Click Funnels

ClickFunnels pays 20% recurring to start, rising to 30% and then 40% once you're selling 40 accounts a month. It runs for the life of the customer, which makes it one of the few genuinely uncapped recurring programs in marketing software.

What you're promoting

ClickFunnels builds sales funnels: landing pages, order forms, upsells, email follow-up and membership areas in one system. It sells to course creators, coaches, ecommerce operators and agencies who want the whole funnel without stitching six tools together.

Plans run from around $97 a month upward, so 20% of a starter account is roughly $19 every month for as long as they stay. Retention is decent because migrating a live funnel is genuinely painful.

The tier ladder, and one trap

Everyone starts at 20%. Thirty percent comes with volume, and 40% requires selling 40 accounts in a month, which is a serious operation rather than a side project. Assume 20% when you model your income.

The trap is in the payout terms: the threshold is $100, and commissions under $100 expire after 120 days. If you refer one account and never build on it, that commission can quietly disappear before you reach the threshold. Either commit to volume or don't bother.

There's also a dream car incentive at 100 active members, where ClickFunnels reimburses a lease payment. Treat it as a milestone marker, not a plan.

Who converts

People already selling something online who are frustrated by their current stack. Funnel teardowns, "how I built X" case studies and comparisons against building the same thing in WordPress convert well because the reader has a concrete problem.

Beginners with nothing to sell don't convert and shouldn't. ClickFunnels at $97 a month is an expensive way to have no offer, and recommending it to that audience produces churn that costs you the recurring commission anyway.

ClickFunnels vs Kajabi for affiliates

Kajabi front-loads and ClickFunnels compounds. Over any horizon longer than a few months, an uncapped 20% beats Kajabi's post-bounty 10 to 20%. ClickFunnels is the better long-term asset if your audience actually sticks with the product.

Getting approved

Sign up through the ClickFunnels affiliate portal. Approval is open and there's no traffic requirement, which is why the program has a reputation for attracting low-quality promotion. Being a customer helps you write credibly about it, and it shows.

Verdict

A strong uncapped recurring program undermined by an expiring commission rule that punishes casual affiliates. If you can reliably produce referrals, the lifetime 20% compounds into real income. If you can send one or two a year, your commissions may expire before you ever get paid.