Builderall
A real marketing software business with a genuinely clean recruitment record - and a contract that says exporting the site you built on it is impossible, alongside a residual affiliate program it canceled on 21 days’ notice.
Nothing is ever sold to a recruit and nothing is ever taken as an investment - but the Terms of Use call moving your own content off the platform impossible, and the residual program people built businesses on was terminated on 17 July 2025 with effect from 7 August.
Can you actually make money with Builderall?
Yes, with conditions, and the first is that you understand what happened to the last group of people who built here. The structure is the cleanest thing in this file and the company puts it in capitals in its own disclosure: affiliates do not earn commissions for referring a new affiliate, and commissions are only generated when a product or plan is sold to a customer. There has never been a pack, a license, a kit, an autoship, a minimum volume or a renewal fee. Joining is free and always has been.
Then 17 July 2025. The two-tier residual program, the one people had spent years building recurring income on, was terminated with effect from 7 August, twenty-one days later. Nothing accrued after that date and balances not withdrawn by 6 September were forfeited, subject to a $100 minimum withdrawal. The company confirmed the discontinuation in writing on a public review site in February 2026. What replaced it is a single tier paying a one-off bounty of up to $40 a sale, with no verified recurring tail behind it.
No income disclosure has ever been published, in more than a decade. What occupies its place on the affiliate page is a commission calculator inviting a prospect to model how much they would like to make per month, alongside a cumulative all-time figure of over $10 million in commissions paid with no denominator attached. If ten thousand people have ever earned anything here, that is a lifetime mean of $1,000 each. The company does not publish the number that would settle which it is.
The contract is the other condition, and it is the worst part of the file. Terms of Use section 6e states that because of the settings of the system it is impossible to move a website, shop, design or any other content you created off the platform. Section 6c voids your consumer refund right in any month you have earned a commission. Five separate clauses provide for forfeiting money already earned, and section 11b permits canceling a subscription where a user publicly desecrates the company's image. One real improvement: the affiliate program now runs on an independent third-party network rather than an in-house ledger.
the affiliate program is free to join and always has been; the software itself runs $27 to $247 a month
- You are selling software to businesses that want software. No tier of this plan, current or retired, has ever paid for a recruit, so an audience assembled around an income offer is the wrong audience to point at it.
- A one-off bounty of up to $40 a sale is a number you can work with. The residual program ended in August 2025 and the current published payout is a single payment per sale, so last month's selling does not carry this month.
- You would build on the platform knowing you cannot take the site with you. Section 6e describes export as impossible, and it is disclosed as an architectural fact rather than a policy someone could be talked into relaxing.
- You can live with there being no earnings distribution anywhere to test the offer against. Ten years, no disclosure, and a calculator on the affiliate page standing where one would go.
That call is computed, not chosen - the rule reads three of the nine published dimension scores and is printed on the methodology page. It describes this company's plan and the figures it publishes about the people already in it. It is not a prediction about you, and nothing on this site is advice.
Legal status
LEGAL - and unusually cleanly so. No FTC enforcement action, consent order, civil investigative demand or warning letter naming Builderall, Cloud Builder LLC, Builderall LLC, e-Business4us Inc or the founder could be located in the FTC legal library. No SEC litigation release, administrative proceeding or trading suspension. No state attorney general matter in any US state. No advertising-regulator ruling. Builderall is not a direct-selling association member and has never been the subject of a self-regulatory earnings-claim case, which is correct because it is not a direct-selling company. What exists instead is a private complaint file: a BBB rating of D− on Builderall LLC and B− on the legacy entity, both driven by failure to respond to complaints, and a multi-year pattern of billing-after-cancellation complaints across three independent review platforms - all private, unadjudicated allegations. The Brazilian regulatory record is an open item; Portuguese-language consumer-protection filings were not exhaustively searched.
Confidence: Medium-High
Primary sources fetched directly where possible. Everything we could not verify is listed at the bottom of this page by name.
Follow the money
A Miami-owned all-in-one marketing software platform - websites, funnels, email, checkout, courses, webinars, chat, SMS, booking and an AI layer - sold on four monthly plans at $27, $47, $97 and $247, with a free affiliate program attached that is now run through a third-party affiliate network on a one-off bounty.
The product side is stronger than the internet’s memory of this company and it should be said first. G2 rates it around 4.1, the aggregate across G2 and Capterra is roughly 3.8 out of 5 across 61 reviews, and drag-and-drop page building scores 9.0 on G2 - above a major mainstream email platform. The buyers are ordinary: the chief executive reported in September 2025 that of the first thousand customers opting into a new onboarding service, course creators made up 27.4% and agencies 17.8%. The homepage sells software, not an income opportunity. The bundling is genuinely differentiating - hosting, a free first-year domain and a branded mailbox at your own domain are included rather than billed separately - and there is a 30-day money-back guarantee on every plan.
On the recruitment question, the record is clean and it is worth being precise, because the ranking’s note that a two-tier structure invites pyramid framing is a statement about perception, not a finding, and this report does not adopt it as one. Builderall’s own official affiliate disclosure reads: AFFILIATES DO NOT EARN COMMISSIONS FOR REFERRING A NEW AFFILIATE. COMMISSIONS ARE ONLY GENERATED WHEN A BUILDERALL PRODUCT OR PLAN IS SOLD TO A CUSTOMER. There has never been a pack, license, kit, autoship, minimum order or renewal fee. Under the historic plan, tier two paid on the recruit’s customers - the knowledge base defines tier-2 sales as paid members sponsored by someone you sponsored - which is a sub-affiliate override on real subscriptions, not a headhunting fee.
