Today we’re launching the FreezeAlert Referral Program. It’s the simplest version of a referral we could ship and still feel good about: every friend you bring on saves 20% on their subscription, and you get a free month added to your plan for every one of them who converts. No cash payouts, no affiliate dashboards — just a small thank-you that lives inside the product you’re already using.
Why We Built It
The most common way founders find FreezeAlert is through other founders. Someone gets their account frozen, scrambles for two weeks, finally recovers, and immediately tells everyone in their Slack and Discord communities to set up monitoring. That word-of-mouth has driven the majority of our growth, and it never felt right that the people doing the recommending got nothing back.
We considered cash commissions but didn’t love it: it adds 1099s, payout thresholds, and a sales-y dynamic that doesn’t fit how our customers actually talk about us. A free month inside the tool you already pay for is cleaner — it rewards the recommendation directly, and it keeps the conversation about the product instead of about earnings.
How It Works
Three steps, no paperwork:
- Get your link. Open your FreezeAlert dashboard and head to the new “Referrals” tab. You’ll find a unique URL tied to your account.
- Share it. Drop it in your newsletter, your community Slack, your Twitter replies, or anywhere a fellow Stripe operator might benefit. We give you a small kit of copy and screenshots to make it easy.
- Both sides win. Anyone who signs up through your link gets 20% off their FreezeAlert subscription automatically applied at checkout. The moment they convert to a paid plan, one free month is added to your own subscription. Refer ten people, get ten free months — they stack.
Who Can Join
Any active FreezeAlert customer is eligible the moment they connect their first Stripe account — there’s no application, no minimum follower count, no tier system. Free-trial users can grab their link too, but the free month is only credited once you’re on a paid plan yourself.
What we don’t allow: paid search ads on FreezeAlert-branded keywords, self-referrals (signing up your own second workspace), and bulk unsolicited email. The full terms are linked from the dashboard.
Tracking and Rewards
Every referral shows up in your dashboard with the friend’s signup date, plan, and the status of your free-month credit (pending → applied). We use first-party cookies with a 60-day attribution window, so if someone clicks your link, bookmarks the site, and signs up six weeks later, you still get credit.
The 20% discount applies for as long as your friend stays on their initial plan; if they upgrade or downgrade, the discount carries over to the new tier. Your free months are added to the end of your current billing period and never expire — they roll forward indefinitely until you use them.
Get Started
Open your dashboard, click Referrals, and your link will be waiting. If you don’t have an account yet, you can spin one up in under two minutes — and your link is generated the moment you sign in.
We’re keeping the program simple on purpose: the people who care enough about other founders to recommend FreezeAlert are exactly the people we want to share the upside with. Welcome aboard.
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