How is an advocate account different from a customer account?

An AWeber customer account enables you to send autoresponder and broadcast messages to your subscribers. Customers pay for the AWeber service on a recurring basis based on the amount of subscribers in their account. For reference, this is the page you see when logging into the customer account:

• To set up a customer account, visit our order page.

The advocate account, on the other hand, enables you to earn referral payments by referring customers to AWeber. Advocate accounts do not include any of the email functionality of customer accounts. For reference, this is the page you see when logging into the advocate account:

• To sign up for free as an advocate, visit our advocate signup page.

Customer and advocate accounts are totally separate from one another. You don't have to sign up for one to sign up for the other though you are certainly welcome to do so!