Envato Elements
Impact
Global
Up to $500 per annual referral (Core/Plus/Ultimate: $120/$250/$500), or up to $240 per monthly referral, via Impact
Envato Elements is a subscription library of stock photos, video, music, fonts and templates, licensed for unlimited use while the subscription runs.
Envato Elements pays tiered CPA per new subscriber, paid via Impact: Core plan pays $120 for an annual referral or up to $60 over three $20 monthly installments; Plus plan pays $250 annual or up to $120 over three $40 installments; Ultimate plan pays $500 annual or up to $240 over three $80 installments, through Impact. There is no reward for the referred customer. Verified 22 Aug 2026 from Envato Elements's own published material.
Paid when
Referred customer signs up and converts to a paying plan.
Payment delay
Commissions earned in a calendar month are deposited to your Impact account on the 16th of the following month
Minimum payout
$10 if withdrawing once earnings hit that threshold, or $50 if withdrawing on a fixed day each month
Click counts for
60 days from click for Envato Elements, first-click attribution (the governing Affiliate Program General Terms, clause 11.D.II, set this at 60 days; Envato's own affiliate FAQ and its Author Hub guide both give a general figure of 90 days, but the governing terms carve out Envato Elements and Envato Placeit at 60 days, with 90 days applying only to Envato Market, and the terms document states it prevails over such general summaries)
Your commission
Tiered CPA per new subscriber, paid via Impact: Core plan pays $120 for an annual referral or up to $60 over three $20 monthly installments; Plus plan pays $250 annual or up to $120 over three $40 installments; Ultimate plan pays $500 annual or up to $240 over three $80 installments
Customer incentive
Nothing
The terms that decide whether you get paid
Paid whenReferred customer signs up and converts to a paying plan.
DurationAnnual-plan referrals pay the full CPA amount as one single payment; monthly-plan referrals pay it in three equal monthly installments over 3 months, contingent on the customer continuing to pay. The CPA amount itself depends on which plan the referral chooses (Core, Plus or Ultimate)
Attribution window60 days from click for Envato Elements, first-click attribution (the governing Affiliate Program General Terms, clause 11.D.II, set this at 60 days; Envato's own affiliate FAQ and its Author Hub guide both give a general figure of 90 days, but the governing terms carve out Envato Elements and Envato Placeit at 60 days, with 90 days applying only to Envato Market, and the terms document states it prevails over such general summaries)
Payment delayCommissions earned in a calendar month are deposited to your Impact account on the 16th of the following month
Payment scheduleMonthly, on the 16th, via Impact
Minimum payout$10 if withdrawing once earnings hit that threshold, or $50 if withdrawing on a fixed day each month
Payout formPayPal, or Electronic Funds Transfer (bank transfer, available for select countries only), both via Impact
Self-referralNot permitted: the Affiliate Program General Terms state directly that commission is not paid for self-referrals, defined as cases where the affiliate and the buyer are the same person; if a self-referral shows up as fraudulent activity it will be deducted from the affiliate's final monthly earnings
Important
Payouts are tiered by plan: $120 (Core), $250 (Plus) or $500 (Ultimate) for an annual referral paid as one payment, or up to $60/$120/$240 for a monthly referral paid in three installments contingent on the customer renewing — so actual earnings depend heavily on which plan and billing frequency the referral picks. Running through Impact adds network application overhead versus a direct program, and Envato does not say whether an affiliate must already be a paying subscriber to join.
High confidence - Official program details
What you would be selling
Envato Elements provides unlimited access to professional assets at a fraction of individual purchase costs
Envato Elements is one brand with 1 product, bought by different people. What one converted customer is worth cannot be worked out for any of them: that needs a rate, a plan price and a commission window, and this program does not publish all three.
Everything Envato Elements publishes about how the commission is earned and paid. A term shown as not researched is one Envato Elements does not publish, not one that does not apply.
