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Affiliate marketing, minus the busywork

Playbooks, benchmarks, and honest guides on running a SaaS affiliate program on Stripe — from first affiliate to first payout.

·6 min read·Playbooks

How to Migrate Off Rewardful: Step-by-Step Checklist

A step-by-step checklist for moving your affiliate program off Rewardful without losing history, balances, or live tracking links.

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·5 min read·Comparisons

FirstPromoter vs Reditus: Full 2026 Comparison

FirstPromoter and Reditus target the same buyer differently: one's built for affiliate tracking, the other for partnership discovery.

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·6 min read·Comparisons

Tolt vs Rewardful: Which SaaS Affiliate Tool Wins?

A side-by-side look at Tolt vs Rewardful pricing, payment processor support, and cookie windows, with a flat-fee option for early SaaS teams.

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·6 min read·Playbooks

Rewardful API: What You Can (and Can't) Build

A practical read of Rewardful's REST API, JS API, and webhooks: real endpoints, rate limits, and what you can and can't build with them.

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·6 min read·Comparisons

Best Free Affiliate Software for SaaS Startups

A founder's honest look at which SaaS affiliate tools have genuinely free tiers, and where free really means a revenue cap or feature limit.

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·6 min read·Comparisons

Rewardful Integrations: The Full List (2026)

Rewardful's real integration list, organized by category, so you can check your stack before you sign up instead of after.

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·6 min read·Playbooks

Stripe Affiliate Tracking: How Attribution Works

A technical walkthrough of the Stripe webhook events and metadata that keep affiliate commissions accurate through the subscription lifecycle.

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·5 min read·Playbooks

How to Prevent Affiliate Fraud in SaaS

The four fraud patterns that actually hit SaaS affiliate programs, and the specific defenses that stop each one right at the source.

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·6 min read·Comparisons

Rewardful Features Explained: What's Actually Included

Rewardful's feature grid hides which plan unlocks what. Here's exactly what you get on Starter, Growth, and Enterprise, tier by tier.

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·6 min read·Playbooks

Affiliate Cookie Duration Explained: 30 vs 60 vs 90 Days

Why B2B SaaS needs a longer cookie window than ecommerce, a benchmark table by business type, and why we default Referralful to 60 days.

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·6 min read·Playbooks

Recurring vs One-Time Affiliate Commissions

Recurring or one-time affiliate commissions? Here's the LTV math to run before you pick a rate, using our 30%/12-month default as one example.

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·6 min read·Comparisons

GetRewardful: What It Is, Pricing & How It Works

GetRewardful and Rewardful are the same product. Here's the domain history, what it does, current pricing, and where it falls short.

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·6 min read·Playbooks

Affiliate Attribution: First-Click vs Last-Click

How first-click and last-click attribution decide which affiliate gets credit for a sale, and when multi-touch actually makes sense.

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·6 min read·Playbooks

How to Pay Affiliates Through Stripe

Real payout mechanics for Stripe, PayPal, and Wise: fees, schedules, minimum thresholds, and why you should hold commissions through refunds.

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·5 min read·Playbooks

How to Recruit Your First SaaS Affiliates

How I landed Referralful's first affiliates: happy customers, adjacent tool makers, and niche creators, no marketplace hype involved.

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·6 min read·Playbooks

SaaS Affiliate Commission Rates: What to Pay in 2026

Real benchmark ranges for SaaS affiliate commissions (10-30% recurring), the one-time vs recurring tradeoff, and how I set Referralful's default.

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·6 min read·Comparisons

Rewardful Pricing: What It Actually Costs in 2026

Rewardful's real 2026 pricing, verified from their own site, plus the honest total cost math founders should run before they ever sign up.

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·7 min read·Playbooks

How to Set Up an Affiliate Program for Your SaaS (2026 Guide)

The practical version: how to choose a commission model, set a rate that actually works, track referrals on Stripe, and pay affiliates without drowning in spreadsheets.

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