How much does UpPromote cost?

UpPromote is free up to $3,000/mo in referral revenue. Paid plans are $29.99/mo plus 2% of successful referral sales on Growth, $89.99 plus 1.5% on Professional, and $199.99 plus 1% on Enterprise. Annual billing lowers the base to $24.99, $74.99 and $166.66. At $10,000/mo in referred sales, Growth totals about $230. Checked 2026-08-10.

What happens when I go over the UpPromote plan limit?

Passing $3,000/mo in referral revenue moves you off the free plan onto Growth, where the 2% starts. From there the percentage scales without a cap rather than stepping. Above roughly $12,000/mo in referred sales, Professional's $89.99 plus 1.5% becomes cheaper in total than Growth's $29.99 plus 2%.

Does UpPromote charge a transaction fee?

Yes, on every paid plan: 2% of successful referral sales on Growth, 1.5% on Professional and 1% on Enterprise, on top of the subscription and with no upper bound. The free plan takes no percentage. For comparison, Referly's transaction fee is 0% on every plan.

Is there a free plan or a free trial?

There is a genuinely free plan, the only one in this comparison set, covering up to $3,000/mo in referral revenue, one program and one coupon per affiliate. It is not a trial; it does not expire. Below that ceiling it is the cheapest real option available anywhere.

Can I cancel UpPromote, and do I get a refund?

It installs and uninstalls as a Shopify app, so cancelling is removing the app; refund terms are not published on the pricing page. If you are moving to another platform, note there is no direct UpPromote importer into Referly. Migration is by CSV, which is free on every plan.

At what point does UpPromote stop being the cheap option?

At roughly $2,250/mo in referred sales, where $29.99 plus 2% equals $75. Below that it is cheaper than a $75 flat plan and below $3,000 it is free outright. Above it, the percentage keeps growing while a flat fee does not: $200/mo of fee at $10,000 referred, $400 at $20,000.

UpPromote Pricing

What UpPromote costs at $3k, $10k and $20k in referred sales

A genuinely free tier to $3,000 a month, then a percentage of every sale that never stops.

Price your program See the UpPromote alternative

Checked 2026-08-10

Free: $0; Up to $3,000/mo referral revenue
Growth: $29.99; Unlimited programs and referral revenue
Professional: $89.99; Unlimited + unlimited coupons
Enterprise: $199.99; Unlimited

UpPromote is free for up to $3,000/mo in referral revenue, then $29.99/mo on Growth plus 2% of successful referral sales, $89.99 on Professional plus 1.5%, and $199.99 on Enterprise plus 1%. Annual billing cuts the base to $24.99, $74.99 and $166.66. The percentage is uncapped. Checked 2026-08-10.

The same $10k/mo program

UpPromote$230GrowthReferly$75StartupChange the numbers

Every UpPromote plan, side by side

Their plan names and numbers, reproduced exactly as published.

UpPromote plans compared on price, meter, cap and per-plan notes, checked 2026-08-10
	Free	Growth	Professional	Enterprise
Monthly price	$0/mo	$29.99/mo	$89.99/mo	$199.99/mo
What the price meters on	Referral revenue	Referral revenue	Referral revenue	Referral revenue
The cap on this plan	Up to $3,000/mo referral revenue	Unlimited programs and referral revenue	Unlimited + unlimited coupons	Unlimited
Notes on this plan	1 program, 1 coupon per affiliate, 2 commission levels, 15 special-product commissions	2% of successful referral sales. $24.99/mo billed yearly ($299.90/yr)	1.5% of successful referral sales. $74.99/mo billed yearly ($899.90/yr)	1% of successful referral sales. $166.66/mo billed yearly ($1,999.90/yr)
Fee on top	1-2% of successful referral sales: 2% on Growth, 1.5% on Professional, 1% on Enterprise: a percentage of every referred sale, on every paid plan, with no upper bound.
Trial	Not stated
Self-serve or demo-gated	Self-serve

All pricing sourced publicly from UpPromote's pricing page on 2026-08-10.

The meter

The subscription is not the price

UpPromote charges a share of the outcome, and that share has no ceiling.

UpPromote's cards show $29.99, $89.99 and $199.99. On any program that works, those are the smaller half of the bill. The meter is a percentage of successful referral sales: 2% on Growth, 1.5% on Professional, 1% on Enterprise, with no upper bound.

At $10,000/mo in referred sales, Growth costs about $230/mo. At $20,000 it is about $430, and Professional's 1.5% quietly becomes the cheaper plan. The free tier is real too: up to $3,000/mo in referral revenue, UpPromote costs nothing, and Referly has no free plan at all.

$0 to $3k/moFree

$75

$3k to $30k/moProfessional

$337

$149

The sloped line is the percentage: UpPromote's bill rises with every referred sale, where a flat plan stays flat. The step at $3,000 is where the free tier ends.

The fees on top

This is the section that decides the page.

