Share your link. When someone you refer sells their business on Verified Biz Exchange's free tier, you earn a share of our commission — paid straight to your M-Pesa or bank account.
Not a flat fee — a real percentage of what we actually make, only when a referred seller's business sells.
Type any sale price to see exactly how your earning would be worked out — the same formula runs behind every real number in your dashboard.
Register and complete ID verification — required for every account on VBE, including referrers.
Your personal referral link appears on this page the moment your ID is verified.
Send it to business owners you know. They register and verify their own ID using your link.
When their business sells on the free tier, your commission share is calculated and paid via Paystack.
Read this before you start sharing — it's the difference between an active link and an active earning.
Your own National ID verification must be approved before your referral link is issued — same as every VBE account.
The person you refer must complete and pass their own National ID verification. Pending or rejected verification doesn't count yet.
Earnings trigger only when the referred seller's listing actually sells while on our free tier (10% commission). Paid-tier sales carry 0% platform commission, so there's nothing to share on those.
Every earning moves through the same three stages, and every stage shows up as a figure on your dashboard.
A referred seller's business just sold on the free tier. Your share of our commission is calculated automatically using the formula above and logged against your account — this is the "Pending Payout" figure on your dashboard.
Our team confirms the sale and the commission figures are correct. Approved earnings are queued for transfer — there's no minimum balance to reach first; every approved amount gets paid.
The transfer is sent via Paystack to the primary payout method on your account, and the amount moves from "Pending Payout" into your running "Total Earned" total.
Create a free account (or sign in) and complete ID verification to start earning.
Create My AccountPick what fits you best when you register — you can always explore the others later from your dashboard.
List your verified business for sale, lease, or franchise and reach buyers across all 47 counties.
Start selling →Share your link and earn a share of our commission every time a referred seller's business sells.
Start referring →Promote your services to business buyers and sellers as a verified professional advertiser.
Start advertising →Only when the business you referred someone to sell actually sells, and only if that sale happens on our free tier (where we earn a 10% commission). Signups and pending listings don't trigger a payout on their own.
Not directly. We only earn a commission on free-tier sales, so that's the only case where there's a commission to share. If a paid-tier seller later switches their listing to the free tier and it then sells, that sale qualifies normally.
Yes. Their referral only counts as qualified once their own National ID verification is approved — the same requirement every VBE account has to meet.
Automatically via Paystack, straight to the primary payout method (bank account or M-Pesa number) linked to your VBE account once your earnings are approved. Set up a secondary (backup) method too, in case the primary one ever fails.
No. Any verified VBE account can generate and share a referral link — choosing "Refer & Earn" at signup just puts referral tools front and center in your dashboard.
Use the calculator above to check the expected number against what you're seeing. If it still doesn't match, contact Support with the referral or sale in question — we'll review the calculation and correct it if needed.
