Referral Plan rules
Version RP-1.5-2026-09-24 · Authentic Taiwan (Felix Impex) · Singapore
These rules apply to every referral member of the Referral Plan. Joining the plan online means accepting the version of these rules shown at the time you joined. The version you accepted is recorded with your membership.
1. Who can join
- Anyone with a valid email address can join online. There is no application, no interview and no approval step.
- One referral membership per account.
- You join as an individual referral member. You do not represent Authentic Taiwan, compubility or SIGHTREAD, and you may not describe yourself as an agent, distributor or representative of any of them.
2. Your referral link
- On joining you receive a unique referral code and a referral link that opens authentictaiwan.com.
- Your code is yours alone. Do not share it in a way that misrepresents who you are or what compubility × SIGHTREAD does.
- We may issue a new code, or deactivate a code, where a code is being abused.
3. How a filed project is attributed
- When a visitor arrives through your referral link and a project is later filed and paid for, the referral code carried by that visit is recorded against that payment.
- Attribution is recorded at order level from the payment event, after the payment is verified as genuine. A filed project is only attributed once its payment is completed.
- Every attributed payment is written to a commission ledger entry under your referral code, showing the eligible amount, the rate and the commission calculated from them.
4. Commission terms
Published Rate: 20% per successful filed project — a filed project whose payment has been completed and verified.
Published Eligible payments: the registration payment and the project execution payment. The refundable development performance deposit does not earn commission, because it is a deposit that can be returned in full, not a fee. Ordinary shop orders are not filed projects. Where one payment covers both an eligible fee and something excluded, only the eligible part counts. A Backing Circle seat payment (section 4A) is a project execution payment.
Published Basis: net. The 20% is calculated on the eligible amount itself, excluding shipping and tax.
The terms below have not yet been published. Until they are, commission is calculated and recorded as accrued, but no amount becomes payable and no payout is made.
| Commission rate | Published 20% per successful filed project |
|---|---|
| Which payments are eligible | Published Registration payment and project execution payment (including Backing Circle seat payments). Refundable development performance deposit excluded. Shop orders excluded. |
| Commission basis | Published Net — the eligible amount, excluding shipping and tax |
| Attribution window | Not yet published |
| Attribution model (first click or last click) | Not yet published |
| New-customer restriction | Not yet published |
| Refund review period | Not yet published |
| Minimum payout | Not yet published |
| Payout schedule | Not yet published |
| Payout currency | Not yet published |
| Self-referral policy | Not yet published for ordinary referrals. In a Backing Circle, your own seats never earn commission for you (section 4A). |
When these terms are published, this page changes to a new version number, and the change applies to filed projects attributed after that version takes effect.
4A. Backing Circle
- A project stage listed for Backing Circles is split into a fixed number of seats. A seat is a proportional share of that stage’s backing.
- Seat price = the stage’s capital ÷ the number of seats ÷ 0.8. The extra 20% inside each seat price is the referral allowance. Commission on a seat is paid from that allowance — never from the stage’s capital and never from other co-backers’ money. Where a seat has no referrer, the allowance stays with Authentic Taiwan.
- Any referral member can open a Circle for a listed stage. The member who opens it takes at least one seat and leaves at least one seat for others. One open Circle per member per project.
- Taking a seat is a pledge, not a payment. A Circle stays open for 30 days. If it does not fill, it closes and nobody is charged. Pledges can be changed or withdrawn while the Circle is open.
- When every seat is pledged, payment opens for 7 days. Each co-backer registers and pays Authentic Taiwan directly for their own seats. Money never passes through the person who opened the Circle or through anyone else.
- If payment does not complete within 7 days, unpaid seats are released and the Circle reopens once for 14 days. If it still does not complete, every paid seat is refunded in full.
- Commission is one level only. The referral member whose link brought a co-backer earns 20% of that co-backer’s paid seat price. Nobody earns commission on seats bought by people further down the chain. Your own seats never earn commission for you.
- Anyone who takes a seat receives their own referral link and can invite others to the remaining seats under the same rule.
- Seat counts are public on the Circle page. Who holds how many seats is shown only to the seat holder.
- Refunds, cancellations and chargebacks of a seat payment reverse the seat and the commission on it, as in section 5.
5. Refunds, cancellations and chargebacks
If an attributed payment is refunded, cancelled or charged back, the attribution and its ledger entry are reversed, and the commission calculated on it is reversed with them.
6. Conduct
- No spam, no unsolicited bulk messaging, and no posting your link where the platform does not allow it.
- No paid search or advertising on Authentic Taiwan, compubility or SIGHTREAD brand terms.
- No impersonation of Authentic Taiwan, compubility, SIGHTREAD, their suppliers or their staff.
- No false claims about projects, products, origin, certification, health effects, returns or availability.
- No cookie stuffing, forced clicks, redirects or any other artificial attribution.
7. Suspension
A referral membership may be suspended where these rules are broken, where attribution appears artificial, or where a payment dispute is being investigated. A suspended membership is shown as suspended on the Referral Plan page. Suspension is an exception handled case by case; it is never a step in joining.
8. Data
We record your email address, your referral code, the rules version you accepted and when you accepted it, clicks recorded on your code, payments attributed to your code, the ledger entries created from them, and any Backing Circle seats you pledge or pay for. This is used to operate the Referral Plan. See the privacy policy.
9. Changes and ending the plan
These rules may be updated. Each update gets a new version number and date. Authentic Taiwan may close the Referral Plan; commission already accrued under a published version of section 4 is settled under that version.
10. Contact
Questions about the Referral Plan: contact page.
Current status of this version: enrolment and link issuance are live; attribution from verified payments is live; commission is calculated at 20% of the eligible net amount and held as accrued; reversal on refund and cancellation is live; Backing Circles (open, pledge, fill, 7-day payment, one-level commission, reversal) are live. Payout is not live — the refund review period, minimum payout, schedule and currency have not been published, so no accrued amount is payable yet.