The ZippCall Affiliate Program: Earn 20% on Every Top-Up Your Referrals Make

There are hundreds of millions of people making international calls every day, many of them paying far more than they need to. Most have no idea that an app like ZippCall exists. They’re still relying on their carrier, still getting hit with charges of a dollar or more per minute, or scrambling to get someone onto WhatsApp only to find the person they’re calling isn’t on it.

I built the ZippCall affiliate program to close that gap. If you have an audience of people who travel internationally, live abroad, or stay in touch with family across borders, you can earn 20% commission on every top-up your referrals make, for a full year from the day they sign up.

This is a proper affiliate program with a real commission structure and a real-time dashboard. It is not a “refer a friend and get $5 credit” scheme.

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Who this program is actually for

Most affiliate programs in the calling and VoIP space are built for software agencies and IT consultants selling business phone systems to companies. ZippCall’s affiliate program is built for something different.

The right fit is someone whose audience makes international calls. Travel communities, digital nomads, expat groups, diaspora content creators, people who cover immigration and relocation, newsletter writers with readers spread across multiple countries. If your audience includes people who call home regularly from abroad, or who need to reach family, banks, or official numbers in another country, there is a genuine, recurring need here.

One thing I have noticed building ZippCall: a small, trusted audience often outperforms a large, general one. A WhatsApp group of 200 Nigerian expats in London, where you have built real trust over time, will convert better than a travel blog with 50,000 monthly readers who are mostly domestic tourists. That is why there are no minimum traffic requirements to join. A community of a few hundred people who genuinely need affordable international calling is exactly what this program is designed for.

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How the commission works

The commission rate is 20%. You earn that on every top-up your referred users make, not just the first one.

Here is how it works in practice. ZippCall is pay-as-you-go. There is no monthly subscription. Your referred users add credit when they need to make calls, and you earn 20% of whatever they top up, for 12 months from the day they first signed up through your link. Every time they run low and top up again, you earn 20% of that too. It applies to every top-up, across every user you refer, for a full year.

The commission compounds. Refer 20 people who each top up a handful of times over the year, and that 20% across all of them adds up to something meaningful — without you doing anything after the initial referral.

The cookie window is 12 months. Most affiliate programs run cookies for 30 to 90 days. The reason I set it at a year is straightforward: someone might hear about ZippCall through your content today and not sign up for another three months, when they actually need to make an international call. A 12-month cookie means you still get credit for that referral.

Once approved, you get access to your Insert Affiliate dashboard, which shows clicks, signups, conversions, and commissions in real time. There is no minimum payout threshold. Commissions are paid directly to your bank account.

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What makes ZippCall easy to promote honestly

I will be straightforward here. I have an obvious bias as the founder, so I am going to give you the honest version rather than a sales pitch, and let you decide.

The price is clear before you call. You can look up the exact per-minute rate for any country at zippcall.com/countries before you add a single penny of credit. There are no hidden connection fees and no monthly charges. If you top up and do not end up using it, the credit stays in your account. It does not expire.

Setup takes about two minutes. ZippCall works from a browser on any device, with no download needed, as well as through iPhone and Android apps. The first call is free, with no payment required to try it.

The person being called does not need ZippCall. They just answer their regular phone or mobile. This matters more than most people expect. A lot of free international calling apps only work if both people have the same app. ZippCall calls any number anywhere.

Here is what a few ZippCall users have said in their own words:

“The only phone that she can answer is a ‘land line’. So any ideas of WhatsApp, Messenger, Teams etc are irrelevant. ZippCall is the only service that I use to keep in touch with my Mum in Australia.” Andrew, Frequent Traveller

“My family in Germany does not have a smartphone or internet at home, so internet-based services like Skype or WhatsApp are not an option for us. That is when I started looking for a better solution and I found ZippCall.” Martin Dick, Expat in Thailand

“I signed up for ZippCall, added credit, and I was going within minutes. This allowed her to contact her insurance back home in Australia, and call her family to let them know they were okay. ZippCall, quite literally a life saver!” Sean, Traveller in Bali

Where ZippCall is not always the cheapest option

I should be honest about this too. ZippCall covers 200+ countries and rates start from $0.02 per minute, but we are not necessarily the cheapest option to every single country. For some routes, another service might be a cent or two cheaper per minute. I am always working on bringing our rates down.

What I would say is this: even when ZippCall is not the absolute cheapest for a specific route, it is consistently affordable, consistently simple, and works from any device without any setup. For most people, that trade-off is worth it.

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How to get started

Apply at zippcall.com/affiliates. Applications are reviewed manually, usually within a few hours.

When you apply, you will need to write at least 500 characters about who you are, what you do, and why ZippCall is a good fit for your audience. The applications that work well are honest ones: who are your people, where are they, and why would they actually use an international calling app? If the answer to that last question is clear, you are a good fit.

Once approved, you get your unique affiliate link and access to your Insert Affiliate dashboard. From there you can track clicks, signups, and commissions in real time.

There is one restriction on promotion: you cannot bid on ZippCall brand keywords in paid search. Everything else is open.

We have put together a few resources to make it easier to get started:

• How to promote ZippCall covers platform-specific content ideas and the key messages that work well.
• The brand kit has logos, colours, and copy templates ready to use.

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A few content approaches that tend to work

The full promote guide covers platform-by-platform ideas in detail. But here are three angles that tend to work particularly well for ZippCall, given what makes it different.

The rate check post. Pick a specific country your audience cares about. Look up the ZippCall rate at zippcall.com/countries, compare it honestly to carrier rates, and write it up. This answers a real question and does not feel like an ad.

The “how I stay in touch” piece. If you are an expat or digital nomad yourself, first-person content about how you actually call home tends to perform well. People trust “here is what I use and why” more than “here is a product I am recommending.”

The landline problem. A specific, practical piece about how to call a landline internationally when the person on the other end does not have WhatsApp or FaceTime. It is a genuine problem that comes up constantly in expat communities, and ZippCall is the direct answer.

If you want to see the kinds of questions your audience is already searching for, posts like how to call from a hotel abroad show the practical, specific things that travel and expat audiences look up.

A note on disclosure. If you are earning commission by recommending ZippCall, tell your audience. This is a legal requirement in most countries, and it is also the right thing to do. A simple “I earn a commission if you sign up through my link” is enough. Most platforms have built-in disclosure tools. Audiences tend to respond better to transparency than to discovering it later.

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