Referral Program Terms
Last updated: October 19, 2026
These terms govern the Buhata invite program. They sit alongside the Terms and Conditions and the Subscription and Cancellation page, and where something isn't covered here, those apply.
Where the program stands today
Invite links work now. Anybody you invite gets their trial straight away, and every invitation is recorded from the moment they join. What the person inviting earns changed on October 16, 2026, to the credit and perks below, and on October 18, 2026 it began to follow your own plan, the limit rose to eight and a monthly friend began to count after their first paid month. On October 19, 2026, a friend's offer began to run before the student discount instead of ending it. An invitation recorded before these terms were published keeps counting under the limit it was accepted under, which was twenty-four rewarded friends, and earns what these terms describe.
What the person you invite gets
Fourteen days of Premium, starting the moment they arrive through your link. No payment details are asked for and nothing charges itself when it ends. When the trial finishes they have seven days to take the offer, if they want it. What they get follows the plan they choose: half off their first month on a monthly plan, or 30% off the full yearly price for their first year plus one month added to their renewal date on an annual plan. The full yearly price is twelve months at the monthly price. Each side of a referral is rewarded on its own plan, so a friend who chooses annual gets a month even when the person who invited them is on a monthly plan. If they do nothing, their account stays on the free plan and everything they wrote stays with them.
One reward per account, ever. Somebody who has held a Buhata account before doesn't get a second trial by arriving through a new link.
What you get
| Your plan when the referral counts | What you get for each friend |
|---|---|
| Premium, monthly or annual | $10 of Buhata credit |
| Plus, monthly or annual | $5 of Buhata credit |
| The free plan | 30 days of Plus |
What you get follows your own plan at the moment your friend’s referral counts, whichever plan your friend picks. That’s why the invite screen says up to $10 a friend: $10 is the Premium figure, and on Plus or the free plan it’s what the table says. Paying for Plus or Premium means a plan you pay for yourself, on buhata.com, in the Windows app, through the App Store or through Google Play. A place on somebody else's plan, a free trial you started without a card, or a plan support gave you counts as the free plan here. A plan you bought during a free trial is paid for, so it counts. Runs of Plus follow one another, so two friends who pay give you sixty days.
Your first friend who pays unlocks Lagoon, a theme only invitations open, and it stays yours.
Your fifth rewarded friend makes you a Buhata Ambassador. You get a badge on your profile and a place in the Hall of Fame, plus one more Household and one more Team that you keep through every plan change, downgrade and cancellation. A Winner's Circle member gets one more of each too, added after the Circle doubles the plan, so it's one of each and never two. The badge and the Hall of Fame listing show while you're on Plus or Premium, and they come back the moment you pay again after time on the free plan. If you reach five on the free plan, you're told the badge shows once you're on Plus or Premium. The Hall of Fame shows your first name with its middle letters masked and the first letter of your last name, and nothing else about you.
Buhata credit
Credit is a dollar balance on your account. It comes off your next invoices that Buhata bills itself, on buhata.com and in the Windows app, as a discount, so sales tax is worked out on what you actually pay. It never takes an invoice below $0, and whatever's left waits for the next one. On an annual plan it's added to your renewal date as days instead, at your own plan's daily rate: the year's price divided by 365, in whole days, with the cents left over kept for later. A student's annual credit works its own way, set out below.
Credit can't be spent on a subscription the App Store or Google Play bills. If yours is billed that way, your credit waits until Buhata bills you itself, and it still expires on its own date.
Each amount of credit lasts 12 months from the day it's issued, apart from a student's annual credit, and the oldest is spent first. Credit has no cash value and can't be exchanged for money, sold, or transferred to another account. Deleting your account ends it. Support can add credit to an account too, and writes down why each time.
The lifetime limit
Eight rewarded friends, for life. That limit follows both your account and your plan, so leaving one and starting another doesn't reset it. Cancelling, resubscribing, changing plan, changing your email or changing your invite link doesn't reset it either. A ninth friend is welcome: they still get their fourteen days and their offer, and you don't earn for them.
Invitations recorded before these terms were published keep counting under the old limit of twenty-four.
When a referral counts
A referral qualifies when the person you invited pays for their first period. Signing up doesn't qualify it, and neither does starting a trial, because no money has moved. The reward lands later, once a refund or a chargeback could no longer take that payment back: for a friend on a monthly plan, once their first paid month has run its course without a refund or a chargeback, which is the day the invoice for their second month is made, paid or not; and for a friend on an annual plan, after a thirty day wait from their payment. If your friend moves to an annual plan before then, the wait is thirty days from the payment for it.
Student pricing and referral offers don't stack
Only one discount runs on a plan at a time. When you have a friend's referral offer and Buhata Student too, your friend's offer runs first and the student discount follows it, whichever of the two you got first. Taking a friend's offer doesn't end your student discount. If you've already verified, we tell you what happens before you confirm.
