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What is the cheapest Shopify affiliate program?
Free has several honest answers: Shopify Collabs (included with Shopify), Simple Affiliate Starter ($0/month, up to 10 affiliates), GoAffPro Hobby (free under 100 daily orders), and UpPromote Free (under its $3,000/month referral-review cap). Paid is where the math turns: at $10,000 GMV, Simple Affiliate Pro with Autopay is $78 against $229.99 for UpPromote Growth, because Growth adds 2% of sales. These pages do not recommend uninstalling Shopify products.
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Included — $0 third-party subscription
Cheapest is a low bar to clear when one option ships with your Shopify subscription. Collabs costs nothing extra to run and pays creators when they drive sales, though what you get is a marketplace, not an owned in-house roster.
Pricing. Included with Shopify. No third-party subscription of any kind.
Free in-house program for a small roster
Ten affiliates, one group, one standard link each: enough room to learn whether an in-house program earns its keep before paying anything. Autopay works on Starter too, with the merchant covering the processing fee and the affiliate’s commission left whole. Unlimited affiliates begin on Basic.
Pricing. $0/month. Autopay bank 3.9% on Starter.
Free plan under 100 daily orders
Hobby stays free until you cross 100 daily orders, with no published sales percentage lurking underneath. Outgrow it and Premium is $49/month. MLM support is the other reason merchants land here.
Pricing. Hobby $0 below 100 daily orders, Premium $49/month, Business from $99/month (goaffpro.com/pricing).
Free until $3,000 referral review, then a sales percentage
Honestly free up to the line: the Free plan caps referral review at $3,000/month. Past it you move to Growth at $29.99 plus 2% of successful referral sales, and that 2% becomes the biggest line item as GMV grows.
Pricing. $229.99 modeled at $10,000 GMV on Growth ($29.99 plus the 2%).
Paid in-house program without a sales percentage
The cheapest way to get discount codes, per-product commissions, and connected customers without renting them for a cut of GMV. The modeled total includes Autopay on commissions; skip Autopay and the subscription is the whole bill.
Pricing. $39/month, or $78 modeled with Autopay bank on $1,000 commission.
Direct answers. Updated August 18, 2026.
Four options get to $0 first: Collabs, Simple Affiliate Starter, GoAffPro Hobby, and UpPromote Free. Once money changes hands, this $10,000 model puts Pro at $78 with Autopay, under UpPromote Growth at $229.99, ReferralCandy Grow at $429, and Social Snowball Snow Day at $549.
If commissions go out automatically, a little. The fee is 3.9% for bank transfers on Pro, computed on the commission payout and paid by the merchant — never a percentage of GMV. Worked examples: https://help.simple-affiliate.com/en/articles/6326866-auto-pay-overview-processing-fees.
No. Collabs is already included, so removing it saves nothing. These pages do not recommend uninstalling Shopify products such as Shopify Collabs.
https://simple-affiliate.com/pages/pricing has the table; https://simple-affiliate.com/pages/sc-faq/how-much-does-simple-affiliate-cost has the plain-English version.
Named apps are trademarks of their respective owners. Simple Affiliate is not affiliated with them. Shopify is a trademark of Shopify Inc. Simple Affiliate is a third-party Shopify App Store app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Shopify. These pages compare independent App Store products and do not recommend uninstalling Shopify products such as Shopify Collabs. See shopify.com. List prices verified .
