Best Crypto Gift Card Affiliate Programs
Crypto gift card affiliate programs pay 1-15%, and several pay in store credit rather than cash. Verified terms for CoinGate, Coincards, Bitrefill and more.
Crypto gift card sites let people spend Bitcoin, USDT or Ethereum on Amazon, Uber, Netflix and mobile top-ups. Their affiliate programs pay between 1% and 15%, and the single most important thing to know before you promote one is how it pays: Bitrefill and Bidali pay in store credit you can only spend with them, Coincards pays in real Bitcoin, and CoinGate pays euros to a bank account. Several of the best-known brands in this niche — eGifter, Cake Pay, Fold — have no affiliate program at all, CryptoRefills says outright that it does not run one for content sites, and Paxful, still listed in most guides, shut down in November 2025.
Every figure below was read from the company's own live page in August 2026, with the page it came from linked. Where a brand does not publish its rate, this guide says so rather than inventing one.
How crypto gift card programs actually pay
Gift cards are a resale business. The retailer sells a $100 card to the platform at a small discount, and the platform's entire gross margin is that discount — usually a few percent. That is why commissions here look low next to SaaS or finance offers, and why the payout structure varies so much:
- A percentage of the card's face value. Rare, because it eats most of the margin. CoinGate's "up to 15%" is calculated on the gift card purchase value excluding fees, which makes it the outlier in this list.
- A percentage of gross margin. CryptoRefills words its partner commission this way — a percentage of gross margin per completed sale, varying by brand and category, with no figure published.
- Store credit. Bitrefill and Bidali both credit an internal balance rather than paying out. It is real value if you buy from them anyway, and worth nothing to a publisher who wants revenue.
The other structural quirk: attribution windows in this niche are unusually wide. Coincards attributes purchases for 12 months from the referred user's registration, and Bitrefill pays on a referred user's purchases indefinitely. Both matter more than the headline rate if your audience buys repeatedly, which crypto gift card buyers tend to do.
1. CoinGate
CoinGate's gift card affiliate program publishes the highest rate in this niche: up to 15% commission on every qualifying sale, calculated on the gift card purchase value excluding fees. The rate is performance-banded, so 15% is a ceiling rather than a starting point.
- Commission: up to 15% per qualifying sale
- Cookie: 30 days
- Payout: €50 minimum, monthly, by SEPA bank transfer
- Runs on: Trackdesk
- Sign up: affiliates.coingate.gift
Two cautions. First, CoinGate runs a second, unrelated program — a merchant referral scheme paying one-fifth of CoinGate's own commission for as long as the referred business keeps processing payments. That is a different offer with a different audience; make sure you join the gift card one. Second, the page is inconsistent about payouts: the feature list says "monthly payouts in crypto or fiat" while the FAQ says all earnings are paid by SEPA bank transfer only. If you need crypto payouts, confirm before you build around it.
Buyers can pay with 70+ cryptocurrencies as well as cards and Apple Pay, across 6,000+ brands in 90+ countries.
2. Coincards
Coincards is the one program in this niche that pays publishers in actual Bitcoin rather than credit. Commissions are tracked in CAD and paid out in BTC to an address you supply.
- Commission: tiered on cumulative referred sales — 0.5% up to $10,000, 1.0% to $50,000, 1.5% to $100,000, 2.0% above that
- Attribution: 12 months from the referred user's registration
- Payout: in Bitcoin, manually requested
- Sign up: coincards.com/referral-program
The rate is the honest trade-off: 0.5% is thin, and you need $100,000 of cumulative referred sales before you reach 2%. Against that, the 12-month attribution window is the longest of any program here, and it runs from registration rather than from the click — so a reader who signs up today and buys monthly for a year keeps earning. Coincards is Canadian, and accepts Bitcoin (including Lightning), Monero, USDC, Ethereum, Solana, Litecoin, USDT, Dogecoin and Dai.
3. Bitrefill
Bitrefill is the biggest catalogue in the category — 7,000+ products across 186 countries, accepting BTC, USDT, ETH, LTC, DOGE, DASH and Lightning — and the program most people mean when they talk about crypto gift card affiliates.
