Frequently asked questions
Straight answers about how the rebate is calculated and how you can verify it yourself.
What is ReturnFee?
ReturnFee is a rebate service. You sign up on OKX, Bitget, Binance or MEXC through a ReturnFee referral link, and ReturnFee pays you a share of the trading fee commission the exchange pays it for referring you, on top of whatever discount the exchange already gives you automatically. It is not an exchange, a wallet, or an investment product, it does not touch your funds or your trades.
Where does the money actually come from?
From the exchange's own affiliate program. When you trade under ReturnFee's referral attribution, the exchange pays ReturnFee a commission out of the trading fees you already pay. ReturnFee then pays you a share of that same commission. It is not a bonus ReturnFee invents or funds from somewhere else, it only exists because the exchange already paid it to ReturnFee first.
Why does the exchange allow this?
Because affiliate commission is the exchange's own standard cost of acquiring a trader, and every major exchange runs a public affiliate program that pays it out. OKX, Bitget, Binance and MEXC each already give a referred user an automatic discount of up to 20% on top of that, by their own rules, regardless of who refers them. ReturnFee is simply sharing its own affiliate commission with the trader who generated it, the same commission the exchange already agreed to pay when it approved ReturnFee as an affiliate.
What does ReturnFee take for itself?
On OKX, ReturnFee's total affiliate commission is 65% of trading fees: 20% goes to you automatically from OKX, 40% more ReturnFee pays you on top, and ReturnFee keeps 5%. On Bitget, the total is 60%: 20% automatic plus 30% from ReturnFee to you, ReturnFee keeps 10%. On Binance, the total is 50%: 20% automatic plus 20% from ReturnFee, ReturnFee keeps 10%. On MEXC, the total is 50%: 20% automatic plus 30% from ReturnFee, and ReturnFee currently keeps 0% there, a deliberate choice to match the best rate competitors publish. These figures live in this site's own rebate-offer record and nowhere else, nothing here is estimated.
When do payouts happen?
On Bitget, the payout runs daily today, calculated from the commission Bitget's own affiliate API reports for your UID. On OKX, Binance and MEXC, payouts are made manually for now, on request, because per-member commission reporting on those exchanges is not yet wired into an automated run. ReturnFee does not promise an automated payout mechanism on an exchange it cannot yet verify a real number from.
What happens if the exchange reverses a trade?
Your rebate is calculated from the commission the exchange actually reports and actually pays ReturnFee, not from a projection made in advance. If the exchange reverses, cancels, or claws back a trade before paying the associated commission, that amount never shows up as commission ReturnFee received, so it is never counted toward your accrued balance in the first place. ReturnFee cannot pay out a share of money the exchange did not actually pay it.
What data do you need from me, and why?
Your exchange, your account UID, and a contact address (email or Telegram). The UID is how ReturnFee matches you to the commission the exchange reports against your account, without it there is no way to know which trader a commission payment belongs to. The contact address is how ReturnFee confirms your registration and reaches you about payouts. ReturnFee never asks for your exchange login, password, or API keys, and does not need them: it is paid by the exchange directly, not by accessing your account.
How do I know you will actually pay me?
On Bitget, your daily payout is calculated directly from the commission Bitget's own affiliate API reports for your UID, not from a number ReturnFee sets itself. Once your account is active, that same accrual is shown on your dashboard, so you can check it against Bitget's own reporting for your UID yourself. Start with a small amount if you want to verify the mechanism before trusting it with more.
What happens if ReturnFee stops operating?
ReturnFee is not a licensed custodian and does not hold member funds in escrow, it pays out from its own affiliate commission as that commission arrives. If ReturnFee stopped operating, any commission accrued but not yet paid out could be lost, the same risk that exists with any small affiliate-rebate operator rather than a regulated financial institution. This is why payouts run as frequently as the exchange's own reporting allows, rather than being held and paid in a large batch later.
Do I have to give up my exchange login or trading control?
No. ReturnFee only asks for your account UID, which is a public identifier, not a credential, it does not grant access to your funds or your account. You keep full control of your trading and your funds at all times; ReturnFee is paid by the exchange's affiliate program, not by any access to your account.