Affiliate Guide
Everything you need to
actually get paid.
What each product is, who it is for, which posts to send, what to say when they push back, and the handful of claims to never make. Written for people in the program. Not indexed, not public.
The deal, in one paragraph
You earn 41% of whatever your referral pays, on any Seedly product, with no cap on how many you send. Your buyer pays full price, so nothing is taken out of your reward to fund a discount for them. A bundle pays on the whole order. Rewards go out by PayPal 45 days after the purchase, once your PayPal address and a W-9 or W-8 are on file. Attribution lasts 90 days from the click.
It is paid once, in cash, on the sale you made. It is not a slice of a subscription you lose the moment somebody cancels.
What you are selling
Three products, one rate.
Lead with the one that matches the problem they just described. Do not open with all three. You earn 41% of what they actually pay, so a bundle price or a code they use lowers it. CRM and Communities together is $1,748 and pays you $716.68.
Seedly CRM
Seedly Sites
Seedly Communities
Seedly Communities
- Price
- $399, or $249 with the CRM
- You earn
- $163.59
- Who it is for
- Course sellers, membership operators, and anyone paying per member for a community platform
- The line that lands
- Unlimited members, seats and admins, and 0% transaction fees because it is their own Stripe
Every product here is the same pitch wearing different clothes.
The person you are talking to is paying every month for software they will never own, on a bill that grows when they hire, with a cut taken out of payments they collected themselves. They have accepted that because it is how the category works.
Seedly is the same category with the ownership put back. One payment, the source code, their own infrastructure, their own Stripe, and the freedom to change anything or resell it under their own brand.
Do not oversell it past that. The strongest version of this pitch is arithmetic and a link. People who are ready recognise it immediately, and people who are not will not be argued into it.
Rent versus own. That is the whole argument.
How to link
Your code works on every page
This is the most useful thing on this page and almost nobody does it.
Your referral link points at the homepage, but you are not limited to it. Add ?ref=YOURCODE to the end of any Seedly URL and it attributes exactly the same way, for 90 days.
So when somebody complains about payment fees, do not send them the homepage and hope. Send them the post that answers the thing they just said, with your code on it.
https://seedlycrm.com/blog/gohighlevel-transaction-fees?ref=YOURCODETwo things to know. Attribution follows the browser, so if they read on their phone and buy on a laptop it will not carry. And the code has to arrive on the site they buy from, so if you are pitching Seedly Sites, link to a Sites page rather than a CRM one. Our own footer links carry your code between the three sites, so a visitor who wanders across is still yours.
What to send
The post for the moment
Find what they just said on the left. Send what is on the right, with your code on the end.
| When they say | Send them |
|---|---|
| They are already paying GoHighLevel every month | What your CRM actually costs over 5 years |
| They are annoyed about payment fees specifically | GoHighLevel transaction fees |
| They want the whole comparison before they decide | GoHighLevel alternatives where you own the code |
| They ask why they should not just build it themselves | Why you should fork instead of building from scratch |
| They want to resell it to their own clients | The white label CRM playbook |
| They want the resale numbers before committing | What it costs to resell a white label CRM |
| They are worried the platform disappears and takes their data | What happens to your CRM data if it shuts down |
| They are an agency wondering whether to productise | Turn your agency into a SaaS |
| They are on a per-seat CRM (HubSpot, Monday, Pipedrive) | A CRM without per-seat pricing |
| They feel trapped in GoHighLevel by their data | The free GoHighLevel data exporter |
| They are weighing our affiliate program against GHL's | GoHighLevel's affiliate program vs Seedly's |
The blog is one library shared across all three sites, so any of these open on seedlycrm.com. Sites and Communities buyers should be sent to the product pages on their own site.
Example conversations
What this looks like in practice
Do not paste these word for word. They are here to show the shape, which is short, specific, and never a pitch first.
Someone asks the room what CRM they should use
Them
Anyone got a GHL alternative? Every update seems to break something I built for a client, and the add-ons keep stacking on top of the plan.
