Where do you enter a Starlink code? Nowhere. Here is why

Is there a box to enter a Starlink promo code?

No. We read the US order screens and the interface text starlink.com loads for them on Nov 3, 2026: the order, cart and payment steps had no field for a promo, coupon or referral code, and nowhere to add one after the fact. Most online stores put a code field next to the total; Starlink’s order page doesn’t have one. Nor could we find any spot to slip a referral code in after the fact.

The codes Starlink does honor travel in the address bar instead:

• A referral code (“RC-” followed by numbers) is the tail end of a customer’s referral link. A referral counts only when you order through that link. What an RC- code is.
• A Starlink promotion code arrives as a starlink.com link ending in ?promoCode= and the code. More on that below.

So the real question is whether the link carried the code all the way to the order page. This is the path a referral takes:

The order flow, step by step

We opened a referral link and walked starlink.com’s US order flow with a public test address (a county courthouse in Nebraska, not a home), stopping before payment. Here is what each step asks of you, and what to check.

1. The page the link opens

The link lands on starlink.com with the code already in the address bar. When the code is valid, a green banner may say that you and the customer behind the link both get a reward. Nothing to click or copy there. No banner? Keep going: the check on the order page is the one that counts.

2. Your address

Type your service address and choose the matching suggestion. Do it in the tab where the link landed, not a fresh one.

3. Plans and prices for that address

The plans that follow are priced for the address you entered, because what you’re offered (plans, prices and promotions) depends on your location and account type. For scale only: before it knows any address, Starlink’s countrywide price feed listed the Residential tiers at $49.50/mo (100 Mbps), $76.50/mo (200 Mbps) and $143/mo (Max) on Nov 3, 2026, the day we checked. The cards for your address can show other prices. Any area offer or promotional price for your address appears here by itself, with nothing to type.

4. The order summary: still no code field

Pick a plan and the summary lists what you pay today: kit, shipping, tax and total. There’s no line for a code, and the referral changes none of the numbers. The kit and the first month are paid in full and the dish is activated as usual; the referral takes nothing off at checkout.

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5. “Referral Code Applied”, by the Checkout button

This is the check that matters. With the referral attached, the words “Referral Code Applied” turn up in green next to Checkout (under the button on a laptop, over it on a phone). If it’s there before you click Checkout, the link did its job.

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6. The same check on a phone

On a phone the order page runs as one long column, and the referral panel sits just above Checkout. Finish in the phone’s browser, in that same tab, rather than switching to the Starlink app.

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“Referral Code Applied” vs “Referral Code Not Applied”

Once a referral is in the tab, one of two notices appears on the order page:

• Applied Green means the code from the link is on this order.
• Not Applied When the referral is unusable (an invalid code, say, or one that doesn’t fit the order type), the order page swaps in an amber notice reading “Referral Code Not Applied”, and the order goes ahead with no reward.

“Applied” is good news, but not a promise: it confirms the attachment, not eligibility. The call on whether an order qualifies is Starlink’s alone, and it’s final. If the order does qualify, the reward comes after your first two months of service.

Seeing “Not Applied”? Stop before paying and check three things:

1. You’re new to Starlink. People who have Starlink now, or had it before, don’t qualify.
2. The plan fits. Starlink points the referral link at Residential or Roam orders on starlink.com.
3. The tab is fresh. Open the referral link again and re-enter your address in the tab it opens.

Still “Not Applied”? The order will go through without the reward, so decide before you click Checkout.

Why stay in one browser tab?

Because the referral may not survive anywhere else. When we went through the scripts behind starlink.com’s order pages (Oct 29, 2026), the referral lived in that one tab’s session storage and nowhere else, so shutting the tab dropped it; that is our finding, not a written Starlink policy.

So treat the tab as the rule: reloading or clicking around inside it is fine, while a tab you open by hand, another browser, another device or the Starlink app may not have the code.

Two less obvious ways to lose it. First, a handful of help-center pages embed starlink.com links carrying some other customer’s RC- code, and following one inside your order tab trades your referral for theirs (our finding from the site’s page code). Read help pages in a separate tab. Second, the most recent referral link you click takes the place of the one before it.

Already ordered without a referral link?

Then that order can’t get one. Starlink’s help center says so directly: a referral can’t be attached after the order if the link wasn’t used to place it, whether the order was placed with no link, with another customer’s link, or for a kit from a store.

The terms explain why nothing can be added afterwards: the order has to go through the existing customer’s own referral link; Starlink’s terms rule out every other route. There’s no box to hunt for once you’ve paid. Already a customer? See what current customers can use instead.

What happens with a ?promoCode= link

Starlink’s own promotions work like referrals. Our Oct 21, 2026 pass through the site’s scripts found that starlink.com copies a ?promoCode= link parameter into that browser tab’s storage, the same way it keeps a ?referral= code. Open the link and the offer, if it’s valid for you, appears on the order page. Still nothing to type.

When something’s wrong, the order page says so in plain words. Two of its messages, in our words: one says the email you’re ordering with isn’t eligible and points you to the address the offer was sent to; the other says the promotion has expired.

The email point matters most: some offers belong to the address Starlink sent them to, so order with that same email. Either way you can still check out, just without the promotion. We haven’t confirmed how a Starlink ?promoCode= link and a ?referral= link interact in the same tab. How to tell a Starlink promotion link is genuine.

Fact-check standard: each claim here points to the Starlink page it came from (or says so when no page covers it), with the day we read it. No code lists, and no money from coupon sites or stores. Method · How we make money · Corrections