Programs that run themselves

We moved our program over with the migration tool on a Friday and paid our first affiliates the following week. The audit log means I can answer any “why is this amount…?” question in seconds.

The fraud review is the feature I didn’t know I needed — self-referrals get held with a plain-language reason instead of silently costing us money every month.

Our partners actually use the dashboard. Links, coupons, and earnings in one place — “where do I find my link” support tickets went to zero.

As an agency we run affiliate programs for six client stores on one Agency license. Same setup checklist every time; each store owns its own data.

GDPR was the deciding factor: first-party tracking, hashed IPs, and nothing leaves our server. Our data-protection officer signed off in one review.

Payouts through our own PayPal account with a ledger entry for every state change — our accountant is finally happy with an affiliate tool.

Coupon attribution changed our influencer program overnight. Podcast hosts don’t share links — they read a code, and every order lands on the right partner automatically.

Setup genuinely took an afternoon: the checklist created our pages, we set 10%, shared the application link, and approvals started coming in the same day.

We run memberships, not products — signups flow in as referrals just like store orders, with the same review queue. One workflow for the whole business.

The maturity window saved us during a refund wave: reversed orders reversed their commissions automatically, and nobody got paid for revenue we never kept.

I read the code before buying — it’s clean, unobfuscated GPL. When the vendor trusts you with the source, you can trust them with your program.

Marketing sync quietly became my favorite detail: every approved affiliate lands in our Mailchimp audience, so partner announcements reach everyone without exports.