Affiliate commissions with ASEOHosting are cleared 33 days after the client you referred makes their payment. In other words, the day a referral pays for their hosting starts a 33 day clock, and once that period has passed the commission moves from a pending state into a cleared, withdrawable balance.
Why there is a 33 day wait
The clearing period is not a delay for its own sake. It exists so that a commission is only paid out once the underlying sale is genuinely settled. During those 33 days the referred payment has time to clear the payment processor and to pass the window in which a refund or chargeback could still be raised. If a referred client cancels and is refunded inside that window, the sale is reversed and no commission is owed on it. Once the 33 days are up, the sale is considered final and the matching commission is confirmed.
This is standard practice for hosting affiliate programmes and it protects both sides: you are paid on real, retained customers, and the account balances stay accurate rather than paying out on transactions that later unwind.
Pending versus cleared balance
It helps to think of your affiliate earnings in two buckets:
- Pending: a commission that has been earned but is still inside its 33 day window. It is recorded against your account but cannot be withdrawn yet.
- Cleared: a commission whose 33 day period has elapsed. This amount is available and can be requested as a payout.
You can see both figures when you sign in to the billing portal. New referrals will keep appearing as pending and then roll over into your cleared balance as each one passes its own 33 day mark, so the two numbers shift day by day rather than all at once.
How this fits the rest of the affiliate programme
The 33 day clearing period is only one part of how the programme works. It sits alongside the commission rate you earn per referral and the process for actually requesting a payout once funds have cleared. If you are still weighing up the programme, the affiliate programme page sets out the headline terms, and the wider Affiliate Program FAQ answers the common follow up questions about rates, payout requests and referral tracking.
A practical way to read the timeline end to end is:
- Your referral signs up and makes their payment. The 33 day clock starts on that payment date.
- The commission is logged as pending in your account for the duration of that window.
- After 33 days with no refund or chargeback, the commission clears and becomes withdrawable.
- You then submit a payout request through the billing portal to receive the cleared amount.
Tips for a smooth payout
- Do not count pending commissions when planning a withdrawal. Wait until they show as cleared, otherwise a payout request may be short of what you expected.
- Each referral clears on its own schedule. A batch of sign ups made on different days will clear on different days.
- Send genuine, relevant traffic. Commissions are tied to customers who stay past the refund window, so real interest in SEO hosting converts far better than low quality clicks. Google's own Search documentation is a good grounding if you promote through content or search.
If a commission still shows as pending well beyond 33 days, or a cleared amount is not appearing when you go to request payment, contact the billing team through the portal or the contact page and they can check the status of the specific referral for you.