That historic plan no longer exists. Builderall announced on 17 July 2025 that the Associate and Affiliate Program would end on 7 August 2025; no commissions accrued after that date and unwithdrawn balances were forfeited if not claimed by 6 September 2025, subject to a $100 minimum withdrawal. The company confirmed it in writing on Trustpilot on 24 February 2026: the previous Affiliate/Associate program was officially discontinued and replaced by the new Partner Program, which operates as a separate initiative and requires application and approval to participate. What replaced it is a single-tier program paying up to $40 per sale on a 30-day cookie through a third-party network, plus an application-only, hand-selected partner track whose economics are not published at all.
So the risk has migrated. It is no longer comp-plan risk; it is counterparty risk, and it lives in the contract. Terms of Use §6e says it is impossible to move content you created off the platform. Five separate clauses permit earned commissions to be forfeited. Section §6c voids your refund right in any month you have earned a commission. Section §11b permits cancellation of a subscription where a user publicly desecrates the company’s image without going to support first. Cancellation is ticket-only. That is what a B− with a 2 on terms looks like: a real product you can safely buy for a month, attached to an agreement that makes leaving expensive and speaking freely conditional.
Where the money goes on a $47 Essentials subscription, first year
Modeled on the only payout figure Builderall publishes for the current program - up to $40 per sale, one-off, against twelve months of a $47 plan ($564). The company does not publish a recurring component, a threshold or a clawback window, so this is the published-terms reading and it is flagged as unverified. For contrast, the retired two-tier plan paid 30% recurring to the direct affiliate and 30% recurring to the tier-2 upline, leaving roughly 40% with the company.
| Product | Price | Pays |
|---|---|---|
| Core plan One website, one professional mailbox, 2 GB, 250 AI credits. No email marketing and no ecommerce, which means it cannot support any income activity at all - an affiliate demoing the product needs the tier above. |
$27/mo monthly ($12.75/mo billed annually) |
up to $40 per sale |
| Essentials plan Ten websites, three mailboxes, 10 GB, 3,000 subscribers, ecommerce. Note a live contradiction between two official documents: the pricing page says 60,000 emails a month, the Terms of Use §8d says 50,000. |
$47/mo monthly ($35.25/mo billed annually) |
up to $40 per sale |
| Advanced plan (marked Most Popular) 25 websites, 10 mailboxes, 30 GB, 10,000 subscribers, three team accounts. This is the tier where the bundling argument actually works against buying the pieces separately. |
$97/mo monthly ($72.75/mo billed annually) |
up to $40 per sale |
| Premium plan 25 websites, 25 mailboxes, 75 GB, 100,000 subscribers, ten team accounts. The Terms of Use state materially lower limits than the pricing page for this tier - 25,000 subscribers and 600,000 sends. |
$247/mo monthly ($185.25/mo billed annually) |
up to $40 per sale |
| Affiliate program Run through a third-party affiliate network with ACH and PayPal payouts. Third-party directories observe a $1 to $60 per-sale range. No second tier is advertised. The exact schedule sits behind a partner login and is not public. |
$0 free, no purchase required |
up to $40 per sale, 30-day cookie |
| Partner Program (Agency / Creator / Training) Agency partners are promised recurring commissions, training partners a higher upfront commission plus recurring revenue, creator partners commissions plus contest bonuses and a heavily discounted - not free - premium account. No percentage, threshold or term is published for any track. |
$0 to apply application only, hand-selected |
undisclosed |
| Metered overages Plus a 1.3% platform fee on every sale through the built-in checkout, on top of the payment processor’s own fee. Storage and domain-quota extensions are priced separately and are, in the Terms, never refundable under any circumstance. |
$10 per 5,000 subscribers · $2.50 per 5,000 sends · $1/mo per extra mailbox as used |
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| Agency Certification and Full Stack Marketer Certification Both are named in the live Terms of Use as non-refundable - all sales under this product are final and there are no refunds - and neither is priced on any public page. An unpriced, no-refund upsell path is a real gap, not a rounding error. |
not published one-time |
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Who runs it, and what they ran before
A career software and marketing operator with two prior exits rather than an opportunity-marketing background, which in this category is worth saying first. Director of User Experience at a visual-search company acquired by Google; earlier at a sports media property acquired by a national broadcaster; co-founder and chief executive of an apparel brand he describes as bootstrapped from zero to $1.5 million in three years and sold in 2016; author of a mainstream technical title on web analytics; later a labs manager at a workspace company, a venture partner and an accelerator co-founder. No regulatory action, fraud judgment or criminal proceeding against him could be located in any source reviewed.
An infrastructure operator: roughly two decades running a Miami dedicated-server and cloud hosting business founded in 2003, which acquired a competitor’s hosting unit in 2019, plus associated hosting and colocation ventures and an earlier commercial career at a global consumer-goods group. He signs the Florida annual reports as manager and administers the Brazilian corporate participation. Again, no regulatory action, fraud judgment or criminal proceeding could be located. A hosting operator running a hosting-heavy SaaS platform is a sensible fit.
