For happy customers
Love where you eat? Get them on PatronWorks — and get rewarded.
You’re a regular who loves the experience and wants your favorite spot to have it too. Share your link with a restaurant you eat at, and get rewarded when they sign up. There’s nothing technical to do.
Who it’s forDiners who want their favorite restaurants running on PatronWorks.
How it works for you.
Get your link
Join in a minute at affiliates.patronworks.com — it’s free — and copy your personal link.
Share it with the spot you love
Text it to the owner, or mention it next time you’re in. That’s the whole ask.
Get rewarded
When the restaurant you referred signs up and activates, your reward shows up on your ledger and pays through Stripe.
Zero setup, fully tracked
A simple text of your link is enough. We log the click and, when the restaurant activates, match it back to your code automatically — even guest orders are attributed by phone. You just share and get rewarded.
Under the hood
The technology behind every payout.
You don’t have to think about any of this — it just works. Here’s what happens behind the scenes after you share your link, so you can trust that your referral is counted.
Your link and code
When you join, you get a permanent referral code and a tracked link — patronpal.net/r/YOURCODE. Share the link anywhere; the code is what every click, signup, and payout is tied back to.
Click tracking
The moment someone opens your link, we log the click with a timestamp and remember your code in their browser, then send them on to the right welcome page. Your dashboard’s "Clicks" count updates in real time — no pixels to install, nothing to configure.
Automatic attribution
When the restaurant or diner you referred completes the qualifying action — a referred customer’s first real order, or a restaurant going live — the system matches it back to your code. For guest orders that carry a name and phone but no account, we attribute by phone number (matched on the last ten digits). Each referral is credited once, ever, with a self-referral guard built in.
A real-time dashboard
Sign in at affiliates.patronworks.com to see signups, earnings, pending commissions, and clicks as they happen — plus a targeting board: prospects you add by hand (name, phone, website; move them prospect → contacted → signed) alongside auto-surfaced leads for accounts already tied to you.
A transparent ledger
Every commission is a line item you can watch move: pending → approved → paid. Bounties are a flat, fixed amount per activation — no tiers, no clawbacks, no mystery math. A short hold window covers refunds before a commission is cleared for payout.
Payouts on Stripe
Connect a payout account once through Stripe Connect. Approved commissions pay out on Stripe’s rails — to an individual or a business account — so the money reaches you the same way the rest of your income does.
What you earn.
- ✓A reward when a restaurant you referred activates on PatronWorks.
- ✓Nothing to install and nothing to learn — just share a link.
- ✓Every referral is tracked on the same transparent ledger everyone else uses.
- ✓Paid out through Stripe once your referral is approved.
Questions, answered.
Do I need anything technical?
No. If you can send a link in a text message, you can refer a restaurant. Everything after that is automatic.
How do I know my referral counted?
Your dashboard shows the signup and the pending reward once the restaurant you referred activates.
What counts as a referral?
A restaurant that signs up and goes live through your link — attributed to your code, credited once.
Another way to join?
Pick the path that fits you — the program is the same, the angle is yours.
Turn your network into income.
Get your referral link in a minute and start tracking every click, signup, and payout in one dashboard.