You
I moved to Seedly. You buy the source once and run it yourself, so nothing gets pushed at you and there is nothing to add on. Took me an afternoon to deploy. This breaks down the 5 year cost if you want the maths: [your link to the cost post]
Why it works. You answered the exact question and named the thing that fixes their exact complaint, and the link is a resource rather than a sales page. Note what it does NOT say: GoHighLevel has no per-seat pricing, so opening with seat costs tells the room you do not use the product you are arguing against.
DM to an agency owner you already know
You
Random one. Are you still on GHL for the client work?
Them
Yeah, why?
You
I switched to a thing called Seedly. Same job, but you buy the code once and run it yourself, so no monthly and no cut on the payments you collect. I am reselling it to two clients under my own brand now. Worth a look if the monthly is getting silly: [your link]
Why it works. You opened with a question, not a link. The resale detail is the part that lands with agency owners, because it turns a cost into a product they can sell.
A post, not a DM
You
Worked out what my agency stack actually cost over five years last week and it was genuinely upsetting. Moved the CRM to something I own outright instead. One payment, no cut on the payments I collect, and updates land when I decide. Happy to share what I found if it is useful to anyone. [your link]
Why it works. It is your experience, with a number, and an offer to help. No product name in the first line. Posts that open with a product read as ads and get skipped.
To a list you already email
Subject
the software bill nobody audits
Body
Short one. I added up what I pay monthly for tools I will never own, over five years. Then I moved the biggest line to something I bought once and own the code to. Here is the breakdown, including what it actually took to set up: [your link]. If you run an agency it is worth twenty minutes.
Why it works. One idea, one link, honest about the setup effort. Overselling in email is how you get unsubscribes rather than sales.
FAQ
When they push back.
Seedly · Affiliate Terms
The numbers you are quoting
Ingredients
- Commission41% of what they pay
- CapNone
- Cookie90 days
- Paid byPayPal
- Hold45 days
- Buyer discountNone, they pay full
NET WT · ONE PAYMENT · NO RETENTION RISK
Is this just a GoHighLevel clone?
No, and do not pitch it as one. The overlap is the job it does, not the code. The difference that matters to a buyer is ownership. With GHL they rent a login. With Seedly they get the source, deploy it themselves, and keep it whatever happens to us.
$1,499 is a lot.
It is one payment against a bill that never stops. Send them the 5-year cost post and let the arithmetic do it. Most people paying a platform monthly pass $1,499 inside the first year once the plan, the add-ons and the payment fees are counted.
Who maintains it? What if you go under?
This is the honest strength, so lean into it. They have the code. If we vanish tomorrow their install keeps running and they can hire anyone to work on it. That is the entire reason to buy source rather than a subscription.
I am not technical enough to run my own system.
Be straight here. It is a real deployment, not a signup form. There are setup docs and it runs on managed infrastructure, but somebody has to do the install. If they have never deployed anything and have nobody who has, tell them so. A refund is not available, and a bad fit costs you more in reputation than the commission is worth.
Can I try it first?
Yes, point them at the demo rather than talking them into a cold purchase.
One payment? So what does it actually cost to run?
Hosting, and nothing else. On light use that is around $25 a month and it can be nothing; heavy use with a couple of dozen busy accounts is up to about $200. Give them that range rather than the word free, because free is the claim that gets picked apart and the range still wins the comparison easily.
How is this different from buying a GoHighLevel snapshot?
A snapshot is a configuration inside somebody else's platform, so you are still renting the platform and you still lose it if they change the rules. This is the platform. Andrew sold GHL snapshots, so that comparison is fair game to make.
Who do I call when it breaks?
You. That is the honest answer and it is also the trade. There are setup docs and an owners community, but nobody is on the hook for your install the way a vendor would be. One of our own buyers put it best: with Seedly he is his own headache or his own genius. If they want a support queue to shout at, GoHighLevel is genuinely the better buy and you should say so.
Nobody has heard of Seedly. How many people actually use it?
Do not bluff this. It is a young product on 4.4 from 11 Trustpilot reviews, which is a rounding error next to GoHighLevel's fourteen thousand, and that is a real risk they are taking. What offsets it is that they get the source, so the code keeps working for them whatever happens to us. That is the whole point rather than a consolation.
