How ZeroChats paid its affiliates $25,089 without missing a cycle

ZeroChats builds conversational AI — chat automation that answers customers before a human has to. Its affiliate program is the growth engine, and the team runs it on a blunt theory: an affiliate program is a promise to pay. Send us customers, we send you money. Every program says that; most break it at the last step, where commissions sit unapproved and payouts slip a quarter.

ZeroChats decided the payout loop would be the thing it never breaks. The receipts: $25,089 actually paid to affiliates across 84 payout runs — recent runs days apart, not months.

The front of the loop is automatic. The integration attributes each referred sale — 386 sales generated, worth $142,056 — and the commission plan prices every one against the program's rules the moment it lands. No spreadsheet math, no end-of-month reconciliation. By the time a human looks, the number is already right.

Most programs batch payouts quarterly because payouts hurt. ZeroChats works the queue continuously: approved commissions clear payout thresholds and go out in small, frequent runs. For affiliates the effect is visceral — commissions turn into money while the promotion that earned them is still fresh. That rhythm is why the roster keeps promoting: the program's best marketing is its own payment history.

Revenue generated and money paid are reported separately here, on purpose — Referly never blurs the two. Both halves of the promise, kept.

$142,056

revenue generated from affiliate sales

$25,089

actually paid out to affiliates

84

payout runs, recent ones days apart