Facts reuse the Simple Affiliate vs pages. Review counts are not invented for Simple Affiliate. Confirm current rates on App Store listings and vendor pricing pages.
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Simple Affiliate
In-house program, flat monthly, Autopay + 1099s
The program runs on your store and affiliates sign in with your Shopify customer accounts, so nobody lands on a vendor portal. Billing is flat, with no percentage of referred sales anywhere. Autopay moves commissions through Stripe, and eligible U.S. affiliates can receive 1099-K / 1099-NEC when IRS thresholds apply.
Pricing. Starter $0, Basic $19, Pro $39, Premium $69. Modeled at $10,000 GMV with 10% commission and Pro Autopay bank: $78 vs UpPromote Growth $229.99.
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GoAffPro
Free Hobby plan or MLM
GoAffPro’s pitch is simple: a free Hobby plan that holds up to 100 daily orders, and multi-level commissions if your program pays across tiers. The affiliate portal lives on the vendor side, which is the main structural difference from an in-house app.
Pricing. Hobby free under 100 daily orders; Premium $49/month; Business from $99/month. No percentage of referred sales is published on goaffpro.com/pricing.
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ReferralCandy
Automated refer-a-friend, not an affiliate roster
Rank it here only if you’ve noticed your “affiliate program” is really a referral program. ReferralCandy automates friend-gets-friend rewards and charges a success fee on net-new referred customers, so it replaces UpPromote’s refer-a-friend half rather than its affiliate half.
Pricing. Basic $39/month plus a 10.5% success fee on net-new customers; Grow $79 plus 3.5%; Scale $249 plus 1.5%; Enterprise $799 plus 0.25% (referralcandy.com/pricing).
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Social Snowball
High-volume DTC customer-to-affiliate conversion
For high-volume DTC brands that want checkout itself to do the recruiting: buyers get affiliate links automatically after purchase. The floor is $249/month plus 3% of affiliate revenue, a price that only makes sense at real scale.
Pricing. Snow Day from $249/month plus 3% of affiliate revenue; Blizzard is custom-priced and drops the percentage (socialsnowball.io/pricing).
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Stay on UpPromote
Marketplace recruitment and a sales-percentage plan you already accepted
Sometimes the best alternative is none. If the marketplace keeps sending you publishers you couldn’t reach otherwise, or you lean on the combined affiliate-plus-referral product, paying Growth’s percentage of successful referral sales may beat any migration.
Pricing. Free ($0, capped at $3,000/month referral review), Growth $29.99 plus 2% of successful referral sales, Professional $89.99 plus 1.5%, Enterprise $199.99 plus 1% (uppromote.com/pricing).
