How Amblify works

1. How bounties work

A bounty is a brand's offer to pay you for one of three things: a post on your socials, a link on your Amblify link page, or a commission on purchases your traffic makes. Some bounties combine them. Every bounty shows its rate, its follower minimum, and its required inclusions (hashtags, mentions, a link, a phrase) before you claim.

The loop is always the same:

1. Claim the bounty from Bounties. You need at least the follower count the brand asks for.
2. Do the thing — publish the post, add the link, or start sharing your tracked link.
3. Submit proof from your dashboard. Amblify checks it automatically.
4. Keep it live for 30 days after verification (section 3).
5. Get paid on the payout calendar (section 5). Points land as soon as a claim is verified.

A brand can pause or close a bounty at any time, but a claim verified before that moment still pays.

Points from Amblify's own bounties. Add Amblify to your link page and Post about Amblify are two zero-dollar bounties from Amblify itself, listed on Bounties. Claim and prove them like any other bounty — the proof is an outside page (a Linktree or similar that links to Amblify) or a post — and each pays 250 points once verified.

2. Proof rules by type

Verification is automated: Amblify fetches your URL and checks that the required content is there and public. Private, deleted, expiring, or login-gated content cannot be verified, so it cannot be paid.

Post bounties

• Submit the public URL of the post itself (not your profile). Stories and other expiring formats don't count unless the bounty says so.
• Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X post links are all accepted. TikTok posts are checked automatically; Instagram, YouTube and X posts are sent for review and checked by hand, then verified once approved — keep the post up while you wait.
• The caption must contain every required inclusion exactly as listed on the bounty page — hashtags, @mentions, and any required phrase or link.
• Disclose the partnership (#ad or #sponsored) even if the brand didn't ask. It's the law, and it never hurts verification.
• The account posting must be one of the socials on your Amblify profile.

Link bounties

• The link is already on your Amblify link page the moment you claim — there's nothing to add. Press Verify my link page on the claim in your dashboard, or, if you'd rather prove it on a Linktree or another page you own, paste that page's URL under Use a different page.
• The link must point where the bounty says, carry your ?amb= handle (added for you), and stay visible on the page — not hidden behind a folder or a toggle.
• Removing or swapping the link before day 30 puts the claim at risk.

Commission bounties

• There's no post to prove. Share your tracked link (section 4) anywhere you like — bio, captions, DMs, your link page.
• A conversion counts when the brand's site reports a completed purchase or subscription tied to your handle. Refunds, cancellations and chargebacks are reversed and deducted from your next payout.
• Only unique, non-bot visitors located in a country the brand allows (US by default) are attributed; self-purchases and traffic from your own devices are dropped.

3. The 30-day live window

Every verified post and link must stay live, public, and unchanged in substance for 30 days from the day it is verified. Amblify re-checks proof throughout that window.

• Live — the check passed; nothing to do.
• At risk — a re-check failed: the post was deleted or made private, the caption lost a required inclusion, or the link disappeared from your link page. You get an email and the claim shows At risk on your dashboard. Restore it and hit Re-submit; if the next check passes, the claim goes back to Live with its original clock.
• Rejected — the claim stayed at risk and was never restored, or the proof never matched the bounty. A rejected claim earns no bounty, no commission, and no points.

Earnings for a claim are calculated at the end of the month in which its 30 days complete, and enter that month's payout cycle. Editing a caption is fine as long as every required inclusion stays in it.

4. Tracked links and your link page

Your tracked link is the brand's URL with ?amb=<your handle> on the end. The brand's tracking script reads that tag, so any visit or purchase from it is credited to you. Copy tracked links from the bounty page or your dashboard; never strip the tag or the visit is anonymous.

Each claimed bounty gives you two links. Use the link for captions (the short …/r/<your handle>/… link) in post captions, bios, stories and DMs — Amblify counts every click on it itself, even when the brand's site has no tracking script. Use the link for your link page (the ?amb= link) on your Amblify link page, where it's already added for you, or anywhere you need the brand's own URL.

Your link page (amblify.guud.ai/u/<your handle>) is built for you at signup, like a Linktree. It holds your own links, your shop links, and every link bounty you've claimed — each already tagged. Edit it any time from Link Page; adding links there also earns points.

How visits are counted: one visit per unique visitor, per link, per day; located in a country the brand allows (the United States unless the brand has added more, and a bounty can narrow that list — the bounty page shows which countries it accepts); not a bot, scanner, or data-centre address; not your own devices. Anything else is dropped and earns nothing. Your dashboard shows visits by country, counted and filtered.

