You sell online and want the people who already like your product to bring you customers: a software or subscription business, a store, a course. You run the program yourself, often as the owner. Proven Affiliate gives you the program, the tracking, the payouts and the tax forms in one place, and your affiliates one portal in your brand.
Your first referral, this afternoon
A sample account shows a running program before you enter anything. Then sign up with Google, connect the system you sell on, make a test purchase and watch it land, and invite the people you have in mind. When one of them brings a customer, you both see the same commission on the same trail.
A sample accountA program with affiliates, referrals and a payout run to look through; nothing in it is sent or paid.Name your businessAcme Cloud, its country and time zone filled in for you.Your HomeFive steps to set up, from tracking your sales to the first referral.Connect where your customers payStripe, Paddle, Chargebee, WooCommerce, Kajabi, ThriveCart, Recharge, Appstle and Seal.Stripe connectedWhat Stripe sends, and Acme Cloud read as a subscription business.Hand the snippet to a developerOne snippet for every page, sent to dev@acmecloud.com.The test purchase landsThe click on the test link reached a $49.00 Starter sale. Tracking works.Invite your first affiliatesPaste addresses, add a note, and read the invitation as they will.Nora gets the invitation25% of each payment for 12 months, a 60-day cookie, approved as she joins.Nora joinsHer site, how she will promote, her link name, and your program terms.Her portalHer link and her 10% code to copy, and what she needs before her first payment.Your first referralNora's link brought a customer: $12.25 pending until the 30-day holding period ends.One trailClick, sale and commission, credited by last click inside the cookie window.What Nora seesThe same commission; the customer is never shown to her.Home, one referral inReferred sales, clicks and commissions this week, and the next payout run.
Free until your affiliates bring $3,000 a month
Every plan has every feature, unlimited affiliates and unlimited seats. You pay by the revenue your affiliates bring each month, never a share of it. Over the limit nothing stops: tracking, links and payouts run on, and the plan changes only after two months over, with notice.
Free: $0, no card, no time limit, to $3,000 of referred revenue a month.Starter: $49 a month or $490 a year, to $10,000.Growth: $99 a month or $990 a year, to $30,000.Scale: $199 a month or $1,990 a year, to $100,000.Custom: above $100,000, quoted, yearly.Every feature, unlimited affiliates and seats, on every plan.No percentage of revenue or payouts.A person answers on chat and email, on Free too.Moving in from another tool is free.
Plan and billingThis month's referred revenue against Free's $3,000, with every plan beside it.Over the limit, with noticeAfter a second month over, you are told what changes in 30 days, and nothing stops.
The work you run every week
Every renewal and refund reaches the commission
Commission follows the customer for as long as your terms say, from the system you sell on: a renewal pays the affiliate again, and a refund takes the commission back.
Omar's Home$12.25 from an earlier customer, and a sign-up through his link that has not bought yet.The customer buysOmar is told: a $49.00 Starter sale, $12.25 pending.Renewal, then refundThe referral's trail: click, sign-up, first payment, then a renewal reversed when it was refunded.Omar sees each lineDue, due, reversed, each with its reason.He is told whyThe reversal email, sent in your program's name.A sale from anywhere elseRecord a sale by hand with an external ID and an amount; a repeated ID is refused.
Leaked codes and fraud held before you pay
A sale through a coupon site, a spike, one affiliate's large share of a run, or two affiliates on one payout address is flagged and its commission held. You clear it or uphold it, and the affiliate sees the reason.
Home counts what needs youApplications waiting, three open flags, a payout run in review.A coupon-site saleTOM15 used on an order from dealsite.com with no click behind it; the commission is on hold.Tom sees it held$12.25 on hold, with the reason, on his phone.Released or rejected, with the reasonEach line in Tom's Activity says why.Detach the leaked codeFrom Tom's record; his link keeps crediting.One payout address, two affiliatesPriya Raman applied with the PayPal address Tom Becker uses. Merge them, or clear it.
Pay every affiliate in one run
Each month the run opens with what is due, and what is held back and why. You approve once, from your phone if you like. PayPal goes by its upload file and banks by a transfer list, and each item is marked paid with its reference.
The run is ready$492.50 to three affiliates; four left out, each with its reason.Review it on your phoneWhat is due, by route, and each affiliate's amount.Maya Chen in this runHer commissions, her W-9 on file, and Make a correction.Approve onceWhat goes by PayPal and by bank transfer.SendingDownload the PayPal upload file and the bank transfer list, then mark each item paid or returned.Mark it paidThe date and PayPal's reference.Your affiliate sees it line by lineIris's $134.75 payout, the commissions it pays, and her self-billed invoice.
Affiliates join, sign their W-9 and get paid
An affiliate applies from your sign-up page, then gives a payout method and signs a tax form once, one question a screen, before the first payment.
Your sign-up pageRate, customer link, cookie window and payout terms, then Google or an email link.Iris appliesHer site, how she promotes, her link name, and your terms.You approveEach application with what screening sees.The welcomeHer link, her code and her creatives, in your program's name.Her portalHer link and code, and what she needs before her first payment.Payout methodPayPal or Wise bank details, given once for every program.Her tax formOne question a screen.Signed for Acme CloudBy her typed name.PaidHer payout, its date, method and invoice.
