyond one tap to let us keep your code. But a link is no use on a slide at the careers evening, in the photograph half the room takes of that slide, or in a message forwarded to a friend who buys three weeks later on a different device. The code covers all of that, because the person carries it rather than the browser. Post the link where people tap; say the code where people are listening.
Your code looks like
BAYES-2026
And your link
acttuary.com/r/BAYES-2026
Your society and the year your committee took office. The year is there because committees hand over every summer and the money should hand over with them. Capitals and hyphens do not matter: we read it the same way whether it is typed off a slide or out of a group chat. The link is that same code, so both of them earn into the same account and you never have to reconcile two things.
Share your link and anyone who follows it is asked once, in a small line at the foot of the page, whether to keep your code. One tap, and it remembers nothing about them; if they say no, nothing is stored at all and they are never asked again. Or share the code on its own, for the slide and the group chat, and your members type it into the box at checkout. If somebody does both, the typed code wins, because that is the one they told us themselves. If somebody forgets both, they have a week: one line to hello@acttuary.com with the code and the email address they bought under, and we add it by hand. Nothing is lost any of the three ways.
We ask before we store anything. Somebody who follows your link is asked once, on the page they land on, whether to keep your code in their browser for ninety days: one tap, and it remembers nothing about them. If they say no, nothing is stored and they are not asked again. It is the only thing we would ever store on anybody’s device for this, we never use it to follow anyone around the internet, and our cookies page names it.
What your members get
The honest answer, because you are going to be asked it in front of a room.
- The same price you pay. A code never changes what anybody pays. Your members are charged the published price with it or without it, and the commission comes out of our margin, not out of their pocket. No code makes it cheaper and no code makes it dearer, so nobody in that room is worse off for having listened to you.
- Everything that is already free. The free cheatsheets, every tool on the site and the preview lessons in every course need no code and no account. Lead with those, not with us: the free tools are the part of this your members will thank you for first.
- A society with money in the account. The commission can be paid straight to the society. Every member who was going to buy anyway funds the next careers evening instead of funding our advertising.
Who we say yes to
- University actuarial and maths society committees, applying as the society. This is who the programme was built for, and the commission can be paid to the society's own account.
- Course reps and student ambassadors on an actuarial or actuarial-science-adjacent degree.
- Anyone running a genuine UK actuarial careers audience: a newsletter, a YouTube channel, a study group.
And who we do not
- Anyone under 18. A commission arrangement is a contract, and a minor's is voidable.
- Employers, recruiters and universities recommending us to people they assess or teach. The conflict is not disclosable away.
- Anyone who would rather not say they are paid. Disclosure is the condition, so this rules itself out.
- Paid search on our name, or anything that puts a code in front of somebody already on their way to us. It buys us nothing and we would be paying for a sale we already had.
How to join
One email, no form.
Email hello@acttuary.com with the details below. We answer within 5 working days, and a real person reads it.
- 1Your society or audience, and your role in it.
- 2Roughly how many actuarial students you reach, and how you reach them.
- 3The code you want. Your society's name and the year your committee took office is the convention.
- 4Where the money should go: a society account, or a personal one.
Getting paid. Commission clears 30 days after the payment it came from, so that a refund or a chargeback in that time cancels it before it is owed rather than after it is paid. Once your cleared balance reaches £20, we pay it by UK bank transfer in the first week of every month. You do not have to ask and you do not have to chase: we run the payments once a month and yours goes out in that run. Every payment made with your code is recorded the moment it happens, so neither of us is working from memory. There is no dashboard for you to sign into: ask any time and we will send you the statement we are paying against, payment by payment.
The terms, in full
All of them, on the page, because an agreement you have to email for is one nobody reads.
- What earns commission
- Every payment somebody makes to us in the 12 months after their first purchase with your code, at the rates above. Your link and your code are the same code, so it makes no difference which one they used. A monthly subscription earns on each month it renews inside that window, so a subscriber who stays the year earns you the subscription rate on all 12 payments. A one-off service earns each time they buy one.
- What does not
- Your own purchases. Anything bought more than 12 months after the first one, whoever buys it and however many times they come back. Payments we refund in full or lose to a chargeback, which is why commission clears after 30 days rather than on the day it is paid: a refund or a chargeback in that time cancels it before it is owed. If we refund only part of a payment you keep commission on the part the customer kept, worked out at the same rate; a partial refund never cancels the whole of it.
- You must say you are paid
- Every time you share the code, in the same place you share it. We earn a commission if you buy through this link or code. It does not change what you pay. Those words, or #ad on a social post, or anything else that is as clear. Concealing it breaches the DMCC Act 2024 and ends the arrangement. Do not post a review of us anywhere while you hold a code. A paid recommendation dressed as an ordinary customer review is the one thing in this area that is a criminal offence and not merely a fine.
- The price is the price
- A code never changes what anybody pays. Your members are charged the published price with it or without it, and the commission comes out of our margin, not out of their pocket. Do not tell anybody the code gets them a discount, because it does not, and a discount we then fail to apply is our problem as much as yours.
- How you are paid
- UK bank transfer, in the first week of every month, once your cleared balance is at least £20. You do not have to ask: we run the payments once a month and yours goes out in that run. Below the threshold the balance waits; it does not expire. Email hello@acttuary.com with your code any time and we will send you the statement we are paying against, payment by payment.
- Tax is yours
- We do not deduct anything. Commission paid to a students' union society is usually its own affair, and commission paid to you personally is yours to declare. If you are not sure which you are, ask your union before you apply.
- Either of us can stop
- You can stop any time. We can end a code or the whole programme with 30 days' notice, and we will pay everything already earned. Ending a code ends its link with it and stops both earning on new purchases from that moment; a subscription it had already referred goes on earning every month it renews, for the rest of its 12 months, because that sale was already made. We will end a code without notice only for the disclosure rule, for paid search on our name, or for anything that misrepresents what we sell.
Acttuary is independent and not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, and nothing we sell carries exam exemptions. Please do not imply otherwise when you share the code. Read what you would be recommending before you recommend it. See pricing.