Originally a physical-education teacher who built early fitness-training software, then a Brazilian digital-inclusion program that produced several thousand small-business websites. In 2004-05 he launched a neighbourhood-portal venture his own professional biography describes as a virtual mini-franchise system - a micro-franchise sold to small entrepreneurs, and structurally the ancestor of the affiliate culture Builderall later inherited, including the downline, upline, sponsor and rank-point vocabulary. He founded the US legacy corporation in 2008 and took the platform into the US market in 2017. One 2025 review makes serious personal allegations against him which the company has called not accurate; they are anonymous and unevidenced, nothing has been established, and this report does not repeat them.
Cloud Builder, LLC was formed on 25 October 2022 and the platform is now stated in the Terms of Use to be owned by it. What could not be established is what the transaction was: no M&A filing, press release or credible trade report exists giving the price, the structure, whether external capital was involved, or whether the founder retains any equity. Builderall’s own support account has said in writing that the company operates under new leadership with a new chief executive and a renewed executive team, and reviewers routinely refer to the period since new ownership - so the change is real and acknowledged. It is simply undocumented. For a buyer signing a multi-year dependency on a platform that says content cannot be exported, knowing who actually owns it and on what terms is not a trivia question.
Registered address
Miami Beach, Florida, USA
The company presents at least three entity names and two addresses across its own public surfaces: Cloud Builder, LLC of Miami Beach in the Terms of Use, Builderall LLC of Orlando on its BBB file, and e-Business4us, Inc. of Orlando on legacy sites. None of that is fraudulent and the trademark registrations resolve cleanly to Cloud Builder, LLC - but it is a transparency demerit for a buyer trying to work out who the counterparty is. Builderall is privately held and has never reported revenue. Trade estimates range from under $10 million to roughly $125 million a year and are irreconcilable; one widely-cited data provider was rejected outright for this file because its page displays obvious template placeholders. Headcount is the one figure with rough consensus: roughly 325 to 400, declining across several years on two independent trackers. Treat every revenue number attached to this company as a modeled third-party estimate, not a company figure and certainly not an audited one.
The veteran's checklist
Eight questions that decide whether this is a business or a transfer mechanism. Same eight, every review.
| Question | Answer |
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| Who legally owns it? |
WATCH
Cloud Builder, LLC, a Florida limited liability company formed 25 October 2022, document L22000457140, of Miami Beach - with the trademark registered to the same entity. The legacy Orlando entities still appear on the BBB file and on old sites. The terms of the October 2022 change of control are entirely undocumented.
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| What does it cost to participate? |
OK
Nothing. The affiliate program is free and always has been - no pack, no license, no kit, no autoship, no minimum order, no renewal fee. The software is $27, $47, $97 or $247 a month if you choose to buy it, with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
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| Do you get paid for recruiting affiliates? |
OK
No. The official disclosure states that affiliates do not earn commissions for referring a new affiliate and that commissions are only generated when a product or plan is sold to a customer. The retired second tier paid on the recruit’s customers, not on the recruit.
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| Published income disclosure? |
CONCERN
None, ever. In its place the affiliate page runs a commission calculator asking how much you want to make per month, alongside a cumulative all-time figure of over $10 million paid with no denominator attached.
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| Regulatory action against the company, ever? |
OK
None found anywhere - no FTC matter, no SEC matter, no state attorney general matter, no advertising-regulator ruling, no self-regulatory case. What exists is a private complaint file: a BBB rating of D− for failure to respond to complaints, and unadjudicated billing complaints on review platforms. The Brazilian record was not exhaustively searched.
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| What happened to the two-tier program? |
RED
Terminated. Announced 17 July 2025, effective 7 August 2025, with unwithdrawn commissions forfeited after 6 September 2025 and a $100 minimum withdrawal. The company confirmed the discontinuation in writing on 24 February 2026. Anything published in 2026 describing 100% first-month commissions or 30% tier-2 overrides is describing something that no longer runs.
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| Can you take your work with you if you leave? |
RED
On the company’s own account, no. Terms of Use §6e states it is impossible to transfer a website, blog, shop, design, presentation or any other content created on the platform to another server or hosting service. Mirror everything you build, from the first day.
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| Merchant play or miner play? |
OK
Merchant, clearly. Money is made by selling software subscriptions to end customers, and it always has been. The risk here is not the compensation structure - it is counterparty risk written into the agreement.
