Become a Founding Vendor of United Vows.

Here is the fine print. Commission on the payments couples make you is the only charge United Vows takes automatically (Stripe's standard card processing fee on those payments is also paid by you), and a Founding Vendor's rate is 1% lower for 3 years — 8% instead of 9% at Starter, 7% instead of 8% at Established. After 3 years the standard rates apply. The badge and the discount can be lost if you fall below the published maintenance standards or the Couple Response Index (see "Can I lose Founding Vendor status?" below), and they end for good if your account is delisted, deleted, removed or cancelled. Pay-per-use drafting help past your monthly allowance, and pass-through costs for a few third-party tools such as electronic signatures are optional, priced up front, and stay off until you choose them.

Leave your details in the form below and a person here emails you if it opens up. Being plain about what that is: a contact list, not a queue. The 20 spots per category per city are counted at approval and are not handed back automatically when a Founding Vendor leaves or falls below standard, so there is no line that moves on its own and no position to hold. If you serve multiple markets, apply for a different city or category where spots are still open.

If United Vows shuts down, you owe nothing. Your data is portable. Your couples are yours. We've designed this so vendors take zero risk.

Launching with a large directory of half-claimed vendors is worse than launching with a smaller group of fully committed ones. We're choosing density over volume. The Founding Vendors set the bar for everyone who joins after.

The badge and the 1% commission reduction both run for 3 years from your Founding Vendor approval, then end on schedule — no renewal fee, nothing to re-apply for inside that window. It can also end earlier, and there are two ways, only one of which is final. Falling below the maintenance standards or the Couple Response Index switches the badge off, and it comes back on its own once you're meeting them again (see "Can I lose Founding Vendor status?" below), still inside the 3-year window. What ends it for good is the account ending: if your account is delisted, deleted, removed, or cancelled, the badge goes with it and does not come back.

Yes, two ways, and only one of them is final. Sustained underperformance against the six maintenance standards takes the badge off after a 30-day grace period and 30 days of probation. A Couple Response Index (how you handle couples' concerns, including claim answers) below 75 is a separate, seventh check on its own clock: it is monitored daily and has no grace period or probation, so a drop below 75 takes the badge off on that day's check. Neither kind of loss is permanent. Recovery needs both at once — all six standards met and your index back at 75 or higher — and it lands on the clock the loss came off: a badge lost on the index returns at the first daily check that finds you at 75 or higher, and a badge lost on the six standards returns at the first monthly review that finds you passing all six. The badge, the directory listing and the commission reduction come back on their own. No application, no fee, no waiting period. The account ending is the permanent one: if your account is delisted, deleted, removed, or cancelled, the badge is gone for good, and signing up again later with the same business details does not restore it. The goal is to keep the badge meaningful, not to penalize.

We're a startup. We need sustainable economics to grow. 3 years of savings is substantial but bounded so we can keep the platform healthy long-term.