OneUp Trader: four parameters where the landing page differs from the agreement
OneUp Trader sells a monthly subscription to evaluation accounts priced from 65 to 325 dollars (the firm’s own page, checked 2026-07-28). The affiliate program is described in two places: on the public page and in the Affiliate Partner Agreement, which an affiliate accepts when joining. We compared both texts. Of the five main terms, four do not match.
Below we do not rate the program and give no recommendation on choosing it. We show what is written in each of the two documents.
Table of discrepancies
| Parameter | The landing page | Affiliate Partner Agreement |
|---|---|---|
| Commission rate | 25% | 20% |
| Recurring commission | lifetime, on every renewal | first payment only |
| Attribution window | 60 days | 45 days |
| Payouts | instant | about 30 days after the end of the month |
| Threshold | not emphasised | 250 dollars |
The left column is taken from the program’s public page (the firm’s own page, checked 2026-07-28). The right column is taken from the agreement text (the agreement text, checked 2026-07-28).
Rate: 25% on the landing page, 20% in the agreement
The 25% figure is not invented. The program has tiers: Platinum gives 20%, Diamond gives 25% (the agreement text, checked 2026-07-28). The move to Diamond happens after an affiliate has referred 5000 dollars of subscriptions (the agreement text, checked 2026-07-28).
So 25% exists, but it is the top tier rather than the starting commission rate. An affiliate who joins today starts at 20%. The firm does not publish its average order value, so the exact number of referrals needed to reach Diamond cannot be calculated from public data.
Tiers as such are normal for the niche. We covered why the starting percentage is rarely the main parameter in the piece on why the commission rate is not the main thing. The discrepancy here is not the existence of tiers but the fact that the landing page shows the upper figure without the condition under which it applies.
Recurring commission: lifetime against the first payment
The most expensive of the four discrepancies. The landing page describes the commission as lifetime, credited on every renewal of a referral’s subscription (the firm’s own page, checked 2026-07-28). The agreement states that commission is credited on the first payment only (the agreement text, checked 2026-07-28).
For a monthly subscription product this is a fundamental difference. The landing page model assumes a stream of payments from a single referred user. The agreement model assumes a one-off payment per conversion.
The arithmetic on three payments
A referral paid for the subscription three times.
Under the landing page model the affiliate receives 25% of each of the three payments: 0.75 of the amount of one payment.
Under the agreement the affiliate receives 20% of the first payment: 0.20 of the amount of one payment.
The difference is nearly fourfold, and it grows with every renewal. At six payments the landing page would have given 1.50, the agreement still gives 0.20.
This is not an assessment of the program’s profitability but an illustration of how far apart the two descriptions published by the firm are on the economics of the same referral.
Attribution window: 60 days against 45
The landing page states 60 days (the firm’s own page, checked 2026-07-28). The agreement states 45 (the agreement text, checked 2026-07-28). Tracking runs through Tapfiliate (the agreement text, checked 2026-07-28).
Fifteen days of difference matter for traffic with a long decision cycle: reviews, YouTube, newsletters, where the user returns to buy several weeks later. How the length of the window affects credited conversions is covered in the piece on the attribution window.
Payouts and the threshold
The landing page describes payouts as instant (the firm’s own page, checked 2026-07-28). The agreement states payment about 30 days after the end of the month in which commission was accrued (the agreement text, checked 2026-07-28). Payouts go through PayPal (the agreement text, checked 2026-07-28).
The payout threshold is 250 dollars (the agreement text, checked 2026-07-28) and it is not emphasised on the landing page. At a rate of 20% on the first payment and a subscription in the lower part of the price range, the threshold is not reached on one or two conversions.
Sub-affiliate program
The agreement describes two levels: 2% on the second and 1% on the third (the agreement text, checked 2026-07-28). This is one of the few terms described consistently in both sources.
Brand restrictions and jurisdiction
The agreement bans bidding on 15 listed spellings of the brand (the agreement text, checked 2026-07-28). On breach, all accrued commissions are forfeited (the agreement text, checked 2026-07-28). If the affiliate does not remove the ads within 2 calendar days, the agreement states that court action will follow (the agreement text, checked 2026-07-28).
The agreement is governed by the law of the state of Delaware (the agreement text, checked 2026-07-28). For an affiliate outside the United States this means a dispute under a law he has most likely never worked with, and the cost of such a dispute may exceed the amount of the disputed commission.
The list of 15 variants also covers misspelled forms. An affiliate buying search traffic should check his negative keywords against this list before launch.
What to do
- Download the Affiliate Partner Agreement before registering and save it locally with the date. The landing page changes without notice, a local copy stays.
- Check five parameters by hand: the rate, recurring commission, the window, the payment term, the threshold. These are exactly the points on which the sources diverged.
- Calculate unit economics from the figures in the agreement. The difference between 0.75 and 0.20 on three payments changes the acceptable cost per lead several times over.
- Ask in writing which figure is in force and which document takes priority in case of conflict.
- Work out how many conversions you need to reach the 250 dollar threshold at your average order value.
- Check your campaigns against the list of 15 banned brand variants: the stated sanction is forfeiture of all commissions, not only the disputed ones.
- Check whether your decision cycle is covered by a 45 day window rather than a 60 day one.
The general approach to comparing sources is described in the piece on the landing page against the agreement.
Company response
We sent OneUp Trader a request for comment on each of the four discrepancies and will publish the response when it arrives. At the time of publication no response has been received.
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