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Sign up as a publisher- Commission: 1% of your audience's purchases, described as "forever"
- Paid in: Bitrefill Store Credits, not cash
- Credited: instantly, at the moment the purchase completes
- Sign up: bitrefill.com/affiliate
The store-credit detail is the whole decision. If you are a Bitcoin-native creator who already lives on crypto and buys through Bitrefill, 1% forever on your audience's spending is a genuine ongoing discount on your own costs. If you are a publisher who needs revenue you can bank, it is not income. Bitrefill is transparent about this on its own page and features creators like BTC Sessions and Bitcoinheiros as example affiliates — an audience profile that tells you exactly who the program is built for.
4. Bidali
Bidali runs a formal affiliate program with a published agreement, attributing purchases made by invited users, not just signups. It sells gift cards across 50 currencies and 19 networks.
The catch is the same as Bitrefill's, and stated plainly in the agreement: rewards are credited as "Bidali Cash" to your account balance, "may only be redeemed for products and services offered within the Bidali Services", and have "no direct cash value and are not redeemable" for cash. Bidali does not publish a commission percentage. Treat it as a credit-back scheme rather than a revenue line.
5. Coinsbee
Coinsbee sells gift cards for 200+ cryptocurrencies plus Binance Pay and Crypto.com Pay, and covers mobile top-ups for 440+ providers in 166 countries — one of the widest catalogues here.
It publishes no affiliate terms anywhere on its own site. The only route in is a generic "Partner with Us" form in the footer where "Affiliate" is one of the options. If you want to promote Coinsbee, you will have to negotiate, and you should get the rate, the attribution window and the payout method in writing before you build a page around it.
Programs that are not what they look like
Most guides in this niche list ten or twelve brands. Several of them do not have a program a publisher can actually join:
- Paxful — gone. The company wound down all operations by 1 November 2025 and paxful.com now serves only a fund-withdrawal notice. It should not appear in any 2026 list.
- CryptoRefills states outright that it does not "currently offer a dedicated affiliate program for content and editorial sites". You can use a `?ref=` link, but it pays loyalty points — 0.5x the points your referred user earns, capped at 500 points per friend — and the terms are explicit that points "have no cash value and can never be redeemed for cash". The cash deal is a whitelabel/API partnership paying a percentage of gross margin against an invoice, with a €200 threshold: business development, not affiliate marketing.
- Gift Off has a refer-a-friend scheme, not an affiliate program: 100 "GO Points" worth £1 when a referred friend spends £20 or more, one-off, redeemable only against future Gift Off purchases and explicitly non-transferable.
- The Bitcoin Company pays at least 1% of the rewards a referred user earns, on an ongoing basis, in withdrawable Bitcoin — genuinely attractive economics, but it is an in-app refer-a-friend link with no affiliate page, no network and no cookie tracking.
- Fold is the reverse of a crypto gift card shop: you spend dollars and earn Bitcoin back. Its referral scheme pays sats into a Fold rewards account, and `/affiliate`, `/affiliates`, `/partners` and `/ambassador` all 404.
- eGifter and Cake Pay both genuinely sell gift cards for crypto, and neither runs an affiliate program.
What to check before you promote one
- Is the commission cash, crypto, or store credit? This is the first question in this niche, not the last. Two of the five real programs pay in credit.
- Is the percentage on face value or on margin? A 15% of margin and a 15% of face value differ by roughly an order of magnitude.
- How long is attribution, and does it start at click or at registration? Coincards' 12 months from registration is worth far more than a 30-day click cookie for a repeat-purchase product.
- What is the payout threshold and rail? €50 by SEPA excludes a lot of publishers outside the euro area.
- Does the program still exist? This niche has real churn. Paxful is the obvious case, but terms here change more often than in mature verticals — re-check anything you read in a guide, including this one.
Is this niche worth promoting?
For most publishers, as a primary revenue line, no — 0.5% to 2% on thin-margin resale will not carry a site, and the two most recognisable brands pay in credit. Where it does work is as a supporting offer for an audience that already holds crypto: Bitcoin educators, self-custody and privacy sites, no-KYC comparison pages, and travel or remote-work content aimed at people paid in stablecoins. Those readers have a genuine, recurring problem — turning crypto into everyday spending — and the long attribution windows reward exactly that repeat behaviour.
If you want the highest cash rate, start with CoinGate. If you want to be paid in Bitcoin and your audience buys repeatedly, Coincards' 12-month window is the better economic bet despite the lower headline. If you are a Bitcoin creator who already spends through Bitrefill, its 1% forever is worth having even though it never becomes cash.
