Program Information
Your referrals can start their free trial for Google Workspace by signing up through your unique referral link. They will have the option to apply one of your promotion codes when they first sign up to their 14-day trial period. When your referrals have been paying Google Workspace customers for at least 90 days, they will be reviewed by Google, and you will be eligible for payments.
You can refer any business that has not previously started a Google Workspace trial and is not currently a customer of a Google Workspace partner.
You can also refer Google Workspace to any individual who is starting their business and does not have a professional Google domain/account (i.e. Google Workspace).
New Google Workspace customers who are from one of these
Your referral link can be found in the welcome email you received after registering for the program. The email was sent by the Google Workspace Referral Program Team and you should receive it within 24 hours.
If you can’t find your welcome email, please check your "Promotions” tab in Gmail. You can also
As a member of the Google Workspace Referral Program, you can earn a one-time referral bonus for every new user that signs-up. Bonuses vary by market. For the United States, you can earn up to USD 8 (for the Business Starter plan), USD 15 (for the Business Standard plan), USD 23 (for the Business Plus plan), up to USD 2,300 per domain.
A user is an individual account belonging to the customer domain. Your referral amount will be based on the number of users who have paid for at least 90 days.
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Referral fee example (Belgium) |
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Business Starter |
EUR 7 / user (max EUR 700 per customer) |
Business Standard |
EUR 13 / user (max EUR 1300 per customer) |
Business Plus |
EUR 20 / user (max EUR 2000 per customer) |
We regularly send out an email that will include the status of your referrals. This email displays the number of:
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In-trial Referrals: Referrals who are currently in their 14-day trial.
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Potential Paid Referrals: Eligible referrals who are located in any of
these eligible countries , and completed their 14-day trial. These referrals may have also used your promotion code, but have not yet completed 90 days of signing up with their new Google Workspace account. -
Paid Referrals: Referrals that completed their 90 days as paying Google Workspace account users. After your first referral converts into a paid referral, look out for an email from the Google Workspace Referral Program requesting your bank information.
If you would like to know the number of users your referral has, you can
We're unable to track referrals back to your account if they did not use your referral link at the time they signed up.
No. The Referral Program tracks referrals that are new Google Workspace customers. We cannot grant referral credits to customers who have signed up or started a trial before the program launched or before you joined.
You are allowed and able to refer a customer in any country that is within the same region you are enrolled in. For example, if you are signed up in the United States, the promotion codes you receive can be used for any country in the Americas.
In order to refer a customer in a country outside of your region, you will need to enroll in the Referral Program again for that intended region. For example, if you live in India, you are eligible to refer customers in any country within the Asia Pacific region. However, if you live in India and would like to refer someone in the UK, you must enroll for the EMEA region.
The Google Workspace Referral Program is available in selected regions and countries. You can find the list with more information
The Google Workspace Referral Program is currently available in the countries listed
Promotion Codes
If you provide a promotion code to one of your referrals, he/she is entitled to a per-user discount of 10% for the first year as a Google Workspace customer.
If your referral is in the United States, Canada, or EMEA region, they will need to apply your promotion code when providing their billing information, before completing their sign up for the 14-day trial.
If your referral is in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru or APAC region, they will have the option to enter their billing information and your promotional code at any time during the 14-day trial period. Each promotion code is unique and can only be redeemed by one customer account from a country in the region you are signed up in as a referrer.
If you join the program in multiple regions, Google will provide promotion codes for the relevant regions upon your request, up to 100 promo codes per calendar year.
When deciding to sign up to Google Workspace, your referral will be eligible for a 14-day trial.
If your referral is in the United States, Canada, or EMEA region, they will need to apply your promotion code when providing their billing information, before completing their sign up for the 14-day trial.
If your referral is in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru or APAC region, they will have the option to enter their billing information and your promotional code at any time during the 14-day trial period.
The promotion code application process varies by country/region.
If your referral is in the United States, Canada, or the EMEA region, they should apply your promotion code during the Google Workspace sign up process, when providing their billing information. The code must be entered when prompted for their payment information, in the "Promotion Code" field, before they checkout.
If your referral is in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru or APAC region, they are able to enter their promotion code at any time during their 14-day trial when selecting their Google Workspace, as long as they have not yet entered their billing information. This can be done in the Billing section of their Admin Console.
If your referral is in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru or APAC region, they are able to enter their promotion code at any time during the trial as long as they have not yet entered their billing information. Unfortunately, this feature is not available with referrals in the NorthAm and EMEA regions, and therefore your customer will not be able to apply the code after starting the trial process.
