If you write about sailing, run a charter blog, film on the water or simply know people who charter yachts, you can earn from the bookings you send us. Our affiliate program pays a share of what we earn on a booking — not a slice of your reader's charter price. Nothing you promote costs them more.
We have run this program for years with a small number of partners. It is deliberately simple: one link, a fair share, and a person who answers your emails.
Already a partner? Open your partner dashboard — it shows your link, your visits and confirmed bookings, and what you have earned.
How the Affiliate Program Works
You get a personal referral code. Adding it to any page on our site turns that page into your link:
https://skippercity.com/?ref=your-code
https://skippercity.com/yacht-charter-croatia/boat-search?ref=your-code
Any page works — the homepage, a boat, a destination guide, a specific search. Send people to whatever actually helps them.
When somebody follows your link we remember that you sent them. If they book, you earn a share of our commission on that booking. You do not handle payments, contracts or customers; we do all of that, and you get paid afterwards.
What You Earn
Our commission is what we keep on the boat price: what the charter company pays us for arranging the booking, less any discount we give the customer. Skipper, extras, the card surcharge and anything paid at the base are not part of it. Your share of it is:
- 20% as standard,
- up to 25% for partners who send us regular business.
A worked example, so there is no mystery in it. If our commission on a booking is 600 €, 20% of it — 120 € — is yours (150 € at 25%). The crew pays the same price either way — your share comes out of our side, never theirs.
We show you the real number for every booking, not an estimate.
How Long the Link Keeps Working
Two things, and they both favour you:
- 365 days. Somebody who follows your link and books eleven months later still counts as yours. Most charter decisions take weeks or months, and a 30-day cookie quietly loses you the bookings that took the longest to make.
- Lifetime for the customer. Once we associate a customer with you, later bookings from that same person (booking with the same email address) keep earning you commission — even when they come back directly, without your link.
If a customer follows a different partner's link before booking, that booking goes to whoever sent them most recently. That is the standard rule, and it works in your favour as often as against it.
When You Get Paid
A commission becomes payable once both of these are true:
- the customer has paid for their charter in full, and
- the charter has actually started.
That second condition is the honest one. Charters get cancelled, sometimes weeks after they are paid for, and paying commission on a booking that never sails would mean asking for it back. Waiting until the crew is on the boat means what we pay you, stays paid.
We pay out once a month, by bank transfer, when your payable balance is at least 50 € — normally by the 15th of the month after a commission became payable. Below that it simply rolls over to the next payout. Cancelled, expired or failed bookings pay nothing.
What We Ask of You
Very little, and none of it is a trap:
- Promote us honestly. Do not promise prices, availability or terms we have not published.
- Do not bid on our brand name in paid search, and do not use our name in a way that suggests you are us.
- No cookie stuffing, no forced clicks, no booking through your own link — we void commissions on bookings partners make for themselves.
- Say clearly, next to every promotion, that it is an ad or that you may earn a commission — for example "I may earn a commission if you book through these links." Your dashboard has ready-made lines to copy.
That is the short version. The full rules are in our Partner Agreement, which you accept when you apply. We would rather work with a handful of partners who send us real people than a hundred who send us traffic.
Apply to Join
Tell us who you are and pick the code you would like your links to use. We read every application ourselves — there is no automatic approval, and no bulk sign-up. If we are a fit, we will set you up and email you your link. Applying means accepting the Partner Agreement — the form asks you to tick it.
Were you a partner in our previous program? Apply again here with the code you used before, and mention it in the notes. Once we approve you, the links you already published keep working with the same ?ref= code. A link to a page we still have opens that page, at its new address if it moved; a link to a page we have retired now takes your visitor to our homepage, and the click still counts as yours. You also get a dashboard that shows your visits and confirmed bookings, which the old program never had.
Free to join
Apply to the affiliate program
Three things get you started: your name, an email we can reach you on, and the referral code you would like to use. We read every application ourselves and reply personally.
Questions Partners Ask
Does it cost my readers anything?
No. Your share comes out of our commission — what we keep on the boat price — never out of their price. Your reader pays the same price they would have paid coming to us directly.
When do I find out a booking is mine?
We email you the moment a booking you referred is confirmed, with the charter dates and your share. Your dashboard shows where every booking stands, a monthly statement lists what became payable, and you hear from us again with every payout. You can always ask us for a current picture — there is a real person on the other end of that email.
What if somebody books by phone or email instead of online?
Tell us which booking it was. If they came to us through you, we credit the booking to your account by hand: it appears on your dashboard, earns the same share as a booking made through your link, is paid out with the rest, and you get the same email as for any other confirmed booking. The link is how we track things automatically, not the only way we are willing to be fair.
Can I promote you outside Croatia?
Yes — write for any audience, wherever they live. What we sell is boats lying in Croatian marinas, more than 3,000 of them, so a piece about sailing in Croatia is the one that converts.
How do I stop?
Email us and we will close your account. Commissions on bookings already confirmed are still paid, and so is a booking a customer had already started through you if it is confirmed within 30 days after you leave — and you can still sign in to your dashboard to see what is owed and keep your payout details up to date until everything is paid.