Rewardful Alternative

Everything Rewardful tracks, plus the stores it can't see

At $10,000/mo Rewardful is $99 and Referly is $75, and only one of them can see a Shopify sale.

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Referly

Referly

Referly's direct Rewardful importer maps affiliates, referral links and commission rates. Free on every plan.

Referly is a Rewardful alternative that tracks Stripe and Shopify. Rewardful supports only Stripe or Paddle. Its own FAQ says "Not at this time. We currently support only Stripe or Paddle." Its $49 plan also stops at $7,500/mo in affiliate revenue, so a $10,000/mo program is on Rewardful's $99 Growth plan and still on Referly's $75 Startup plan. Referly adds coupon tracking on every plan, W-9 and W-8 collection, and a direct importer.

Credit where due

Where Rewardful 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.

Rewardful's entry plan is $49 to Referly's $75, and under $7,500/mo in affiliate revenue that is simply cheaper. It is a Stripe Premier Partner and the install shows it: 15 to 20 minutes by their own measure. The 0% transaction fee is genuine, and the 30-day no-questions-asked refund is real. Nobody else in this band offers one.

If you bill entirely through Stripe or Paddle, stay under $7,500/mo from affiliates, and never need a tax form collected, Rewardful does that job well for less money. That is a real recommendation. What it isn't is a permanent one: their Starter cap is 25% lower than Referly's, so a program that grows into the $7,500 to $10,000 band moves to $99 while the same program stays at $75 here.

What you actually pay

The same program, priced by both

At this size Rewardful costs 1.3× what Referly does. The gap comes from the percentages and the plan cliffs, not the sticker price.

Referly

Referly

Startup plan
$75
Every month$75

Startup, up to 200 active affiliates

Rewardful

Growth plan
$99
Every month$99

Growth, covers up to $15,000/mo

Rewardful's $49 is the cheaper sticker and the cheaper product below $7,500/mo. At $10,000 its Starter cap has run out, so the same program sits on their $99 Growth plan and on Referly's $75 Startup plan, a $24/mo swing in Referly's favour for a tool that also reads Shopify.

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 Rewardful stops

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

Stores

"I don't use Stripe or Paddle. Can I still use Rewardful? Not at this time. We currently support only Stripe or Paddle." No plan fixes it; it is a product boundary, not a tier.

Source: rewardful.com FAQ

Tax forms

No W-9 or W-8 collection at any plan. Pay a US affiliate $600 in a year and the form-chasing lands on you and your accountant, by email, at year end.

Source: rewardful.com/pricing

Finding partners

No marketplace and no discovery surface. Every affiliate Rewardful tracks is one you found, pitched and signed yourself. Recruitment stays entirely your outbound.

Source: rewardful.com

Referly vs Rewardful, 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.

ComparisonReferlyReferlyRewardful
Entry price / month$75 (Startup)$49/mo (Starter)
Real cost at $10,000/mo$99/mo on Growth
What the price meters onAffiliate revenueAffiliate revenue
Revenue cap, entry plan$10,000/moUp to $7,500/mo from affiliates
Next tier$149 (Business), $30,000/mo cap$99 (Growth), Up to $15,000/mo
Transaction or payout fee0% transaction fee
Stripe
Shopify
WooCommerce
Paddle
Chargebee, Polar, Zylvie
Coupon-code trackingEvery plan, including StartupStripe coupons
Cookie window60 days default, configurableConfigurable
W-9 / W-8 collection
EU self-billing invoices
Automated payoutsOne-click PayPal on Enterprise
Affiliate marketplace
Influencer Discovery
Branded portal on your domainGrowth ($99) and above
Portal languages15 + custom languages you defineEnglish
Sub-affiliate tiers2 levels, Business and above
Free tierReferly has none
Trial14 days, no card14 days
Refund policyStandard30-day, no-questions-asked refund
Direct import into Referlyn/aDirect importer
Bulk approve, decline and editNot stated
Cancel without contacting support30-day no-questions refund
Per-link and per-affiliate reportingNot stated
Payout proof and audit trailOne-click PayPal on Enterprise only
New-sale and new-affiliate alertsNot stated

Which one should you choose?

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

Referly

Choose Referly if

  1. 01You're past $7,500/mo from affiliates, which is $99 on Rewardful and still $75 here
  2. 02You sell through Shopify or WooCommerce as well as Stripe subscriptions
  3. 03W-9s and W-8s should be collected in the portal, TIN encrypted, not over email
  4. 04You want a marketplace and Influencer Discovery on the recruitment side

Choose Rewardful if

  1. 01Stripe or Paddle is your only billing rail, and that won't change soon
  2. 02You're under $7,500/mo from affiliates, where their $49 really is cheaper than $75
  3. 03Tax forms aren't your problem, few US affiliates, small payouts
  4. 04You want the fastest install in the category: 15-20 minutes by their measure

Free migration

Switch from Rewardful without losing your history

A direct Rewardful importer 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 affiliates from Rewardful. Referly's direct Rewardful 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 Rewardful.

What does not come across

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

Referly vs Rewardful 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, Rewardful and four other affiliate platforms compared on entry price, meter, fees, Stripe, Shopify and tax forms
ReferlyReferlyRewardfulFirstPromoterToltUpPromotePartnerStack
Entry price$75/mo$49/mo$49/mo$69/moFreeNot published
Meters onAffiliate revenueAffiliate revenueAffiliate revenueAffiliate revenueReferral revenueNot published
Fee on top0% transaction fee0% transaction feeTransaction fee: not stated2% payout processing fee1-2% of successful referral salesNot published
StripeNot published
ShopifyNot published
Tax formsBusiness and aboveGrowth ($99) and aboveNot 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

FAQ

You probably have questions

All are honest, unbiased answers, even when not flattering.

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  • What each can see. Rewardful tracks Stripe and Paddle, full stop. Its own FAQ rules everything else out. Referly tracks Stripe, Shopify, WooCommerce, Paddle, Chargebee, Polar and Zylvie on one program, and adds W-9/W-8 collection and a recruitment marketplace that Rewardful doesn't have at any price.