Affonso Alternative

Room to have a good month

Affonso's €15 Launch caps at $1,000/mo in affiliate revenue. Referly's $75 Startup covers $10,000.

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  • Affiliates
  • Links
  • Commissions
Referly

Referly

Referly's CSV importer maps your Affonso affiliates, referral links and commission rates. Free on every plan.

Referly is an Affonso alternative with ten times the entry headroom. Affonso's Launch plan is €15/mo billed annually (€19 monthly) and caps at $1,000/mo in affiliate revenue; Growth is €29 to $10,000/mo and Elite €79 to $30,000. Referly is $75/mo to $10,000/mo, tracks Stripe and Shopify, and collects W-9 and W-8 forms from the Business plan.

Credit where due

Where Affonso is the right answer

We say what they do well before we say what they do not. That is the reason you can believe the rest of the page.

Affonso is the cheapest tool in this comparison set at every published tier, and it stays cheaper than Referly at all of them, €15/mo billed annually against $75, €29 where Referly is $75, €79 where Referly is $149. No reading of the numbers changes that, and this page is not going to try. Launch is also generous where a new program feels it: unlimited affiliates, referrals, programs and tracked clicks from day one. The free-tools library driving their acquisition is well made and their comparison pages are more honest than most of this category's.

If the affiliate channel is unproven, €15 is the right answer and Referly's $75 is not. What the €15 does not buy is a program that looks like yours: the custom domain, private programs, email invitations and removing "Powered by Affonso" all sit on higher tiers, and the published ladder stops at $30,000/mo with nothing listed above it.

What you actually pay

The same program, priced by both

Sticker prices compare two different things. Here is the same program run on both, with every fee included.

Referly

Referly

Startup plan
$75
Every month$75

Startup, up to 200 active affiliates

Affonso

Growth plan
$31
Every month≈$31

Growth, covers up to $10,000/mo

Affonso is cheaper and the panels show it, roughly $31 against $75 at this size, and cheaper at every other tier too. The case for Referly here is not price: it is Shopify alongside Stripe, tax forms, EU invoicing, a marketplace, and a ladder that keeps going above $30,000/mo where theirs ends.

Assumes the program Referly's $75 plan is sized for: $10,000/mo in affiliate revenue, 200 active affiliates, 20% commission ($2,000/mo in payouts), 100 referred orders and 5,000 tracked clicks. The same program, priced by each vendor's own published rates.

The other side

Where Affonso stops

Three real limitations, each one traceable to a sentence on their own website.

The $1,000 ceiling

Launch caps at $1,000/mo in affiliate revenue. One good month, or a single decent affiliate, moves you to €29 Growth, and $30,000/mo lands you on €79 Elite.

Source: affonso.io/pricing

The Launch gate list

The custom domain, private programs, email invitations and removing "Powered by Affonso" branding all sit above Launch. The €15 program wears the vendor's badge, not yours.

Source: affonso.io/pricing

The top of the ladder

The published ladder ends at Elite: €79/mo, $30,000/mo cap. Past that there is no listed tier. The plan for a program that keeps growing isn't on the pricing page.

Source: affonso.io/pricing

Referly vs Affonso, full comparison table

Compiled from real research into both platforms. The same rows appear on every alternatives page, so you can compare any two of them.

ComparisonReferlyReferlyAffonso
Entry price / month$75 (Startup)€15/mo annual · €19 monthly (Launch)
Real cost at $10,000/mo≈$31/mo on Growth
What the price meters onAffiliate revenueAffiliate revenue
Revenue cap, entry plan$10,000/moUp to $1,000/mo revenue from affiliates
Next tier$149 (Business), $30,000/mo cap$29 (Growth), Up to $10,000/mo
Transaction or payout feeNot stated
Stripe
Shopify
WooCommerce
Paddle
Chargebee, Polar, Zylvie
Coupon-code trackingEvery plan, including StartupNot stated
Cookie window60 days default, configurableNot stated
W-9 / W-8 collection
EU self-billing invoices
Automated payoutsNot stated
Affiliate marketplace
Influencer Discovery
Branded portal on your domainNot stated
Portal languages15 + custom languages you defineNot stated
Sub-affiliate tiers2 levels, Business and above
Free tierReferly has none
Trial14 days, no card14 days
Refund policyStandardNot stated
Direct import into Referlyn/aCSV import
Bulk approve, decline and editNot stated
Cancel without contacting supportNot stated
Per-link and per-affiliate reportingNot stated
Payout proof and audit trailNot stated
New-sale and new-affiliate alertsNot stated

Which one should you choose?

