AffiliateRail is affiliate program software built for SaaS founders who want a partner program running without hiring anyone to run it.
Tracking rides your billing provider's own reference field rather than a cookie. Stripe and Paddle subscriptions, upgrades, cancellations and refunds flow back and correct commissions on their own. An ad blocker can't lose a conversion, and neither can a browser that wipes cookies after seven days.
Commissions can be a percentage or a fixed amount. You can override the rate for one affiliate, pay brackets that rise with volume, attach a commission to a coupon code, and reward the customer as well as the affiliate. Recurring commissions keep paying for as long as you set. A refund claws the money back on its own, and a clawback is money you take back after you've already paid it.
Affiliates get a portal on your own domain, with your branding, in thirteen languages. Inside it they find their links, deep links to any page on your site, an earnings ledger and the date they're next getting paid. You can take applications with your own questions on the form, approve or decline them, and recruit from the customers you already have.
Payouts are non-custodial, which means the money never passes through us. You connect your own PayPal Payouts or Wise Business account. AffiliateRail works out who's owed what and sends the payment through that account with your credentials, so it goes from you straight to your affiliate. For Payoneer, bank transfer and international wire you get a batch file that pays everyone in one upload. AffiliateRail takes 0% of every payout on every plan, including the cheapest one.
Already running a program somewhere else? Import your affiliates and their balances from Tolt, Rewardful, FirstPromoter, Tapfiliate and Affonso through their own APIs, or by CSV from three more. Our tracking script also reads the referral parameters those platforms use, so links your affiliates published years ago keep paying the right person. Nobody has to swap a link.
The rest is what a program needs once it's real. W-8 and W-9 tax forms collected and stored, with exports and invoices. Fraud and risk monitoring that shows the evidence behind each flag. Reports on your top partners, the partners who joined and never referred anyone, and the revenue your affiliates brought in. There's a REST API, an SDK, signed webhooks and an MCP server, so an AI agent can run the program too.
Plans are $59, $89 and $179 a month, priced on what your program earns rather than how many affiliates you have. Unlimited affiliates on all three. Founding places cost less while they last, and the price you start on is the price you keep.
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