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Simple Affiliate vs GoAffPro

With Simple Affiliate, affiliates sign in with your store’s customer accounts instead of a GoAffPro portal. Start free, or get Pro for $39 a month. Every plan, Starter included, connects to Claude or ChatGPT.

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Built for Shopify · Rated 4.9/5 on the Shopify App Store · Autopay on every plan, with 1099s when IRS thresholds apply · Switching? Import eligible affiliates by CSV, or rebuild the program in the app

Prices checked November 1, 2026 from the sources at the end of this page. Prices change, so check them before you buy.

Where Simple Affiliate wins

The program lives on your store. Affiliates sign in with your Shopify customer accounts, not a GoAffPro portal.
Autopay is on every plan, Starter included. It pays affiliates through Stripe and includes 1099-K and 1099-NEC forms for eligible U.S. affiliates when IRS thresholds apply. goaffpro.com/pricing lists a tax plugin on Premium but does not describe IRS 1099 filing.
Unique discount codes and per-product commissions start on Pro at $39 a month, and Klaviyo starts on Basic.
Every plan has a flat, published price, up to Premium at $59 a month.

Where GoAffPro wins

Hobby is genuinely free, with unlimited affiliates and revenue, and no percentage of sales is published on top of it.
Multi-level commission trees for programs that need MLM — we don’t build that.
When you outgrow Hobby, Premium is $49/month and Business starts at $99/month.
From Premium, the affiliate portal can run on your own domain.

Use Claude or ChatGPT with Simple Affiliate

Connect Claude or ChatGPT and ask it to review results, explain missing referral credit, or set up groups, commissions, automation, and settings. Your plan’s features still apply. You approve every change, and your AI can’t send payouts. You send payouts from the Simple Affiliate admin.

Other apps advertise AI too. Before you choose, compare what each AI can do, which plan includes it, and who approves its changes.

See the AI affiliate assistant features or connect Claude or ChatGPT.

Who each one is for

GoAffPro’s calling card is a free plan with real headroom: Hobby costs nothing, with unlimited affiliates and revenue, and GoAffPro recommends it for stores under 100 daily orders. Paid Premium and Business tiers sit above it, multi-level (MLM) marketing is on the menu, and goaffpro.com/pricing publishes no percentage of referred sales.

Two honest reasons to pick GoAffPro: Hobby at $0 while your order volume is modest, and MLM when you need it. If neither applies, we’d point you at an in-house program on your own store, Autopay with 1099s when IRS thresholds apply, and a flat monthly bill.

Pricing

Hobby: free, recommended for stores under 100 daily orders. Premium: $49/month. Business: from $99/month. No percentage of referred sales appears anywhere on goaffpro.com/pricing. Our range runs Starter $0 through Premium $59. Worth knowing: a $10,000/month store often still fits Hobby, because 100 daily orders is a lot of orders.

Line item	GoAffPro	Simple Affiliate
Published starting price	Hobby free (recommended under 100 daily orders)	Starter $0
Paid plans	Premium $49/mo; Business from $99/mo	Basic $19 / Pro $39 / Premium $59
Revenue share	Not published on goaffpro.com/pricing	None
Payout processing	Per GoAffPro payout settings (confirm on listing)	No fee for PayPal, store credit, or Premium manual payouts; Autopay on Pro 3.9% bank / 8.9% card
Modeled at $10,000 GMV	Hobby $0 (recommended below 100 daily orders); Premium $49 adds MLM and a portal on your own domain	$78 on Pro with Autopay bank (or $39 without Autopay)

There is no honest single GoAffPro number at $10,000 GMV, so this page does not invent one. Many stores that size still fit free Hobby, which GoAffPro recommends below 100 daily orders; the next stop is Premium at $49/month. Our modeled Pro total assumes Autopay on a 10% commission. Plan limits per goaffpro.com/pricing as of November 1, 2026.

Features

The table shows features for a typical Shopify store. Plan and add-on limits apply. The GoAffPro column comes from its App Store listing and public pages, not from a paid trial of each plan.

Yes: included in a typical setup Partial: limited, on some plans only, or partly manual Add-on: costs extra —: not offered

Feature	Simple Affiliate	GoAffPro
Platform
Shopify Admin embedded app	YesShopify Admin app home	Yes
Shopify App Store listing	Yes	Yes
In-house program on the merchant store	YesProgram stays on the merchant store	Partial
Affiliates use Shopify customer accounts	YesAffiliates use Shopify customer accounts	—
No revenue share	YesFlat monthly Shopify subscription	PartialNot published on pricing
Multi-level / MLM commissions	—	Yes
Program tools
Unlimited affiliates	PartialUnlimited on Basic+	Yes
Unique discount codes	PartialPro+	Yes
Per-product commissions	PartialPro+	Partial
Klaviyo integration	PartialBasic+	Partial
CSV program import	YesPaid Shopify plan and store-age safeguards	Partial
Payouts and tax
Automatic commission payouts	YesStripe; merchant pays the fee	Partial
PayPal, store credit, and manual with no processing fee	YesPayPal and store credit every plan; manual on Premium	Partial
Merchant pays Autopay processing fee	YesStripe; merchant pays the fee	Partial
IRS 1099-K / 1099-NEC forms	YesEligible U.S. Autopay affiliates, when IRS thresholds apply	—

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about Simple Affiliate vs GoAffPro. Updated November 1, 2026.

How do the two bills compare?

Ours is flat: Starter is free, and Basic, Pro, and Premium run $19, $39, and $59 a month, each with a free trial (14 days on Basic and Pro, 7 on Premium) and never a percentage of referred sales. Autopay fees are the only usage charges. On Pro, the processing fee is 3.9% bank or 8.9% card, billed to you on commission payouts and never taken out of the affiliate’s cut. GoAffPro’s free-Hobby-then-flat-tiers model is drawn from its listing and goaffpro.com/pricing.

Do affiliates end up on a vendor portal with Simple Affiliate?

No. Sign-in runs through your store’s customer accounts, and the dashboard is your domain on new customer accounts or a theme page like /pages/affiliate on classic ones. GoAffPro gives affiliates its own portal, on your domain from Premium. Background reading: /pages/sc-faq/why-use-simple-affiliate-instead-of-a-network.

Is Shopify Collabs one of the options?

It is already in your admin: Collabs is the creator marketplace included with Shopify, not a third-party App Store app, which is why it gets named in prose (apps.shopify.com/collabs, shopify.com/collabs) rather than a comparison URL.

Does GoAffPro charge a percentage of sales?

goaffpro.com/pricing listed none when we reviewed it for this article: Hobby free (recommended under 100 daily orders), Premium $49/month. Terms can change, so read the current page. We never bill a percentage of referred sales.

Does Simple Affiliate support MLM?

No. Simple Affiliate is a single-level, in-house affiliate and referral program, and that is deliberate. If multi-level commissions are a requirement, buy GoAffPro.

Sources and other comparisons

GoAffPro is a trademark of its owner. Simple Affiliate is not affiliated with GoAffPro. 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 November 1, 2026.

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