How I Earned $3000 in Vendoo’s Refer-a-Friend Affiliate Program

Updated 4/2/23

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One of my favorite reseller tools is Vendoo, a service that helps me save time and make more money by crosslisting my items to multiple marketplaces. I’m now earning even more money as a Vendoo affiliate through their Refer-a-Friend program. In this post, I share everything you need to know about Vendoo’s Refer-a-Friend program so that you can join and start earning affiliate revenue! Read on to learn why you should become a Vendoo affiliate, how much you can earn as an affiliate, and actionable tips to get sign-ups using your referral link today.

What is Vendoo’s Refer-a-Friend program?

Vendoo’s affiliate program is called the Refer-a-Friend program. People sign up to become affiliates and promote Vendoo’s service to others.

Vendoo pays affiliates a 20% commission for the length of each new subscription. New subscribers benefit too. They receive 25% off the first month of their subscription.

Signing up to become an affiliate is fast and easy. Create your Refer-a-Friend account with just a name, email address, and password.

Why should you join Vendoo’s Refer-a-Friend program?

Resellers want to make money. That’s why we resell! We’re often looking for the best items that will make us the biggest profit when resold.

But reselling means hustling. You have to keep sourcing, listing, and selling items to keep the money coming in. If you slow down, your sales slow down.

In that sense, reselling is an active pursuit with a direct relationship between the number of hours you work and the amount of money you earn.

Alternatively, Vendoo’s Refer-a-Friend program enables you to increase your income through relatively passive means.

As a Vendoo affiliate, you can increase your income without that tiring hustle. One of the best feelings is waking up in the morning to a notification that someone signed up for Vendoo using your link. You earned money in your sleep!

While it’s possible to wake up to sales of tangible items, you have to spend time and effort replenishing your inventory to keep those overnight sales coming. That’s not the case as an affiliate.

You can post your referral link occasionally and see sign-ups using your link indefinitely. (Tips on this further below.)

This leads me to another big benefit of being an affiliate:

Being a Vendoo affiliate diversifies your income.

You probably know that it’s not a good idea to put all of your eggs in one basket as a reseller or in other areas of your life.

As a reseller, sales can change drastically depending on many factors:

Your ability to source valuable items
The season and the weather
Trending fashions and popular items
Increases in marketplace fees and taxes
Getting banned on a marketplace
And much more

In my own experience, many thrift stores and even Goodwill bins in my area have closed over the past few years. This has significantly limited what is available to me locally. Prices at thrift stores that stayed open have gone up over the years.

I’ve also seen marketplaces flooded with previously in-demand items and those items fall out of demand over time. All of these things can eat away at your profits.

Vendoo’s affiliate program allows you to earn money independent of your marketplace sales. You could have a slow month selling goods and make up for some of that loss by earning money as an affiliate.

Vendoo makes it easy to become an affiliate.

It’s fast and free to sign up.
There are no contract or promotional requirements. You’re not required to write a review for the company or engage in any promotion you don’t want to.
Vendoo supports its affiliates with lots of promotional tools.

And the benefit is that you get paid!

I know I sleep better at night knowing that I have income coming in through multiple channels. Wouldn’t that make you feel better too?

Why should you promote Vendoo?

Before you become an affiliate for any company, it’s good to think about why you support it and want to promote it. Here are some reasons to promote Vendoo to others:

1) You like Vendoo

I promote Vendoo because I love the service and believe it helps resellers make more sales. I’ve used Vendoo intermittently for over a year and have returned to it again and again after trying out other crosslisting services.

Ideally, you use Vendoo in your reselling business or have at least tried it out to see how it works. If you haven’t tried it yet, you can try it for free for up to 5 items each month.

If you like it and find it beneficial to your business, there’s a good chance other sellers will feel the same way. You can promote it to them and earn money for it.

2) You can promote Vendoo without being a paying subscriber

You don’t have to be a paying subscriber to reap the benefits of being an affiliate. If life gets busy and you stop reselling for a few months, you can cancel your Vendoo subscription but keep sharing your referral link and earning money.

I put my Vendoo subscription on hold several times over the past year when I took a break from reselling or tried out other crosslisting services. I continued to be a Vendoo affiliate. My referral links were public, and I still earned money by referring customers.

3) No exclusivity clause

Unlike some other affiliate programs, Vendoo doesn’t require you to promote only their company at the expense of all others. You’re free to promote other programs and services related to reselling or not.

I don’t like exclusivity clauses and am happy Vendoo doesn’t have one. It means Vendoo believes in its service. The quality of the service speaks for itself, so there’s no need to artificially suppress competition.

