Funded Futures Network Moves Max Evaluations to a One-Time Payment and Adds 1% Back in Store Credit on Every Purchase
Funded Futures Network has switched its Max evaluations from a monthly subscription to a one-time payment, removed the activation fee on them, and introduced a rewards scheme that returns 1 percent of every purchase as store credit. Funded Futures Network confirmed all three changes in a notice to its list on 2 October 2026. The pricing change is the substantive one for futures traders, because it removes the recurring charge that made a long evaluation expensive in a way the headline price never showed.
Max Evaluations Switch From a Monthly Subscription to a One-Time Payment
Under the old structure, a Max evaluation renewed monthly for as long as the trader held it. A trader who took four months to pass paid four times, and the true cost of the evaluation was unknowable at the point of purchase because it depended on how long the attempt ran. FFN has now replaced that with a single payment made once, with no monthly renewals and no activation fee.
The firm also said that its Steady accounts already worked this way, so both FFN account types are now one-time purchases. That is a simplification of the lineup rather than a new product, and it means a trader choosing between Steady and Max can now compare two prices directly instead of comparing a price against a monthly rate.
Traders already on a monthly Max subscription do not need to act. FFN said its team is already cancelling those subscriptions. The firm did not say whether anyone who paid several months of subscription fees under the old model receives any credit or adjustment, and traders in that position should ask support rather than assume one applies.
The removal of the activation fee is the quieter half of this change and in some cases the more valuable one. Activation fees on futures accounts are charged at the point a trader passes, which means they land exactly when a trader has proved they can trade and is least inclined to walk away. Removing that charge on Max accounts takes a cost out of the stage where traders have the least leverage to refuse it.
What the 1% Rewards Credit Is, and What It Is Not
FFN is now adding 1 percent of every purchase back to a trader’s Wallet as rewards credits. The firm says this applies across accounts, education, data add-ons and other purchases, and that the credits appear in the dashboard.
The limits are stated plainly by FFN and are worth repeating, because loyalty schemes in this industry are often described in ways that imply more than they deliver. The credits are FFN store credit only. They cannot be withdrawn and cannot be cashed out. FFN also confirmed that a trader’s payout balance and withdrawals are unaffected, so this does not touch the money side of a funded account at all.
At 1 percent, the scheme is a modest discount on future purchases rather than a meaningful return. A trader spending 500 dollars across evaluations and data over a year accrues 5 dollars of credit. Its real function is retention: it gives a trader a small reason to buy the next account from FFN rather than from a competitor, and it keeps spending inside the FFN ecosystem. Traders who want to see how account costs compare across the futures sector can work through our futures prop firm comparison.
The October Promotion Carries a Long List of Conditions
Alongside the structural changes, FFN is running an October sale using the code KSWART, which it says gives 50 percent off plus buy one get one free on any Steady or Max account through 31 October. The free account is activated by the trader in the dashboard rather than issued by email.
The buy one get one free element comes with conditions that materially change what it is worth, and FFN published them in full. Each eligible purchase earns one free evaluation account. Only one free account may be active at a time. A trader must keep an active paid or funded account alongside the free one, and if the paid account is cancelled the free account is cancelled with it. A trader has 45 days from purchase to claim the free account. Free accounts do not reset if they are blown.
One condition deserves particular attention because it is easy to miss and expensive to trip over. If a trader’s paid account becomes funded while the free account is still in evaluation, the trader has three business days to purchase another evaluation of equal value in order to keep the free account. In other words, succeeding on the paid account can cost a trader the free one unless they spend again inside a short window. FFN also states that resets, exhibition fees and funded fees remain the trader’s responsibility, so the promotion discounts entry and nothing beyond it.
None of that makes the offer bad, but it does mean the advertised value and the realistic value are different numbers. Our breakdown of evaluation rules in 2026 covers why the conditions attached to an offer usually matter more than its headline discount.
What FFN Has Not Spelled Out
The announcement did not include the new one-time prices for Max evaluations at any account size, so traders cannot yet compare the new cost against what several months of the old subscription would have come to. FFN did not say whether rewards credits expire, nor whether they can be combined with promotional codes such as KSWART. It did not state whether the 1 percent applies to the discounted price or the list price on a sale purchase, which at a 50 percent discount is a difference worth knowing.
The firm also did not address whether the move to one-time pricing changes any trading rule on Max accounts. Nothing in the notice suggests the evaluation targets, drawdown structure or payout terms have moved, but FFN did not say so explicitly, and traders should verify the current rules in their dashboard rather than infer that only the billing changed.
What This Means for the Broader Prop Industry
Monthly subscription pricing spread quickly through the futures prop sector because it lowers the advertised entry price and raises the lifetime value of a trader who struggles. It also produced a steady stream of complaints, because traders discovered the real cost of an evaluation only after several renewals. FFN moving its remaining subscription product to a one-time payment is a move away from that model, and it follows a wider pattern through 2026 of firms removing the structures that generate the most trader frustration.
The rewards credit points the other way, towards the retention mechanics that are more familiar from retail commerce than from trading. Store credit that cannot be withdrawn is a well understood tool for keeping customers inside an ecosystem, and its arrival in prop trading is a sign of how much the sector now competes for repeat purchasers rather than first-time buyers. Neither change tells traders anything about whether a firm pays reliably, which is the question that actually matters, and the only durable answer to that comes from payout records rather than pricing announcements. Our payout tracker and trust index are built to answer it.
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