Affiliate software for e-commerceViralPayouts vs COD Affiliates
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. COD Affiliates does not say it pays affiliates for you and does not say it has two-tier recruiting. It costs $0 a month.
Every figure for COD Affiliates comes from its own pages or named review sites, checked 12 October 2026. Sources are listed at the bottom.
Why brands pick ViralPayouts over COD Affiliates
Best fit: A brand taking card/online payments that wants payouts handled and partners recruiting partners.
- $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
| COD Affiliates | 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 | Not stated | Yes Two levels on every program: share of commission, share of sale or fixed. Paid on approved sales, never sign-ups |
| Public program directory | No | Yes Partners browse and join with one account |
| Tracking | Affiliate links; Discount codes; Cloned/exclusive products | First-party links with click IDs, signed server-to-server events, Stripe Checkout webhook |
| Coupon tracking | Yes | 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 | Not stated | REST API for brands and partners with an OpenAPI spec, an MCP server for AI agents, a signed event API and partner postbacks |
| Integrations | EasySell COD Form, Releasit COD Form | Stripe Checkout, Shopify orders, any backend via the event API |
Where ViralPayouts comes out ahead of COD Affiliates
What COD Affiliates offers
Shopify merchants in cash-on-delivery markets (e.g. LatAm) that only want to pay affiliates on collected orders.
Affiliate software for e-commerce
Why ViralPayouts is the better choice
- Pays partners for the brand
- Two-level recruiting
- Public directory
About COD Affiliates
- In their words:
- "Affiliate marketing for cash-on-delivery merchants. Commissions only released on collected orders."
- Company:
- La Plata, Argentina · CodAffiliates
- Website:
- apps.shopify.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.
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COD Affiliates is a trademark of its owner. ViralPayouts is not affiliated with COD Affiliates. Prices and features change: check apps.shopify.com before you decide. Spot something out of date? Tell us and we will fix it.