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Honest comparison

Looking at Solid Affiliate? Compare the philosophies.

Solid Affiliate is a solid WooCommerce affiliate plugin with a straightforward annual license, and it comes from a team with a real WordPress track record. Both products answer the same question — how do you run an affiliate program without renting a SaaS platform — so the useful comparison is not features on a checklist, but where each one places its bets.

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  • One flat annual license
  • Every feature in every plan
  • 14-day money-back guarantee
The Affiliate Factory WP program dashboard: stat cards, referral revenue chart, top affiliates, and program health
The program dashboard, running inside your own wp-admin

Where the philosophies differ

Every claim below is about Affiliate Factory WP. The grey lines are the trade-off, framed as neutrally as we can manage — because you should buy this with clear eyes or not at all.

Every feature in every plan

Affiliate Factory WP: All three plans ship the complete feature set. Recurring commissions on subscription renewals, lifetime customer-to-affiliate links, coupon attribution, creatives, short links, webhooks, leaderboard, milestone bonuses, marketing sync — the $129 plan runs the same program the $269 plan does. Plans differ only in site activations and support tier.

Where a vendor draws its tier lines tells you what they think you will pay extra for. Compare the current feature matrix on any vendor’s pricing page against the features you actually intend to use, and price the whole basket rather than the entry tier.

Explainability as the core design bet

Affiliate Factory WP: Every referral stores its attribution source, the rate applied, the base amount, exclusions, and the result — in integer cents. Held referrals state their fraud reasons in plain English. An append-only audit log records every approval, rate change, payout, and setting edit, with retention rules and automatic CSV backup.

This is the axis the whole product is built along. It costs nothing when everything is going well, and it is worth the entire licence fee during the first serious partner dispute or the first refund wave.

Privacy engineered in, not documented after

Affiliate Factory WP: First-party signed cookies, consent gating, IPs truncated and hashed before storage, configurable retention, salted-hash storage for the customer emails behind lifetime links, and native integration with WordPress’s personal-data export and erase tools.

Self-hosting already removes the subprocessor problem. What is left is what your own plugin stores and for how long — which is exactly the part a data-protection reviewer will ask about.

Partner-facing polish

Affiliate Factory WP: A branded portal on your own domain with live earnings, referral link, personal coupon, payout history, a race-bar leaderboard with optional name masking, a creatives library that hands each partner copy-ready HTML with their own link already inside, and pretty yoursite.com/go/name short links.

Partner experience is the cheapest recruitment lever there is. The plugins in this category all cover the basics; the differences show up in how much your partners have to ask you for.

Switching between self-hosted plugins is the easy case

Because both products keep your data in your own database, moving is an import rather than an export negotiation. The migration tool in Affiliates → Tools detects other affiliate plugins and brings across partners, rates, and referral history in one pass, and a CSV importer covers anything custom. Your existing plugin stays active and untouched until you deactivate it yourself.

Step-by-step guide: Migrating your program · background reading: how to switch without losing data

Simple annual pricing

Pick a plan. Get everything.

The only thing that changes between plans is how many sites you can activate.

Personal

For one store that wants a real affiliate program.

$159$129/yearSave $30

About $11/month for a complete affiliate platform.

  • 1 site
  • Every feature included
  • Standard support
  • 1 year of updates
Get Personal
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Professional

For growing businesses running several stores.

$199$169/yearSave $30

About $34 per site per year — staging sites included.

  • 5 sites
  • Every feature included
  • Priority support
  • 1 year of updates
Get Professional

Agency

For agencies shipping affiliate programs for clients.

$299$269/yearSave $30

One flat price for every client site you ever launch.

  • Unlimited sites
  • Every feature included
  • Priority support
  • 1 year of updates
Get Agency

Common questions

Both are self-hosted — does the choice actually matter much?
The architecture question is already settled the same way, which is the biggest decision. What is left is philosophy: whether every feature is included or tiered, how much the software explains its own maths, how fraud is surfaced, and how permanent the audit trail is. Those differences are real but they are refinements, not fundamentals — and either product beats renting a platform if self-hosting is what you want.
Do you support WooCommerce Subscriptions?
Yes, and recurring commissions are included in every plan rather than sold as an upgrade. You set the recurring rate, an optional cap on how many renewals pay out, and an optional expiry. Lifetime commissions work alongside it: a referred customer stays linked to their affiliate for later purchases, with your own rate and expiry rules.
How do I compare them properly?
Run both on a staging site with the same sample orders and compare three things: what a partner sees when they log in, what you see when a commission looks wrong, and what the numbers do when you refund one of those orders. Feature lists agree far more than actual behaviour does.
Can I try Affiliate Factory WP before leaving Solid Affiliate?
Yes, two ways. The live demo is a real WordPress install running the actual plugin with a season of sample data — no signup, and it resets every hour, so you can press every button. And every license carries a 14-day money-back guarantee, so you can run both systems in parallel for a fortnight and keep whichever you prefer.
Are there per-referral fees or a cut of my revenue?
No. You pay one annual license fee and nothing else, forever. Your affiliates are paid from your own PayPal or Stripe account, so no money ever routes through us and no percentage is taken — whether your program drives ten orders a month or ten thousand.
What happens if I stop renewing?
The plugin keeps working and your program keeps running. An expired license only pauses new updates and support until you renew. We never disable software you have already paid for.

Comparing something else?

Try it before you decide anything

The demo is a real WordPress admin with the real plugin and a season of sample data. No signup, no email, and it resets every hour — so open a held referral, look at the payout ledger, and break whatever you like.

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Solid Affiliate is a trademark of its respective owner, used here only to identify a product store owners commonly compare and migrate from. Affiliate Factory WP is an independent product with no affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement. Details about third-party products describe publicly documented pricing models rather than specific figures, and reflect information available at the time of writing — always verify current features and pricing on the vendor's own site.