Customer referral softwareViralPayouts vs Influence: Loyalty & Referral
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. With Influence: Loyalty & Referral, you pay your affiliates yourself and has no two-tier recruiting. It costs $0 to $199 a month.
Every figure for Influence: Loyalty & Referral comes from its own pages or named review sites, checked 12 October 2026. Sources are listed at the bottom.
Why brands pick ViralPayouts over Influence: Loyalty & Referral
Best fit: Brands wanting cash-commission partners and recruiters rather than customer points.
- $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
| Influence: Loyalty & Referral | ViralPayouts | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0 to $199 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 | No | 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 | Not stated | Yes Partners browse and join with one account |
| Tracking | Customer referral links | 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 | 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 | Klaviyo, Gorgias, Attentive, Recharge, Loop Subscriptions | Stripe Checkout, Shopify orders, any backend via the event API |
Influence: Loyalty & Referral plans in full
- Free: $0 a month. Up to 300 orders/month, basic earn rules
- Starter: $49 a month. Unlimited orders, referral program, POS, memberships
- Plus: $199 a month. Loyalty tiers, API access, multi-currency, custom referral domain
- Enterprise: price not published. Quote: remove branding, dedicated dev support
Where ViralPayouts comes out ahead of Influence: Loyalty & Referral
What Influence: Loyalty & Referral offers
Shopify and BigCommerce merchants wanting points, VIP tiers and customer referrals; part of REVIEWS.io.
Customer referral software
Why ViralPayouts is the better choice
- Cash commissions to affiliates paid by ViralPayouts, not just discounts
- Two-tier recruiter override built into every program, with separate customer and recruit links
- Public directory of live programs and one partner account across programs
- No monthly plan
What Influence: Loyalty & Referral users say
Paraphrased from public reviews. Follow each link to read the original.
Praise
- Flexible loyalty program; fast, friendly support (3+ year user). apps.shopify.com
- Klaviyo integration works well; easy to use. apps.shopify.com
Complaints
- Charged for the bolt-on but no access; support agents don't follow up. apps.shopify.com
- Buggy: points don't add up, slow search, broken strings. apps.shopify.com
- Took over storefront pages; issue unresolved for 3 months. apps.shopify.com
- No phone/zoom help unless on a paid plan. apps.shopify.com
About Influence: Loyalty & Referral
- In their words:
- "Reward loyalty. Drive growth. Keep customers coming back." (Shopify listing)
- Company:
- Founded Shopify app launched December 20, 2021 · Leicester, UK · Reviews.io
- Website:
- influence.io
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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Influence: Loyalty & Referral is a trademark of its owner. ViralPayouts is not affiliated with Influence: Loyalty & Referral. Prices and features change: check influence.io before you decide. Spot something out of date? Tell us and we will fix it.