FC.LC review: a paid link shortener with a $3 minimum payout

What is FC.LC?

FC.LC is a monetized URL shortener. You turn any link into a short one and share it; each visitor is shown advertising on the way to the destination, and you earn from those ad views. The terms say plainly that ads on short links are a condition of using the service.

What you get with a free account:

• Dashboard with link statistics, so you can see where your views come from.
• Telegram bot: send or forward a link and it comes back shortened and saved to your account.
• JS and PHP API for creating links from your own tools.
• Full page script that shortens the outgoing links on your website automatically for the domains you choose.
• Two-factor authentication for the account.

The pages we read don't name the company behind FC.LC or give an address.

Who FC.LC suits, and what your visitors go through

FC.LC fits people who already share a lot of links with an audience: Telegram and Discord channel owners, forum posters, bloggers and owners of download or resource pages who want to earn something from outgoing clicks.

Think about your visitors before you start. Every click goes through an ad page before the destination. FC.LC says its pages are easy to skip, but your audience still sees ads they did not ask for, and some will be put off.

The rules are strict, and breaking them costs you the account:

• No clicking your own links, bots, proxies, iframes, pop-ups, auto-redirects, traffic exchanges, PTC sites or email traffic. The terms say fake traffic gets an account terminated automatically.
• No begging or paying visitors to click, and no spamming forums or blogs.
• No links to copyrighted, adult, malware or phishing content.
• One account per person.

If your audience is mostly in high-paying countries, compare the Exe.io review and the Cuty.io review; the AdFoc.us review covers an older shortener with a similar model. All are in our marketing category.

FC.LC payout rates by country

FC.LC publishes what it pays per 1,000 views for each country:

The page notes that the rates are dynamic and depend on FC.LC's own advertising income, so they can go up or down for any country. The headline "up to $20" applies only to Greenland, and an audience in Russia earns $0.50 per 1,000 views.

Withdrawals and payment proof

• Minimum payout: $3.
• Frequency: daily payments.
• Methods: PayPal, Payoneer, Payeer, Airtm, Bitcoin, WebMoney (WMZ) and USDT. The rates page lists USDT on TRC-20, the home page also mentions AdvCash, and recent entries on the payment proof page show USDT on BEP-20 with a $1 fee.
• Payment proof: a public page lists recent withdrawals with masked usernames. It reported $464,138.23 paid in total and 131,842 members. These are the site's own figures.

Most withdrawals listed there are between $3 and $30. Payeer, WebMoney and crypto make FC.LC usable in countries where PayPal is unavailable.

Verdict

FC.LC is free to try, has a low $3 threshold, pays daily and supports more payout methods than most shorteners. The trade-offs: rates that move with ad income, low pay for many countries, no named operator, and ads in front of every link you share. Cash out the first $3 to confirm payments reach you before moving more traffic to it.