How referral qualification will work

The heart of the coming referral program is a single word: qualifies. A reward is only ever earned after the invited person qualifies — never just for signing up. This article explains what that word is doing, because the design of a reward decides the behaviour it buys.

What signup-rewards get wrong

Pay people for bare signups and you have priced the account itself: strangers get spammed with invite links, throwaway accounts get farmed by the hundred, and the "growth" is a pile of empty registrations that someone eventually monetises another way — often by selling or misusing the accounts. Every user pays for that in noise and fraud pressure. Kit Pay is a payment service; the last thing it should subsidise is the mass creation of accounts nobody intends to use.

What qualification buys instead

• Real people, really using it: qualification means the invited person has genuinely started using Kit Pay — so the reward follows actual adoption, not a completed form.
• Invitations aimed at people you know: when the reward depends on the invitee actually engaging, spraying links at strangers stops paying. The rational move becomes inviting your customers, your family, your savings group.
• Nothing to farm: an account created only to trigger a reward never qualifies, so the throwaway-account economy has nothing to eat.

What this means for you on launch day

Read the terms in the app before you invite — they will state plainly what qualifies and what the reward is. Expect the reward to arrive after your invitee's qualifying activity, not the moment they register, and expect the app itself to be the record of where each invitation stands. If a reward appears in your wallet, it will be there in your history like any other entry — and anyone claiming they can make qualification happen faster for a fee is running the oldest trick in the book: see referral safety.