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What has to be true for you to get paid
| To cover | You need |
|---|---|
| Join the current affiliate program and break even | 1 sale $0 in, so any commission is profit - the honest, unglamorous best case of the 2026 offer |
| Subscribe to Essentials to demo the product and cover it | ~1.2 sales every month, forever $47/mo against a one-off bounty of up to $40, with no verified recurring tail |
| Cover a Premium subscription under the retired plan | 4 retained paying customers, held indefinitely 30% recurring on a $69.90 plan is $20.97 a month each, against $69.90 a month in |
| See a single dollar of legacy commission in your hand | ~12 sales a 35-day hold plus a $250 lifetime first-withdrawal gate before the hold dropped to 5 days |
Read this twice
The arithmetic here is short and it splits cleanly into the program that exists and the program that does not. On the current offer, cost in is $0. There is no pack, no license, no minimum purchase and no requirement to subscribe, so a participant cannot lose money and one sale puts them ahead. That is a genuinely good deal in a category where the modal entry cost is four figures, and it should not be buried. The catch is the shape of the return rather than its cost: the only published figure is up to $40 per sale, paid once, on a 30-day cookie. A one-off bounty means last month’s work does not pay this month, so an affiliate who subscribes at $47 to demo the product needs a little over one new sale every month indefinitely just to cover the subscription. Whether a recurring component exists behind the network contract is the single most important unverified item in this file; if one exists at anything like the legacy 30%, break-even falls to roughly three or four retained customers. On the retired plan the maths was harder than the marketing implied. After the January 2023 revision the direct affiliate earned 30% of the first month rather than the 100% still repeated across affiliate directories in 2026, so a $69.90 Premium sale paid $20.97 in month one, not $69.90. A 35-day commission hold applied until an affiliate had requested $250 lifetime, which meant roughly a dozen sales before the first payment landed. Going three months without a direct sale flipped the account to inactive and cut all commissions by half. And the free qualification route required 180 points a month, with self-consumption scored at three points per dollar against one point per dollar for actual sales - so a roughly $60 monthly subscription qualified you automatically, while a non-subscriber had to produce $180 of gross plan sales every month, forever, to earn anything at all. The final line of that arithmetic is the one that matters most: Builderall’s own affiliate calculator projected $1,661.10 a month from twenty personal sales a year plus five affiliates making ten each, and $11,865 a month from a hundred personal sales plus twenty affiliates making twenty each. Those projections assumed zero churn, and on 7 August 2025 they became worth nothing at all.
Run your own numbers
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The only commission figure Builderall publishes today is “up to $40 per sale” on the single-tier program it runs through impact.com, with a 30-day cookie and ACH or PayPal payout. It is modeled here as a one-off bounty because that is what the published wording describes, so the churn slider is disabled and nothing compounds - last month’s sales do not help this month. Cost is genuinely $0: joining requires no purchase and an affiliate does not have to be a paying subscriber, which is a real and creditable feature and the reason the downside here is bounded at whatever you spend on traffic. Two things the model cannot show. The exact impact.com schedule - rate, whether anything recurs, the payout threshold and the reversal window - is only visible after partner login and is the single most important unverified item in the report; if a 30% recurring component does exist, the true figures are materially better than this. And the two-tier program that ran until 7 August 2025 paid 30% on direct sales and 30% on a tier-2 affiliate’s customer subscriptions, then was terminated with unwithdrawn commissions forfeited after 6 September 2025 - which is history rather than a present-day input, but it is the reason to read “up to” carefully. Your own subscription cost of $0/mo is included.
What it costs to replace this yourself
Builderall makes this comparison itself on its homepage, claiming the tools it replaces cost $327 a month - e-learning $99, website builder $39, email marketing $150, chatbot and automation $29, booking calendar $10. That figure is inflated against what a competent solopreneur can actually assemble in 2026. Here is the honest version, at the comparators’ own published list prices. Two caveats belong on it. Several of these list prices were captured from vendor pricing pages during research and are not independently re-verified, so read them as indicative. And the comparison deliberately excludes any graded platform: the point of the exercise is what the open market charges, not how one income-attached product compares with another.
| What they sell you | What you'd use instead | Your cost |
|---|---|---|
| Essentials plan at $47/mo - 3,000 subscribers, 10 sites, ecommerce | Free email tier covering up to 10,000 subscribers with unlimited sends, forms and landing pages (vendor branding, one automation) | $0 |
| Email marketing (MailingBoss) at a 3,000-subscriber cap | MailerLite at the same list size, full features | ~$49/mo (~$19 at 1,000, ~$89 at 10,000) |
| Email marketing, send-metered | Brevo at 1,500 subscribers and 10,000 sends | ~$17/mo (~$39 at 40,000 sends) |
| Booking calendar | Cal.com individual plan | $0 |
| Webinar tool | Zoom Workplace Pro | ~$16.99/user/mo |
| Site bot, chat and helpdesk | Tidio free tier | $0 |
| SuperCheckout - 1.3% platform fee on every sale, on top of the processor | Stripe or a merchant-of-record checkout, per-transaction only | $0/mo, no platform fee |
| Branded mailbox at your own domain | Zoho Mail free tier or paid seat | $0 to ~$1/user/mo |
| Free domain, first year only | Namecheap registration, amortised | ~$1.30/mo |
| Bundled hosting | Mainstream shared or managed hosting | ~$3-15/mo |
| Funnels, courses, blog, custom domain | A free all-in-one funnel-and-course tier on the open market - 2,000 contacts, three funnels, one course, one blog, one domain, 0% transaction fees | $0 |
| Total as sold $564/year on Essentials, $1,164 on Advanced, plus overages and 1.3% of every sale |
Total, built yourself ~$0-40/month depending on which pieces you actually need |
Price-to-value
This is the fairest dimension in the file and it deserves an honest split verdict. Against a naive multi-vendor stack, Builderall wins decisively and its own blog makes the argument properly: $97 a month against $150 to $300 of separately-purchased email, funnels, hosting, scheduling and chat is a real saving, and the bundled hosting, first-year domain and branded mailbox at your own domain are things the cheap alternatives simply do not include. Against the cheapest credible open-market combination, it loses at the low end and loses badly: a free 10,000-subscriber email tier plus a free all-in-one funnel-and-course tier covers funnels, a course, a blog, a domain and a large list for nothing, while the $27 Core plan does not include email marketing at all and the $47 Essentials plan caps the list at 3,000. Where it clearly loses on the merits: the 1.3% checkout fee, which a straight processor does not charge; the subscriber-overage model; and §6e, which means the migration cost out of this stack is not a weekend’s work but, on the company’s own account, impossible.
