Affiliate/Referral Software Recommendations?

Late to this thread but wanted to share what I built — Komissio is a Stripe-native affiliate tracking platform designed for SaaS and e-commerce.

What makes it different from Rewardful/FirstPromoter:

1. First-party tracking — cookies on YOUR domain, not a third-party domain. Survives ad blockers and Safari ITP.
2. Stripe Connect payouts — affiliates get paid directly to their bank, on autopilot.
3. Fraud detection — click dedup, velocity monitoring, geo-mismatch flagging. Built in, not a paid add-on.
4. Branded affiliate portals — your logo, colors, custom domain.
5. $49/mo, no revenue caps.

Try the demo without signing up: komissioio/demo

Founder here — happy to answer specific questions about the setup.

Not sure if it helps but I had this saved - https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/best-tool-for-creating-referral-program-affiliate-program-891ed8872c

IIRC some of the tools listed there are built by indie hackers

I have been developing my own self-hosted software since 2004 that does everything a maker needs but it requires some learning curve. Just in case you like the challenges http://turbolifestyle.com/3/1mb/

I looked at all these products and decided it is all overkill. We just built a simple "share the love " page and two emails. In our case we gave a financial incentive, so we needed database columns for coupon code. And some logic to create unique coupon code for the email. All this took about 2.5 hours and no monthly reoccurring charge. A Refer-a-friend addition. Part of bootstrapping is: Get shit done!

I've been doing a lot of research around affiliate programs that integrate with Stripe. I'd like to run

1. affiliate marketing campaign: (where affiliates sign up and get paid a commission for a customers that convert after accessing their link)
2. Refer-a-friend campaign where the friend get's a reward if their friends convert after using their link.

#1 is actually pretty straightforward and there are several solutions that work well... However all the solutions I've found for #2 are all based around sign-ups -> NOT conversions (after someone pays) so they are more focused around getting an email list, then it is around getting paid customers....

The best solution I've seen so far is https://www.getrewardful.com/ and https://linkmink.com/
They both offer great affiliate programs, and both have beta programs for refer-a-friend functionality.

In the end I have continued to pursue Rewardful as their UX feels more polished, their Stripe integration seamless, and their refer-a-friend api looks very promising:
https://github.com/rewardful/REST-API-Docs#create-affiliate

Linkmink is a very close 2nd, and I'm curious if anyone else has used both and would recommend one over the other.

getrewardful.com

I know a lot of software to manage referral campaigns, but if you need just URL tracking this could be a good solution for you https://www.affiliatly.com/. They provide java and php integrations too.

However, you should also give your customers a custom code, instead of tracking URLs. Costs 0, you can customize it and works better (when you are tracking the URL you always have the possibility that people don't buy right away and so your affiliates lose their commission).

This org is local to my town (Victoria, BC):

https://www.referralsaasquatch.com/

I think they're what you're looking for?