Migrate from Tapfiliate
Migrate from Tapfiliate
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Check one thing before you start this migration
Referly imports directly from Tapfiliate. Its sub-affiliate structure goes two levels deep, and no further.
14-day free trialNo credit card requiredMigration is free on every plan
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Import from another affiliate platform
TapfiliateAffiliates, referrals and sales, over Tapfiliate's API.
Rewardful
FirstPromoter
ToltConnect Tapfiliate
API key
Your Tapfiliate API key.
Referly validates the connection before it imports anything.
ConnectWhat to bring across
Imports
ProcessingCompletedAffiliates, then referrals, then sales. Referly runs them in that order because a referral needs its affiliate and a sale needs both.
Referly imports directly from Tapfiliate. Take your API key from your account settings, run the importer, and affiliates arrive with their codes, rates and join dates. One caveat first: Referly's sub-affiliate commissions run two levels deep. If your Tapfiliate program pays deeper than that, it will not map, and it is better to find out now.
Multi-level commissions
OnPaid on what their recruit earns.
Paid on what the recruit's recruit earns.
Referly stops at two levels. If your program pays deeper than that today, this is the part of the migration that will not map, and it is worth checking before you start.
Read this first
Referly's sub-affiliate commissions stop at two levels
Level one pays the affiliate who recruited. Level two pays one step further out. There is no level three, and there is no plan that adds one. Tapfiliate's MLM configuration can go deeper than that, so if your program pays three tiers or more, this migration will lose structure rather than move it. Most programs never touch level two and this is a non-issue. If yours does, book a call before you export anything, and we will tell you honestly whether it is worth doing.
- Level 1 and level 2 rates are set independently, per program
- Sub-affiliate earnings appear in the affiliate's own portal, on every plan that has the feature
- There is no configuration that adds a third level
Multi-level commissions are on Business and above, not on Startup. Deeplinks, custom domains and multi-language portals are also gated, and Tapfiliate gates several of the same things to Scale, so compare plan to plan rather than product to product.
Before you start
Before you start: what stays behind
Tapfiliate carries more structure than most tools in this band, which means more of it needs rebuilding.
MLM configuration beyond two levels
Referly stops at two levels. A deeper structure has nowhere to land, and this is the one item on the page that can make a migration the wrong call rather than just a chore.
Commission structures
Rebuilt by hand, as on every migration from every tool. Referly's rule groups cover product, order amount, landing page, medium and coupon conditions, so most structures have an equivalent shape.
Workflow automations
No export, no import. Referly's nearest equivalents are announcements, email notifications, performance bonuses and milestones, all set up fresh.
Deeplinks and product feeds
Configured again. Referly supports landing-page URLs per program rather than a feed-driven deeplink catalogue.
The historic click log
Not importable from any tool, and it stings more here: clicks are part of what Tapfiliate bills you on, so it is the history you are most used to looking at.
Affiliates, groups and their details
Names, emails, payout emails and status come across. Groups are recreated, but affiliates can be mapped into them during the import.
Referral codes and links
The code survives; the domain changes.
Customers, sales and commissions
With their original dates, so the history you built on Tapfiliate is still the history you report on.
Paid payouts
Sales you import can carry their paid status, so nobody is paid twice. The payout records themselves stay behind.
Unpaid commissions
Import them marked unpaid and pay from Referly, or pay them out of Tapfiliate first.
Coupon codes
Imported as codes, and optionally re-minted on your connected store so they actually work at checkout rather than only being recorded.
Commission structures are rebuilt by hand on every migration, from every tool, including this one. On Tapfiliate the honest warning is bigger than that: check your MLM depth before you start.
Step 1
Where your Tapfiliate API key lives
One value, from your account settings. Treat it as a live credential rather than a read-only token.
Tapfiliate's own docs note the key can approve commissions, so treat it as a live credential: generate it for the migration and rotate it afterwards.
In Tapfiliate
- 1
your Tapfiliate account settings
Copy your API key.
How Referly authenticates
An X-Api-Key header.
Source: Tapfiliate's REST API docs, checked 2026-08-10.
The migration
Four steps, one afternoon, two days if you are on Scale
Launch-sized programs are half a day. Scale programs carry groups, deeplinks and automations, and those are the hours.
~45 min
List your campaigns, commission rules and open payouts. Decide what happens to commissions accrued but not yet paid.
~30 min
Export affiliates from Tapfiliate. Referly's direct Tapfiliate importer maps affiliates, their referral links and their commission rates.