5. The payout calendar

Amblify runs one money cycle a month, always on the same three days:

• 1st — brands are invoiced for last month's verified posts, links, and commission.
• 5th — bounty and commission payouts go out to ambassadors for every brand that paid its invoice between the 1st and the 4th.
• 15th — the Amblify pool (10% of last month's Amblify revenue) is paid out, split by each ambassador's share of that month's total points.

If a brand pays late, the payouts it funds roll to the next cycle — Amblify doesn't advance money a brand hasn't paid. Balances under $1.00 carry forward. Your dashboard shows each payout as Pending, Paid, or Held, and you get an email when one is sent.

6. Venmo vs PayPal

Pick one payout rail on your profile. Both are free to you; the difference is how they arrive.

• Venmo — sent by hand from Amblify's Venmo on payout day to the handle on your profile. Double-check the handle: a payment to the wrong @name can't be pulled back.
• PayPal — sent as a PayPal Payouts batch on payout day to the PayPal email on your profile. Usually lands within minutes; PayPal may hold funds on brand-new accounts.

Venmo works in the United States only; if you live elsewhere you're paid by PayPal (section 16). Changes to your rail take effect from the next payout day. Amblify will ask for a W-9 where US tax law requires one.

7. Fraud holds

Amblify scores visits, conversions and proof for signs of manipulation: bursts of traffic from one address, the same visitors appearing across many ambassadors, self-referrals, purchased or automated traffic, and proof that doesn't match the claimed post. When something is flagged, the earnings attached to it go on hold and sit out the next payout while it's reviewed. The brand can see the flag, and Amblify may ask you for context.

If the review finds nothing wrong, the hold is released and paid in the following cycle. If manipulation is confirmed, the held earnings and any related points are forfeited, and repeated fraud closes the account. Honest creators almost never see a hold; if you do, reply to the email and we'll sort it quickly.

8. Still stuck?

Read the Terms for the full rules, or send us a message with your handle and the bounty link and we'll reply by email, usually within one business day.

14. Designing your Link Page

This part of Help is for creators. Change how your link page (amblify.guud.ai/u/<your handle>) looks from the Design tab of Link Page. The preview beside the controls is your real page drawn with the design you're editing, and it updates as you change anything.

Pick a look

Start with a theme preset such as Peach pop, Ink editorial or Midnight neon. A preset sets the background, colours, fonts and button shape in one go; you can tweak any of them afterwards. Once you change something by hand, no preset tile stays selected — that's expected.

Background

• Solid colour — one colour behind the whole page.
• Gradient — pick a From and To colour and drag the Angle slider (0–360°) to set its direction.
• Image — upload your own PNG, JPEG, WebP or GIF, up to 5 MB. Amblify adds a light wash over photos so your links stay readable.

Fonts and buttons

• Font pair — a matched heading and body font, for example Modern sans, Editorial serif, Playful display or Mono tech.
• Button style — Square, Rounded or Pill corners on every link button.
• Text colour and Button colour — the button's label colour is picked for you so it always contrasts with the button.

Save your changes

Nothing you change on the Design tab is live until you press Save & publish at the bottom of the controls. Until then the tab shows Unsaved changes and visitors still see your last published design; Undo my changes goes back to it. Leaving the page without saving discards your edits. The line under the buttons shows when you last published.

15. Guuds brand affiliate programs

This part of Help is for creators. Brands that sell on Guuds (guuds.guud.ai) can open an affiliate program: you promote their products, and every purchase you send them is credited to you. Unlike a bounty there's no proof to submit — the link does the work.

Join a brand's program

1. Open Guuds brands from your creator menu. Each card shows the brand's commission rate, its own instructions for affiliates and the products it sells. Search by name or filter by category and commission to narrow the list.
2. Read the brand's instructions, then press Join. You're in straight away — there's no application to wait on — and the card switches to Add products to my Link Page.
3. Joining twice is harmless: you keep the same affiliate code. Joining your first program also shows up as a next step on Earn points.

Your ?ref= affiliate links

When you join, Guuds gives you an affiliate code for that brand — one code per brand. Amblify adds it to the brand's product page links as ?ref=<your code>, so a link looks like …/products/sunset-tee?ref=<your code>. You never have to build these by hand: every product on your link page, and every result visitors find by searching it, already carries your code. If you share a product link somewhere else, copy it from your link page so the ?ref= stays on — a link without it can't be credited to you.

