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This feature is only available on Business plans and above.
Program bounties
Bounties on Dub Partners let you reward partners for achieving goals or creating content about your product. This guide walks you through creating bounties, setting requirements, and managing submissions. To view and manage your bounties, go to your Partner Program menu and click on Bounties under the Engagement section:
Bounty navigation location

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Creating a bounty

Click Create bounty (or use the C keyboard shortcut) to open the bounty creation panel. From here, select the type of bounty you want to create:
Whenever you create a new bounty, an email notification will be sent to all eligible partners at the scheduled start date of the bounty. Make sure to finalize your bounty before creating it.
Bounty email notification

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Performance bounties

Performance bounties reward partners for achieving measurable milestones, such as a specific number of leads, conversions, revenue, or commissions. They’re tracked automatically and paid out once completed, with no approval needed.
Create performance bounty
Examples:
  • Drive 500 leads and earn an additional $1,000 bonus
  • Generate $1,000 in revenue and earn an additional $250 bonus
  • Earn $5,000 in commissions and receive an additional $500 bonus

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Performance logic

When setting the logic for a performance bounty, you can choose from several options depending on how you want performance to be measured.
Performance bounty logic
Scope determines how performance is tracked over a specific period.
  • New - Tracks only performance generated after the bounty starts. For example, if you set a bounty that rewards partners after 10 leads, each partner must generate 10 new leads after the bounty goes live, regardless of how many leads they had before. For revenue-based bounties, only revenue from customers whose first sale happens after the bounty starts is counted.
  • Lifetime - Counts performance across the partner’s entire lifetime. For example, if you set a bounty that rewards after 10 leads, any partner who already has at least 10 leads will immediately qualify for the reward.
Activity determines which metric is tracked for the bounty. Revenue and commissions require a dollar amount to be set.
  • Leads
  • Conversions
  • Revenue
  • Commissions

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Submission bounties

Submission bounties reward partners for completing activities that require review, such as creating social media content, publishing a blog post, or hosting an event. Partners submit proof, and rewards are approved once requirements are met.
Create submission bounty
Examples:
  • Release a YouTube video to drive awareness
  • Publish a blog post highlighting your product
  • Host an event (in-person or online) promoting your brand

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Submission window

This is the number of days before the end date that partners can start submitting entries. An end date is required to enter a submission window.
Submission window

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Submission frequency

Set the time between submissions partners can make when Allowed submissions is greater than one. Partners must submit the full number of allowed submissions to complete the bounty. You can select from:
  • Once a day
  • Once a week
  • Once a month
Set Allowed submissions to greater than one to set a submission frequency.
Submission frequency
If no submission frequency is set, partners can submit all required entries any time the bounty is open for submissions.

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Submission criteria

Add additional requirements to be able to submit a bounty. This includes:
  • Requiring at least one image: Helpful when a partner needs to provide proof of completion. Up to four images can be included.
  • Requiring at least one URL: Helpful when a partner needs to provide a URL as proof of completion. Up to 100 URLs can be provided, and the allowed domains can be configured.
Submission requirements
By default, partners claiming a submission bounty are asked to describe how they completed the bounty using a text field.
Submission default

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Allowed domains

You can restrict submissions to specific domains by defining an allowed domain list.
Allowed domains
This is helpful when submissions must come from specific platforms or websites, such as approved social networks or owned domains.
Looking to run bounties for social posts with outcome-based rewards? Check out the social metrics submission type instead.

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Custom reward

For certain submission bounties, you may want to have a custom reward for each submission. Here are some examples:
  • Pay a custom reward amount for an arbitrary task (e.g. organizing a meetup/webinar)
  • Reward 10% if the partner reaches a goal they set by a specific date (e.g. #FramerChallenge)
Create submission bounty

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Social metrics

Social metrics bounties are only available on the Advanced plan and above.
Social metrics bounties are a type of submission bounty that is best used to reward partners based on the performance of their social posts.
Create submission bounty
When submitting these bounties, partners can only provide one link, and it’s required to be from a verified social account on their partner profile. The post they submit must also be created after the bounty has started. This is to avoid partners submitting older content that already has activity.
Setting social metric submissions criteria
Similar to submission bounties, you can also set a submission window and submission frequency for social metrics bounties.

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Select a social platform and target metric

You can track performance on one social platform per bounty, and can select from:

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Add a variable bonus

You can also optionally reward for additional performance beyond the base criteria.
Social metric — variable bonus configuration
In this example, the program is rewarding an additional $10 per 100 likes on the submitted post, up to 1,000 likes.

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Reviewing bounties

For submission bounties, you must review partner submission entries before approving or rejecting them. To view a submission, click its row in the submissions table.
Bounty review table
In the submission review, you’ll see something similar to the examples below, but your view may differ based on the requirements and criteria you’ve set for the bounty. Each review includes partner information, submission details, and the proof or social content provided to fulfill the criteria.
Bounty review examples
From this view, you can either approve or reject the submission.

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Approving submissions

Once you approve a bounty submission, a commission will be automatically created and due at your next payout. The partner will also receive a notification email:
Bounty commissions are recorded as custom commissions, which are not subject to your program’s payout holding period. They become eligible for payout immediately at the next payout cycle – whether the submission is approved via the dashboard or the API.
Bounty approved email
If you set your reward to custom during the approval process, you’ll be asked to enter the flat rate amount to reward this partner.

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Rejecting submissions

When rejecting a bounty submission, you can also select a reason and provide more details for the rejection. This information will be added to the submission record, and will also be sent in an email to the partner.
Bounty rejected modal
For the rejection reason, you can select from:
  • Invalid proof
  • Duplicate submission
  • Out of time window
  • Did not meet criteria
  • Other
When rejected, no commission will be created, and the partner email will look similar to the example below.
Bounty rejected email