Then it's 3.5% of what you pay them, with no monthly fee. And the affiliates who do sell can recruit the next ones: a small override you pay only on approved sales.
Set up free. Bring your affiliates over from your current tool.
Start a program Brand sign-inGet paid for each customer you send, and again when partners you bring in sell.
Find a program Partner sign-inPrivate beta: the founder sets up the first programs with you personally. Book 15 minutes
Paid only once the sale is approved. Refunded? Every line is reversed.
of approved affiliates in the median program ever bring a paying customer.
of referred revenue in the median program comes from the top 10% of affiliates.
“3% of our affiliates generated 90% of leads.”
Two or three people carry every program. Everyone else signs up, gets a link and goes quiet, and the software bill arrives on the 1st regardless. Call it what it is: rent on a quiet program.
Affiliate tools charge a monthly plan. Your quiet affiliates cost you the same as your best one: the full plan, every month.
The program grows only as fast as you can find affiliates yourself, one cold email at a time. One founder's tally on Indie Hackers:
“130 personalized emails for literally zero results.”
Adrien, founder of PostClaw, April 2026Affiliates bid on your brand name or post your code on coupon sites, and take commission on customers who were already looking for you. Missive's co-founder, on what it paid affiliates:
“I believe the bulk of the $115,000 we paid out was earned this way.”
Missive blog, May 2024You pay 3.5% of what you pay partners in a month. A month where nobody earns costs nothing. There's no plan to outgrow and no charge to sign up. Our fee only moves when yours does, so we only do well when your affiliates do.
Want us to pay your partners too? 10% of what you pay partners on the first $10,000 a month, 5% on the rest. How pricing works
ViralPayouts
RewardfulStarter plan
FirstPromoterStarter plan
PartneroStarter plan
ToltBasic plan
Dub PartnersBusiness planEach tool's starting plan for an affiliate program, monthly, from its own pricing page, checked 12 October 2026. Bigger programs move up their plans. None of these companies is affiliated with ViralPayouts. Compare at your size
Every partner gets two links: one for customers, and one for recruiting other partners. When someone they brought in makes an approved sale, the recruiter earns a small override that you set. It's paid on top, so the partner's commission never shrinks.
Your two or three stars stop being the whole program and start finding the next ones: the accountant who knows forty accountants, the creator who knows other creators. People rarely recommend a tool they've never heard of, and recruiters are paid to make sure they hear.
This is the part we measure with you. Two-tier commissions exist in other tools as a setting. We built the product around them, and we don't claim yet that they bring you more customers than one level. Your console shows how many recruited partners became active and how many brought a customer, so you'll see for yourself. The white paper sets out the model and what would prove it wrong.
Every program's terms rule these out by default, and partners accept them before they get a link. When a sale comes from your own brand name or a leaked code, you reject it with a reason the partner can see, and every line of it reverses.
Automatic flagging of these sales is coming next. Until then you see each sale before its hold period ends.
Paid ads on the brand's name, misspellings or domain
A partner's code copied to coupon sites, deal forums or browser extensions without permission
Paying full commission on orders where the only signal is a coupon code and nothing else
Clicks the buyer never chose: hidden frames, pop-unders, auto-redirects
An AI agent or crawler clicking a link and taking credit from the partner who really sent the buyer
People who were already paying customers of the brand
Paying people to buy what they were going to buy anyway
Set your price, what partners and recruiters earn, and how many sales partners bring you a month. You see who gets what from each sale, and what the ViralPayouts fee comes to as your program grows.
Paid to the partner who brought the customer.
Paid to whoever recruited that partner. You can also set it as a share of the commission or a fixed amount.
More sales means more paid to partners. The fee stays at 3.5% of it.
One $100 sale.
The fee is 3.5% of what you pay partners, with no monthly fee. You pay your partners yourself, from a file or one click.
Sale refunded? Every share is reversed, including our fee, and you pay nothing.
A percentage or a flat fee, one-off or recurring, and a cookie window. Partners accept your terms before they get a link.
Stripe, Shopify, Whop, Paddle or Lemon Squeezy, or one signed call from your server. No code for Stripe.
Upload your export from Rewardful, FirstPromoter, Tapfiliate, PartnerStack or Impact. Each person gets one invite to accept your terms, with their old referral code filled in.
Watch it split, hold and reverse on the test network. When it lands the way you expect, go live.
A customer link and a recruit link, kept separate. A sale never silently attaches a recruiter, and a recruit link never counts as a sale.
You choose whether the recruiter earns a share of the commission, a share of the sale, or a fixed amount. Partners see it next to the commission, before they join.
Stripe, Shopify, Whop, Paddle, Lemon Squeezy and more, or one signed call from your server. Replays are ignored. A sale that matches nobody is listed for you, never guessed.
Refunds and rejections write reversing entries for both levels and the fee. Nothing is edited or deleted, and every balance traces back to its entries.
A payout file for Airwallex, PayPal, Wise, Revolut, UK banks or US ACH, built from the ledger. A payout stays owed until you record the payment reference.
The same software with test money and a time machine, so you can run your rules through hold periods and refunds before a real partner joins.
Not built yet: ad-platform connectors, spend and ROAS reporting, team accounts. See the full list
Selling with Stripe Checkout, Shopify or Whop? Paste one webhook address instead. Read the docs
Connect your checkout
Paste one webhook address and sales are credited to the right partner and recruiter automatically. Refunds come back the same way.
Three calculators. They show arithmetic on assumptions you choose. They are not forecasts and not anyone's results.
Six invented businesses, to show how one sale is split. The roles are common ones; the companies and figures are illustrations, not results, and some sectors have their own rules about paid referrals.
Does not sell to the customer. Finds the gatekeeper and gets them into the program.
Already chooses the software for every client they look after.
Buys from: an accounting tool for small companies.
These companies do not use ViralPayouts and are not affiliated with it. The terms are from their own public pages, checked 14 October 2026. They are offers with conditions, not earnings.
Workflow payouts depend on the company completing onboarding and reaching a minimum revenue threshold.
micro1.ai/company-referral and /sub-affiliate
The override covers the first placement only. It is not a lifetime share.
paraform.com help: Refer a recruiter
10% of a 25% commission is 2.5% of the sale, not 10% of it.
undetectable.ai/earnSet your commission, bring your affiliates over and run a test sale with test money. A month where nobody sells costs you nothing.
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