Blog
#Affiliates
Posts tagged Affiliates.
How to onboard affiliates so they actually make a first sale
Recruiting a partner is the easy part. Here is the affiliate onboarding sequence that turns a fresh signup into an affiliate who actually sends you customers.
How to recruit affiliates for your SaaS: finding your first 10 partners
A program with no partners is just a settings page. Here is the recruiting playbook to go from an empty dashboard to your first ten active affiliates.
Referral vs. affiliate program: which should your SaaS launch first?
Confuse a referral program with an affiliate program and you will recruit the wrong people and pay the wrong reward — here is how to tell them apart and pick your first move.
How to pay affiliates: payout methods, timing, and taxes
Here is how to pick a payout method, protect yourself with a holding period, and stay clean on taxes when you pay affiliates.
How to set up an affiliate program with Stripe
Stripe won't run your affiliate program for you, but it will give you everything you need to build one that tracks real paid conversions.
Rewardful alternative: a simpler option for founders
Rewardful is a capable, mature tool — but if you want partner and customer referrals in one place with plain-language setup, here's the honest comparison.
The math of recurring commissions: why 25% for 12 months beats a big bounty
A $100 bounty and 25% recurring for 12 months can look similar on a spreadsheet, but only one of them pays a partner to care whether your customer sticks around.
A custom domain for your partner portal: why and how
Your partner portal shouldn't look like it belongs to somebody else — here's how to point it at your own domain in an afternoon.
Best SaaS affiliate programs to learn from in 2026
Eight real SaaS affiliate programs worth studying, and the one specific thing a founder should steal from each.