The Lonida affiliate programme: earning from referrals

Every fee Lonida charges is shared with whoever brought that member to the platform. Turn your link on, share it anywhere on the site, and you earn a fifth of Lonida's fee on everything they do — for as long as they keep playing.

The short version

You earn 20% of Lonida's fee, not 20% of the transaction. On a 1,000 LONIDA transfer Lonida takes 100, and you receive 20 of it. The member you referred pays exactly what everyone else pays.

How the money is worked out

Lonida charges a 10% fee on completed transactions. Your commission is 20% of that fee — never a share of the amount the member paid. This matters: it means your earnings can never exceed what Lonida made, so the programme costs the member nothing and costs the platform nothing it did not already have.

A transfer, step by step

Transfer valueOptional
1,000 LONIDA. This is what the buying club pays the selling club.
Lonida's fee (10%)Optional
100 LONIDA. Deducted by the platform, exactly as it would be without any referral.
Your commission (20% of the fee)Optional
20 LONIDA, credited to your wallet as the transaction completes.
Lonida keepsOptional
80 LONIDA. The remainder of the platform fee.

What earns you commission

Anything Lonida charges on. If the member you referred is active, you are earning.

Every paying activity

Player transfers — every time they buy or sell on the transfer market, including buy-now purchases.
Player loans — every loan agreement they complete with another club.
Paid friendlies — every friendly they accept for a fee.
Gifts — every gift they send to another club.
AI artwork — every crest, banner or player image they generate. Here your share comes from Lonida's margin, because the image provider is paid a cost per image that is not Lonida's to share.

Turning it on

Your link does nothing until you switch it on

This is enforced on the server, not just in the interface. A link shared before you enable the programme will still take people to the page, but it will not record them as your referral and no commission will accrue. Turn it on before you share.

Set a username

Your link is built from it — lonida.com/r/yourname. Set it on the Profile tab of your account if you have not already. Remember that a username is permanent once saved.

Open the Affiliate tab

In your account, go to Account → Affiliate. It sits after Settings.

Accept the terms and switch it on

Tick the agreement and press Turn on my affiliate link. You are only asked to accept once — switching the programme off and on again later does not ask you again.

Share it

Copy your link from the same tab. From that moment, anyone who follows it and creates a club is permanently linked to you.

Linking to any page, not just the home page

Most people assume a referral link can only point at the front page. Yours can point anywhere. Put /r/yourname in straight after the domain, and leave the rest of the address exactly as it is. The visitor lands on the page you intended and the referral part disappears from the address bar.

Where your link works

The home pageOptional
lonida.com/r/yourname
A community postOptional
lonida.com/r/yourname/community/post/96742e9c7a-tactics
A club profileOptional
lonida.com/r/yourname/club/ADF11A03E7/lonidafc
A member profileOptional
lonida.com/r/yourname/u/somebody
The knowledgebaseOptional
lonida.com/r/yourname/knowledgebase — including any individual article.
Any landing pageOptional
How It Works, Spectators, Sponsors, the tournament pages — all of them.

Share what you are actually talking about

A link to the specific post or club you are discussing converts far better than a bare home page link. Someone who lands on the thing they were promised is far more likely to stay.

Tracking who visits

The Affiliate tab shows every click your link received — when it happened, which page they landed on, where they came from, their device and language, and whether they went on to create a club. Clicks are counted once per person per day, so refreshing a page or opening it in a second tab is not counted again. The figure answers "how many people did I send", not "how many times was the page loaded".

Getting paid

Commission is credited to your LONIDA wallet the moment the transaction completes. There is no separate affiliate balance, no minimum to reach and nothing to claim — it appears in your ordinary wallet history alongside everything else, labelled with what produced it.

How long do I keep earning from someone?+

For as long as they play. The link between you is recorded once when they join and never expires. Someone who signs up today, goes quiet for a year and then becomes very active still earns you commission on everything they do.

Does the person I referred pay more?+

No. They pay the same 10% fee as every other member. Your commission comes out of Lonida's share of that fee, not theirs — there is no surcharge and nothing on their side is different.

What happens if I turn the programme off?+

New commission stops accruing, and everything you have already earned stays in your wallet untouched. Your existing referrals remain linked to you, so turning it back on resumes earning from them.

Can I refer myself with a second account?+

No. An account cannot be its own sponsor, and duplicate-account detection applies as it does everywhere else on the platform. Referrals obtained by spam or misleading claims breach the terms you accept when enabling the programme.

Why does my referral count not match my click count?+

Clicks are people who visited; referrals are people who went on to create a club. Most visitors do not sign up on their first visit, which is normal. The Affiliate tab shows both figures and the conversion rate between them.

I shared my link before turning the programme on. Do those count?+

Anyone who signed up while the programme was off was not recorded as your referral, and cannot be attributed retrospectively. Turn it on first, then share.