Three operators, five horizons
Probability of cumulative net profit
Hover any point for median, top decile and bottom quartile.
Content affiliate, current program
joins free through the affiliate network, does not subscribe, publishes comparison and tutorial content
| Horizon | P(profit) | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | 54% | +$40 |
| 6 mo | 61% | +$120 |
| 1 yr | 65% | +$280 |
| 3 yr | 67% | +$850 |
| 5 yr | 67% | +$1,400 |
Subscriber-affiliate on Essentials
pays $47 a month to use and demo the product, promotes it alongside client work
| Horizon | P(profit) | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | 12% | −$110 |
| 6 mo | 16% | −$180 |
| 1 yr | 20% | −$300 |
| 3 yr | 24% | −$700 |
| 5 yr | 26% | −$1,000 |
The 2019 residual builder - retrospective
Premium subscriber under the retired two-tier plan, scored through to the 7 August 2025 termination
| Horizon | P(profit) | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | 8% | −$180 |
| 6 mo | 14% | −$260 |
| 1 yr | 22% | −$300 |
| 3 yr | 30% | +$150 |
| 5 yr | 28% | +$90 |
Methodology note. These are modeled outcome ranges, not claims, not company data and not a prediction about any individual - and the modeling here carries more weight than usual because Builderall has never published an income disclosure statement of any kind. ANCHORED to published figures: the $0 cost of joining the affiliate program; plan prices of $27, $47, $97 and $247 a month with annual equivalents of $12.75, $35.25, $72.75 and $185.25; the current published payout of up to $40 per sale on a 30-day cookie, with third-party directories observing a $1 to $60 range; the retired plan’s 30% first-month and 30% recurring rates after the January 2023 revision, its 30% tier-2 override, its 35-day commission hold, its $250 lifetime first-withdrawal gate and its 50% penalty on all commissions after three months without a direct sale; and the Dream Car bonus of $500 a month at 100 active direct subscribers and $1,000 at 200. MODELED by us: every distribution, the share of each cohort in cumulative profit, the cohort definitions, and the churn assumption - the company publishes no churn, refund or customer-lifetime data at all. Two calibration notes matter. First, the top row of the first cohort is genuinely unbounded on the upside in a way the medians do not show, because a free affiliate with real audience distribution risks nothing; that cohort has the highest share in profit on this site precisely because its cost floor is zero. Second, the third cohort is a retrospective, and its cumulative figures deliberately do not capture the thing that actually happened to those people: the forward value of a residual book went to zero on 7 August 2025. An affiliate who had reached the company’s own top calculator scenario of $11,865 a month lost all of it, permanently, on 21 days’ notice. Cumulative cash banked is not the same as an income asset, and the difference is the whole point of this file.
Where you are actually allowed to promote this
Platform policy reads, not verifications. Check every one before you spend a dollar - enforcement changes faster than the written policy does.
Red flags and green flags
Red flags
151The residual affiliate program was terminated on 21 days’ notice
2Unwithdrawn commissions were forfeited after 6 September 2025
3Terms of Use §6e says exporting your own content is impossible
4Five separate routes to forfeiting earned commissions
5Your refund right is void in any month you have earned a commission
6Refund clawback can drive an affiliate balance negative
7A cancellation clause that reaches public criticism
8Cancellation is ticket-only
9A persistent billing-after-cancellation complaint pattern
10A BBB rating of D−, for not answering complaints
11No income disclosure has ever been published
12User-count claims span a 200-fold range in the same year
13The company’s own live pages contradict the company’s own facts
14Two named certifications are non-refundable and unpriced
15Template imagery pooled from an image search, with the liability pushed to you
Green flags
101Affiliates have never been paid for recruiting affiliates
2No pack, no license, no kit, no autoship, no minimum, ever
3No capital is ever taken against a promised return
4A written, specific, proximity-based income-claims policy
5A real product with real third-party demand and no income offer attached
6Credentialled operators replacing an opportunity-marketing founder
7A clean sheet with every regulator on record
8Moving the affiliate program onto a third-party network is a structural improvement
9Genuine bundling and a 30-day money-back guarantee
10The company publishes and corrects its own pricing honestly
We would like to be wrong about this
Upward
- Publication of the current commission schedule on a public page - rate, recurring or not, threshold, reversal window, whether renewals pay - together with an income disclosure statement of any kind, even a thin one giving the number of active affiliates and the share earning anything.
- Removal of the export prohibition in §6e or the addition of a documented data-export path, plus removal or narrowing of §11b, the clause permitting cancellation for publicly desecrating the company’s image. This single pair of changes is worth more to the terms score than everything else on the list combined.
- A clean twelve to twenty-four months on the current program with no further restructuring, a one-click self-service cancellation flow replacing the ticket-only requirement, answered BBB complaints lifting the D− rating, a published paid-search policy, and removal of the stale two-tier testimonial and the recurring-income language from live pages.
Downward
- Any second restructuring or termination of the current program. A repeat would make cancellation the pattern rather than the event and would justify a ceiling in the D band regardless of how good the software is.
- Evidence that commissions accrued before 7 August 2025 were withheld from affiliates who did request withdrawal within the window - currently alleged on public review sites in both directions and not established - or any regulator opening a matter on the income calculator, the billing-after-cancellation pattern or the unpriced certifications.
