Sikhami Affiliate Program

Join

1. 1
   Make sure the email address on your Sikhami account is verified. See Verify your email and phone number.
2. 2
   Open your affiliate dashboard. If you are not logged in, Sikhami asks you to log in first and then brings you back.
3. 3
   Choose your code: 4 to 20 letters or digits, with no spaces. Sikhami suggests one from your username. Codes are saved in capital letters, and each code belongs to one person only.
4. 4
   Join. You are an affiliate at once: there is no approval to wait for and no fee.

Your link

Your link is any sikhami.com address with ?ref= and your code at the end. For example, sikhami.com/lms?ref=YOURCODE opens the Sikhami LMS page, and sikhami.com/?ref=YOURCODE opens the home page. Your dashboard builds ready links for Sikhami LMS, Sikhami for Course Sellers and the home page, and for any other sikhami.com address you paste.

• A visitor counts as yours for 90 days from their last click on your link. If they click it again, the 90 days start again.
• Sikhami remembers the click in the visitor's browser. When they log in or sign up, it is kept with their Sikhami account.
• If a visitor clicks links from two affiliates, the last click wins.
• Once a customer makes their first plan payment, their plan stays with the affiliate whose link they came through, for 12 months. Clicking another affiliate's link later does not move it.

What earns a commission

Plans

A monthly plan earns you 20% of each monthly payment for 12 months, so up to 12 payments. A yearly plan earns 20% of its one payment. Payments after the 12 months earn nothing. The customer's free month or free trial comes first, and the 12 months start at their first payment.

Example: 10 institutes start Sikhami LMS Pro, monthly, through your link. 10 × ₹2,499 × 20% = ₹4,998 a month, or ₹59,976 over 12 months if all of them keep paying. This is before TDS (see TDS and GST).

Courses and other sales

When someone who counts as yours buys a course, a course bundle, notes, a club, a membership, a meetup, a study room or a workshop, you earn 5% of the price they paid. It comes out of Sikhami's fee and is never more than Sikhami's fee before GST, so the seller gets exactly what they would get anyway. For example, a ₹999 course bought through your link earns you ₹49.95.

Where Sikhami's fee is small, you earn less. Courses of an institute on a paid Sikhami LMS plan carry only a small fee, and Sikhami for Course Sellers workshops carry none, so they earn little or nothing.

What does not earn

• Your own purchases.
• Plan payments of a customer who had already paid for a Sikhami LMS or Course Sellers plan before they came through your link. Their other purchases through your link can still earn.
• Ads, ad balance and Super Chat.
• Anything bought while your affiliate account is suspended.
• Payments that are refunded. See Refunds.

Your dashboard

Your dashboard at sikhami.com/affiliates/home shows:

• Your code, and a link builder for any sikhami.com page.
• Your numbers: clicks on your links, people who came through them, customers on a plan, sales and what you have earned.
• Every commission, with what was bought, the customer's first name and the first letter of their last name, the amount, and the date it can be paid.
• Whether your PAN and bank details are on file, and how much is on hold, ready and paid.

When you are paid

• Each commission waits 30 days from the payment, in case the payment is refunded.
• After that, it is paid to your bank account in Sikhami's monthly payout.
• Payouts need your PAN and bank account on Bank and tax details, and Sikhami's check of those details (KYC). See Bank and tax details (KYC).
• Sikhami pays once at least ₹500 is ready. A smaller amount waits for a later month.

TDS and GST

Commission is income for you. Under section 194H of the Income Tax Act, Sikhami deducts TDS (tax deducted at source) once your commission in a financial year (April to March) passes ₹20,000:

• 2% if you have added your PAN.
• 20% if you have not added your PAN (section 206AA).
• The payment that takes your year past ₹20,000 also covers the TDS on your earlier commission that year.
• TDS already deducted is not given back if a payment is refunded later. It stays credited against your PAN.

Commission amounts include any GST: nothing is added on top. For more about taxes on Sikhami, see Taxes on your sales.

Refunds

If a payment is refunded, the commission on it is taken back: all of it for a full refund, or the same share for a part refund. If that commission was already paid to you, the amount is taken from your later commission.

Questions