Performance marketing platformViralPayouts vs QualityClick
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 QualityClick, you pay your affiliates yourself and offers multi-tier commissions. It costs flat subscription.
Every figure for QualityClick comes from its own pages or named review sites, checked 12 October 2026. Sources are listed at the bottom.
Why brands pick ViralPayouts over QualityClick
Best fit: A smaller brand that wants two-tier partner recruiting and automatic payouts without a four-figure monthly 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
| QualityClick | ViralPayouts | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | flat subscription | $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 | Yes2 levelsAll plans (not plan-gated in docs) | 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 | Server-side / cookie-less tracking; Tracking pixel; Deeplinks; Product feeds | 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 | Partly | 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 | Shopware, WooCommerce, SOAP API, CSV API, Single Sign-On | Stripe Checkout, Shopify orders, any backend via the event API |
QualityClick plans in full
- Standard: price not published. From EUR 1,550/mo; white-label, 2 campaigns/countries, unlimited affiliates, server-side tracking, API, 99.5% uptime; extra campaigns EUR 200/mo
- Gold: price not published. EUR 1,850/mo; Gold SLA, 1 hr/mo services, account manager, 99.7% uptime
- Premium: price not published. EUR 3,250/mo; 8 campaigns/countries, 3 hrs/mo services, 99.9% uptime
Where ViralPayouts comes out ahead of QualityClick
What QualityClick offers
Mid-size and enterprise European (mainly DACH) advertisers, especially finance and e-commerce, that want their own white-label, server-side, GDPR-compliant affiliate program instead of paying network fees.
Performance marketing platform
Why ViralPayouts is the better choice
- No EUR 1,550+/mo subscription; pay only a share of payouts
- Pays partners for the brand; QualityClick makes you run SEPA transfers
- Public directory to recruit partners; QualityClick is a private network
- REST API and MCP server today vs SOAP with REST planned
What QualityClick users say
Paraphrased from public reviews. Follow each link to read the original.
Praise
- "we captured 35% more conversions than before" (Thomas, Bon-Kredit; vendor testimonial). qualityclick.com
- Saves network fees completely with full control of the program (Till, Bergfreunde; vendor testimonial). qualityclick.com
- Personal support from Berlin with answers in minutes (Uli, Verivox; vendor testimonial). qualityclick.com
Complaints
- None found.
About QualityClick
- In their words:
- "Track Every Sale. No Cookies Needed." (title: "QUALITYCLICK – Cookie-Free Affiliate Tracking")
- Company:
- Founded 2000 (NetSlave GmbH founded May 1, 2000; product renamed QUALITY CLICK in 2004) · Simon-Dach-Str. 12, 10245 Berlin, Germany · NetSlave GmbH; founder and MD Jan Bischoff
- Funding:
- No venture capital; self-sustaining
- Team:
- Small core team of full-time staff plus freelancers
- Named customers:
- Verivox, Interhyp, Scalable Capital, auxmoney, notebooksbilliger.de, Bergfreunde
- Website:
- qualityclick.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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- https://www.qualityclick.com/
- https://www.qualityclick.com/pricing
- https://www.qualityclick.com/features
- https://www.qualityclick.com/about
- https://www.qualityclick.com/imprint
- https://www.qualityclick.com/docs
- https://www.qualityclick.com/docs/products-commissions
- https://www.qualityclick.com/docs/faq
- https://www.capterra.com/p/219317/QualityClick/
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