Shopify Affiliate Program review

Commission is Up to $150 per qualified referral. The model is CPA, so the payment is tied to a qualified referral rather than a share of what the store earns later. A single store build that converts is worth $150 on its own.

The window is 30 days, the median for this vertical. A reader who clicks your link and signs up after that window is not a paid referral. The spread in this vertical reaches 180 at the top and 1 at the bottom.

Recurring commission is no. You are paid for the referral itself, not for what the store does afterwards, so a publisher relying on monthly repeat earnings needs another programme. Of the listings here, 44.5% do pay recurring.

Payouts are monthly via Impact, and the threshold is $10. Methods are bank transfer and PayPal, so a balance can be paid to a bank account or to a wallet you already hold. Payout timing therefore follows a monthly cycle rather than an on-demand request.

The network is Impact, the same name that appears in the payout arrangement, so tracking and payment sit with one counterparty. The vertical is retail, which is why the terms read as ecommerce rather than finance.

The programme is global, so one link can be promoted to readers in multiple markets. Most programmes in this vertical are listed as 70.4%, so the reach here is wider than the norm.

Support is offered through help centre, so questions are answered in writing rather than by phone or live chat. That suits publishers who prefer a documented answer, and for tracking and payment questions Impact is the named contact point.

It suits publishers whose audience is opening a store: ecommerce, retail software and side hustle content. Since commission is Up to $150 per qualified referral on a qualified referral, the quality of the store builders you reach matters more than raw clicks.