Upon entering your promotion code, you will see a note about a 10% discount being applied at the bottom of the billing summary that states, "amount plus applicable taxes and VAT minus the promotional discount". Since your referral will be able to change the number of users they have and are able to change Google Workspace plans, the actual monetary amount of the discount will be reflected in the monthly billing.
Payment
When you first sign-up, you must select the country of your residence or business and ensure your bank account is also from the same country. If you signed-up to a country that you are not located in, please
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You will be eligible for your payment once your referral has been a paying Google Workspace customer for at least 90 days.
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Once you’re eligible for your first payment, you will receive an email with your payment profile link and instructions to set up your Google Pay account.
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You will receive a direct deposit in your bank account each month for any payments you earned and have been validated by Google. In case you don’t have any new referrals in a particular month, no payment will be issued.
Once your first referral has been a paying Google Workspace customer for more than 90 days, you will receive an email with instructions on how to set up your Payment Profile in Google Pay, so that you can receive your payment. Your Payment Profile link is valid for 2 weeks from the date received.
If you miss the time frame to complete your Payment Profile and your link expires, you may experience a delay in receiving your payment. Once you provide your bank information, your payment will be processed during the following month's cycle. In case your link expires, please reach out to our
Payments are processed on a monthly basis. If you did not receive a payment, you will likely receive it during next month’s payment cycle. Please
If you are not in the United States, but you have referrals located in the United States, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, or Peru, you will need to update your tax information.
Once you have completed your Payment Profile, please enter your tax information by following these steps:
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Sign in to the payments profile.
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Click Settings.
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Find "Payments profile" then find "[your country] tax info" and click Edit.
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To enter or edit your tax info, click Add tax info or Update tax info.
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Answer the questions and click Submit to submit the Certificate of Foreign Status (W-8BEN) to the IRS from within your payments profile.
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Click Save.
Note: This step is required by the U.S. to document your foreign status and claim any applicable treaty benefits.
Fees will depend on your bank and are unrelated to Google. Please also note that Google does not cover these fees. Please contact your bank for more information.
Your bank may have to convert the currency of your referral into your local currency. Depending on which country your referral is from Google has no control over the exchange rate and fees associated with this.
Yes, upon receiving your first referral bonus payment, if you are charged any associated bank fees that are greater than the received payment amount, please
International Referrals
If you are a Google Workspace Referral Program member in one of the countries listed on this
For example: If you signed up in the United States, you can now refer customers that reside in the countries listed under the “Americas” region (Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico or Peru).
Yes. In order to refer customers in different markets you need:
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A Google Workspace Referral Program account with banking information from the same country/region you signed-up for.
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Apply to the other region (outside of the current region you’re in) such as ‘Americas’, ‘Asia Pacific’, and/or ‘Europe’ where your referral prospect is based at.
For example: If you have signed up in both the United States and India, you can refer customers that reside in the countries listed under the 'Americas' region using your referral link. Additionally you can also refer customers that reside in the countries listed under the 'Asia Pacific' region.
When someone signs up for Google Workspace using your referral link, you’ll earn a referral bonus for each of their first 100 users.
Your referral bonus will be based on the country where your referral resides. The bonus will be deposited directly into your bank account according to the amount and currency listed on this
AMERICAS
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For example: If you are located in the United States and refer a customer to sign up for the Google Workspace Business Standard plan with 10 users in Chile, you'll earn USD 140.
ASIA PACIFIC
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For example: If you are located in Australia and refer a customer to sign up for the Google Workspace Business Standard plan with 10 users in Singapore, you'll earn SGD 180. We will deposit the S$180 in your account, which your bank will convert to AUD.
INDIA
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Example 1: If you are located in India and refer a customer to sign up for the Google Workspace Business Standard plan with 10 users in India, you'll earn USD 90, which your bank will convert to Rupees.*.
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Example 2: If you are located in India and refer a customer to sign up for the Google Workspace Business Standard plan with 10 users in Singapore, you'll earn SGD 180. We will deposit SGD 180 in your account, which your bank will convert to Rupees.*
*Referral bonus rates are based on the country of the referred customer, not the referrer. For example, a referrer in India who refers to someone in Thailand is rewarded at the Thai rate because that is where the customer is located.
EUROPE
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For example: If you are located in the United Kingdom and refer a customer to sign up for the Google Workspace Business Standard plan with 10 users in Germany, you'll earn EUR 130. We will deposit the EUR 130 in your account, which your bank will convert to GBP.
To refer to another region,
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