- Reintroduction of a multi-level structure, a paid position, a required purchase to qualify for commission, or any move to charge for affiliate participation or to bundle affiliate eligibility into a paid plan.
Grade is B−. A real software business with a genuinely clean recruitment record and a strong claims policy, attached to a contract that calls leaving impossible and an affiliate program it canceled on 21 days’ notice.
Start with what is true and gets said too rarely about this company. Builderall does not sell an income opportunity to get money out of you. The affiliate program is free and always has been - no pack, no license, no kit, no autoship, no minimum order, no renewal fee, verified in the negative across the Terms of Use, the knowledge base and the official disclosure deck. The disclosure language is unambiguous: affiliates do not earn commissions for referring a new affiliate, and commissions are only generated when a product or plan is sold to a customer. Even the retired second tier paid on the recruit’s customers rather than on the recruit, which is a sub-affiliate override of the sort ordinary software programs run at 5 to 10%; Builderall simply paid 30%. The ranking that sent us here noted that a two-tier structure invites pyramid framing. That is a remark about perception and this report does not adopt it as a finding - on the documents, there is no recruitment-based compensation to find, and no regulator anywhere has suggested otherwise. Meanwhile the software is real: G2 around 4.1, roughly 3.8 across 61 aggregated reviews, page building scored 9.0, and a buyer base of course creators and agencies who came for websites and email, not for a plan.
The program people actually built on no longer exists. On 17 July 2025 Builderall announced that the Associate and Affiliate Program would end on 7 August 2025; commissions stopped accruing, and unwithdrawn balances were forfeited if not claimed by 6 September, subject to a $100 minimum withdrawal. The company confirmed it in writing on Trustpilot on 24 February 2026. In its place is a single-tier program paying up to $40 per sale on a 30-day cookie through a third-party affiliate network, plus an application-only partner track whose economics are not published in any form. Grade the present structure and it is fine: a one-off bounty on plans priced $27 to $247 comes comfortably out of subscription margin and can be paid indefinitely. The cancellation is evidence about the old structure rather than the new one - 30% to the direct affiliate plus 30% to the tier-2 upline is an all-in payout of roughly 60% of recurring revenue on a product carrying real hosting and support cost, which is at the outer edge of what infrastructure margin carries. A payout that has to be terminated was never funded. But the person who built to the company’s own top calculator scenario lost the whole asset in three weeks, and no amount of commercial logic changes what that felt like.
The reason this is a B− and not a B sits in the contract, and it is worth reading in the company’s own words. Terms of Use §6e: it is impossible to transfer a website, blog, shop, design, presentation or any other content created on the platform to another server or hosting service. Section §6c: no refund may be requested in any month in which the user has generated any commission. Section §11b: the subscription may be canceled where the user publicly desecrates the company’s image without contacting support first. Five separate clauses permit earned commissions to be forfeited, clawback can drive a balance to minus $51.46 on the Terms’ own worked example, and cancellation is ticket-only - which is what the multi-year billing-after-cancellation complaint file is made of. None of those complaints has been adjudicated and no regulator has acted; the BBB rating of D− is a private ratings body’s finding driven by non-response, not a legal one. The honest summary is that this is a good product sold on a bad agreement by an operator whose disclosure practice, complaint handling and treatment of a residual program all point the same way. Buy the software month to month, keep copies of everything outside it, and do not build an income asset on top of a counterparty that has already ended one.
If you want the software, buy it - and mirror everything
For an agency or course creator who genuinely needs hosting, a page builder, email, a checkout, a calendar and a webinar tool in one place, the $97 plan against $150 to $300 of separately-purchased equivalents is a defensible saving, and the bundled hosting, free first-year domain and branded mailbox are real. Take the 30-day guarantee seriously as a trial. Then, because §6e says export is impossible, keep a mirrored copy of every site, every list export and every asset somewhere you control, from day one.
Join the affiliate program free - and treat it as a bounty, not a business
Cost in is $0, so a content publisher whose audience actually wants this software can promote it with no downside and one sale puts them ahead. What you cannot do is build a content strategy around it. The published payout is one-off, the cookie is 30 days, the schedule behind the network contract is not public, and this operator has already terminated an affiliate program once. Take the bounty; do not underwrite a retirement on it.
Price the free stack before you price this one
A free email tier covering 10,000 subscribers and a free all-in-one funnel-and-course tier between them cover funnels, a course, a blog, a custom domain and a large list for nothing, while the $27 plan here excludes email marketing entirely and the $47 plan caps the list at 3,000. Add a free booking tool, a free chat tier, a straight payment processor with no 1.3% platform fee on top, and a $1-a-month mailbox. Do that sum first; the answer decides whether the bundling argument applies to you or not.
Get the commission schedule in writing before you promote anything
Ask the network program, not the marketing page: what is the actual rate, is any part of it recurring, what is the payout threshold, what is the reversal window, and does it pay on renewals. The public page advertises potential monthly recurring income while publishing only a one-off per-sale figure, and that gap is the single largest unverified item in this file. If nobody will put it in writing, price the offer at the number that is published and no higher.
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What we read
Every source below links to the document itself. Tier 1 is a primary record - the company’s own plan, policy or disclosure, a court filing, a regulator’s decision or an SEC filing. Tier 2 is a self-regulatory or secondary regulator record, tier 3 reporting or academic work, tier 4 an open-market price comparison. Where a document can be moved or withdrawn, an archived copy is linked beside it. If a link is dead when you try it, that is a correction we want.
