ViralPayouts vs ChineseAN Affiliate Marketing
ViralPayouts has no monthly fee, pays your affiliates for you and pays recruiters on every program. You pay 10% of what you pay partners, falling to 3%, and nothing in a month when nobody sells. ChineseAN Affiliate Marketing does not say it pays affiliates for you and has no two-tier recruiting. It costs $0 a month.
Every figure for ChineseAN Affiliate Marketing comes from its own pages or named review sites, checked 12 October 2026. Sources are listed at the bottom.
Why brands pick ViralPayouts over ChineseAN Affiliate Marketing
Best fit: A brand that wants to run its own partner program with a published fee.
- $0 a month
No plan and no setup fee. 10% of what you pay partners, falling to 3% at $10,000 a month.
- Payouts done for you
One invoice per program. ViralPayouts sends every partner and recruiter their money and collects tax forms.
- Recruiters built in
Customer links and recruit links on every program, with the override set your way and reversed on refunds.
Side by side
| ChineseAN Affiliate Marketing | ViralPayouts | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0 a month | $0 a month. 10% of what you pay partners, falling to 3% at $10,000 a month. |
| Setup fee | Not stated | None |
| Fee for paying affiliates | Not stated | Included in the fee above: no charge to the brand for sending payoutsPartners pay Whop's own fee when they withdraw to their bank |
| Pays your affiliates for you | Not stated | Yes You fund by bank transfer; we pay every partner |
| Two-tier recruiting | No | Yes Two levels on every program: share of commission, share of sale or fixed. Paid on approved sales, never sign-ups |
| Public program directory | Yes | Yes Partners browse and join with one account |
| Tracking | Tracking tag; Cross-device and cookieless options; API integration | First-party links with click IDs, signed server-to-server events, Stripe Checkout webhook |
| Coupon tracking | Not stated | Yes A code per partner, per program |
| Mobile app tracking | Not stated | App installs, sign-ups and purchases reported from your server through the signed event API, with bounties on them. No SDK to ship in your app. |
| API, webhooks, MCP | API | REST API for brands and partners with an OpenAPI spec, an MCP server for AI agents, a signed event API and partner postbacks |
| Integrations | Shopify, WeChat stores and mini-programs | Stripe Checkout, Shopify orders, any backend via the event API |
ChineseAN Affiliate Marketing plans in full
- Free to install: $0 a month. "We will charge a certain percentage of the order", confirmed by account manager
Where ViralPayouts comes out ahead of ChineseAN Affiliate Marketing
What ChineseAN Affiliate Marketing offers
Advertisers wanting affiliate sales in Greater China and Southeast Asia through ChineseAN's publisher network; the Shopify app installs the tracking tag.
Affiliate network
Why ViralPayouts is the better choice
- Transparent published fee
- Brand runs its own partners with two-level recruiting
- Self-serve
About ChineseAN Affiliate Marketing
- In their words:
- "The one-stop affiliate marketing platform for Greater China and Southeast Asia."
- Company:
- Founded 2007 · Sheung Wan, Hong Kong (offices in Guangzhou and Bangkok) · Ignite Vision
- Named customers:
- iHerb
- Website:
- chinesean.com
Try ViralPayouts on test money
Set your commission and recruiter override, see what each sale costs you, and run it on the test network before a real partner joins. No monthly fee.
Sources for ChineseAN Affiliate Marketing (2), checked 12 October 2026
ChineseAN Affiliate Marketing is a trademark of its owner. ViralPayouts is not affiliated with ChineseAN Affiliate Marketing. Prices and features change: check chinesean.com before you decide. Spot something out of date? Tell us and we will fix it.