An honest look at which of Referly and Affonso is right for you, including the reasons to stay where you are.

Referly

Choose Referly if

  1. 01Your affiliate revenue is past $1,000/mo or heading there. The headroom is 10x at entry
  2. 02Shopify orders and Stripe subscriptions belong in the same program
  3. 03Tax forms, EU self-billing invoices and payout automation as you scale, Business and above
  4. 04A marketplace and Influencer Discovery instead of purely inbound recruitment

Choose Affonso if

  1. 01Your affiliate channel is pre-revenue, €15 against $75 needs no justification
  2. 02You bill in euros and prefer a EUR-priced vendor
  3. 03Unlimited programs and clicks at the entry price fit your experiments
  4. 04You're validating the channel and will re-decide at real volume anyway

Free migration

Switch from Affonso without losing your history

A CSV export from Affonso carries affiliates, links and commission rates across. Free on every plan, including Startup.

  1. Scope and plan

    ~30 min

    List your campaigns, commission rules and open payouts. Decide what happens to commissions accrued but not yet paid.

  2. Export and map

    ~30 min

    Export your affiliates from Affonso as CSV. Referly's CSV importer maps affiliates, their referral links and their commission rates.

  3. Configure and import

    ~1 hour

    Recreate your commission plans in Referly, run the import, and swap the tracking script and the payment connection.

  4. Verify and go live

    3 to 7 days overlap

    Run both in parallel, compare attributed sales daily, then switch off Affonso.

What does not come across

Historic click data and per-click attribution history stay in Affonso. Referly imports your affiliates, their links and their commission rates; it does not import Affonso's click log. Commissions already accrued in Affonso should be paid out from Affonso before you switch.

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Referly vs Affonso vs everyone else

Five facts on each of the other tools. If you are weighing up a third option, its page is one click away.

Referly, Affonso and four other affiliate platforms compared on entry price, meter, fees, Stripe, Shopify and tax forms
ReferlyReferlyAffonsoRewardfulEndorselyUpPromotePartnerStack
Entry price$75/mo€15/mo annual · €19 monthly$49/moFreeFreeNot published
Meters onAffiliate revenueAffiliate revenueAffiliate revenueAffiliate revenueReferral revenueNot published
Fee on top0% transaction feeNot stated0% transaction feeNone stated1-2% of successful referral salesNot published
StripeNot published
ShopifyNot statedNot statedNot published
Tax formsBusiness and aboveNot statedNot statedNot stated

Fee footnote: Referly's 0% is a transaction fee. The optional agency client-billing fee (5% / 2.5% / 1%) and the opt-in Referly Payouts rail (5% / 8%) are separate, and neither one touches a sale. See all alternatives

Customer stories

Take their word for it

The founders and affiliate managers behind three fast-growing programs, in their own words.

Moov
EcommerceFitness

“Affiliates drive a serious share of our revenue across three countries. Since we moved to Referly everything runs from one place, tracking has been spot on, and our partners get paid without me chasing spreadsheets.”

Alexander Koppers

Alexander Koppers

Affiliate Manager, Moov

$6.9M

in total affiliate-driven revenue

1,154
active affiliates
19,017
affiliate sales
1,240,030
clicks tracked
OptimizePress
SaaSSite builder

“We have been running affiliate programs for over a decade, and ours is one of the biggest parts of how OptimizePress grows. Referly is the first platform where an operation with thousands of partners actually feels manageable, from recruiting new affiliates to tracking every sale they send.”

James Dyson

James Dyson

Founder & CEO, OptimizePress

7 figures
in affiliate-driven sales
4,554
active affiliates
10,536
referrals
Letterly
Mobile appAI writing

“This platform is quite simple and easy to use, and you can start attracting people to your affiliate program very quickly. A big plus is that the founder, Ayo, is super responsive.”

Ilfat Khayrullin

Ilfat Khayrullin

CMO & Co-founder, Letterly

300K+
app users
689
active affiliates
24,114
clicks tracked

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  • Headroom per tier. Affonso's €15 Launch caps at $1,000/mo in affiliate revenue, €29 Growth at $10,000 and €79 Elite at $30,000. Referly's $75 Startup covers $10,000/mo and $149 Business covers $30,000, adding Shopify-plus-Stripe tracking, portal tax forms and a marketplace along the way. Affonso wins on price; Referly on what a tier contains.

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Tapfiliate alternative

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