What If My Friend Signs up for the Free Tier First?

No problem. Your referral is tracked when they create their account — as long as they enter your code during signup, it’s recorded and stays on their account indefinitely. When they upgrade to a paid plan — even a year later — your credit fires then.

Their discount isn’t lost either. When somebody signs up free with your code and upgrades later, Benecaster applies the 50% first-month discount to the plan they upgrade to, at the moment the paid subscription is created — the same discount they’d have received had they gone straight to a paid plan on day one. There’s nothing for either of you to re-enter.