How much does Simple Affiliate cost?

Simple Affiliate has a free Starter plan, and the paid plans cost $19, $39, or $59 a month. Shopify bills the flat subscription in USD every 30 days, and Simple Affiliate takes no cut of your sales. Every plan, Starter too, includes Autopay, PayPal and store credit payouts, live chat support, and the Claude and ChatGPT connection.

Plan pricing

• Starter: $0/month. Up to 10 affiliates, one group, and one standard link per affiliate, with unlimited referrals.
• Basic: $19/month. Unlimited affiliates, groups, and links, plus Klaviyo and the Analytics Overview report.
• Pro: $39/month. Everything in Basic, plus custom referral links, discount codes, product-specific commissions, permanent customer connection, and a custom signup form (for stores on Shopify's new customer accounts).
• Premium: $59/month. Everything in Pro, plus product attribution, group automation, linked stores, lower Autopay fees, manual payouts, and the option to use Autopay, PayPal, and store credit together. All-way sync of linked stores, in which each store of a link sends its changes to the other stores and the latest change wins, needs Premium or above on every store of the link.

Autopay fees

Autopay is optional. When you use it, you pay its processing fee on top of the commission, and the affiliate always receives the full amount.

A bank account is a US bank account, SEPA Direct Debit, Canadian Pre-authorized Debit, or Bacs Direct Debit, depending on your store currency. Debit cards use the card rate.

Autopay also adds a low volume fee of 2 USD to each affiliate payout under 25 USD, in your 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, and the fee doesn't apply while your store has 0% Autopay fees.

Autopay needs a store currency that it supports, and its setup needs a paid Shopify plan and a store that is at least 3 days old. PayPal and store credit payouts have no Simple Affiliate processing fee on any plan, and neither do manual payouts on Premium. Worked fee examples are in Auto-pay Overview and Processing Fees.

Free trials and billing

Each paid plan starts with a free trial, and Starter has no trial because it's free. The trial length of each plan, and what happens when you change plans during a trial, are in How long is the free trial, and are there support fees? There are no separate support fees. Development stores follow Shopify's billing rules for test charges.

Which plan to pick

• Starter fits a small program within its limits of 10 affiliates, one group, and one standard link each.
• Basic fits a program that outgrows those limits or uses Klaviyo.
• Pro fits affiliates who promote different products, need their own discount codes, or should keep earning after a customer's first purchase.
• Premium fits a program that needs product attribution, group automation, linked stores, lower Autopay fees, or manual payouts.

You can start on Starter and change your plan at any time in Settings > Billing; see How do I change my plan or cancel Simple Affiliate? The pricing page compares the plans.