On a monthly plan, your first month is at your friend's half off, and the student 50% takes over from your next invoice and runs to the end of your first year. If you'd verified first, your student discount is paused for that one month and then picks up again.
On an annual plan, your friend's offer stands: your first year at 30% off the full yearly price, plus a month. Your student discount goes on your account as Buhata credit in place of the student 50%: $30 on Plus and $70 on Premium, once your annual plan is paid and you've verified, whichever of those comes later. It comes off whichever comes first, your next annual renewal or a Household X or Team X add-on you buy or renew. It never takes an invoice below $0, and whatever's left waits for the other. This credit lasts until 30 days after your next annual renewal and never turns into extra days. If you move to a monthly plan before then, your student 50% runs there instead, and what's left of this credit goes. It goes too if the payment for your annual plan is refunded in full or charged back. An add-on you buy in the 27 hours before that renewal pays its own price, so the renewal gets what's left of the credit. That's the same for anybody already on an annual plan Buhata bills itself when they verify, a friend's referral offer or not, and it's given once per account.
Credit you earn by inviting is a balance on your account, so it comes off an invoice whatever price that invoice is at. It's spent on your plan, never on an add-on.
When a referral does not count
- The person already had a Buhata account, or had one and deleted it.
- They have been on your plan as one of your People at any point.
- You invited each other, directly or around a circle.
- Your friend paid with a card that’s on file on your own account, or with the same payment card as another friend who already counted, whoever invited them. We compare the card reference our payment processor gives us, never the card number.
- You have reached the lifetime limit of eight, or of twenty-four for an invitation recorded before these terms.
- They join your plan as one of your People within a year of being referred, in which case the credit is unwound.
- They were on your plan and left it too recently. Somebody who was one of your People for at least sixty days, left, and then bought their own plan does count; a shorter stay does not, and a spot still held does not.
Referrals arriving in unusual numbers over a short period are held for a person to look at before anything is paid, and so is a payment we can’t match to a card reference. That isn't an accusation, and a genuine burst of invitations is released. Sharing an address, a home network or a surname is not by itself a reason to refuse anybody; families and flatmates are real, and it takes more than one signal for a referral to be held.
Deleting an account does not clear its referral history. If an account took part in the program and is then deleted, we keep a one-way hash of its email address and card reference for two years, so that deleting and starting again is not a way to collect the same reward twice. A new account at the same email address can be used normally, but it can’t take the free trial, the free month or the Buhata Student discount, or earn or trigger referral rewards. Nobody can verify that address as a school address for the Buhata Student discount either. That holds for each of those offers, even one the deleted account never took. The same card can’t trigger a referral reward either. The Privacy Policy and Account Deletion pages say exactly what is kept.
Two things are worked out from the ordinary request your browser sends when somebody arrives through an invite link, or when you open your own invite screen: a rough signature of the browser and the network address it came from. Both are hashed with a secret key, so neither the address nor the browser details are stored, and the result can only be compared with another signup. They are kept for 180 days, they go when an account is deleted, and they are used for nothing but this. The Privacy Policy says the same in full.
Those signals hold a referral for review. They never refuse one by themselves, because a rule strict enough to catch a farm on circumstantial evidence also catches a family sharing a laptop. Only the plain rules above refuse a referral outright.
We may ask for reasonable proof before issuing a reward, and we may withhold, reject, reverse or remove rewards where we reasonably determine the program has been abused: duplicate accounts, self-referrals, cycling a subscription between people in one home, shared payment cards, automated signups, or referrals made to collect rewards rather than to bring somebody new to Buhata. Decisions are tied to those reasons and not made at whim.
Taking a reward back
A referral is void if the payment behind it is refunded or charged back before its reward lands, or if either account is closed for breaking the Terms. A reward that has already landed is left alone: we don't claw back credit somebody already spent or days already added to a renewal. If we find a referral was fraud, the credit it issued that hasn't been spent is removed, and if that leaves you below five rewarded friends, the Ambassador badge and its extra Household and Team go with it. That's the only way they're taken back.
What you may not do
Don't buy or sell invite links, post them as if they were a coupon on a deals site, create accounts to invite yourself, or say anything about Buhata that isn't true to get somebody to sign up. Doing any of it voids the rewards and may close the account.
If you share your link where strangers can see it, in a post, a video, a review or on a website, say plainly that you get a reward when people sign up through it. The Federal Trade Commission asks that of anybody recommending something they're rewarded for.
Changes and ending
We may change or end this program at any time. Credit already issued stays yours until it expires, and we'll give at least 30 days notice by email before a change that reduces what you've already been promised. Nothing here has a cash value: credit is a discount on Buhata and can't be exchanged for money.
Contact
Questions about a referral: [email protected]. Buhata LLC, Pensacola, FL 32534, United States.