What Is a Referred-Spending Commission at Restaurants?

What is a referred-spending commission at restaurants?

A referred-spending commission is the payment an ambassador earns when a traveler they referred to a partner venue — a restaurant, rooftop or club — redeems a courtesy there and spends money on-site. It is not a commission on a tour booking: it is a commission on real spending at a physical venue, verified with an invoice.

For a driver who works with tourists every day, this changes the math. It is no longer just about taking passengers from point A to point B: every recommendation you make in the car can turn into extra income, without selling anything or charging anyone yourself. The venue pays the commission, not the traveler.

A concrete example

Picture a driver doing the airport-to-El Poblado run. On the way, the traveler asks where to have dinner that night. The driver has their own ambassador page with network experiences and courtesies, and shows the traveler a courtesy from a restaurant in Provenza: a free appetizer or a discount on the bill. The traveler saves it, arrives that evening, redeems it at the restaurant and pays for their meal as normal. The driver, without doing anything else, has already generated a commission.

How does this commission get triggered?

With Luxor, Skyline's ambassador program, every ambassador — host, guide, driver, creator or agency — earns a commission for recommending verified experiences from their own page. That commission is not limited to tour bookings: ambassadors also earn on spending at partner restaurants and venues when the traveler redeems a courtesy the ambassador recommended.

This means a driver does not need to run tours or sell packages to generate income inside the network. It is enough to share their link or page with the courtesies from the partner venues in their city.

The venue's side: Vórax

On the other side is the physical venue. With Vórax, Skyline's tool for venues, a restaurant, rooftop or club publishes a courtesy and the partner network — including drivers — recommends it to travelers. The venue pays nothing to advertise: it only pays when the courtesy is actually redeemed.

After the redemption, the venue records people served and invoice-verified spending, and sees the benefit per courtesy directly in its panel. That invoice-based verification is what backs the commission: it is not paid on a promised visit, it is paid on spending that actually happened and was documented.

How is the spending verified as real?

The mechanism avoids paying commissions for phantom redemptions or visits that never turned into spending. The flow works like this:

1. The traveler receives a QR with the courtesy the ambassador recommended.
2. They arrive at the venue and present the QR.
3. The venue scans the QR, with an optional 4-digit code as extra verification, and the system prevents the same courtesy from being redeemed twice.
4. After the redemption, the venue records how many people it served and the invoice-verified spending of that group.
5. That information is tied back to the ambassador who originated the referral.

For the driver, this brings peace of mind: the commission does not depend on the venue "taking their word for it." The system attributes the redemption automatically to their link or QR, and the spending is backed by an invoice before anything gets calculated.

Where does the ambassador see that commission?

Everything shows up in the ambassador's earnings panel, in real time: attributed bookings and commissions, both per booking and per redeemed courtesy, appear there without the driver having to ask the venue or keep their own records in a notebook or a spreadsheet.

This solves a typical problem with informal arrangements between drivers and venues: "I'll give you a cut if you send me people," but with no record of how many people actually showed up or how much they spent. With verified redemption and the real-time panel, the driver sees exactly what they generated and the venue sees exactly what it paid.

Booking commission vs. referred-spending commission

It is worth distinguishing the two types of commission an ambassador can earn inside the network, because they are not the same:

A driver can combine both: recommend a morning tour and a dinner courtesy for the evening, and earn a commission on both if the traveler takes them up on it.

Does a driver need their own experiences to get started?

No. The ambassador role is free and your own link or QR is ready in minutes. Each ambassador gets a page with verified experiences from the network, with editable order, highlights and look, so a driver can start sharing courtesies from partner restaurants and rooftops without needing to have their own experiences loaded.

What's next?

If you drive passengers every day and want to start getting paid for the recommendations you already make by word of mouth, create your ambassador page on Luxor and start sharing the available courtesies from the partner venues in your city.