You don’t have to weigh if you might earn $50 with Vendoo or $40 with another company before deciding to be an affiliate. You can earn all $90. Vendoo does not keep you from earning money; it only helps you to earn more money.

4) Vendoo is allowed by Poshmark

Some marketplaces such as Poshmark allow the use of third-party applications such as Vendoo. Poshmark knows that sellers want tools that will help them make more sales. After all, Poshmark makes more money that way too!

What Poshmark doesn’t allow is the use of automated bots. Those are programs that do actions such as sharing items and relisting items in an automated way. With Vendoo, you must be present clicking the buttons for the service to work.

When you promote Vendoo, you can rest easy knowing that new customers are still adhering to Poshmark’s guidelines.

5) Vendoo provides support for affiliate success

In marketing, it’s generally held that people need to hear of an item or service multiple times before they buy it. Vendoo already does extensive marketing of its service, so the customer may already be interested in signing up for Vendoo.

Your promotion, such as a testimonial of Vendoo working for you, may be just what the customer needs to subscribe.

How does Vendoo support affiliates?

Frequent promotions. People want to sign up when they’ll get a good deal, so regular promotions such as 40% off the first month for new subscribers can mean more sign-ups at those times.

Social media graphics. Vendoo makes social media graphics that you can use on Instagram and elsewhere publicizing their promotions. You don’t need to spend time making them yourself. Just download and publish pre-made ones.

Facebook group for affiliates. Vendoo has two Facebook groups, one for people who use the service and one for affiliates. You can get information, tips, and feedback on selling and being an affiliate in these groups.

Affiliate webinars. Vendoo is considering hosting monthly webinars to help affiliates sign up more customers. Vendoo is invested in growing and improving the Refer-a-Friend program.

My experience as a Vendoo affiliate

I became a Vendoo affiliate in December 2020 and earned over $3000 in about 16 months by referring the service to other sellers.

I started using Vendoo because I had over 150 items for sale and couldn’t manage crosslisting them manually anymore. One reseller friend recommended Vendoo to me. I signed up and liked it right away because it saved me time while keeping my sales going strong.

I shared my experience with others because I know how hard resellers work, and any tool that helps us run our businesses better is welcome.

I wrote an honest blog post reviewing my experience using Vendoo. I signed up to be an affiliate and shared my referral link in my Vendoo review post and other relevant blog posts.

I wrote to my email subscribers to let them know about the service too. The sign-ups slowly started coming in and have continued steadily since then.

I update my Vendoo review blog post regularly with the latest updates so that the post stays current. I also work to bring readers to my site where they will read my review and sign up if they’re interested.

These efforts have led to more sign-ups to the point that I have earned over $3000 in almost 16 months as an affiliate.

While the number of sign-ups varies by month, I’ve been able to earn an extra $100-200 each month to supplement my reselling income.

How much can you make as a Vendoo affiliate?

The amount you make as a Vendoo affiliate depends on how many people sign up with your referral link and the amount they pay for their subscriptions. In March 2023, Vendoo started paying a 20% commission for the length of a subscriber’s subscription.

The commission used to be 20% for the first six months of a new user’s subscription. Now there’s the chance to earn indefinitely.

Low: If someone signs up for the most basic plan without any add-ons, she would pay $8.99 per month, so you would earn $1.80 per month or $21.60 if the person remained subscribed for 12 months.

High: The highest level plan with all the add-ons would be $161.98 per month, so you would earn $32.49 per month or $389.88 over 12 months.

Most subscriptions fall somewhere in the middle. For example, I pay $31.98 per month for the 125-item plan plus the bundle of add-ons. The person who referred me would receive $6.40 per month or $76.8 over 12 months of my subscription.

Other factors can affect how much you earn such as

Users getting a new-subscriber discount for their first month
Users changing plans (upgrading or downgrading) or cancelling their subscription

While the amounts may look small, small numbers add up, as it has in my case. And it’s possible to earn more with targeted marketing and sharing your referral link.

When I signed up to be an affiliate, my goal was to earn enough to cover my monthly Vendoo subscription. I’ve been fortunate to earn more than that and believe that you can too.

What else can you earn as a Vendoo affiliate?

Besides earning money, Vendoo gives rewards to affiliates at various milestones:

5 referrals - 20 extra listings
10 referrals - merch package
25 referrals - t-shirt and water bottle

Vendoo recently launched Silver and Gold Clubs for those who refer even more users.

