Work at a company that pays a referral bonus only if the candidate is hired and stays 90 days? On RefOpen you are paid once the candidate confirms you referred them. No offer required, no retention period, no cap on how many people you refer.
Most large employers run a referral scheme, and on paper the numbers look good. In practice the money is gated behind a chain of events you do not control.
You refer someone. A recruiter has to screen them. They have to clear several interview rounds. They have to receive an offer. They have to accept it. They have to actually join. Then, at most companies, they have to still be there 90 days later before the bonus is released.
Every one of those steps can fail for reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of your referral. The role gets frozen. The candidate takes another offer. The team reorganises. You did the work either way, and you were paid nothing.
The scheme is not designed to reward referring. It is designed to reward hiring, and it treats your effort as free.
RefOpen pays for the referral itself.
Someone asks for a referral at your company. You pick up the request, submit the referral through your own internal system exactly as you normally would, and upload proof that you did it. The candidate then confirms they were referred. At that point the reward is credited to your RefOpen wallet.
The candidate does not have to be interviewed. They do not have to receive an offer. They do not have to join, and there is no retention period to sit through. The thing you are paid for is the thing you actually did.
To be precise about the one condition that does exist: the candidate has to confirm the referral happened. That confirmation is what protects both sides, because it is what stops someone claiming a reward for a referral they never submitted. A referral the candidate marks as unverified does not pay.
Rewards go up to $5 per verified referral, set in your own currency rather than converted from another one, so what you see is what lands in your wallet. How much a given referral pays depends on the company.
On top of that there are milestone bonuses as your verified referral count grows: $2 at 5 verified referrals, $4 at 10, $6 at 15 and $8 at 20.
Worth being straight about the shape of this rather than dressing it up: a single referral is not going to change your month. The point is that submitting one takes a couple of minutes, there is no limit on how many you can do, and every confirmed one pays. Compare that with a traditional scheme where a larger headline bonus pays out on a small fraction of the referrals you make, months later, if at all.
You earn the same way wherever you are. Every confirmed referral credits your RefOpen wallet, whatever country you work in.
What differs is taking it out as cash. In India you can withdraw your balance to a bank account or UPI. Outside India cash withdrawal is not open yet, so the balance stays in your wallet and is spent inside the product: requesting referrals for yourself when you are the one job hunting, resume analysis, a blind resume review, or a subscription.
We would rather say that plainly than imply a cash payout that does not exist in your country yet. If you are outside India and cash is the only thing you are interested in, this is worth knowing before you sign up rather than after.
You cannot refer for a company until we can show candidates you actually work there. That check is deliberately simple.
Add your current role, then verify the company email address attached to it. We send a six digit code to that address and you enter it. The code is valid for ten minutes and you get three attempts.
That is the whole process. We never ask for a payslip, an offer letter or an ID document. The work email is the proof, because only someone who actually works there can receive mail at that domain.
Verification is tied to your current employer. If you change jobs, you verify the new company email to start referring there.
Referring on RefOpen means submitting a real referral through your employer's own referral system. It is the same action you would take for a friend, and it stays inside your company's process and policy.
RefOpen does not sit between you and your employer, does not submit anything on your behalf, and has no access to your internal systems. It matches a candidate to you, gives you their profile so you can decide, and records the outcome so you get paid.
You choose who to refer. Declining a request costs you nothing, and there is no penalty for passing on candidates you do not want to put your name behind. Your name is on the referral inside your company, so that judgement has to stay yours.
When the candidate confirms you referred them. Not when they are interviewed, not when they are hired, and there is no retention period. A referral the candidate does not confirm does not pay.
Up to $5 per verified referral, set in your local currency, and the exact amount depends on the company. Milestone bonuses add $2 at 5 verified referrals, $4 at 10, $6 at 15 and $8 at 20.
No. There is no daily, monthly or lifetime cap on referrals or on what you can earn.
Yes. Referral rewards credit your wallet wherever you work. The difference is cash withdrawal, which is open in India today and not yet elsewhere, so outside India the balance is spent on RefOpen services instead.
In India, yes, to a bank account or UPI. Elsewhere withdrawals are not open yet, and your balance can be spent on RefOpen services such as requesting a referral for yourself, resume tools or a subscription.
No. You submit the referral through your employer exactly as you normally would, so you remain eligible for your company bonus if the candidate is eventually hired. RefOpen pays you for the referral itself, on top of that.
Verify the company email address on your current role with a six digit code. It takes about two minutes. No payslip, offer letter or ID document is required.
No. You see the candidate profile first and decide. Declining costs you nothing. Your name goes on the referral inside your company, so the judgement stays yours.
Your ability to refer is tied to the employer whose email you verified. Verify your new work email to start referring for the new company.