Version gj-ad-referral-2026-09-20-v1 · effective September 20, 2026. Operated by CrownThrive for Gretna Junction. Join and view your ledger.
Who can join and what counts
Join from your signed-in active account and accept this version before seeking referrals. Membership is free. Use your own account and business; self-referrals, duplicate accounts to evade limits, impersonation, unsolicited spam and misleading claims are ineligible. These terms apply to newly created advertising checkout attempts after enrollment. Existing purchases and existing saved checkout attempts never gain retroactive attribution.
A reader must explicitly permit a referral through your share link, then select “Apply my saved referral” when starting a new advertising order within 30 days. The latest permission replaces an earlier browser permission. The referral, including no referral, is fixed when the new checkout attempt begins; retries keep that decision. Each advertiser account can generate one referral reward: the first attributed live Stripe payment verified and recorded by Junction wins. This is an account limit, not a claim that we recognize every person or business across accounts. A refund or disqualification does not make that account eligible for a second referral reward.
Reward amount and availability
The referrer earns 10% of the qualifying booking’s verified pre-tax advertising price, rounded down to the nearest cent. Only live, verified Stripe payments count. Purchased Crown Credits, Junction advertising credit, waived orders, test payments, mere visits, impressions, videos, likes and shares create no reward. There is no promised income, conversion rate or traffic level.
Value becomes available seven days after the campaign’s actual paid run ends, provided the order remains paid and fulfilled and its submission and creative remain approved and eligible. A booking that has not started, a review hold or an incomplete payment earns no available value. The ledger updates when you open your account, before redemption, and when related payment events are handled.
Refunds, disputes and honest balances
Any refund, including a partial refund, removes the entire reward. An open or lost payment dispute, cancelled campaign, or loss of campaign eligibility also removes it. If a dispute is won and every other requirement remains satisfied, the reward can be restored. We retain each adjustment in the ledger. If you already spent the reward, the account can show a negative balance; future earnings offset it and new redemptions are blocked until sufficient value is available. This is an advertising-credit deficit, not a cash payment demand under this program.
Redeem only for your own advertising
Junction advertising credit is promotional, noncash value denominated in US dollar cents. It is separate from Crown Credits and from any advertising network’s publisher revenue. It cannot be cashed out, transferred, sold, used to buy Crown Credits or applied to a separate tax bill, tips or unrelated products. It can cover a new eligible Junction advertising booking when your available balance covers its entire displayed booking price. The displayed credit booking amount is the full value debited by this credit flow; no additional Stripe checkout or cash collection is started. Split payments are not supported. The booking’s existing commerce and tax terms still apply; this program makes no tax exemption or tax-advice promise.
An authorization reserves the full booking amount immediately. Capture follows the normal editorial workflow; payment never guarantees approval or favorable coverage. You may cancel an advertising-credit booking before its run starts from your credit dashboard and receive the same local credit value back once. A started campaign needs support review under the existing commerce terms. No cash refund is created by a credit cancellation.
Expiry, changes and account restrictions
Earned value has no scheduled expiration under this version. We may close enrollment or change terms prospectively, with revised terms presented before new participation; earlier attributed attempts retain their accepted version. Closing the program does not erase legitimate existing balances: they remain redeemable under this version or an equivalent fulfillment arrangement. Fraudulent, refunded or otherwise ineligible value remains reversible. Account suspension pauses sharing and redemption while review is pending; contact support to dispute an adjustment. Verified legitimate value is not automatically forfeited solely because enrollment ends.
Disclosure and data
Every referral promotion must clearly say, near the link: “I may earn noncash Junction advertising credit if your paid advertising booking qualifies.” Keep this disclosure when copying or sharing. Disclose the relationship yourself in video, audio or other formats where link text alone is insufficient. This program pays for qualifying advertising referrals, never for favorable editorial coverage or engagement manipulation.
Referral permission uses a secure first-party cookie containing a random token, kept for up to 30 days. The server retains its hash, share-link code, permission times and referrer account to apply your choice. GPC and Do Not Track disable new attribution. Checkout requires another explicit choice. Clear the cookie below before starting a new order to withdraw browser permission; this does not rewrite a previous paid order. Financial attribution and ledger records are retained for accounting, refunds and dispute resolution. A referrer sees opaque references and amounts, not the buyer’s email or private submission. Normal privacy rights and support channels remain available through the privacy policy.
Questions, adjustments or a campaign that cannot run: contact@crownthrive.com. Include your order reference; never send payment credentials.