How LocalAmplify works

A business sets its product price, the commission it will pay per sale, and how many sales it wants. That commission pool is paid upfront — by card or from a LocalAmplify wallet balance — before the campaign goes live.

This is the part that makes the rest work. Because the pool already exists, an amplifier promoting a campaign is never promoting a promise: the money for their commission is already sitting there. If the campaign ends with no sales, the pool and tier fee are refunded in full.

Anyone can join free as an amplifier, pick a campaign and get a unique short link. Most sharing happens on WhatsApp, because that is where Nigerians already talk to the people who trust them — but the link works anywhere.

Clicks and conversions are attributed to that link automatically. There is nothing to chase and no screenshot to submit.

Checkout happens on LocalAmplify, not on WhatsApp and not on an external site. The buyer pays by card through Paystack, and that payment is held — it does not go straight to the seller. This is the buyer protection that makes a referral from a near-stranger worth acting on at all.

If the campaign offers both delivery and pickup, the buyer chooses at checkout and sees each total side by side, including any delivery fee the business has set. Pickup orders never pay a delivery fee.

For a delivered order, the payment releases three days after purchase, or sooner if the buyer taps Confirm Receipt. For a pickup order, it releases the moment the seller scans the buyer's QR code at handover.

If something goes wrong, the buyer can open a dispute in one tap — from their order page or straight from their order email — and the release is paused while it is resolved. A pickup order that is never collected is refunded automatically once the collection window the seller set has elapsed.

On release, the amplifier receives 80% of their commission immediately, with the remaining 20% held as a pending reserve until the dispute window closes. The business receives the rest of the order value, including any delivery fee in full — delivery is never treated as commissionable revenue.

Amplifiers withdraw to their bank from their earnings page. Businesses can keep a wallet balance and fund their next campaign from it without entering card details again.

Every order has a chat thread between buyer and seller, so questions about sizing, timing or an address do not have to happen in a WhatsApp thread nobody can refer back to later.