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CoinTracker Examined Jul 27, 2026 Crypto tax software Discount, not cash

CoinTracker’s invite link takes 20% off. Ten of those points were already yours without it.

Worth it ifyou were already buying a paid CoinTracker plan and a person you know can send you an invite link. It is a real 20% off all plans. Just know that CoinTracker gives 10% to anyone who turns up without a link, so what the invite actually buys you is the second ten points, under rules written by a company whose name is not on the tin.
20% off all plans10% off with no referral at allCello writes the real termsExamined Jul 26
A correction, and how it was fixed. On July 25, 2026 we pulled the 20% off this page: every CoinTracker address answered our requests with a bot challenge, so the figure had only ever reached us second hand. On July 26 we got through and read the page live. CoinTracker’s own referral page says: "Referred customers get 20% off all plans!" We used to write "20% off the first year", and CoinTracker states no such limit; we also never mentioned that the same page offers 10% off all plans to people arriving with no referral at all. Both are fixed below.
20% offall plans, in CoinTracker’s own words, for a brand new customer subscribing through somebody’s personal invite link

Somebody has sent you a link with 20% on it. CoinTracker itself is bookkeeping for crypto: it reads your trades and works out your cost basis, meaning what you paid for a coin including fees, and your capital gains, the difference between that and what you sold it for, which is the figure that gets taxed. Two things sit underneath the 20% and both matter more than it does. The first is that CoinTracker already discounts by 10% for everyone. The second is that the programme is not administered by CoinTracker at all: a referral company called Cello runs it and writes the terms, and those terms decide whether the link you were sent is even allowed to exist.

On the very same page that promises referred customers 20% off all plans, CoinTracker tells everyone else they can "get 10% off all plans when you’re ready to file". Read together, the invite link is worth ten percentage points on top of the public offer: on a $199 plan, roughly twenty dollars of real difference. Still free money, and still worth the text message it takes to ask a friend.
  • A new customer subscribing through a personal invite link20% off
  • A new customer arriving with no referral at all10% off

Both offers appear on the same CoinTracker page, so what the invite adds is the second ten points.

An ad blocker can quietly cost you the difference. Cello’s terms of service say that the use of ad blockers, or disabling cookies in the browser, may leave a referral untraceable, which "may lead to an exemption of claims". A failed referral does not show you an error: it shows you 10%, or nothing. Pause the blocker for the signup and check the number before you pay.

What pays what

You, new customer, subscribing through a personal invite link20% off all plans
You, new customer, arriving with no referral at all10% off all plans
So what the invite link actually addsTen percentage points
The person whose link you usedPaid by Cello, amount not published
Signing up without the invite link, then asking for credit laterNo upgrade to 20%
Anyone who is already a CoinTracker customerNot eligible
Staying on the free tierNothing to discount
Referring yourself, or routing it through familyProhibited by Cello
A deal or coupon site posting a CoinTracker link, this one includedBanned by Cello

Attribution is all or nothing: a friend who forgets to use the invite link cannot be credited afterwards, although they do still have the public 10% to fall back on. And Cello prohibits posting referral links on deal-sharing websites and public coupon platforms, so a site listing a CoinTracker code is either breaking that rule or showing you a code that does nothing.

Do this, in this order

  1. Work out which plan you actually need, first. These tools price by tier, and the distance between tiers is much larger than ten percentage points. Landing on the right one, and confirming CoinTracker supports the exchanges and wallets you used, is where the money is. The discount is a garnish.
  2. Get an invite link from a person you know. It has to be a personal invite link and you have to be a new CoinTracker customer. There is no public code, and no way to add the link afterwards. If nobody you know uses it, you are not locked out of a discount; you are on 10% instead of 20%.
  3. Turn off the ad blocker and allow cookies for the signup. This is a one-minute precaution against a silent failure.
  4. Read the number on the Subscription page before you pay. It should say 20%. If it says 10%, the invite link did not register and you are on the public offer; if it says nothing at all, stop and start again from the link.
  5. If you are the referrer, expect a wait and an identity check. Payouts run through a third party, on a delay after a completed plan purchase, and depending on your country you may be asked for more information before the money moves. A reward must be claimed within three calendar years of being notified.
  6. Do not run ads on the brand, and do not post the link on a deal site. Cello prohibits paid advertising, bidding on brand terms, and posting referral links on deal-sharing websites or public coupon platforms.

The terms are not CoinTracker’s

CoinTracker’s help article is a page of friendly bullets. The document that actually governs the money is Cello’s terms of service, version dated October 1, 2025, and Cello has no relationship with you at all.

You have no claim against CoinTracker. Cello’s terms state that the referring user has no claim against the customer, meaning CoinTracker, to receive a referral reward.

The reward can change while you are earning it. In Cello’s phrasing, the exact content of the referral reward is dynamic. The 20% is what CoinTracker’s page says today; check the checkout screen.

Deal sites and coupon platforms are barred. Referral links may not be posted on deal-sharing websites or public coupon platforms. That is a fair description of what a site like this one looks like from the outside, so we hold no CoinTracker link and never will.

Any violation forfeits the reward outright. Manipulating tracking, self-referring, routing through friends or family, paid ads, brand bidding, deal sites: the stated consequence is forfeiture of the right to a reward you have already earned.

The whole thing can end if the partnership does. Cello can discontinue the programme if it stops working with CoinTracker, without reference to you.

What nobody states. Neither document says what happens to a reward if the subscription is refunded. There is no written clawback rule, no geographic restriction and no end date. Nor does anything public say what the referrer is paid: we withdrew our old figures for that side on July 25 and they have not come back.

Read CoinTracker’s referral pageThe page both figures come from: 20% off all plans referred, 10% off without a referral.
Open cointracker.ioCheck plan tiers and supported exchanges, and confirm the discount at checkout.
Read Cello’s terms of serviceThe document that actually governs the reward. Version dated October 1, 2025.

Is it worth your time?

If you were buying a paid plan anyway, ask a friend for their invite link. It costs you a message and it doubles a discount you were getting regardless. Hold it in proportion, though: the honest size of the favour is ten percentage points, and a tax tool earns or loses you far more through whether it reads your exchange history correctly than through any discount. Two minutes of care at signup, and one glance at the number on CoinTracker’s own checkout, is worth more than the coupon hunt.

Second opinions

20% off all plans
10% is public, so the link adds ten points
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