Everyone you know wants a website. The shop owner down the road. The DJ who's been meaning to put his mixtapes somewhere people can actually find them. The pastor whose church still doesn't have a page to share. The gym that loses new members because nobody can find it online. They all want one thing, and almost none of them know how to build it themselves.
That gap is where the TenaWork Affiliate Program lives. You don't need to be a developer. You don't need to know what "hosting" even means. You don't even need a laptop — your phone is enough. If you can scroll, tap, and type, you can build real, working websites for other people and get paid for it.
What is the TenaWork Affiliate Program?
It's a simple idea: TenaWork already builds websites for sellers, gyms, DJs, musicians, pastors, restaurants, photographers, and a dozen other kinds of businesses — no code required, just click on the page and type. The affiliate program lets you do that on behalf of other people, as many of them as you want, and keep a real cut of what you charge each one.
You become the person your community calls when they need "someone who can make me a website." You don't write a single line of code. You don't touch a server. TenaWork hosts every page you build, forever, on its own link. You just build, share, and get paid.
You don't need any skills — just a phone
This is the part people find hardest to believe. There is no design software to learn, no hosting panel to configure, no domain to buy. Building a page on TenaWork works the same way as editing a caption on social media: you open the page, tap "Edit Mode," and then every piece of text and every photo on the page becomes something you can click and change directly, right there, in place. Type the business name. Tap the photo and upload a new one. That's the whole skill required.
It works from a browser on an ordinary smartphone. If you've ever posted a photo on WhatsApp Status or filled in a form online, you already have every skill this requires.
How it works, step by step
- Sign up as an Affiliate. Create a TenaWork account and choose "Affiliate" as your account type. This gives you your own affiliate dashboard — separate from a normal seller or business account.
- Activate your account. A one-time-feeling but monthly payment of KES 500, paid through M-Pesa, keeps your affiliate account active and able to take on new clients. Any client sites you've already built keep working even if you're a day late renewing — nobody you've already helped gets left stranded.
- Add a client. From your dashboard, pick what kind of business they run — shop, gym, restaurant, DJ, church, salon, photography studio, and more are all supported — and enter their name, their phone number, and the price you're charging them. TenaWork creates their own private login automatically.
- Build their page. Log in as that client (or hand them the login and talk them through it) and start typing directly onto the page — their business name, their story, their photos, their prices, their contact details. No design decisions to agonise over; the layout is already built. You're just filling it in.
- Take it live. When the page is ready, you activate it for the price you set. TenaWork keeps 40% of that and credits you the other 60% straight into your affiliate balance — automatically, no invoicing, no chasing anyone.
- Hand over the link. Your client now has a real, working, hosted website at its own shareable TenaWork link — ready to put on a business card, a WhatsApp status, or a shop window.
How much you actually keep
You set the price. That's worth repeating: TenaWork doesn't tell you what to charge your clients — you decide what a website is worth to the person you're building it for. Whatever that number is, you keep 60% of it the moment the site goes live, and it lands in your affiliate ledger automatically.
As an example only — if you build five simple sites in a month and charge a modest KES 8,000 each, that's KES 40,000 changing hands, and KES 24,000 of it is yours. Charge more for a bigger business, like a restaurant or a gym with more pages to fill in, and the number moves with it. There's no ceiling on how many clients you take on.
Refer a friend, earn KES 300
Every affiliate gets their own personal referral link. Share it with anyone — a friend who also wants to start building websites, or someone who just wants their own business page. The moment someone signs up through your link and activates their own account, of any kind, you're paid KES 300, automatically, no matter how small or large what they signed up for was.
Refer another affiliate and they start building their own client list — and you've already been paid for bringing them in. It costs you nothing to share the link as many times as you like.
A real dashboard, not a spreadsheet
Everything you build and earn lives in one place: a dashboard built specifically for affiliates, with a running balance of what you've earned, a chart of your earnings month by month, a full list of every client site you've built and whether it's live yet, and a complete history of every commission, referral bonus, and payout. You always know exactly where you stand — no guessing, no asking.
Who this is actually for
This isn't built for professional developers — they already have their own tools. It's built for the student between classes who's good with people and better with a phone. The stay-at-home parent who wants an income that fits around everything else. The social media-savvy hustler who already knows every shop owner and boda rider in their neighbourhood. The person who's always been "the one who's good with phones" in their family, finally with something to actually do with that.
If you can hold a conversation with a business owner and type what they tell you onto a screen, you can do this.
Ready to start?
Go to tenawork.com/auth/, sign up, and choose Affiliate as your account type. Activate for KES 500, add your first client, and build their page directly from your phone. No code. No hosting to figure out. No office. Just you, a phone, and a link you can send to anyone, anywhere.