2% of successful referral sales (Growth)

$200/mo at $10,000 in referred sales; $400 at $20,000

Charged on top of the $29.99 subscription, on every referred sale, with no cap. It is on their pricing page in plain sight. It is not hidden, it simply scales with exactly the thing you are trying to grow.

Source: UpPromote's pricing page

1.5% on Professional, 1% on Enterprise

$150 and $100 respectively at $10,000 referred

The rate falls as the subscription rises, so the cheapest total plan moves as your volume does. Above roughly $12,000/mo in referred sales, Professional's higher base beats Growth's higher percentage.

Source: UpPromote's pricing page

Free plan: no percentage

$0 up to $3,000/mo referral revenue

The free tier takes no cut at all. It is a real product with one program and one coupon per affiliate, and for a store below the cap it is the cheapest correct answer in this whole comparison set.

Source: UpPromote's pricing page

Referly's own fees, in the same format: 0% transaction fee on every plan, meaning no cut of sales, affiliate revenue or commission volume. Two optional charges do carry a percentage and neither is a transaction fee: agency client billing at 5% / 2.5% / 1%, only if an agency invoices its clients through Referly, and Referly Payouts at 5% bank/ACH and 8% card, only if you use the managed payout rail.

Plan boundaries

What's included, and what's on a higher plan

The free and Growth plans share several limits that Professional lifts.

Features and the plan each one starts on
Feature		Starts on
More than 1 program		Growth ($29.99)
Auto-payout with PayPal		Growth ($29.99)
More than 1 coupon per affiliate		Professional ($89.99)
More than 2 commission-rate levels		Professional ($89.99)
More than 15 special-product commissions		Professional ($89.99)
Unlimited staff accounts		Professional ($89.99)
Multi-store sync		Enterprise ($199.99)
Custom development		Enterprise ($199.99)
Stripe or subscription-lifecycle tracking		Not available, Shopify only

Referly gates things too, and on the same basis: automated payouts, EU self-billing invoices, W-9/W-8 collection and the custom portal domain all start on Business at $149. Coupon tracking and link tracking are on every plan, and sub-affiliate tiers are 2 levels, not unlimited.

Their reviewers, not us

What UpPromote users say they're missing

Verbatim from public reviews, with the rating and date each one carries. Every link goes to the source.

Shopify App Store · 2025-07-02

“It says the installation is free, but when you install the app. They provide you 14-day free trial. Once the trial is ended, they don't discontinue. They charged you automatically and said it's based on Shopify rules.”

freudehouse.com, Hong Kong SAR · 3 months using the app

In Referly

Referly bills through Stripe, not the Shopify billing API. The 14-day trial needs no card, and cancelling happens in your own billing settings.

Capterra · 2026-06-11

“Some features are only available in paid plans, and the suggested commission rate didn't account for my margins.”

Jaquan J., Owner, Wholesale

In Referly

Referly's commission plans are per-product and per-affiliate on every plan, set to your own rates. Coupon and link tracking are on Startup too.

Capterra · 2026-07-08

“Some of the setup areas were a little confusing at first, especially the difference between the customer referral form and the affiliate registration form.”

Jules E., Designer, Retail

In Referly

Referly separates the two: affiliate signup runs through the partner portal, and the onboarding checklist walks a new program through setup step by step.

Quotes are reproduced word for word, typos included, from reviews posted within the last 24 months. Reviews get edited and deleted, so if one of these no longer reads as written, tell us and it comes down.

Is UpPromote worth the money?

UpPromote is good value if

You're under $3,000/mo in referred sales, where it is free and everything else is not
You're a Shopify store with no subscription revenue to track
You want a no-code App Store install and a program running this afternoon
Coupon-first campaigns inside one storefront are the whole model

It stops being good value when

Referred sales pass roughly $2,250/mo, where 2% plus $29.99 overtakes a $75 flat fee
The percentage starts compounding: $400/mo at $20,000 in referred sales
You need more than one coupon per affiliate, which is a Professional feature
You add Stripe subscriptions, which no UpPromote plan can track

Referly is $75/mo flat with a 0% transaction fee, capped at $10,000/mo in affiliate revenue on Startup. It takes no percentage of any sale on any plan. It also tracks Stripe alongside Shopify, and collects W-9 and W-8 forms from the Business plan. Below $3,000/mo referred, UpPromote is free and Referly is not.

Run your own numbers

Price your program on both

Drag past $2,250 in referred sales and watch the two lines cross.

Monthly revenue from affiliates$10,000

Cost breakdown at $10,000 per month in affiliate revenue
	Referly	UpPromote
Plan	$75	$30
Percentage fees	$0	$200
Total each month	$75	$230

Referly is $155/mo less at this size, which is $1,860 over a year.

UpPromote's plan is picked as the cheapest total at your volume, which is why it can switch from Growth to Professional as you drag. The free tier's $3,000 cap is modelled too.

At $10,000/mo in affiliate revenue with 200 affiliates and a 20% commission, UpPromote comes to $230/mo on Growth and Referly to $75/mo on Startup. Drag the sliders to your own numbers.

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