Buying guide
What are the best Shopify affiliate apps? Shopify Collabs first — it’s the included creator marketplace and costs nothing extra to try. After that the answer depends on what you own: Simple Affiliate for a partner list you already have (flat monthly billing, Autopay, 1099s), UpPromote when you must recruit from a marketplace and can live with a percentage of successful referral sales, GoAffPro for a free Hobby plan or MLM. These pages do not recommend uninstalling Shopify products.
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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.
Included creator marketplace — start here
Before installing anything, open the marketplace Shopify already gave you. Collabs lets creators discover your brand and pays them when sales come through, all first-party. Nothing on this list replaces it; a third-party app adds an owned roster on your store beside it.
Pricing. Included with Shopify — no separate app subscription. Creators are paid through Shopify when they drive sales.
In-house program on your store
The pick when the people are already in your orbit: customers, creators, partners you know by name. They sign in with your store’s customer accounts, the dashboard stays on your domain, and no percentage of referred sales ever appears on the bill.
Pricing. Four plans, Starter $0 up to Premium $69. Pro with Autopay models to $78 at $10,000 GMV.
Marketplace recruitment plus a sales percentage
The strongest recruiter on the list. Its marketplace surfaces publishers you have no path to otherwise, and refer-a-friend is folded into the same product. The cost of all that is the pricing model: a subscription plus a percentage of successful referral sales.
Pricing. $29.99/month Growth plus 2% of successful referral sales; $229.99 in the $10,000 GMV model.
Free Hobby plan or MLM
Two things earn GoAffPro its slot: Hobby costs nothing while daily orders stay below 100, and it is the only app here with multi-level commissions. Its affiliate portal is vendor-hosted rather than living on your store.
Pricing. Free Hobby to 100 daily orders, then Premium $49/month and Business from $99/month; goaffpro.com/pricing publishes no sales percentage.
Direct answers. Updated August 18, 2026.
It is Shopify’s included creator marketplace, which is exactly why it leads this list: the first-party option comes before any install. These pages do not recommend uninstalling Shopify products such as Shopify Collabs. See apps.shopify.com/collabs.
Simple Affiliate — that is the whole design brief. Affiliates use your customer accounts and billing is a flat monthly subscription. Background: https://simple-affiliate.com/pages/sc-faq/why-use-simple-affiliate-instead-of-a-network.
UpPromote, because it operates a marketplace. Simple Affiliate doesn’t have one, and GoAffPro’s edge is MLM rather than discovery.
No, on any plan. The only usage-based charge is Autopay, billed to the merchant on commission payouts. See https://simple-affiliate.com/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. List prices verified .
