Both sides get $5.89.

When exactly it pays out

The trigger is the first connection abroad, not the sign up and not the payment. Your friend has to buy a plan, install it, land somewhere and attach to a network. The credit is added within minutes of that attach.

That trigger is deliberate, and it is the slower of the two. Paying on sign up would look better on this page and would fund a lot of empty accounts. Paying on first connection means we only pay once somebody has genuinely started using the thing.

The window is 90 days from your friend's sign up. If they sign up in March and do not travel until September, the referral has lapsed. They can still buy, they just no longer carry your bonus, and neither do you.

What disqualifies a referral

One thing, and we check exactly one thing. Self referrals and second accounts created on the same device do not pay. We do not run identity checks, we do not compare addresses, and we do not hold a payout while a review sits in a queue. Everything else rival programmes commonly exclude is allowed here, including family, other countries, and a friend who buys the cheapest plan on the site.

• Referring yourself, or a second account on the same device, pays nothing
• A friend who already had an Orbislo account is not a new referral, whichever email address they use
• A referral that passes 90 days without a connection lapses and cannot be reinstated
• Everything else is allowed, including family, other countries and the cheapest plan on the site

How it interacts with Miles

How it interacts with promo codes

Your friend's $5.89 applies on top of whatever promotion is running when they check out. It is not an either or, and there is no code to type: the discount is attached to the link.

The same is true of Miles. Miles and a promo code go on the same order here. Holafly does not allow that, as of 2026-08-28, and it is the restriction most likely to catch somebody out, because it appears in the terms rather than on the page where you earn the currency.

If the person you referred asks for a refund

In most cases nothing happens to your bonus, because the bonus never existed yet. The refund cases that dominate are a plan that failed to provision, which is refunded automatically inside 60 seconds, and a plan that was never installed, which is refunded in full at any time. Both of those happen before a first connection abroad, and the first connection is what pays the referral.

If they refund after connecting, under the rule that covers a plan used under five percent or a network that failed in the destination, the referral has already paid and we do not take it back off you. You did the thing we asked. Whether the plan then worked is our problem and not yours.

Your friend's own $5.89 is a discount rather than a payment, so a refund returns what they actually paid. Refunds for a country they never travelled to go back to the wallet rather than the card, because wallet balance does not expire and is therefore worth the same to them next year.

What the rest of the category does to what you earn

The bonus itself is the easy part to match. What separates programmes is what the terms then do to the currency once you hold it, and every restriction in the table below was read off a rival's own published terms on 2026-08-28.

We do not win on every number. Airalo reaches 10% at its top loyalty tier after $200 of spend and we stop at 8%. On what you are then permitted to do with what you earned, we know of nobody with fewer exclusions, which is why ours are published here rather than in a terms document.

What you can do with what a referral pays you

Competitor restrictions read off their own published terms on 2026-08-28, and rechecked whenever the price index is rebuilt.

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