1 to 2 hours
Recreate your commission plans in Referly, run the import, and swap the tracking script and the payment connection.
3 to 7 days overlap
Run both in parallel, compare attributed sales daily, then switch off Tapfiliate.
Scope and plan
List your campaigns, commission rules and open payouts. Decide what happens to commissions accrued but not yet paid.
Export and map
Export affiliates from Tapfiliate. Referly's direct Tapfiliate importer maps affiliates, their referral links and their commission rates.
Configure and import
Recreate your commission plans in Referly, run the import, and swap the tracking script and the payment connection.
Verify and go live
Run both in parallel, compare attributed sales daily, then switch off Tapfiliate.
half a day, then 3 to 7 days running both tools side by side. Launch-sized programs are half a day. Scale programs carry affiliate groups, deeplinks, workflow automations and MLM configuration, none of which import, so budget up to two days to rebuild them.
Commission plan
RebuiltPay this rate when
Refunds reverse the commission automatically.
Save planThe hour that actually costs you
Rebuilding the commission structure
This is the part of every migration that people underestimate, so it is worth seeing the shape of it. Referly's commission plans take a base rate, a recurring toggle, a step-down after a number of payments, and rule groups that key off product, order amount, landing page, medium, statement descriptor or a coupon being used. Most Tapfiliate structures have a direct equivalent. Building them is an hour, not a project, and doing it before the import means the affiliates land on the right plans.
- Percentage or flat, one-off or recurring, with an optional step-down
- Rule groups with ALL or SOME matching, and per-affiliate overrides on top
- Non-cash rewards too: credits, coupons or store discounts instead of money
Multiple commission plans, per-product rules, per-affiliate rates and step-down schedules are on Business and above. Startup runs a single plan.
Plan your move
How long yours will take
Tapfiliate migrations vary more than most, because Launch and Scale programs are shaped completely differently. Put your own numbers in.
The importer does not slow down with volume. A bigger roster just means more to reconcile during the overlap.
Commission plans and campaign rules
This is the input that moves the number. No importer carries commission plans, from any tool, including ours.
You use coupon codes today
Existing codes need mapping, and new ones minting on your store.
Your payouts are automated today
Reconnecting and re-testing the payout rail before the first real run.
Your migration
about a day
of hands-on work, then 3 to 7 days running both tools.
- Export, connect and import
- about a day
- Rebuilding commission plans
- about 2 hours
- Coupons and payouts
- about 3 hours
- Reconciling during the overlap
- under an hour
Launch-sized programs are half a day. Scale programs carry affiliate groups, deeplinks, workflow automations and MLM configuration, none of which import, so budget up to two days to rebuild them.
Customer stories
Take their word for it
The founders and affiliate managers behind three fast-growing programs, in their own words.
“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
Affiliate Manager, Moov
$6.9M
in total affiliate-driven revenue
- 1,154
- active affiliates
- 19,017
- affiliate sales
- 1,240,030
- clicks tracked
“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
Founder & CEO, OptimizePress
- 7 figures
- in affiliate-driven sales
- 4,554
- active affiliates
- 10,536
- referrals
“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
CMO & Co-founder, Letterly
- 300K+
- app users
- 689
- active affiliates
- 24,114
- clicks tracked
Last step
Cancelling Tapfiliate
Export a copy of everything before you press it: affiliates, groups, coupon codes, conversions and commission history, as CSV, kept somewhere durable. Access usually closes at cancellation.
Cancel from your Tapfiliate account settings once the overlap has finished and the two dashboards agree on attributed sales.
Worth checking your billing period as well as your data. Tapfiliate meters on clicks and conversions, so if you are mid-month with allowance left, running the overlap inside the period you have already paid for costs you nothing extra.
Migration help
We will tell you if you should not do this
Migration is free on every plan, direct import or CSV. On this particular move that offer comes with a caveat we would rather state than have you discover: if your program runs deeper than two sub-affiliate levels, book the call first, and we will be straight with you about whether Referly is the right home for it.
Managed, done-for-you migration is part of Enterprise and the agency plans. For context: Trackdesk includes migration and implementation assistance from its $329 Business plan.
FAQ
Migration questions
Answered as honestly and as accurately as we can, including the parts that are work.
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Half a day for a Launch-sized program, up to two days for a Scale program, then three to seven days running both tools in parallel. The difference is groups, deeplinks and workflow automations, none of which import.
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