Question

Referral Stats / pending / earned / paid

Hi, I have some questions about referral program.

I recently got involved in share Digital Ocean as a solution on Brazilian programing groups, and help new users with some common questions.

And now, I have 7 referral as pending (Amount you stand to earn when your referrals have spent $25.) $0 earned and $0 paid

By question here are:

  1. I will earn $25 after 60 days trial, for example: after trial, new user pay $5 and I receive $5? $25? Or, after trial users that pays $5 monthly I will receive $25 after 5 months? Or none of those?

  2. Whats the diference between earned and paid?

  3. There is a deadline to consume earned credits?

Well. that is it. Thanks and cheers for all folks.


Submit an answer


This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.

You can type !ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!

Sign In or Sign Up to Answer

These answers are provided by our Community. If you find them useful, show some love by clicking the heart. If you run into issues leave a comment, or add your own answer to help others.

Bobby Iliev
Site Moderator
Site Moderator badge
August 29, 2020
Accepted Answer

Hi there @ricagurgel,

You will get $25 credit as soon as your referral actually spends $25.

The earned amount is the amount that is pending to be applied to your account. It could take up to a few weeks for this to be processed.

The paid section is the total referral credits that you’ve received.

Your referral credits are active for 12 months, for more information on why the credits expire I would recommend reading this blog post here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/details-on-expiring-digitalocean-credits

Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby

Try DigitalOcean for free

Click below to sign up and get $200 of credit to try our products over 60 days!

Sign up

Get our biweekly newsletter

Sign up for Infrastructure as a Newsletter.

Hollie's Hub for Good

Working on improving health and education, reducing inequality, and spurring economic growth? We'd like to help.

Become a contributor

Get paid to write technical tutorials and select a tech-focused charity to receive a matching donation.

Welcome to the developer cloud

DigitalOcean makes it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow — whether you're running one virtual machine or ten thousand.

Learn more
DigitalOcean Cloud Control Panel