Earn for referring new organizers

The brand ambassador program is built around who runs events, not who buys tickets to them. You bring another organizer onto BrightStar — a teacher who is still running things through a spreadsheet, a venue that has never sold tickets online — and from the moment that happens, you earn a share of BrightStar's platform fee on what they sell. It is 20 percent of BrightStar's platform fee on their sales, for as long as they keep selling. It comes out of BrightStar's own fee, so the organizer you referred loses nothing; their proceeds are exactly what they would have been without you. Attribution is permanent and first-touch: once an account is attributed to you, it stays attributed to you, with no expiry and no reassignment to someone else later.

There are two ways this happens, and only one of them needs any action from you at the moment of signup.

The direct way is your referral link. You share it — in an email to a teacher you know, in conversation with a venue owner — and when they sign up through it, the referral is recorded against your account right then.

The second way asks nothing of anyone. If someone bought a ticket to an event you were running with the ambassador program enabled, and later starts organizing their own events on BrightStar, they are attributed to you automatically when they do. You don't have to remember to send them a link, and they don't have to remember to use one. Either way, the record is written once and kept. There is no expiry window and no re-attribution to a later referrer, so a connection that starts years before someone becomes an organizer still counts.

Your ambassador earnings live in the Commissions area of your dashboard, next to any affiliate commissions you've earned, and both are summarised on your main dashboard so you don't have to dig for the number. Earnings are broken out per currency, and within each currency they're split into what's still pending, what's available, and what's already been paid — so you can tell the difference between a sale that just happened and money that's actually settled.

The two programs are separate and they stack. If you promoted a specific event as an affiliate and you also referred the organizer who runs it, both payments can happen on the same sale, drawn from different budgets. One doesn't reduce the other.

Your share is 20 percent of BrightStar's own platform fee, not 20 percent of the ticket price. That distinction decides what you earn on and what you don't. A referred organizer running paid events is charged a platform fee, and your share comes out of that fee. A referred organizer running free Seva events pays no platform fee at all, so 20 percent of zero is still zero — you earn nothing on those events, through no fault of the organizer or the program.

This is also why the reward is described as a share of the fee rather than a flat bounty: it moves with whatever the organizer actually generates for BrightStar, on whichever paid plan they're using, for as long as they keep selling.