The Process
How GearBook Works
From signing up to your first payout, with no technical work on your end.
Sign Up
Tell us who you are: your name, bio, what you do, any certifications, where people can find you, and how you would like to be paid. That is all signup asks for. The gear comes later, from your dashboard, once you are approved; have a look at our retail partners in the meantime.
It takes about 10 minutes, and none of it is permanent. Everything you enter can be changed later from your dashboard.
We Review Your Application
We read every application ourselves rather than approving them automatically, and we are usually back to you within a few days. Once you are approved your page exists immediately, at gearbook.shop/catalog/yourname, waiting to be filled.
Your page starts empty. Nothing is chosen for you and nothing is queued: the next step is yours, and it takes as long as you want it to.
Stock Your Catalog
Sign in and add gear yourself. Search our partners’ catalogs from your dashboard, hundreds of thousands of real products, and pick the one you mean. If something is not in there, paste the link instead. Either way, you write the part nobody else can: why you recommend it.
Products you add from the dashboard build their own tracking link and appear on your page as you go. Up to 8 in a catalog, and you can run up to 5 catalogs if you do more than one thing.
Share Your Link
Send it out before or after a trip, put it in your Instagram bio, or drop it into your booking confirmations. It is one link, it never changes, and the more places it lives the more it earns.
Most members put the link in trip confirmation emails. Others mention it in person and let clients look it up on their own time.
Earn From Every Sale
When someone clicks your link and buys something, you earn a share of the commission on that sale once the retailer approves it. And it is not limited to the product you linked to: the retailer remembers the click for its purchase window, 30 days at every partner we work with today, and credits you for anything bought there inside it, provided the click was tracked and the order is not returned.
Your dashboard shows clicks as they are reported to us, updated daily, and sales and earnings once each month is reconciled with the retailer. Payouts go out monthly by Venmo after the retailer has settled the sales.
How the money works
Rates vary by retailer
Every sale through your catalog pays a commission, and you keep the larger share of it. The exact rate is set by each retailer rather than by us, so it differs by brand: what you earn on a pack is not what you earn on a camera.
Your share is paid monthly by Venmo. What GearBook keeps is what keeps the service running.
See what each partner paysExample sale at Backcountry
Backcountry’s rate. Another retailer pays a different one.
Ready to get your catalog?
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