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# Onboarding & Referral Rewards
Agent Opus has two ways to earn free credits. Onboarding rewards pay you for setting up your account. Referrals pay you and a friend when they join through your link. They are separate programs with separate rules, and you can earn from both.
| **Program** | **What earns credits** | **How much** | **Deadline** |
| ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| Onboarding rewards | Seven one-time setup steps | Up to 135 credits, once | Claim within 7 days of sign-up |
| Referrals | Friends who sign up or upgrade through your link | Up to 1,500 credits a month | None, but a friend must upgrade within 1 week of signing up |
Reward credits from both programs are separate from the monthly credits included with your plan. See the [Agent Opus Credits FAQ](/agent-opus/article/ao-faq-credits-faq) for how those work.
# Onboarding rewards
## 1. What onboarding rewards are
Onboarding rewards are a limited program for new **Free** and **Trial** accounts. Each reward is tied to a short, one-time setup step that introduces a part of Agent Opus, such as making your first video or adding a brand kit. There are seven steps, worth 135 credits in total.
## 2. Where to find your rewards
There are three ways into the rewards panel:
* **The welcome pop-up.** Appears the first time you open Agent Opus after signing up. Select **Claim reward** to bank your welcome bonus and open the panel.
* **The rewards launcher.** Sits in the corner of the screen and stays there until every reward is claimed.
* **The notification bell.** Look for "Your setup rewards are waiting."
The panel header shows your progress two ways: credits claimed out of the total available, and steps finished out of seven. The **Valid for 7 days** badge in the corner is your earning window.
*The rewards panel, with the welcome bonus ready to claim.*
## 3. What counts as a step
Each step is a short, one-time action, and every card tells you what to do and what it pays. Some steps unlock in sequence rather than all at once, because they build on each other. Polishing a video in the editor only becomes available once you have a video to polish. The list of steps changes as we improve the program, so your panel is always the accurate version for your account.
## 4. What each step pays
| **Step** | **Credits** |
| -------------------------- | ----------- |
| Create your account | 60 |
| Watch the video tutorial | 5 |
| Make your first video | 5 |
| Polish it in the editor | 5 |
| Add your brand kit | 5 |
| Create your first voice | 5 |
| Schedule and publish (Pro) | 50 |
| **Total** | **135** |
**Create your account** is your welcome bonus for signing up, so it is already complete when you first open the panel. You still have to claim it. **Schedule and publish** is a Pro step, marked with a crown.
Amounts change as we tune the program and can differ between accounts. The panel header shows the total you can still earn, and every card shows its own amount, so read the number off your own panel.
## 5. How to claim a reward
Rewards are not added automatically. Each step moves through three states:
1. **Available.** Select the card and Agent Opus takes you to the place where you complete the step.
2. **Ready to claim.** You finished the step, and the card turns green with a **Claim reward** button.
3. **Claimed.** The credits are in your balance.
Select **Claim reward** on each finished step. Credits land in your balance right away and appear in your credit history. You can complete the steps in any order.
## 6. Two deadlines to know about
Onboarding rewards have two separate clocks, and they measure different things.
| **Clock** | **What it limits** |
| ------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Time to earn:** 7 days from sign-up | How long you have to finish steps and claim them. The **Valid for 7 days** badge counts this down. Anything unclaimed when it runs out closes. |
| **Time to spend:** 30 days from each claim | How long reward credits stay in your balance after you claim them. Each reward starts its own 30 days on the day you claim it. |
Claiming early costs you nothing. A claimed reward starts its 30 days, but an unclaimed one disappears entirely when the first clock ends, so claim as you go.
## 7. Why you may not see the rewards panel
Onboarding rewards are a limited program for new accounts. You will not see the panel if:
* **Your account is on a paid plan.** Onboarding rewards are for **Free** and **Trial** accounts. Referrals are not affected.
* **Onboarding rewards are not available in your region yet.** Availability is rolling out by region. For where Agent Opus itself is available, see [Supported Regions](/agent-opus/article/ao-supported-regions).
* **Your account was not brand new** when you first opened Agent Opus, or your 7-day earning window has already ended.
* **We have not rolled it out to your account yet.** We are releasing onboarding rewards gradually, so it may not appear on every new account.
# Referrals
## 8. How referrals work
Share your referral link. When a friend signs up through it, you both get credits, and you both get more if they upgrade. Rewards land automatically, and there is no code to enter. Unlike onboarding rewards, referrals have no steps to complete and no 7-day earning window, and they are not limited to new accounts.
Open the referral panel from **Invite friends** at the bottom of the rewards panel.
*The referral panel, reached from Invite friends.*
## 9. What each referral pays
| **What happens** | **Credits you each get** |
| --------------------------- | ------------------------ |
| Your friend signs up | 60 |
| Your friend upgrades to Pro | 50 |
| Your friend upgrades to Max | 100 |
Both sides of a referral earn the same amount. Upgrade rewards only pay if your friend upgrades within one week of signing up. Referral earnings are capped at 1,500 credits a month.
## 10. Your referral link and tracking
Your link is in the referral panel, under **Your referral link**. Select **Copy link** and share it anywhere. The panel tracks how many friends joined and what you have earned from sign-ups and upgrades separately, so you can see which part of the program is paying out.
# Both programs
## 11. Where to see the credits you earned
Open your credit history from the subscription page. Every reward appears as its own entry, named after the step or referral that earned it. You can also reach it from **View credit history** in the referral panel.
## 12. Getting help
[Contact support](/docs/article/how-to-contact-support) for anything to do with your rewards, referrals, or credits. You can also share feedback in our [Discord channel](https://discord.com/invite/VCqdxQgRXB) or through the in-app survey.
Onboarding rewards give you up to 135 free credits for getting started with Agent Opus. Complete seven short setup steps, claim each one, and the credits land in your balance. This guide covers where to find the rewards panel, what each step pays, and the two deadlines that apply.