PassPass operates within the ecommerce reductions MLM area of interest.
The corporate is predicated out of the US and headed up by co-founders Edgel Groves Jr. (CEO) and Kristopher Groves (President).
So far as I can inform, Edgel Groves doesn’t have any prior MLM expertise. Kristopher Groves is a former Kyani promoter.
PassPass is run by PassPass LLC, a purported Texas registered firm.
Learn on for a full overview of PassPass’ MLM alternative.
PassPass’ Merchandise
PassPass markets entry to an financial savings platform app. The corporate additionally refers to itself as a “giveaway” firm.
Classes on PassPass’ financial savings platform are accommodations, parks & tickets, automobile rental, flights, occasions, eat, play, store and sizzling offers.
To cite Kristopher Groves on a July 2025 PassPass advertising and marketing presentation;
We’re the primary viral giveaway platform in America.
What does that imply? Guys there’s loads of sweepstakes corporations on the market that run one-off sweepstakes or giveaways or no matter it’s. We run any form of sweepstakes, any form of giveaway.
We do money, journeys, vehicles, experiences, all kinds of various stuff. And we put it in a single straightforward to make use of utility that anybody can use all through the US.
To be able to enter PassPass’ giveaways, customers should “examine in” to the corporate’s app every day.
Entry to PassPass’ app is through a month-to-month or annual subscription:
- Gold – $20 a month, entry to twenty giveaway entries a day and 2000 PassPass factors a month
- Platinum – $49 a month, entry to fifty giveaway entries a day and 5000 PassPass factors a month
- Diamond – $99 a month, entry to at least one hundred giveaway entries a day, 10,000 PassPass factors a month, “member solely giveaways” and “Diamond Membership”
- Diamond Yearly – $999 yearly, entry to at least one hundred giveaway entries a day, 10,000 PassPass factors a month, “member solely giveaways” and “Diamond Membership”
All of PassPass subscription tiers present entry to the financial savings platform. Factors are in a position for use within the financial savings platform, nonetheless specifics aren’t disclosed.
PassPass’ Compensation Plan
PassPass’ compensation plan pays on the sale of app subscriptions to retail prospects and recruited promoters.
Commissions are additionally paid on PassPass promoter recruitment.
Referral Commissions
PassPass pays a referral fee on app subscriptions to retail prospects and recruited promoters.
Referral commissions in PassPass are paid down two ranges of recruitment (unilevel):
- degree 1 (personally referred retail prospects and recruited promoters) – “as much as 30%”
- degree 2 – “as much as 15%”
Notice the “as much as” a part of referral commissions is just not defined.
So long as referred retail prospects and PassPass promoters keep an app subscription, referral commissions are paid out month-to-month.
Recruitment Commissions
PassPass pays $50 per promoter recruited.
Quick Begin Bonus
The Quick Begin Bonus rewards PassPass promoters on private gross sales quantity over their first thirty days:
- generate 500 PV and obtain $125
- generate 1000 PV and obtain $275
- generate 2000 PV and obtain $625
- generate 5000 PV and obtain $1825
- generate 10,000 PV and obtain $3950
- generate 20,000 PV and obtain $8450
- generate 50,000 PV and obtain 23,450
PV stands for “Private Quantity”. PV is generated through app subscription gross sales and PassPass promoter recruitment.
PassPass’ compensation documentation states Promoter recruitment generates 200 PV. Retail app subscription PV equivalents aren’t offered.
Becoming a member of PassPass
PassPass promoter membership is both:
- Ambassador Diamond – $149 after which $99 a month; or
- Ambassador Diamond Yearly – $999 yearly
Each choices embrace a month-to-month or yearly Diamond app subscription.
PassPass Conclusion
PassPass is actually a lottery mixed with a typical MLM low cost platform opp.
For some purpose PassPass doesn’t need to acknowledge it’s an MLM firm. On a July tenth PassPass advertising and marketing webinar, Kristopher Groves incorrectly said;
No we’re not community advertising and marketing. No we’re not MLM.
Along with retail app subscriptions, PassPass pays referral commissions down two ranges of recruitment. Something that pays down multiple degree (aka multi-level), is MLM.
The legitimacy of PassPass as an MLM firm comes right down to what number of subscriptions are held by retail prospects versus promoters.
Worryingly, within the beforehand cited advertising and marketing webinar Kristopher Groves states;
So principally in the event you’re paying for the yearly [Diamond] possibility, you’re robotically enrolled as an Ambassador.
This implies there’s no distinction between the retail and promoter Diamond app subscription tiers, i.e. retail subscribers are “robotically enrolled”.
PassPass’ advertising and marketing hook to distinguish itself from dime-a-dozen low cost platform MLM corporations is its giveaways. The Diamond tier maximizes entries by an element of 4 (Silver) or two (Gold).
PassPass don’t disclose company-wide what number of energetic subscribers they’ve at every tier. If the vast majority of PassPass’ month-to-month income is derived from Diamond subscriptions nonetheless, and these subscriptions are computerized promoter enrollments, that might see PassPass working as a pyramid scheme.
One other pyramid scheme situation is that if the vast majority of energetic app subscriptions are held by promoters.
This tends to be the case with “pay to entry” low cost platform MLM corporations however once more, PassPass doesn’t disclose any numbers.
The excellent news is you may verify this gorgeous simply together with your potential PassPass upline. Ask them what number of at present energetic PassPass subscriptions they’ve referred.
Then ask what number of of them are promoter subscriptions. In the event that they don’t have not less than a 50% equal of at present energetic retail subscriptions, that PassPass promoter is operating their enterprise as a pyramid scheme.
For his or her half PassPass does nothing to discourage pyramid recruitment. If something, paying recruitment commissions actively encourages a give attention to recruitment over retail.
Particular to PassPass’ “giveaway” advertising and marketing mannequin, it ought to go with out saying that almost all of subscribers aren’t going to recoup their charges in gained giveaways (there can solely be one winner per giveaway).
This leaves recouping month-to-month charges by financial savings on PassPass’ low cost platform. One of the best strategy to that is to doc what you’re spending over two to a few months and tallying up your financial savings.
Should you’re shedding cash, you’re most likely higher off becoming a member of a free financial savings platform. PassPass don’t disclose who their platform supplier is, nevertheless it appears like another white-labeled platform used within the trade.
Method with warning.
