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What's the best affiliate/referral SaaS for Stripe?

Hey IH Fam!

We use stripe for our SaaS and we've had a bunch of interest from customers around setting up an affiliate / referral program.

We want something that works with Stripe. We're also bootstrapped so we don't have a crazy budget here :D

By looking at the Stripe site, there are a TON of options:
-LeadDyno
-Refersion
-PartnerStack
-FirstPromoter
-Tapfiliate
-Btwn
-Rewardful
-GrowSurf
-OmniStar
-LinkMink

Any recommendations out there from the community??

on August 31, 2021
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    Most bootstrappers I know recommend Rewardful for SaaS affiliate programs.

    @bradycassidy and @kylefox (the founders of Rewardful) are also indie hackers themselves

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      Thanks Davis, really appreciate it. I was actually looking at that one. Looks to me like a top contender!

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        Thanks for the mention @DavisBaer!

        @JohnatProxii let us know if we can help with anything!

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        Thanks for the mention @DavisBaer :D

        @JohnatProxii Probably our biggest selling points for you would be our deep integration with Stripe, overall simplicity (especially technical integration), and price point — we have a $29/month + 9% plan that's specifically designed for companies who want to experiment with affiliate marketing as economically as possible. It's a lower cost to get started, and then as your affiliate program grows you can "graduate" into a fixed-price plan.

        It's also possible to use the same Rewardful account for both an affiliate program (i.e. cash rewards) and customer referral program (i.e. account credits).

        Feel free to reach out at [email protected] if you want to discuss your requirements, and we can help assess if Rewardful is a good fit 👍

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          You guys are awesome. Really appreciate taking the time to post here.

          I think we've found our winner for our team at Sturppy.com

          Wont be shy about reaching out should we have questions!

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    I love the look of Rewardful, but can't bring myself to add another SaaS subscription at the moment (I know, it could pay for itself, yada yada).

    I'd be keen to know if anybody knows of a "pay on success" model, similar to https://stunning.co/, I'd be interested.

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      Yeah yeah, I hear ya here...We've had a handful of customers who have been nagging us for a referral program - I've been avoiding the expense too but for $29 + 9% or even with the $49/m + 0% plan, I view it as an acquisition experiment. Worth the $29 or $49 to us to run this as an experiment.

      For reference we've got around 400+ paying customers at the moment

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        Nice, yeah, sounds like you're a bit further along.

        FWIW, I think the founders @ Rewardful probably made the right call on not having a free plan - with even a small amount of investment, their users will put more effort into making their programmes work, and will be lower churn risks!

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    We're using https://www.getrewardful.com/?via=volkan at Versoly (that is an affiliate link, i love testing and comparing my numbers vs my affiliates)

    It is by far the most affordable and the founders are super responsive whenever I have a question.

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      Hahahaha @volkandkaya, love the cheeky affiliate link, perfect place to put it. Got any sales through it yet? xD

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        Not sure lol. But I got 200+ clicks by posting once or twice back when I started using it.

        And got 2 sales, but 1 churned :(

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