Qualified FTD (QFTD)

A Qualified First Time Deposit (QFTD) is a newly referred client whose initial deposit has cleared and who has also satisfied every additional condition the broker sets before an affiliate's CPA commission is triggered. Those conditions usually include completed KYC identity verification, a minimum deposit amount, and a minimum traded volume within a set window.

The distinction from a plain FTD matters because a First Time Deposit only confirms that money arrived. A QFTD confirms that the client is a real, verified, active trader the broker is willing to pay an acquisition bounty for. An affiliate can generate many FTDs yet see far fewer qualify.

For example, an affiliate might drive 100 FTDs in a month, but if the broker requires $250 minimum funding plus one traded standard lot within 30 days, perhaps only 25 clients clear both hurdles. Those 25 are the QFTDs, and only they pay out at the agreed CPA rate of, say, $400 each — $10,000 rather than the $40,000 a naive FTD count would suggest.

QFTD criteria protect the broker from paying for incentivized or fraudulent sign-ups, and they push affiliates to send genuinely interested traffic rather than deposit-and-vanish users.

After a referred user deposits, the broker's compliance and tracking systems run a checklist: is KYC verified, does the deposit meet the minimum, and has the client traded the required volume inside the qualification window? Only when every box is ticked does the affiliate network flip the lead's status to "qualified" and release the CPA.

The qualification window is usually 30–90 days, so a QFTD is not confirmed on deposit day. Affiliates therefore see a lag between an FTD landing and the CPA clearing. Sophisticated programmes expose the FTD-to-QFTD conversion in the partner dashboard so affiliates can spot which campaigns send traffic that actually trades.