- Builderall Terms and Conditions of Use (live) - §2c Cloud Builder LLC ownership, §6c 30-day refund window and the bar on refunds where commission has been generated, §6g refund clawback against the Available balance, §8i the 1.3% Super Checkout processing fee, §8j professional-email overage charge, §10e 15-day suspension notice, §11a right to refuse service and §11b cancellation for public criticism, §12c–d third-party and royalty-free image terms, §23b forfeiture of commission on a permanent block, §23c VPN penalty and §23d fraud-suspicion withdrawal freeze
Builderall Terms and Conditions of Use (live, 2026) - §2c Cloud Builder LLC ownership, §3b and §15c commission withholding for trademark non-compliance, §5a account-deletion forfeiture, §6c refund void where commission earned, §6e export prohibition, §6f and §6n non-refundable certifications, §6g refund clawback worked example ending at minus $51.46, §6k ticket-only cancellation, §7b 90-day dormancy forfeiture, §8d plan limits, §8i 1.3% checkout fee, §8j mailbox pricing, §11a-b refusal of service and the public-criticism cancellation clause, §12d Google Images disclaimer, §19a annual-plan installments, §23b permanent-block forfeiture
- “Understanding Affiliate Disclaimers” - Builderall knowledge base: “No affiliates can promote Builderall by making earnings or income claims”, the Builderall-created earnings-disclosure requirement, and the proximity-placement rule
Builderall affiliate disclosure deck and official program disclosure language - AFFILIATES DO NOT EARN COMMISSIONS FOR REFERRING A NEW AFFILIATE; COMMISSIONS ARE ONLY GENERATED WHEN A BUILDERALL PRODUCT OR PLAN IS SOLD TO A CUSTOMER - Builderall knowledge base - the earnings-disclaimer requirement page (income-claims prohibition, proximity placement, FTC 16 CFR Part 255 guidance), the bridge-page guidance page, the direct-sales versus tier-2-sales definition, the active-versus-inactive affiliate page dated 30 January 2023 (30% first month, 30% recurring, 30% tier-2, 50% inactive penalty), and the commission-hold and payout pages (35-day hold, $250 lifetime gate, Thursday payouts)
Not established by this document: The affiliate disclosure deck carrying the exact capitalized language “AFFILIATES DO NOT EARN COMMISSIONS FOR REFERRING A NEW AFFILIATE; COMMISSIONS ARE ONLY GENERATED WHEN A BUILDERALL PRODUCT OR PLAN IS SOLD TO A CUSTOMER” is not published at any retrievable URL on builderall.com; the substance is corroborated by the knowledge-base page above and by a 2019 third-party review quoting the same program rules, but the deck itself could not be linked. The bridge-page guidance page could not be located at any retrievable URL in the Builderall knowledge base or hub.
- “Active vs Inactive Affiliate” - Builderall knowledge base, dated 30 January 2023: 30% on the first direct sale, 30% recurring, 30% on tier-2 recurring sales, and a 50% reduction of all commissions for affiliates with no direct sale in three months
- “How do I get paid my affiliate commissions?” - Builderall knowledge base: 35-day hold until $250 in lifetime commissions has been requested, 5-day hold thereafter, withdrawals paid every Thursday via the eWallet
- Builderall Affiliates knowledge-base index - including “What is the difference between DIRECT SALES and TIER 2 SALES?” and “Why are my affiliate commissions on hold?”
- 16 CFR Part 255 - Guides Concerning Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising (GPO annual edition, PDF)
- “Builderall Pricing 2026: All Plans Explained (Updated June 2026)” - the company's own blog: Core $27, Essentials $47, Advanced $97, Premium $247 monthly, with annual equivalents of $12.75 / $35.25 / $72.75 / $185.25
Builderall pricing page and the company’s own June 2026 pricing post verified against live checkout - Core $27, Essentials $47, Advanced $97, Premium $247, annual equivalents $12.75 / $35.25 / $72.75 / $185.25, overages at $10 per 5,000 subscribers and $2.50 per 5,000 sends, 30-day money-back guarantee
- “Builderall Review 2026: Is It Worth It? (Honest, Fact-Checked)” - company blog, pricing verified June 2026, no permanent free plan, free trial plus 30-day money-back guarantee
- Builderall Affiliates page - “Over $10M in commissions paid”, “Powered by impact.com”, “Earn up to $40 per sale”, and the live commission calculator
Builderall affiliates page and partner-programs page, 2026 - Powered by impact.com, Earn up to $40 per sale, over $10M in commissions paid, the live commission calculator, the Agency / Creator / Training tracks with no published economics, and the stale two-tier Associate Program testimonial
- Builderall Partner Programs page - the Agency, Creator and Training tracks, application-based, with no published percentages, thresholds or contract terms, and the stale two-tier Associate Program testimonial still on the page
- “Builderall Affiliate Program Termination: What It Means and Where Affiliates Can Turn Next” - affiliate publication reporting the announcement and the 7 August 2025 effective date
Program-termination record - announcement 17 July 2025, effective 7 August 2025, forfeiture of unwithdrawn commissions after 6 September 2025 with a $100 minimum, reported by two independent affiliate publications and confirmed by the company’s own Trustpilot reply of 24 February 2026
Not established by this document: No announcement of the termination survives on builderall.com itself; the record rests on two affiliate publications and the company's replies on Trustpilot. The specific reply dated 24 February 2026 could not be isolated - the replies retrieved carry the same wording against reviews dated 8 July 2025.
