How to make money from a deal group

Your members joined to hear about deals, so every post either keeps their trust or spends it. This guide is about earning in a way that lasts, using the rules we work with every day at Vouchrs, where deal groups are the creators we are built for.

How the money moves

1. A member taps your link and buys at the brand's own checkout.
2. The affiliate network the brand uses records the sale against your link. No link tapped, or a code pasted somewhere the sale cannot be traced to you, means no commission.
3. The brand confirms the sale after its return window: about 35 days is typical at the brands on Vouchrs. Returned and cancelled orders are reversed.
4. The network pays the money on, about 59 days after the purchase at those brands, and you are paid from there. On Vouchrs that is from $25, by PayPal or Wise.

So a group that starts posting today should not expect money for around three months. That is how affiliate programs work, not a sign that something broke.

Programs that accept groups

Most affiliate programs were built for websites and public profiles. Before you post, read what each one says about closed spaces:

• Amazon Associates allows links in emails, texts and direct messages only when the person opted in, and nothing offline (Program Policies). It does not mention closed groups by name, and it reviews your account only after three qualified sales in 180 days (Application Review).
• Mavely says its links can be shared “everywhere”, with no follower minimum (Mavely).
• Brand programmes on networks such as Awin set their own rules. Some forbid social media and group posts outright, and some allow their codes only on the affiliate's own site.
• Vouchrs counts private Facebook groups, Telegram, WhatsApp and Discord, with one application for 214 US brands whose terms allow creators to share them (how it works).

Read your group platform's rules too. Meta's spam rules, for example, prohibit posting at “very high frequencies” and links that promise one kind of content but deliver something substantially different.

What to post so members keep opening your posts

• Deals that fit what the group already buys. A kitchen group wants kitchen deals. A good deal from the wrong shop teaches members to scroll past you.
• Deals that still work. Check a deal before you post it. On Vouchrs a deal carries the Verified mark only while the brand lists it as live, its page opens and shoppers have not reported it.
• The brand's own words. Say what the deal is (“20% off sitewide”, “free shipping over $50”), when it ends if the brand says so, and any minimum order. Never invent urgency or a saving the brand did not state.
• Fewer, better posts. A post a day that members trust is worth more than ten they mute, and posting at very high frequency is what spam rules are written against.
• One link per deal, and the disclosure in every post.

Saying it is an ad

In the US the FTC asks for a clear disclosure, as close to the link as possible, whenever you earn from it. Its own answers say “affiliate link” on its own is not clear, and give “I get commissions for purchases made through links in this post” as wording that is (FTC). Short words such as “ad” or “sponsored” work when people see them with the link, not mixed into a block of hashtags or behind “more” (FTC Disclosures 101). U.S. law applies when it is reasonably foreseeable that a post will affect U.S. consumers, even if you live elsewhere.

The money, with made-up numbers

Across all their Awin publishers, a typical brand you can share on Vouchrs pays about $53 per 100 clicks, and the top tenth $268 or more. That figure already counts the clicks that buy nothing. For a creator on Vouchrs it comes to about $32 per 100 clicks at a typical brand.

So if your posts bring 600 clicks in a month, that is about $191 at a typical brand; 2,000 clicks, about $636. The clicks are made up and the result is an illustration, not a promise: your members may buy less often than coupon-site visitors, returned and cancelled orders do not pay, and the money arrives around three months after the purchase.

Doing it with Vouchrs

1. Apply. About three minutes: your name, where you post (a group, a page, a channel) and what your members like.
2. Get the email. A person reads your application and emails you the decision.
3. Pick a deal. Your dashboard lists live deals from 214 US brands (930 offers right now), each showing what it earns you per order before you post it.
4. Share it your way. Press “Get my link” and post it in your group. Want a head start? Each deal also has an optional picture and caption with the disclosure already in; use it, change it or write your own.

It is free, there is no follower minimum and no exclusivity, and you keep every other program you use. It is not the right fit if your members mostly live outside the US, if your group is built around Amazon listings, or if you need the money within weeks.