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Simple Affiliate vs other App Store affiliate apps
Seven apps, seven pages, every number traced to a public App Store listing or vendor pricing page. Each page tells you when to buy the other product. The recurring theme: Simple Affiliate is a flat monthly Shopify subscription, and most of the apps here charge a percentage of sales on top of theirs.
Listings and prices checked .
Buying guides
Ranked answers to the questions merchants actually search for, with the same rule as the vs pages: when another product is the better buy, the page says so. Shopify Collabs appears in prose as the included starting point, never as a vs URL.
- Best UpPromote alternativesWho to pick instead of UpPromote when you want an in-house program without a percentage of sales.
- Best GoAffPro alternativesStay on Hobby or MLM; switch to Simple Affiliate for an in-house roster, Autopay, and 1099s.
- Best affiliate apps for Shopify storesStart with Shopify Collabs, then weigh Simple Affiliate, UpPromote, and GoAffPro among third-party apps.
- Cheapest affiliate programCollabs is included. Simple Affiliate Starter is $0. GoAffPro Hobby is free. Paid plans diverge once a sales percentage appears.
Affiliate jobs
How-to pages organized around a task rather than a product. Shopify Collabs payouts stay first-party; these pages do not recommend uninstalling Shopify products.
- Automated affiliate payoutsCollabs payouts stay first. Stripe Autopay pays an in-house roster that signs in with customer accounts.
- Affiliate 1099sAutopay can facilitate 1099-K and 1099-NEC for eligible U.S. affiliates when IRS thresholds apply.
- Migrate an affiliate programKeep Collabs. CSV import with eligibility caveats, or start from scratch on customer accounts.
Why these apps
The bar for inclusion: a first-party Shopify App Store listing and public prices we could check. UpPromote’s listing, site, and pricing page were checked October 12, 2026, and GoAffPro’s plans and prices were re-checked October 24, 2026; ReferralCandy was re-checked October 24, 2026, and Social Snowball’s listing was re-checked October 19, 2026. Refersion’s Launch $39 plus 3% and Growth $199 plus 2% were verified September 1, 2026 on the App Store listing and refersion.com/pricing. LeadDyno’s and Tapfiliate’s listings and pricing pages were checked October 24, 2026; both also work with store platforms other than Shopify. Shopify Collabs is Shopify’s included creator marketplace and is not compared here: these pages do not recommend uninstalling Shopify products, and Collabs can run beside a third-party App Store affiliate app. See Shopify Collabs on the App Store.
- Simple Affiliate vs UpPromoteUpPromote on the Shopify App Store. Modeled at $10,000 GMV: Simple Affiliate Pro $78 vs UpPromote $229.99.
- Simple Affiliate vs GoAffProGoAffPro on the Shopify App Store.
- Simple Affiliate vs ReferralCandyReferralCandy on the Shopify App Store. Modeled at $10,000 GMV: Simple Affiliate Pro $78 vs ReferralCandy $399 on Scale.
- Simple Affiliate vs Social SnowballSocial Snowball on the Shopify App Store. Modeled at $10,000 GMV: Simple Affiliate Pro $78 vs Social Snowball $549.
- Simple Affiliate vs RefersionRefersion on the Shopify App Store. Modeled at $10,000 GMV: Simple Affiliate Pro $78 vs Refersion $339.
- Simple Affiliate vs LeadDynoLeadDyno on the Shopify App Store.
- Simple Affiliate vs TapfiliateTapfiliate on the Shopify App Store.
Frequently asked questions
How to read these comparisons. Updated August 18, 2026.
Which App Store affiliate apps does Simple Affiliate compare itself with?
Seven third-party apps, one page each: UpPromote, GoAffPro, ReferralCandy, Social Snowball, Refersion, LeadDyno, and Tapfiliate. Shopify Collabs is Shopify’s included creator marketplace and is not compared here — the pages mention it in prose and link https://apps.shopify.com/collabs. Beyond the vs pages, the buying guides are /pages/best-uppromote-alternatives, /pages/best-goaffpro-alternatives, /pages/best-affiliate-apps, and /pages/cheapest-affiliate-program, and the job-specific pages are /pages/affiliate-autopay, /pages/affiliate-1099, and /pages/migrate-affiliate-program.
Are these pages independent reviews?
No, and we won’t pretend otherwise: they are Simple Affiliate marketing pages. What keeps them useful is that every claim traces to an App Store listing or a vendor pricing page, every page names where the other product wins, and nothing here invents App Store review counts for Simple Affiliate.
How does Simple Affiliate charge?
A flat monthly Shopify subscription in USD — Starter $0, Basic $19, Pro $39, Premium $59 — with a 14-day trial on Basic and Pro, a 7-day trial on Premium, and no percentage of referred sales. Autopay fees land on the merchant: a percentage of commission payouts, and a low volume fee on small payouts. From November 1, 2026, Autopay adds a low volume fee of 2 USD to each affiliate payout under 25 USD, in the store currency (for example 2 EUR for each payout under 20 EUR). A payout threshold at or above that limit avoids it on monthly payouts. Details at /pages/pricing and /pages/sc-faq/how-much-does-simple-affiliate-cost.
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.