- “Builderall — Terminación de Programa de Afiliados” - second independent affiliate publication, dated 17 July 2025, reporting the 7 August 2025 termination, the forfeiture of unwithdrawn commissions after 6 September 2025 and the $100 minimum withdrawal
- Builderall reviews on Trustpilot - the company's own replies confirming that “the previous Affiliate/Associate program was officially discontinued and replaced by the new Partner Program, which operates as a separate initiative and requires application and approval”
Review corpus - Trustpilot 3.5/5 across 89 reviews with a stated reply time of over one month; G2 4.1/5 across 21 reviews with ease of use 8.1 and quality of support 7.9, page customisation 9.0; Capterra 3.8/5 across 39 reviews; aggregate roughly 3.8/5 across 61 reviews; filed complaints on a consumer-complaint site alleging charges after cancellation, all private and unadjudicated
Not established by this document: No G2 or Capterra profile URL for Builderall was returned verbatim by search, so the G2 4.1/5 across 21 reviews and Capterra 3.8/5 across 39 reviews figures are uncited here; a third-party aggregation reproducing both (4.8/5 systeme.io vs 3.8/5 Builderall across 61 reviews) exists but is a secondary compilation rather than the review platforms themselves.
- CLOUD BUILDER, LLC - Florida Division of Corporations (Sunbiz) entity detail: document L22000457140, FEI/EIN 92-0839040, filed 25 October 2022, status Active, principal address 1521 Alton Road Suite 449, Miami Beach, FL 33139, manager Chris Kurzweg
Florida Division of Corporations (Sunbiz) - CLOUD BUILDER, LLC, document L22000457140, filed 25 October 2022, FEI 92-0839040, manager Chris Kurzweg, annual reports filed 2024, 2025 and 2026, status active; USPTO registrations 8082501 and 8301795 for BUILDERALL in the name of Cloud Builder, LLC
- 2025 Florida Limited Liability Company Annual Report for CLOUD BUILDER, LLC, signed by Chris Kurzweg as manager on 7 February 2025 (PDF)
- USPTO TSDR record for BUILDERALL, serial 98749045, registration 8082501, registered 30 December 2025 to Cloud Builder, LLC
- USPTO TSDR record for BUILDERALL, serial 99482653, registration 8301795, registered 16 June 2026 to Cloud Builder, LLC
- Builderall LLC - Better Business Bureau business profile, Orlando, Florida: not BBB accredited, rating reason “Failure to respond to 2 complaint(s) filed against business”, noted as having the same management as E-Business4US, Inc.
BBB business profiles - Builderall LLC (Orlando) rated D−, not accredited, stated reason failure to respond to 2 complaints; e-Business4us Inc. (Orlando) rated B−, stated reason failure to respond to 1 complaint
- E-Business4us Inc. - Better Business Bureau business profile, Orlando, Florida: not BBB accredited, rating reason “Failure to respond to 1 complaint(s) filed against business”
What we could not get
- The actual current commission schedule behind the affiliate network - the rate or flat fee, whether any component is recurring, the payout threshold, the clawback and reversal window, and whether renewals pay at all. Only up to $40 per sale is published, with third-party directories observing $1 to $60. Program contracts on that network are visible only after partner login. This is the single most important open item in the file and the payout and partecon scores are written around it.
- The Partner Program economics in full - no percentage, threshold, cadence, contract term or acceptance criterion is published for the Agency, Creator or Training tracks, and admission is hand-selected and discretionary.
- Whether commissions accrued before 7 August 2025 were paid in full to affiliates who did request withdrawal before the 6 September 2025 deadline. Public allegations exist in both directions and none has been adjudicated. Also unknown: how many affiliates were affected and what total value was forfeited.
- The Brazilian regulatory record. No consumer-protection, competition or franchise-regulator matter was located, but Portuguese-language filings are poorly indexed and were not exhaustively searched, and the company historically sold in Brazil through a franchisee network. Treat this as an open question, not a clean finding.
- DISPROVED - the $16.90 to $87.90 monthly price band carried in the ranking that prompted this review is a retired plan structure and no longer exists. The current published plans, verified against live checkout in June 2026, are $27, $47, $97 and $247 a month. The old Cheetah, Essential, Marketer, Premium and Funnel Club tiers, including the $199 one-time Funnel Club fee, have been withdrawn. The company’s own blog says outdated pricing is the most common error in third-party reviews of it, and on this point the company is right.
- The October 2022 transaction that moved control to Cloud Builder, LLC - price, structure, whether external capital was involved and whether the founder retains equity. No M&A filing, press release or credible trade report exists.
- Paying-subscriber count and revenue. Company materials claim between 10,000 and 2,000,000 users within a single year; no paying-subscriber figure is published anywhere and no company revenue figure has ever been issued.
- The prices of the Agency Certification and the Full Stack Marketer Certification, both named as non-refundable in the live Terms of Use and neither priced on any public page; and whether agency sub-accounts or white-labeling currently exist, on which the Terms and an independent 2026 review conflict.
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This report was researched and written by Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant, working from primary documents - Builderall’s own compensation plan, its policies and procedures, its terms of service, its income disclosure statement where one exists, and its regulatory and self-regulatory file. It was scored against nine weighted dimensions that are published in full, with their weights, on the methodology page.
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