
How to start a SaaS affiliate program
A practical launch checklist for your affiliate offer, tracking, recruitment, refunds and payout rules.
Practical resources for choosing an offer, finding relevant affiliates and understanding the numbers.

A practical launch checklist for your affiliate offer, tracking, recruitment, refunds and payout rules.

A dated public-source ledger of 30 SaaS affiliate offers, separating rates, earning periods and attribution windows without treating the sample as an industry average.

Help approved affiliates create a useful first placement with a first-week checklist, welcome-message example and activation milestones.

Plan a B2B affiliate program around buyer fit, sales handoffs and clear deal-credit rules, with a worked customer-journey example.

Compare link and code attribution with conflict examples, a test checklist and clear limits for cross-device purchases.

Build a total-cost budget that includes software, commissions, payouts, recruitment and operations, with a worked monthly worksheet.

Compare SaaS affiliate software by billing fit, commission rules, payout work and migration evidence, with a dated vendor shortlist.

Decide whether to keep Rewardful or evaluate Tolt, FirstPromoter, Dub and Referral Bear using billing, payout and migration requirements.

Compare first-invoice, capped and recurring commissions using your margin and retention assumptions, with worked examples.

Build a relevant affiliate shortlist with search examples, a prospect-scoring worksheet and a practical two-week recruiting workflow.