GaffSwipeKnow a landlord? You both get £250 off. Share your link from your landlord dashboard with another landlord or letting agent who isn't on GaffSwipe yet. When they join and their first let through GaffSwipe is confirmed and has started, we take £250 off your GaffSwipe invoices and £250 off theirs. If they're a letting agency with 10 or more live listings, you get £750. Credit comes off whatever fee you've agreed with us. We agree fees with each business, based on the property, the market, volume and partnership.
You both need live accounts with a listing up. Links can be used until 31 March 2027. Credit is held while your own Three for Free offer is running, then lasts 90 days. One credit comes off each invoice, and anything it doesn't use carries to the next. Up to 10 rewards a year. It's never paid out as cash. Students never pay anything.
How it works
- Share your link. Once your account is live, open Refer a landlord in your dashboard and copy or share your link. You send it yourself, by email, message or however you like. We never contact anyone for you.
- They join through it. The landlord or agent opens your link and signs in with their work email. The link invites them, so they don't need to wait for an invitation from us. We still check their proof of ownership and every listing before students see it.
- Their first let. When their first let through GaffSwipe is confirmed and the tenancy has started, and both of your accounts are live, you each get your credit. You can follow it in your dashboard.
- It comes off your invoices. Credit is taken off your next paid invoices automatically. There's nothing to claim.
An example
An agency holds a £750 credit and a £250 credit, both earned while its Three for Free offer was running. The offer is used up on 1 September 2027, so both credits start that day and expire on 30 November 2027. In this example every invoice is £450 before credit. That number is only there to show how credit is split. It isn't a GaffSwipe fee: yours is whatever you've agreed with us.
| Invoice | Before credit | Credit taken off | To pay | Credit left |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. A let Three for Free covers. Both credits are held and their 90 days haven't started | £0.00 | None | £0.00 | £750 + £250 |
| 2. Paid let, 2 September. The £750 credit goes first | £450.00 | £450 of the £750 | £0.00 | £300 + £250 |
| 3. Paid let, 15 September. Only the rest of the £750; the £250 waits | £450.00 | £300 | £150.00 | £250 |
| 4. Paid let, 3 October. Now the £250 | £450.00 | £250 | £200.00 | None |
The £750 is split across invoices, never refunded: £450 comes off invoice 2, which is then £0.00 to pay, and the other £300 is kept for invoice 3. We never pay the £300 out.
The terms
These terms are offered by GaffSwipe Ltd, company number 17390238 ("we", "us"). They sit alongside our Landlord Terms and Landlord Commission Terms, which still apply in full. A referral credit reduces an invoice; it doesn't change how commission is worked out.
- Live letting account. In these terms, an account is live when the business is verified, its owner has accepted the current Landlord Terms, it isn't suspended or closing, and at least one of its listings is live to students. Credit belongs to the landlord or agency business, not to a person in it.
- Who can refer. Any live letting account. Your account must be live when your link is used and again when the reward is earned. GaffSwipe staff and their families can't earn rewards.
- Who can be referred. A landlord or letting agency new to GaffSwipe: before using your link, they had no GaffSwipe landlord account or team membership, no invitation from us, and no open conversation with our team about joining. They must sign in through your link on or before 31 March 2027. Each business can be referred once. You can't refer yourself, a business you own, work for or are connected to (for example, the same company, team or work email domain), or a landlord you act for as an agent.
- When a reward is earned. When the new business's first let through GaffSwipe has been confirmed under the Commission Terms and the tenancy has started, and both accounts are live. A let that costs nothing under Three for Free counts. If either account isn't live at that point, the reward waits until both are, for up to 12 months; after that it isn't earned.
- The rewards. The new business gets a £250 credit. The referrer gets a £250 credit, or £750 if, when the reward is earned, the new business is a letting agent account with 10 or more listings live to students. A referrer can earn up to 10 rewards in any 12 months; after that, the new business still gets its £250 and the referrer gets nothing for that referral.
- Three for Free comes first. While your own Three for Free offer is still running, your credit is held: £0.00 invoices never use it and its 90 days don't start. It starts on the day your offer is used up (your third property is covered), ends (after tenancies starting by 30 September 2027) or is withdrawn, or on the day it's earned if that's later. Referring someone never uses any of your Three for Free.
- How credit is used. Credit is taken off your next paid invoices automatically, after Three for Free, the fee you've agreed with us and your loyalty discount. Only one credit is used on each invoice, in this order: a £750 credit first, then the rest of a credit already part-used, then other credits, soonest expiry first. An invoice never goes below £0.00. If a credit covers the whole invoice, the invoice comes to £0.00 and is marked paid, and what's left of that credit stays on it for your next invoice. Each invoice shows the credit as its own line.
- 90 days. Each credit lasts 90 days from the day it starts, and can be used on invoices issued before its expiry date. A part-used credit keeps its expiry date. Credit not used by then expires. If we cancel an invoice that used credit, for example because the let fell through, that credit goes back on your account with the same expiry date.
- No cash value. Credit only ever reduces our invoices. It is never paid out, refunded, exchanged or transferred to another business, and it lapses if your account closes.
- Sharing your link. Share it only with people you know or who'd expect to hear from you, and don't post it in paid adverts or spam. We never ask for or contact anyone's friends or contacts. The person you refer sees your business name. You see their business name, when they joined and whether a reward was earned, never their listings, lets, tenants or fees. Our Privacy Policy explains this.
- Playing fair. If a referral breaks these terms, for example a self-referral, a business we'd already found, a referral of an agent's own client or a let that wasn't real, we may cancel the referral and any unused credit from it, and reissue an invoice without credit that was wrongly applied. We'll tell you why.
- Students never pay. Nothing here is charged to or passed on to students, and you must never pass any GaffSwipe fee on to a tenant (Commission Terms, section 6).
- Changes and ending. We may change these terms for referrals made after the change, or end the scheme, by updating this page. If we end it, credit already earned is kept until it expires, but referrals that haven't earned a reward by then don't earn one. Questions and disputes go to support@gaffswipe.co.uk, and are handled as in section 9 of the Commission Terms. These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales.
Questions
Do I lose my Three for Free by referring someone?
No. Your credit simply waits until your Three for Free offer is used up or ends, and then starts its 90 days. The person you refer still gets Three for Free too if they join by 31 March 2027.
Is the £750 refunded if my invoice is smaller?
No, it's split. If your invoice is £450, all £450 comes off and the other £300 stays on that credit for your next invoice, within its 90 days.
Can I use two credits on one invoice?
No. One credit per invoice, in the order in term 7, so credits are used one after another.
Where do I see my credit?
In your landlord dashboard, under Refer a landlord: credit to use, credit used (with the invoice it went on), credit held during Three for Free, and anything that expired.
Can a letting agent refer a landlord it manages?
No. Referring a landlord you act for isn't allowed, so there's never a reward for steering your own client to us.