W-9s in, the 1099 list ready in January
The tax year lists whom you paid over the threshold, your W-8 payees, and anyone without a taxpayer ID, ready to export for your accountant.
Tax year 2025Payees over the information-return threshold, W-8 payees, totals by PayPal and bank transfer, and the file.One payeeTom Becker's W-9, his payments by method, and his self-billed invoices.The signed W-9The copy Tom signed electronically for Acme Cloud.Self-billed invoicesEvery invoice by year, for each affiliate.An affiliate abroadKatja Vogel in Berlin, on a W-8BEN.
Recruit affiliates who promote
Invite the people you know from a pasted list, with reminders; share a sign-up page or a pre-approved link; list the program where affiliates look for one. Applicants are screened before they get a code.
InvitationsEach invitation, its reminders, and the pre-approved link.Sign-up pageThe fields you ask for, and pre-approved links per campaign.MarketplaceList the program for affiliates who are not on your list yet.The digestApplications waiting, the week's referred sales, open flags.Approve from your phoneEach applicant with what screening sees.AffiliatesEveryone approved, with last click, clicks and referrals.A broadcastTo every approved affiliate, or only to those without a click for some days.
A missing sale, settled from one record
When an affiliate says a sale was theirs, you both read the same trail. Move the referral or correct the commission, with a reason the affiliate sees.
Omar asksContact gives your program's email first, then our support.Find itBy number, email, code or name.Read the trailOmar's click came first; Daniel's later click took the credit.Move it, with a reasonBoth affiliates are told, and you can undo it for 10 minutes.
A refund after you have paid
Your terms say what a refund after payout does. It comes off the next payout, and the affiliate reads it line by line.
Your termsAttribution, cookie window, holding period, payout, and what a refund after payout does.Maya is told$12.25 deducted for a refund on a $49.00 sale.Her HomeHer balance, and what needs her attention.Her payoutsEach paid payout, and the next one expected.
Move in from your old tool, free
Send us your Rewardful, FirstPromoter, Tolt, Tapfiliate, PartnerStack, UpPromote, GoAffPro or Refersion export. A support person moves your affiliates, their links, your referred customers and open recurring commissions, and your affiliates hear nothing until you tell them.
Ask support to move itFrom Home, with the export attached.Moved5 affiliates and 7 referrals, each refused row with its reason.In HistoryEvery action by who took it, the import under Support.Your affiliates are toldTheir old link keeps working, and their customers came with them.
Your affiliates see every program in one place
One sign-in, one payout method and one tax form for every program an affiliate joins on Proven Affiliate.
One sign-inGoogle or an email link, for every program.Their HomeEach program with its balance and next payout, and what waits on them.ProgramsState, balance and next payout, with Leave program.MarketplacePrograms that list themselves.Another program's sign-up pageNorthwind Affiliates, in its own brand.
Everything else, one screen each
Your workspace
InboxWhat happened, unread first.An affiliate manager's HomeThe same Home, for whoever runs the program day to day.ReferralsEvery referred customer, by affiliate and state.CommissionsPending, on hold, due, paid, rejected and reversed.FlagsOpen, cleared and upheld.Invitations sentWho was invited, when, and the reminders.A referral before it buysSigned up, no sale yet, with Record sale, Move and Erase the customer.Tax recordsEvery payee, by tax year.BroadcastsDrafts, scheduled and sent.ReportsBy affiliate, campaign, sub-ID and program, on a schedule.Sales connectionsEach system you sell on, with its unmatched events.UpcomingPayout runs, hold releases, broadcasts and reminders by day.SentEvery message in your name, with its delivery.TrashWhat was deleted, by whom, with Restore.HelpTopics, and a person on chat or email.Ask supportThe helpdesk opens over the page.
Settings
AccountName, country, time zone.ProgramsMore than one program under one account.TeamMembers, roles and ownership transfer.ProgramCurrency, language, contact email, portal address, approval.CampaignsRate, cookie window, customer link and hold for each.Brand and portalLogo, colours, portal domain and sender.CreativesImages and copy with each affiliate's link filled in.Automatic emailsWhat your affiliates are sent, and in which language.Payout schedulePayout day, threshold and holding period.Payout providersPayPal and Wise.Tax formsW-9 and W-8 before the first payment.IntegrationsAPI keys, webhooks and Zapier.ImportBring a program over from a file.ExportEverything, at any time, on any plan.Your program termsThe published version your affiliates agree to.
Your affiliate's portal and account
Links and codesLinks, sub-IDs, codes, and a link built from any page.CreativesCopy, download or share, link filled in.ReportsClicks, referrals and commissions by sub-ID.A held commissionWhy it is held, and Ask about this referral.TermsThe rules that apply, and Leave program.Payout methodOne method for every program.Tax formsEach merchant's signed copy.EmailsReferral emails and broadcasts, per program.ProfileName, website and audience.HelpQuestions about their account, to our support.
