Factor Affiliate Program

The Factor affiliate program pays $35 per new subscriber with a 30-day cookie window, and is available to LinkApprove creators and publishers in the US and UK without a separate application.

Last reviewed by the LinkApprove partnerships team

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In line with the 30-day median in food & beverage, so timing is neither an advantage nor a constraint here relative to the category.

01Overview

About the Factor affiliate program

Factor sells fully prepared, refrigerated meals that need about two minutes in a microwave, no cooking, no chopping, no kit to assemble. Menus are sorted into preference tracks such as Keto, Calorie Smart, Protein Plus and Vegan & Veggie, and every meal carries a full macro breakdown, which is why it reads far more like a nutrition product than a food product. The refrigerated format is also its constraint: the meals arrive chilled rather than frozen, they occupy real shelf space, and they need to be eaten within roughly a week.

The other trade-off is price and churn. Per-meal costs sit well above cooking from a kit, so the audience genuinely has to value time over money, and plans are trivially easy to pause. A lot of subscribers sign up in January and are gone by March. Factor also shares a parent company with HelloFresh, so if your audience has already been converted onto that program, the incremental new customer here is harder to find.

From the LinkApprove network
Factor is the only ready-meal program in the LinkApprove network where fitness and macro-tracking creators consistently outperform general food publishers, and its seasonal demand peaks earlier in January than the meal-kit programs it sits next to in the same category.

02Conversion

Why Factor converts

  • The macro data on every meal makes this one of the few food programs that fits naturally into fitness and body-composition content
  • Zero-cooking positioning converts the audiences meal kits actively fail, shift workers, new parents, people recovering from surgery
  • Prepaid weekly plans mean the reader commits to a full basket rather than a single item, which raises the value behind every conversion
  • The post-holiday reset creates a predictable annual demand spike you can plan a content calendar around

03Audience fit

Which creators this suits

  • Fitness, macro-tracking and gym creators
  • Busy-professional and productivity publishers
  • Health and postpartum recovery content where cooking capacity is genuinely limited

04Getting started

How to join the Factor affiliate program

  1. 1Create a free LinkApprove partner account and submit your content channels for review.
  2. 2Once approved, usually within two business days, open the program directory and find Factor.
  3. 3Generate a deep link to any Factor product page, adding sub-IDs for the platform or campaign you are publishing to.
  4. 4Publish, then track clicks and validated commission in one balance alongside every other program you run.

Because LinkApprove already holds the upstream approval, you do not submit a separate application to Factor.

05Attribution

When you get paid on this program

How a commission is attributed and paidA click starts a 30-day cookie window. A purchase inside that window is attributed to you. The advertiser then validates the sale over a hold period of 30-60 days before it is released in the next payout run.COOKIE WINDOW · 30DHOLD · 30-60 DAYSClickday 0Purchasewithin 30 daysValidatedadvertiser confirmsPaidnext payout run

Full thresholds, rails and schedules are on the payouts page.

06FAQ

Common questions

How much does the Factor affiliate program pay?

The Factor affiliate program pays $35 per new subscriber (higher bounties exist but are reserved for creators already sending consistent volume, not offered at signup). Average order value on the program is $150, so commission per conversion is calculated against that basket rather than a single item price.

What is the cookie duration for the Factor affiliate program?

The Factor program has a 30-day cookie window. A purchase made after that window has closed is not attributed to you, which is why content timing matters on this program.

How do I join the Factor affiliate program?

You can join the Factor affiliate program through LinkApprove without applying to Factor directly. LinkApprove already holds the upstream approval, so once your LinkApprove partner account is approved you can generate tracked links to any Factor product page immediately.

Which countries does the Factor affiliate program accept?

The Factor program accepts traffic from US, UK. Traffic from outside these regions may not be attributed even when the click is tracked, so check your audience geography before committing content to it.

Food & beverage

How Factor compares in its category

Food and beverage programs are dominated by first-order acquisition bounties rather than percentage commission, which suits creators with high reach and a low-friction call to action. Payouts are flat per new customer and validate quickly.

Commission and cookie figures are indicative and set by the advertiser.
ProgramCommissionCookieAvg. order
Atlas Coffee Club$14 per subscription30 days$45
Blue Apron$12 per subscription30 days$60
Blue Bottle CoffeeUp to 10% per sale30 days$52
ButcherBox$25 per new subscriber30 days$145
Factor (this program)$35 per new subscriber30 days$150
Gousto$28 per new subscriber30 days$45
Green Chef$35 per new subscriber30 days$70
HelloFresh$20 per new subscriber30 daysn/a, bounty model
Home Chef$12 per new subscriber14 days$95
Instacart$10 per new customer7 days$85
Misfits Market$10 per order30 days$55
Naked Wines$40 per new customer30 days$110
Nespresso6% per sale45 days$130
Omaha SteaksUp to 7% per sale30 days$165
Purple Carrot$25 per new subscriber30 days$68
Sunbasket$30 per new subscriber30 days$78
Thrive Market$15 per membership30 days$90
Trade Coffee$20 per new subscriber30 days$40

Creators and publishers

Promote Factor and every other program in the directory from one account, with a single payout. Free to join, from 1,000 followers.

Advertisers

Recruit vetted creators across the UK, EU and US without managing hundreds of individual partner relationships.

Promote Factor from today

Join LinkApprove free and generate your first tracked Factor link once approved. No separate application, and no advertiser approval queue.