In short
Earn 15% of every paid deposit from users you refer to VirtualSMS, paid out in USDT (TRC-20) once your balance crosses $25. No approval gate, no traffic minimums, lifetime attribution on the cookie. The program is built for Telegram channel owners, dev YouTubers, niche-vertical bloggers, and anyone who regularly recommends real-SIM verification tools to an audience that signs up to it.
What you earn
The headline rate is 15% on every paid deposit a referred user makes — not just their first deposit, and not capped at a fixed window. As long as your referral code is the last touch before signup, every future top-up they make pays you 15% of that amount. A power user who deposits $50 a month for a year is a $90 lifetime commission to you, not $7.50 on the first deposit.
API resellers are a separate tier at 5% on volume, which reflects the thinner margin we earn on the wholesale side. The dashboard inside your account shows both rates and tracks them separately so you can see which traffic source is driving retail volume versus API volume.
Minimum payout
Payout threshold is $25 in earned commission. Below that, your balance keeps accruing in the dashboard; above it, you can request a USDT (TRC-20) payout via the Telegram support bot, or apply the balance as platform credit instantly without waiting for an off-platform transfer. Most affiliates choose the credit option for amounts under $100 because it lands the same minute you click.
No clawbacks on legitimate traffic
We do not claw back commissions when a referred user requests a refund on a failed verification — the auto-refund flow is part of normal product behavior, not a fraud signal. Clawbacks only apply if the referral itself is fraudulent (the same person referring themselves through a second account, bot-driven signups with no real verification activity, paid-traffic schemes that violate the affiliate terms).
Who this program is built for
We do not run a generic affiliate program competing with a thousand other CPaaS rebates. The 15% rate is possible because we know the audience that converts on real-SIM verification, and the program is shaped around them.
Telegram channel owners in privacy / multi-account / OSINT niches
This is the largest single category by volume. Channels with 5K-50K subscribers in privacy-focused, anti-detect-browser, multi-account-operations, or OSINT-tooling niches consistently outperform every other traffic source we see. The audience is already in the buying mindset; they just need to know the tool exists and the success rate justifies the price. A pinned post and a follow-up review is usually enough.
Niche-vertical bloggers and review sites
Independent reviewers who cover SMS verification tools, anti-detect browsers, residential proxies, or Telegram-bot tooling drive steady evergreen traffic. Long-form comparison posts (e.g. “real-SIM vs VoIP for WhatsApp verification”) tend to rank for specific search and AI-search queries that carry strong purchase intent. We support these affiliates with custom UTM tracking, deep links to the relevant service or country page, and source data on success-rate differentials they can cite.
Developer-focused YouTubers and educators
Channels that walk through automation flows, account creation pipelines, or scraping setups for technical audiences see strong conversion on the SDK side. The integration story (npm/PyPI/MCP) gives a clear narrative arc for a tutorial. Devs who watch the video and try the SDK convert at a high rate because the friction is genuinely low.
Telegram and Discord community moderators
Communities focused on multi-account operations, account farming, online dating optimization, and crypto-onboarding workflows have repeated need for verification and a high baseline trust in moderator recommendations. A pinned message in the resources channel tends to outperform a paid ad many times over.
How to get started
The whole onboarding takes under five minutes. Three steps, no approval gate.
- Sign up. Create a regular VirtualSMS account at /signup. The same account is used for both the affiliate program and any verifications you buy yourself; you do not need a separate affiliate-only account.
- Get your link. Once logged in, the affiliate dashboard at /affiliate shows your unique referral code, a full referral link, and a Telegram-bot deep link with the same attribution. Copy any of them into your post / tweet / video description.
- Share. Post the link wherever your audience is. Every signup that comes through it gets your code attached for life. Real-time stats and commission ledger appear in the dashboard within seconds of the first conversion.
Tracking + reporting
The affiliate dashboard tracks five metrics live: total signups attributed to your code, lifetime revenue generated by those users, total commission earned, pending payout balance, and a per-user activity table showing first signup date, total deposited, and your share. Every commission entry is timestamped to the second so you can correlate spikes back to specific posts or videos.
For more granular attribution you can append your own UTM parameters to the referral link — the underlying cookie attribution still respects your code, and the UTM string lets you separate, say, Telegram-channel signups from YouTube-description signups in your own tooling. The dashboard exposes a CSV export for affiliates running their own analytics pipelines.
Cookie window is 90 days from last touch. If a user clicks your link on day 1, comes back via direct traffic on day 60, and signs up on day 75, you still get credit. Cookies are first-party on virtualsms.io, so they survive most modern privacy defaults.
Payouts
Standard payout rail is USDT on TRC-20 (Tron). The network fee is roughly $1 per transfer regardless of amount, which is why we hold the $25 minimum — below that the fee meaningfully eats into the payout. BNB-USDT (BEP-20) is supported on request for affiliates already running on the BSC network. Other crypto rails (Ethereum mainnet, Polygon, Bitcoin) are case-by-case via support; we generally route through what is cheapest for the affiliate.
Alternative: take the commission as platform credit instead of an external transfer. Lands instantly, skips the $1 network fee, and applies against any future verification or rental order. Common for smaller affiliates who also use the platform themselves, or anyone who wants to test conversion quality before withdrawing externally.
Payouts are processed within 24 hours of the request, typically same-day during business hours (GMT+7). If a payout is delayed beyond 48 hours, contact support via the Telegram bot — the bot escalates affiliate-payout queries directly to the operator on call.
Affiliate program FAQ
Is there an approval process?
No. Every account has affiliate access enabled by default. Your referral code is generated at signup and immediately ready to share. We monitor for fraudulent traffic patterns server-side rather than gating the program at the front door.
Can I run paid ads (Google Ads, Reddit Ads, etc.) on the brand name?
Bidding on the “VirtualSMS” brand name is not allowed — that just inflates our own cost-per-acquisition for traffic we already own. Paid traffic on category keywords (“SMS verification”, “virtual phone number”, etc.) is fine as long as it lands somewhere reasonable and the campaign is opt-in to your real audience, not bot-driven.
How long does my referral cookie last?
90 days from last touch. Click resets the window, so an active audience that engages repeatedly keeps the attribution alive indefinitely. Lifetime commission applies to all deposits the referred user makes once they sign up under your code, regardless of cookie expiry at deposit time.
What counts as a fraudulent referral?
Self-referrals (same operator under a second account), bot-driven signups with no genuine verification activity, paid-traffic schemes that violate the program terms, and signups attached to known blacklisted payment instruments. The system flags these automatically; we will reach out before clawing back if there is any ambiguity in the signal.
Can I get a higher than 15% rate at scale?
Affiliates driving consistent volume above $5K monthly revenue have negotiated custom rates — both higher commission percentages and customized landing-page treatment. Reach out via the Telegram bot if your traffic is in that band; we will work out terms case by case.
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