Step 2: Apply your referral link before you order
UK programme verified: · figures re-checked against tesla.com/en_gb
Got a code from Step 1? This is the make-or-break part: apply the link before you configure and pay. Miss it and the benefit cannot be added later.
Your UK Tesla Referral Link
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Copy link copies the whole URL — there is no checkout field for a bare code. Click Open at Tesla first, then configure your car; the benefit is applied automatically before you pay.
The link-first rule — why order matters
Online there is no coupon box. Tesla ties the referral to your order the moment you begin configuring after arriving through a referral link. So the sequence is fixed: open the link first, then configure and order. Configure without the link and you cannot paste a code in later.
Ordering online, step by step
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Click the referral link first
Open a referral link (ts.la/<code>) before you configure anything. This tells Tesla to attach the referral to your order.
What you'll see: your browser opens tesla.com/en_gb, usually straight to the current Model 3 or Model Y overview page. Nothing on this page names the referral — no banner, no pop-up. That's expected; see Step 1 for why.
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Configure your Model 3 or Model Y
Choose your trim, colour and options on tesla.com/en_gb as normal, staying in the same session you arrived in via the link.
What you'll see: the standard configurator — trim, paint, wheels, interior and Autopilot/FSD options, with a running price total that updates as you choose. The referral still isn't mentioned anywhere on this screen; it only surfaces at the next step.
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Confirm the benefit in your order summary
Before you pay, check the order summary shows the referral benefit (the free Supercharging miles). If it isn't there, don't complete the order — reopen the link and start again.
What you'll see: the order review screen, before the payment step. Look for a line naming the Supercharging-miles benefit, usually grouped with other incentives near the total — the illustration below shows roughly where. On a phone, that section can sit under a collapsed summary; tap it open if you don't see the line straight away.
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Place the order
Once the benefit shows, complete payment. The Supercharging miles are added to your Tesla account after you take delivery.
What you'll see: the payment/finance screen, then an order-confirmation page with an order number. The miles themselves won't appear in your account yet — that happens after delivery, which is what Step 3 covers.
- Model Y · Long Range—
- Options—
- Referral benefit: 650 free Supercharging miles✓
- Order total£—
Ordering in a Tesla store
If you order in a Tesla store, give the sales advisor the referral code before they place the order. The same rule applies: it must be attached at order time, not afterwards.
It can't be added after you order
Once the order is placed, the referral can't be added retrospectively — online or in store. If you forgot the link, the benefit is lost for that order. This is the mistake the multi-brand directories gloss over.
"Before" means this session, not this month
The rule says open the link before configuring, and almost everyone reads that as a one-time instruction. It is not. It describes a relationship between the link and the particular sitting in which your order is created — and that distinction is what catches the most careful buyers rather than the careless ones.
The realistic pattern is this. Someone reads about referrals, opens a link, has a look at the configurator, and closes the tab. Then they think it over for a fortnight — checking finance, discussing at home, waiting for a delivery estimate. Finally, on a Saturday, they sit down and order. By then the click from a fortnight ago is doing nothing at all.
Nothing warns you about this. There is no message saying the tag has lapsed, and the configurator looks identical either way — which is exactly why it is worth stating as its own rule:
Open the link again on the day you actually order, in the browser you will finish in, immediately before you start building. Not because the earlier click was wrong, but because it belonged to a different sitting. Re-opening costs seconds and there is no penalty for doing it twice.
The situations where this bites
All of these are ordinary, none of them feel like mistakes, and each one separates the click from the order:
- Research now, order later. The most common by far — and the more carefully someone researches, the longer the gap they create.
- Phone then laptop. Reading on a phone over lunch and ordering on a computer that evening means the ordering session never saw the link.
- Returning to a saved build. Picking up a configuration you left last week resumes a sitting that predates your link.
- A tidy browser. Anything that clears site data between the click and the order — a cleanup, a private window closed, a device restart on some setups — can end the association silently.
None of this is documented by Tesla, and we are not going to present it as though it were. It is inference from how session-based attribution generally works plus what buyers report. But the response is the same whichever explanation is right, which is what makes it safe advice: re-open the link, then check the order summary. If the benefit line is there before you pay, none of the above matters. If it is not, you have found the problem while it is still free to fix.
Troubleshooting: benefit not showing?
- Reopen the referral link and start a fresh configuration in the same browser session.
- Disable aggressive tracker-blocking that can strip the referral parameter.
- Make sure you're on tesla.com/en_gb (the UK store), not another locale.
- If it still won't show, check the scheme status on tesla.com/en_gb before ordering.