How it pays
Route inApply via Impact at https://app.impact.com/campaign-mediapartner-signup/Envato-Elements.brand, linked from https://www.envato.com/affiliates/ (the affiliate.envato.com domain previously recorded here no longer resolves)
DurationAnnual-plan referrals pay the full CPA amount as one single payment; monthly-plan referrals pay it in three equal monthly installments over 3 months, contingent on the customer continuing to pay. The CPA amount itself depends on which plan the referral chooses (Core, Plus or Ultimate)
Attribution window60 days from click for Envato Elements, first-click attribution (the governing Affiliate Program General Terms, clause 11.D.II, set this at 60 days; Envato's own affiliate FAQ and its Author Hub guide both give a general figure of 90 days, but the governing terms carve out Envato Elements and Envato Placeit at 60 days, with 90 days applying only to Envato Market, and the terms document states it prevails over such general summaries)
Payment delayCommissions earned in a calendar month are deposited to your Impact account on the 16th of the following month
Payment scheduleMonthly, on the 16th, via Impact
Minimum payout$10 if withdrawing once earnings hit that threshold, or $50 if withdrawing on a fixed day each month
Payout formPayPal, or Electronic Funds Transfer (bank transfer, available for select countries only), both via Impact
Self-referralNot permitted: the Affiliate Program General Terms state directly that commission is not paid for self-referrals, defined as cases where the affiliate and the buyer are the same person; if a self-referral shows up as fraudulent activity it will be deducted from the affiliate's final monthly earnings
ClawbackNo explicit refund/chargeback clawback is published; monthly-plan commissions are simply contingent on the referred customer continuing to pay each month (unpaid installments are not earned)
Where it paysCommissions accrue in your Impact account, then withdraw to PayPal or bank EFT
ApprovalIndividual application review by the Envato team via Impact; applicants submit info about themselves, their business, and promotional channels, and approval is not automatic
Restrictions
·$60-$500 flat fee per subscription, varying by Core/Plus/Ultimate plan and by annual vs. monthly billing
·60-day attribution window from click
·Monthly-plan commissions pay out over three installments rather than as a lump sum
Customer pricing
Subscription-based unlimited access
Monthly$14.50/month
Annual$199/year
Verified
Read from Envato Elements's own published material on . Figures change without notice — quote this date alongside any figure.
Sources
Envato Affiliates ↗Help Center ↗
Product decomposition and pricing read from https://affiliate.envato.com, https://elements.envato.com.
Researched 24 August 2026.
Attribution window, payout terms and approval time researched on August 26, 2026.
On September 27, 2026, read the governing Affiliate Program General Terms PDF directly and corrected the attribution window: the official terms set a 60-day cookie for Envato Elements (90 days applies only to the separate Envato Market marketplace). The same terms confirm self-referral commissions are excluded outright. Whether an affiliate must already be a paying subscriber remains unaddressed in any primary source checked (help center article and the general terms PDF), so that field stays unknown rather than assumed. Top-level payout, enroll, network, the application link and rate fields were cross-checked against envato.com/affiliates and the general terms PDF and remain accurate as stated.
On the same day, checked https://www.envato.com/affiliates/ and https://hub.author.envato.com/your-guide-to-the-elements-affiliate-program/ specifically for any benefit offered to the referred customer; neither page mentions a discount, credit, or other incentive for the person being referred, so the customer-incentive field is recorded as unpublished rather than assumed to be none.
The live affiliates page now shows the commission is tiered by subscription plan rather than a single flat amount: $120 for an annual Core-plan referral, $250 for Plus, and $500 for Ultimate, paid as one payment; monthly referrals pay up to $60, $120 or $240 respectively across three installments as the customer keeps paying. This replaces the earlier flat $120 annual / $60 monthly figures, which reflected only the Core tier and predate Envato Elements moving to a Core/Plus/Ultimate plan structure; the payout figure and the headline summary line were both corrected to match.
The affiliate.envato.com domain used in the route-in row no longer resolves. The working join path, confirmed on the current affiliates page, is https://www.envato.com/affiliates/, which links to an Impact sign-up form for a campaign explicitly named Envato-Elements, confirming this page still governs the Elements program specifically and is not a generic Envato-wide page.
A second copy of the governing Affiliate Program General Terms, hosted at elements.envato.com and uploaded in March 2026, was checked and confirms the same 60-day cookie period for Envato Elements and Envato Placeit versus 90 days for Envato Market. A conflicting 90-day figure does appear in Envato's own Author Hub guide and in the current affiliates FAQ, but both state 90 days as a general figure without the Elements/Market split the governing terms document makes, and that document states its own terms prevail over such general summaries, so the 60-day figure stands.
The geo field was changed from US to Global: the affiliates page describes the program as open to creative professionals globally, and no country restriction beyond standard trade-sanction exclusions was found in the governing terms; the earlier US value was not supported by any source checked.
The record's prior note that no minimum payout or cookie window is documented was removed from the summary judgment field, since both are in fact stated elsewhere in this record (a $10 or $50 minimum depending on withdrawal method, and a 60-day cookie for Elements).
Read, and not published
Envato Elements’s own material was read on these and says nothing. That is the answer: a program that does not state a term is not bound by one.
Must you be a customer
Customer incentive
Citing this page
Ancaster, “Envato Elements affiliate terms”. Verified 22 August 2026. https://ancaster.io/offers/envato-elements
How this was verified
Verified
Read from Envato Elements's own published material on . Figures change without notice — quote this date alongside any figure.
Who buys this
Tagged at product level, not brand level. Envato Elements's products sell to creators, video producers.
Who else does this
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The re-verification note
We read Envato Elements's terms on 2026-08-22. Programs change a rate, a cookie window or a payment threshold without announcing it — we re-read them and send one note a week saying what moved.
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