Can I get my data out of GoHighLevel?
Yes, and there is a free exporter on the blog that does it. Send them that before you send them anything else. Somebody who has their data in hand is a much easier conversation than somebody who feels trapped.
Can I really resell it to my own clients?
Yes. White-label it, host it for them, and your changes stay private. That is the part that turns a cost into a product for an agency owner, and it is usually the detail that closes them.
Brand assets
The logo pack
The wordmark, the seed marks, two poses each of Sprout, Pixl and Buzz, and a text file with our colours and fonts so you can match the brand in a deck or a thumbnail.
Ten character poses across Sprout, Pixl and Buzz, the three product lockups with a version for dark backgrounds, the seed mark as an SVG, and BRAND.txt with our colours and fonts. Every character is a transparent PNG that stays clean if your tool flattens it, so nothing turns up with a grey box behind it in Canva or a slide deck. Built from the live artwork on each download, so you never get a stale copy. The README covers what you may and may not do, and the short version is use them as they are and never as your own branding.
Download the logo packTwo more programs worth stacking
Seedly CRM natively integrates CloseBot for AI conversation handling and Zernio for social posting. Native means built into the product, not a Zapier bridge somebody maintains at the weekend, so a working agency running Seedly is likely to end up paying for one or both.
Both companies run their own affiliate programs and both pay recurring. That is how you turn a one-time Seedly commission into something with a tail, without the tail being the thing you depend on.
CloseBot
20% recurringAI conversation handling and auto-reply on inbound messages.
Plus a 20% second tier: if somebody you brought in refers CloseBot themselves, you earn 20% of their commission on top of your own.
How you get in
- There is no separate application. Affiliate access comes with a paid CloseBot plan, so if you are already on one you can refer already.
- They give you your own CloseBot link. Use that one when you point a Seedly referral at CloseBot.
- You get paid by CloseBot on their schedule, separately from anything Seedly owes you.
Zernio
20% recurringSocial posting, scheduling, analytics and comments across 15 platforms.
Runs for up to 12 months per referral.
How you get in
- Apply on their affiliate page. It is their program, so they approve you, not us.
- They give you your own Zernio link. Use that one when you point a Seedly referral at Zernio.
- You get paid by Zernio on their schedule, separately from anything Seedly owes you.
Read this before you use either link. These are separate companies with their own terms, their own payouts and their own approval. Seedly does not pay you for them and cannot. The two buttons above do different jobs. The first button goes to their own page, where you either apply (Zernio) or read how referrals work if they come with your plan (CloseBot). Try it is Andrew's link, so if you just want the tool for yourself that one supports Seedly. Once you have your own link, promote that and never Andrew's. Signing up to a company's affiliate program through somebody else's product referral link credits nobody.
The full comparison against GoHighLevel's program is in GoHighLevel's affiliate program vs Seedly's.
Getting paid
Do this before you send anyone.
We cannot release a reward without your PayPal address and a W-9 or W-8 on file, and it is forfeited if that is still missing 60 days after it is earned. Two minutes now, and it is the single most common reason somebody earns and does not get paid.
Sign in
Your account holds your link, your clicks and every referral you have earned on.
Add PayPal and your tax form
Both are required before anything can be released. This is the step people skip.
Share your link
On any page. Your code works on all of them, for 90 days from the click.
Get paid 45 days later
The hold covers a chargeback, so a reward is never paid on money that goes away.
I ran my agency on HighLevel for a year. Then I got tired of renting.
I'm Andrew. I run a home-service marketing agency in Virginia, and for a year I ran the whole thing on HighLevel as a certified administrator. Then it got buggier. Every update broke something I relied on, and the last straw was lead-capture forms going down while my paid traffic kept spending. I was paying every month to be someone else's QA.
So I built the CRM I actually wanted, ran my own agency on it, and packaged it as Seedly. Same code I use every day. Yours to own.
“This is the CRM my own agency runs on. I'm not a SaaS company. I'm an operator who got tired of renting, same as you.”
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