WordPress affiliate pluginViralPayouts vs AffiliatePress
ViralPayouts has no monthly fee, pays your affiliates for you and pays recruiters on every program. You pay 10% of what you pay partners, falling to 3%, and nothing in a month when nobody sells. With AffiliatePress, you pay your affiliates yourself and has two-tier recruiting on some plans only. It costs $0 to $20.75 a month.
Every figure for AffiliatePress comes from its own pages or named review sites, checked 12 October 2026. Sources are listed at the bottom.
Why brands pick ViralPayouts over AffiliatePress
Best fit: Brands not on WordPress, or that want payouts and partner discovery handled for them.
- $0 a month
No plan and no setup fee. 10% of what you pay partners, falling to 3% at $10,000 a month.
- Payouts done for you
One invoice per program. ViralPayouts sends every partner and recruiter their money and collects tax forms.
- Recruiters built in
Customer links and recruit links on every program, with the override set your way and reversed on refunds.
Side by side
| AffiliatePress | ViralPayouts | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0 to $20.75 a monthTerm: Annual licence or one-time lifetime licence; 14-day money-back guarantee | $0 a month. 10% of what you pay partners, falling to 3% at $10,000 a month. |
| Setup fee | None; Professional and Enterprise include free installation and setup ("Worth $100") | None |
| Fee for paying affiliates | None from AffiliatePress ("No Network Fees / Middleman") | Included in the fee above: no charge to the brand for sending payoutsPartners pay Whop's own fee when they withdraw to their bank |
| Pays your affiliates for you | Novia Brand's own PayPal/Stripe from the WordPress admin | Yes You fund by bank transfer; we pay every partner |
| Two-tier recruiting | Higher plansconfigurable (unilevel unlimited width, or forced matrix with set depth) levelsProfessional per pricing table; add-on page also lists Standard (conflict) | Yes Two levels on every program: share of commission, share of sale or fixed. Paid on approved sales, never sign-ups |
| Public program directory | No | Yes Partners browse and join with one account |
| Tracking | referral links; coupon codes; QR codes; affiliate landing pages | First-party links with click IDs, signed server-to-server events, Stripe Checkout webhook |
| Coupon tracking | Partly | Yes A code per partner, per program |
| Mobile app tracking | No | App installs, sign-ups and purchases reported from your server through the signed event API, with bounties on them. No SDK to ship in your app. |
| API, webhooks, MCP | Not stated | REST API for brands and partners with an OpenAPI spec, an MCP server for AI agents, a signed event API and partner postbacks |
| Integrations | WooCommerce, SureCart, Easy Digital Downloads, MemberPress, Paid Memberships Pro | Stripe Checkout, Shopify orders, any backend via the event API |
AffiliatePress plans in full
- Free (Lite): $0 a month. Unlimited sites; manual payout only; default sitewide commission
- Standard: $6.58 a month billed yearly. $79/year (normally $159), 1 site; PayPal payouts; per-user and per-product rates
- Professional: $11.58 a month billed yearly. $139/year (normally $299), 3 sites; adds Stripe payouts, coupons, landing pages, multi-level, tiered and recurring commissions
- Enterprise: $20.75 a month billed yearly. $249/year (normally $499), 10 sites; adds multi-domain and lifetime commissions
- Lifetime options: price not published. $179 (1 site), $299 (3 sites), $599 (10 sites), one-time
Where ViralPayouts comes out ahead of AffiliatePress
What AffiliatePress offers
WordPress store owners, course creators and membership sites (WooCommerce, EDD, SureCart, LearnDash, MemberPress and others).
WordPress affiliate plugin
Why ViralPayouts is the better choice
- Pays affiliates and recruiters for the brand; AffiliatePress leaves payouts to the brand
- Not tied to WordPress; works with any checkout via S2S API or Stripe Checkout
- Public partner directory and one partner account across programs
- No plugin to install, update or secure
What AffiliatePress users say
Paraphrased from public reviews. Follow each link to read the original.
Praise
- None found.
Complaints
- Its free plugin was removed from WordPress.org on 1 Feb 2025 for a 'Guideline Violation' wordpress.org
About AffiliatePress
- In their words:
- "Outsell, Outgrow, Outperform: Most Reliable WordPress Affiliate Plugin"
- Company:
- Repute Infosystems (also makes BookingPress, ARMember, ARForms, ARPrice)
- Website:
- affiliatepressplugin.com
Try ViralPayouts on test money
Set your commission and recruiter override, see what each sale costs you, and run it on the test network before a real partner joins. No monthly fee.
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