Share your personal referral link or invite someone by email, and you both get 1,000 free credits the moment they sign up. Track every invite from a dedicated Earn Credits page, and keep earning until you hit the 10-referral cap.
Every account gets a personal referral link the moment it is created. There is nothing to configure and no separate signup: the link is generated from your workspace and ready to share the same day you start using Sistava.
You can invite people two ways. Paste your link anywhere: a message, a social post, an email you write yourself. Or send a direct email invite from the Earn Credits page and Sistava emails them on your behalf, with your workspace name attached so they know it came from you. Either path leads to the same reward: when the person you invited signs up, you both receive 1,000 credits automatically, no support ticket or manual approval needed.
The difference from a generic discount code is that this rewards both sides of the introduction, not just the new signup. A promo code only benefits the person redeeming it; a referral pays the person making the introduction too, which is what turns existing users into an active source of new ones instead of a one-time coupon redemption.
Credits land as soon as your invitee's account is created, no purchase or subscription required on their end. There is a cap of 10 rewarded referrals per account, so the maximum you can earn from the program is 10,000 credits, on top of whatever your invitee earns for signing up.
Referral credits are lifetime credits. They do not expire, they do not reset at the start of a billing period, and they sit on top of whatever your plan already gives you each month rather than replacing part of it. In practice that means an introduction you make today is still paying for work your employees do months from now.
A referral and a promo code are not mutually exclusive. One of each can apply to the same signup, so someone arriving through your link during a campaign can carry the campaign code as well. What is not allowed is referring yourself: a signup from an account tied to you is detected and grants nothing to either side, which is what keeps the program worth running for everyone else.
Referrals are also not the same thing as the affiliate program, and it is worth knowing which one you want. Referrals are built into every account from day one, need no approval, and pay you in credits you spend inside Sistava. The affiliate, reseller, and expert programs are separate, you apply to join them, and they pay real commission on customers you bring in. If you have an audience rather than a few people to introduce, that is the door you want; the two do not conflict.
Copy your referral link straight from the Earn Credits page and share it wherever makes sense, a message, a group chat, a post. Anyone who signs up through that link is automatically counted as your referral, no code to type in.
Or send a direct email invite from the same page. Sistava sends the invite email for you, carrying your workspace name so the recipient knows exactly who invited them. You can see whether each invite is still pending or has been accepted at any time.
When your invitee signs up, they receive 1,000 credits as a welcome bonus, on top of anything else their plan includes. You receive 1,000 credits at the same time, credited to your account automatically with no manual step on your part.
You can be rewarded for up to 10 successful referrals per account, for a maximum of 10,000 earned credits. There is no limit on how many people you can invite, only on how many of those invites earn you credits once the cap is reached; every invite still tracks and your invitee still gets their bonus.
Three different things reward bringing people in, and they are easy to confuse. A promo code is carried by the person signing up and rewards only them. A referral rewards both sides and needs nothing but the link your account already has. The affiliate, reseller, and expert programs are separate again: you apply to them, and they pay commission in money rather than credits.
You are not choosing between them. A referral and a promo code can both apply to the same signup, and joining a paid program later does not take your referral link away. Start with referrals because there is nothing to set up, and look at the Earn Money page if you have an audience, an agency, or the appetite to onboard other businesses yourself.
One link, tracked automatically, credited the moment someone signs up
Your referral code is tied to your workspace. When someone opens your link or clicks through an email invite you sent, that code travels with their signup. As soon as their account is created, the system checks the code, confirms it is not a self-referral, and grants 1,000 credits to their new account and 1,000 credits to yours in the same step.
If you sent an email invite instead of sharing the link, the invite is tracked from the moment you send it: it shows as pending on your Earn Credits page until they sign up, then flips to accepted and the credits post. If you share the raw link instead and someone signs up with it, the same record is created automatically at signup, so both paths show up in the same tracker.
Your Earn Credits page lists every invite you have sent, its status, how many of your 10 rewarded referrals you have used, and the running total of credits you have earned from the program. Credits never expire once granted, and they are visible in your standard credit balance and grant history right away.
Share your referral link with people who could genuinely use an AI employee. Each signup adds 1,000 credits to your account, up to 10 times, effectively extending how much work your workspace can do for free.
If you are already using Sistava for client or team work, send a direct email invite instead of a cold link. They arrive with 1,000 credits already in their account, so their first session is not spent worrying about balance.
The Earn Credits page keeps a running list of every invite you have sent, its status, and your total credits earned, so you always know how many of your 10 rewarded referrals are left.
If you have a handful of people to introduce, referrals are the whole answer and need no setup. If you have an audience, an agency, or clients you would onboard yourself, the Earn Money page is where the affiliate, reseller, and expert programs live, and joining one does not take your referral link away.
| Before | After |
|---|---|
| You recommend a tool you genuinely like and get nothing for it, so telling people never quite reaches the top of your list. | You and the person you introduced both get a credit bonus the moment they sign up, with nothing to claim. |
| A discount code rewards only the person redeeming it, so the introduction itself counts for nothing. | A referral pays both sides, which is what makes an introduction worth making in the first place. |
| You mention the product to a handful of people and never find out whether any of them actually signed up. | The Earn Credits page lists every invite you sent, whether it is still pending or accepted, and what you have earned so far. |
| Claiming a referral reward means emailing support and waiting for somebody to approve it manually. | Credits post automatically at signup and show up in your balance and grant history straight away. |
You get 1,000 credits and your invitee gets 1,000 credits as soon as they sign up through your link or invite. Both amounts post automatically, with no waiting period or manual approval.
Yes. You can earn credits for up to 10 successful referrals per account, a maximum of 10,000 credits from the program. You can still invite more people beyond that, and each one still gets their own signup bonus, but additional referrals past the tenth stop adding to your balance.
Either works. Sharing your personal link is the fastest way, anyone who signs up through it counts automatically. Sending an email invite from the Earn Credits page does the same thing but lets Sistava send the message for you and lets you track that specific invite as pending until it is accepted.
No. Signups through your own referral link or invite from an account tied to you are blocked and will not grant credits to either side.
As soon as your invitee's account is created. Both your credits and theirs post in the same step, and you can see the grant immediately in your credit balance and grant history on the Earn Credits page.
No. Credits earned from referrals are lifetime credits: they never expire and they are not reset at the start of a billing period. They sit on top of the allowance your plan already includes each month rather than replacing part of it.
Yes. One promo code and one referral can both apply to a single signup, so a person arriving through your link during a campaign can still enter the campaign code. Promo codes do not stack with each other, and neither do referrals.
Referrals are built into every Sistava account, need no approval, and reward you and your invitee in credits you spend inside the product. The affiliate, reseller, and expert programs are separate, you apply to join them, and they pay commission in money on the customers you bring in.
Referrals is part of How you run the account itself.
Sign in the way your company already does, decide who can do what, and keep the money side legible. Credits, plans, invoices, referrals, and the controls that decide who reaches which part of the workspace.