How-to
Share Your Tesla Referral Link, Step by Step (2026)
How-to · EV Referral Atlas
A 2026 guide for Tesla owners: where to find your referral link in the app, how to share it with the right disclosure, and how to track your $250 credit cap.
Most posts on this site are written for the buyer clicking a link. This one is for the owner handing one out: where the link lives, what to say with it, and how to keep track of the 10-a-year cap. The reward your friend gets depends on their country, not yours. See what a Tesla referral code is worth in each country before you promise them anything.
Step 1 — Find your link in the Tesla app, not your account settings
Open the Tesla app, tap your profile in the corner, then look for Refer & Earn — Tesla has also shown this as a "Loot Box" screen in some app versions. Your personal code and its ready-made ts.la/… link both live there. It isn't buried in account settings or on tesla.com's main site; it's an app-only screen tied to your ownership.
Step 2 — Copy the link itself, not just the code
The app gives you both a short code and a full link. Always send the link. Tesla's order page has no box for typing a referral code, so the bare code is useless on its own; the referral only attaches when your friend opens the link before they start configuring. If they lose it, resend the link rather than the code.
Step 3 — Say what the link actually does before you send it
Put two things in the same message: the link gets your friend Tesla's own referral benefit at no cost to them, and if they order through it you may receive Tesla Credits under Tesla's program. That's the same disclosure this site puts on every link it publishes (look at the box near the top of this page), and it costs nothing to extend the same honesty to a text message. Nobody should have to guess what a link "does" before they click it.
One more line worth adding: tell them to check the reward for their own country. A friend in Australia gets money off, a friend in Ireland gets Supercharging kilometres and a friend in the US gets an FSD trial, from the same link. The country-by-country comparison has each one, with the date it was checked.
Step 4 — Track your count against the yearly cap
Owners are capped at 10 successful referrals per calendar year for the $250-credit reward. The Refer & Earn screen shows your running total for the current year — check it before you assume you have room left, especially late in the year when a referral that would push you over the cap is better pointed at a friend who won't order until January.
Step 5 — What you'll actually see when someone orders
You'll see that a referral succeeded and your credit balance update. You won't see your friend's configuration, price, or delivery details — Tesla doesn't expose a buyer's order to the referring owner, only the fact that the referral counted. That's worth saying out loud to whoever you're sharing with, since a few people assume sharing a link means handing over their order details too. It doesn't.
A dated worked example
Take an owner with three friends mid-configuration: one in the US, one in Germany, one in Australia. The owner sends the same personal link to all three. Each friend gets their own market's benefit — the US friend an FSD trial, the German friend Supercharging credit, the Australian friend a cash-style discount — and if all three orders complete, the owner has used 3 of their 10 slots for the year, for up to $750 in Tesla Credits. One link, three completely different buyer outcomes, one shared cap.
If you don't own a Tesla yet
You can't generate your own link until you're an owner — but that's exactly why sites like this one exist: independent, disclosed pools of real owners' links so a first-time buyer without an owner in their circle isn't shut out. See the first-time-buyer guide for that side of it.
For what your friend actually sees at checkout, see how to apply a code; for timing your own cap wisely, see best-time timing tips.
Questions this raises
Where exactly do I find my own referral link in the Tesla app?
Open the Tesla app, tap your profile, then Refer & Earn (sometimes shown as your Loot Box). Your personal link and code both live there — copy the link rather than retyping the code.
Does sharing my link with a lot of people cost me anything?
No. Sharing is free and unlimited. Only completed, successful orders count toward the 10-a-year cap for the $250-credit reward — a friend who clicks but never orders costs you nothing.
Related reading
- How-toHow to apply a Tesla referral code at checkout (2026, step by step)
- ExplainerTesla referral code vs referral link — what's the difference?
- ComparisonWhat a Tesla referral code is worth by country in 2026
Pillar: Home (referral code). Program facts verified July 13, 2026; sources are linked from each country page and the footer.