Partner Program — Technical Integration Guide

Effective date: 2026-05-25 · Version: 1.0.0

For partners and the developers helping them integrate referral links or Flow B purchases into existing tooling.

Referral link

Format:

https://storagestudio.us/ref/STUDIO-PARTNER-XXXX

XXXX is your unique four-character suffix, shown in your portal.
A click sets a first-party cookie ss_ref=STUDIO-PARTNER-XXXX on storagestudio.us, 60-day expiry, SameSite=Lax.
Customer lands on the home page by default. Override with ?to= and a path: /ref/STUDIO-PARTNER-XXXX?to=/checkout/lifetime.
Every click is logged in your portal (HMAC-hashed IP, no raw IP retained).

Explicit-entry alternative

The buy page has an optional "Have a referral code?" field. Format: STUDIO-PARTNER-XXXX. Explicit overrides cookie.

Attribution rules

Last touch. Most recent click in the 60-day window wins.
Explicit > cookie. Code entered at checkout overrides any cookie.
No stacking. Referral attribution doesn't combine with promotional / offer codes.

Flow B workflow

Browser-based (the only path today):

Sign in at <https://storagestudio.us/partners/portal>.
"Buy for a customer" → enter customer email + optional name/company + internal note + SKU. The portal computes the discounted price.
Continue to Stripe Checkout. Pay with your saved card.
On success: customer gets their license activation email; you get a receipt-style email (no key); the purchase appears in "Customers".

A programmatic API is not exposed by default. For volume use cases that justify it, email <partners@storagestudio.us>.

Receipt-only email format

The Flow B receipt sent to you contains: customer email, customer name/company (if you supplied them), SKU, retail price, the discounted price you paid, transaction ID, delivery timestamp, your internal note.

Explicitly NOT in the receipt: the license code, the customer's machine fingerprint, or any other end-customer information. This is a security property of the program — see also the Acceptable Use Policy on stockpiling.

Resending a customer activation

If a customer didn't receive the activation email: "Resend activation" action in the portal (capped at 2 resends per purchase). For email-address typos within 14 days and the customer hasn't activated yet, contact <partners@storagestudio.us>.

ss_ref is strictly necessary for referral attribution. First-party, SameSite=Lax, Secure, 60-day max age. Treat as analytics-equivalent in any consent flow your audience requires.

Stripe and PII

Payment data goes directly to Stripe. We never see, log, or store full card numbers or CVCs.
Your visibility into a customer is limited to: their email, the SKU, what you paid (Flow B) or what you earned (Flow A), and activation status.

Outages and status

<https://storagestudio.us/healthz>. Incidents affecting the partner portal or payouts: we email all active partners within 24 hours.

Support routing

Partner support (you): <partners@storagestudio.us>
Customer support (your customers): <support@storagestudio.us>
Abuse reports: <abuse@storagestudio.us>
Privacy / GDPR requests: <privacy@storagestudio.us>

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