These ?ref= links are for Guuds brands only. Bounty links use ?amb= and short links (section 4), and the brands.html?ref= link on your dashboard is for referring a brand to Amblify, which is a separate reward.

Showcase products on your link page

• Press Add products to my Link Page on a joined brand's card and pick the products you want. They appear as a grid of cards — image, name and price — on your public page (amblify.guud.ai/u/<your handle>).
• Reorder or remove products from Link Page. A product the brand stops selling, or a brand you're no longer affiliated with, drops off your page by itself.
• Visitors also get a Shop <your name>'s brands search box that covers every product from every brand you've joined, not just the ones you picked. Products from brands you haven't joined never show up there.

How conversions are tracked and credited

When a visitor buys through one of your ?ref= links, Guuds tells Amblify about the completed order with your affiliate code. Amblify checks the message really came from Guuds, matches the code to you and records the sale: the order total and your commission at that brand's rate.

• Points: 1 point per whole dollar of the sale (at least 1 per order), added to your total for the monthly points pool and the leaderboard.
• Stats: the purchase and its revenue appear in your Link Page analytics alongside your views and clicks.
• Counted once: each order is credited a single time, even if Guuds sends it again.

Only completed purchases count — views and clicks alone earn no commission. If a sale you expected is missing, check the link you shared still had your ?ref= code on it, then contact us with the brand and order details.

16. Outside the US?

Creators and brands outside the United States can use Amblify. A few things work differently:

• Eligibility — anyone 18 or over can join from any country. Each brand chooses the countries where its customers are (the US unless it adds more), and a bounty can narrow that list; the bounty page shows which countries it accepts. Your visits and purchases only count when the visitor is in one of those countries, wherever you live yourself.
• Payouts are PayPal only — Venmo is US-only, so creators outside the US are paid by PayPal Payouts to the PayPal email on your profile. Add one before payout day; without it your payout waits until you do.
• Brands — choose your customer countries under Where your customers are in your brand settings. Invoices are issued and paid through PayPal in your brand's currency.
• Tax — you're responsible for any tax on your earnings where you live. Amblify doesn't withhold tax, but US rules mean we need a W-8BEN from you before your first payout — see Tax forms, held payouts and your annual statement. PayPal may apply its own currency-conversion fees.

17. Tax forms, held payouts and your annual statement

US tax rules mean Amblify needs a tax form from some creators before money can leave. You fill it in once, under Tax info on your account page.

• W-9 (US creators) — needed once you've been paid $600 or more in a calendar year. Below that, payouts go out without one.
• W-8BEN (outside the US) — needed before your first payout, whatever the amount.
• “Held — tax form” — if a payout is due and the form isn't on file, the payout is held instead of sent, and your dashboard shows it with that status and a banner. Nothing is lost: as soon as you save the form at account.html#tax, held payouts are released and paid on the next payout date, and their claims then show as Paid.
• Your TIN is protected — your SSN, EIN or foreign tax ID is stored encrypted, and we only ever show its last 4 digits, even to you.
• Annual statement — on your dashboard, pick a year and use Download <year> statement to get a CSV of everything paid out to you that calendar year, by month, source and currency, with yearly totals. Handy for your own tax return.

Amblify doesn't withhold tax and can't give tax advice — you're responsible for any tax on your earnings where you live. Questions about a held payout? Contact us.

18. Always-on affiliate programs

This part of Help is for creators. Some guud apps run an always-on affiliate program: you share the app with your own link, and when someone you referred pays, you earn a share of what they pay. There's no bounty to claim and no proof to submit — the link does the work.

Share your link

Open Affiliate earnings from your creator menu. Programs you can share lists each app with your personal link, which carries ?amb=<your code>. Copy it and share it anywhere. A customer who signs up through it is credited to you; no claim is needed.

Standard terms

• 20% of what referred customers pay — subscriptions earn commission for 12 months; other purchases earn commission for a year after the customer signed up.
• 30-day refund hold — each commission waits 30 days before it becomes payable.
• Refunds reverse commission — if a payment is refunded or charged back, the commission on it is reversed.
• $25 minimum — a payout goes out once you have at least $25 payable.
• W-9 before the first payout — save it under Tax info (see section 17).
• US creators only — affiliate commissions are paid to creators in the United States.
• Payouts are approved by the Amblify team before they are sent.

These are the standard terms; an individual program can differ. The live values for each program — rate, hold days and minimum — are always shown on me/affiliate.html, along with your totals, payout history and recent commission lines.