Silver Club - 75 referrals

Vendoo merch
A one-year subscription of Vendoo
Early access to new features
A shout out on Vendoo's social media channels

Gold Club - 200 referrals

Free Vendoo subscription for life
Customized Vendoo merch
Personalized postcards
A custom landing page

The free Vendoo subscription for life is for any subscription plan you want!

How do you get people to sign up with your referral link?

There are many ways to go about getting people to sign up with your referral link. It will take work for most people to get sign-ups, but how you go about it may easily fit into your reselling activities.

Here are a few ideas:

1) Become a Posh mentor

Poshmark welcomes hundreds or thousands of new users a day. Many of them have high hopes of selling their items and even making selling into a part-time or full-time business.

They often want to know how to make sales quickly. One of the best ways to make sales is to crosslist!

Right now I’m helping a woman who started selling on Poshmark just last year. She’s done so well that she’s already a Poshmark Ambassador II!

I encouraged her early on to crosslist her items to other marketplaces and introduced her to Vendoo. She was nervous to crosslist but did it and is seeing sales in multiple places.

If you’re open to mentoring new sellers on Poshmark or other platforms, you can share tips with them to help their growth including using Vendoo to crosslist their items.

How do you let people know you’re a mentor?

Post it in your Meet the Posher listing or your user profile
Reach out to new Poshers by looking under “New People” on the app, sending a welcome note, and offering to answer their questions
Mention it in your social media profiles

2) Host a Posh N Coffee virtually or in real life

Poshmark looks for users to host or join its social events such as virtual and real-life Posh N Coffees. Poshmark puts on other events too such as their yearly birthday party, PoshFest, and social mixers.

When you host a Posh N Coffee, you can direct the conversation of the gathering and give advice that includes the benefits of crosslisting. You can mention the resources that you use for your success including Vendoo and point people to your social media pages to learn more about it.

3) Hand out business cards

Reseller events are a great place to hand out your business card that promotes your use of Vendoo. Your business card (digital or physical) can have

A dedicated QR code or web address to your Vendoo referral page

A link to your resource list of top reseller tools including Vendoo
Links to your social media accounts where you promote Vendoo

4) Join Facebook groups

I’m a part of several Facebook groups for thrift shoppers, resellers, Poshmark enthusiasts, and eBay members. You might think everyone knows about crosslisting, but many people only sell on one or two marketplaces.

When they ask how they can increase their sales or want feedback on reseller tools, you can share your experience and recommendations with them. Some groups allow you to post links, so you’d be able to post your Vendoo referral link directly in a thread.

Other groups don’t allow links to be posted, but you can chat privately with members, answer their questions, give tips, and share your referral link with them that way.

5) Share reselling tips on social media

Many people nowadays turn to social media such as Instagram for information and recommendations on everything, so social media platforms are a good place to promote Vendoo.

You don’t have to be a major influencer with thousands of followers for people to sign up with your referral link. If you share reselling tips and information regularly, even to a small audience, you’re in the perfect position to share information about Vendoo.

On Instagram, mention how Vendoo helped you when you post about your successes. You can post a mix of educational, entertaining, and promotional posts to share your referral link frequently yet naturally.

On YouTube, you can create different types of videos that incorporate Vendoo:

A testimonial of how the service works for you
A review of the service
A step-by-step tutorial
Answer the most common questions about Vendoo
Make a resources or reseller tools video

You can mention Vendoo in other videos you publish too. State the company in the video and pair it with your referral link in the video descriptions. Let viewers know that they’ll get a discount by signing up with your referral link.

Frequently asked questions

Is Vendoo’s Refer-a-Friend program legit?

Yes, Vendoo’s Refer-a-Friend program is a legitimate affiliate program where you can earn money and other awards for referring people to Vendoo. Affiliate statistics are tracked in real time, and payouts occur twice a month via PayPal.

What are the benefits of being a Vendoo affiliate?

The benefits of being a Vendoo affiliate are earning extra money and other awards such as extra Vendoo listings, company merchandise, and a free subscription. Earn a 20% commission for the length of each new subscription. Earn fun merchandise such as a t-shirt, water bottle, and personalized postcards.

How long does the Vendoo affiliate tracking cookie last?

Vendoo’s affiliate tracking cookie lasts 90 days. That means that you’ll receive credit for a new subscriber if the person signs up within 90 days of clicking on your link.

Wrap up

Vendoo’s Refer-a-Friend program has been a great way for me to share a service that I love with other resellers and earn money for doing so. You can have both reselling and affiliate success too!