Programme 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 that you received after registering for the programme. The email was sent by the Google Workspace Referral Programme 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 Programme, you can earn a one-off 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 (New Zealand) |
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Business Starter |
NZD 10 / user (max NZD 1000 per customer) |
Business Standard |
NZD 21 / user (max NZD 2100 per customer) |
Business Plus |
NZD 31 / user (max NZD 3100 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 have 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 Programme requesting your bank information.
If you would like to know the number of users that 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 that they signed up.
No. The Referral Programme tracks referrals that are new Google Workspace customers. We cannot grant referral credits to customers who signed up or started a trial before the programme launched or before you joined.
You are allowed and able to refer a customer in any country that is within the same region that you are enrolled in. For example, if you are signed up in the United States, the promotion codes that 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 enrol in the Referral Programme 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 enrol for the EMEA region.
The Google Workspace Referral Programme is available in selected regions and countries. You can find the list with more information
The Google Workspace Referral Programme is currently available in the countries listed
Promotional codes
If you provide a promotion code to one of your referrals, they are 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 that you are signed up in as a referrer.
If you join the programme 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 check out.
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 the APAC region, they are able to enter their promotional 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 North America and EMEA regions. 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 that 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 payments 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 that you earned and that have been validated by Google. If 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 payments profile in Google Pay so that you can receive your payment. Your payments profile link is valid for two weeks from the date received.
If you miss the time frame to complete your payments 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. If your link expires, please contact our
Payments are processed on a monthly basis. If you have not received a payment, you will probably 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 payments 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 US 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 Programme 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 Programme account with banking information from the same country/region in which you signed up.
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Apply to the other region (outside of the current region that you're in), such as 'Americas', 'Asia Pacific' and/or 'Europe', where your referral prospect is based.
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 in which 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 in another region,
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