Partner program software

Pay people for the customers they bring you.

Partners earn a commission on each approved sale. Whoever recruited them earns a smaller override. ViralPayouts tracks it and pays everyone.

I run a product

Get partners

Set the commission. Pay only when a sale is approved.

Start a program Brand sign-in

I promote products

Earn and recruit

Get paid for each customer, and again when partners you bring in sell.

Find a program Partner sign-in

No monthly fee. ViralPayouts adds 10% to what you pay partners, falling to 3% once you pay them $10,000 a month. How pricing works

Where a $100 sale goesAt $10,000+ a month paid to partners

You keep: A $100 sale, and you never paid for the click.; $74.25
The partner: Knew the customer and recommended you. 20% of the sale.; $20.00
The recruiter: Brought that partner in. 5% of the sale.; $5.00
ViralPayouts: Tracked it and ran the payout. 3% of what partners are paid, once you pay partners $10,000 or more a month.; $0.75

Paid only once the sale is approved. Refunded? Every line is reversed.

Move the sliders

Where each sale goes

Move the sliders to set your price, what partners and recruiters earn, and how many sales partners bring you a month. You see who gets what from each sale, and how the ViralPayouts fee falls as your program grows.

Sale price$100

Partner commission20%

Paid to the partner who brought the customer.

Recruiter override5%

Paid to whoever recruited that partner. You can also set it as a share of the commission or a fixed amount.

Sales from partners a month400

More sales means more paid to partners, which lowers the ViralPayouts rate for the whole month.

You

Partner

One $100 sale.

You keep$74.25: The sale, minus what the partner, the recruiter and ViralPayouts get. You paid nothing upfront to win this customer.
The partner gets$20.00: 20% of the sale. The person who recommended you to the customer.
The recruiter gets$5.00: 5% of the sale. The person who brought that partner into your program. With no recruiter, nobody is paid this.
ViralPayouts gets$0.75: 3% on top of the $25.00 you pay the partner and recruiter. The rate is set by how much you pay partners in the month.

Your month at 400 sales

Paid to partners and recruiters

$10,000

ViralPayouts rate this month

ViralPayouts fee this month

$300

The fee starts at 10% on top of what you pay partners, up to $1,000 a month, and slides down to 3% at $10,000 a month. You are at the lowest rate.

Sale refunded? Every share is reversed, including our fee, and you pay nothing.

A referral program nobody knows about refers nobody.

In most markets a buyer asks someone they trust before they buy: their accountant, their hairdresser, a tutor, a concierge. Call that person the gatekeeper. A commission gives the gatekeeper a reason to recommend you.

The harder problem is that gatekeepers have never heard of your program, and finding them one by one is the same cold outreach you were trying to avoid. A second level pays other people to do that finding. A recruiter earns only when a partner they brought in produces an approved sale, so signing up people who never sell earns them nothing.

This is a hypothesis, not a proven result. Two-tier commissions already exist in other tools. What ViralPayouts bets on is making the recruiter level the centre of the product. Whether it brings you more valid customers than a single level is something to measure: the console shows how many recruited partners became active and how many brought a customer.

Read the white paper for the model, the maths and what would prove it wrong.

Built and tested

What the software does today

01Two links per partner
A customer link and a recruit link, kept separate. A sale never silently attaches a recruiter, and a recruit link never counts as a sale.
02An override you have to define
Each program chooses whether the recruiter earns a share of the commission, a share of the sale, or a fixed amount. It is shown wherever the bounty is shown.
03Sales reported by your server
A signed event API, and a signature-checked webhook if you sell with Stripe Checkout. Replays are ignored. A sale that matches nobody is listed for you, never guessed.
04A ledger that only adds rows
Refunds and rejections write reversing entries for both levels and the fee. Nothing is edited or deleted, and every balance can be traced to its entries.
05Payouts you can reconcile
Automatic transfers through Whop, or bank-transfer batches that stay owed until you record the payment reference. Exporting a file is never treated as paying.
06A test network
The same software with simulated money and a time machine, so you can run your rules through hold periods and refunds before real partners join.

Not built yet: ad-platform connectors, spend and ROAS reporting, team accounts. See the full list

For your developer

Your server tells us about the sale.

1A partner’s link sends the visitor to your site with a referral code and a click id in the address.
2You keep both until the visitor pays.
3Your server reports the sale, signed with your program’s secret. Refunds are reported the same way.

Using Stripe Checkout? Put the two values in the session metadata and point a webhook at ViralPayouts instead.

POST /api/v1/events

// On your server, after you have collected the payment.
import crypto from 'node:crypto';

const body = JSON.stringify({
  id: 'evt_' + order.id,           // retries with the same id are ignored
  type: 'sale',
  order_id: order.id,
  amount_cents: order.amountPaid,
  currency: 'USD',
  ref_code: cookies.ref,           // from ?ref= on the partner's link
  click_id: cookies.vp_click,      // from ?vp_click=
});
const ts = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000).toString();
const sig = crypto.createHmac('sha256', process.env.VIRALPAYOUTS_SECRET)
  .update(ts + '.' + body).digest('hex');

await fetch('https://<your ViralPayouts host>/api/v1/events', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'content-type': 'application/json',
    'x-vp-program': '<program id>',
    'x-vp-timestamp': ts,
    'x-vp-signature': sig,
  },
  body,
});

Simulators

Try the numbers yourself

Three calculators. They show arithmetic on assumptions you choose. They are not forecasts and not anyone's results.

Made-up examples

Who is the gatekeeper in your market?

Six invented businesses, to show how one sale is split. The roles are common ones; the companies and figures are illustrations, not results, and some sectors have their own rules about paid referrals.

1. The recruiter
Someone who knows a lot of accountants
Does not sell to the customer. Finds the gatekeeper and gets them into the program.
Earns an override of
$48
2. The gatekeeper
An accountant or bookkeeper
Already chooses the software for every client they look after.
Earns a direct commission of
$240
3. The customer
A small company on an annual plan
Buys from: an accounting tool for small companies.
Pays
$1,200

Paid to partners: $288
ViralPayouts fee, at most: $28.80
The business keeps: $883.20
Paid only if: the sale is approved

Sourced, with links

What real programs advertise

All 8, with the small print

These companies do not use ViralPayouts and are not affiliated with it. The terms are from their own public pages, checked 10 October 2026. They are offers with conditions, not earnings.