Affiliate software for SaaSViralPayouts vs Revshare
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 Revshare, paying affiliates for you is optional or extra and does not say it has two-tier recruiting. It costs $5 to $99 a month + 3% of affiliate revenue.
Every figure for Revshare comes from its own pages or named review sites, checked 12 October 2026. Sources are listed at the bottom.
Why brands pick ViralPayouts over Revshare
Best fit: A brand that wants affiliates to recruit affiliates with an override paid automatically, and payouts handled for it.
- $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
| Revshare | ViralPayouts | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5 to $99 a month + 3% of affiliate revenue | $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 | Optionalvia Brand's PayPal/Wise or Revshare-managed (terms and fee 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 | Yes35,685 affiliate programs listed in the program database (includes programs not run on Revshare); sitemap has ~1,475 program pages programs | Yes Partners browse and join with one account |
| Tracking | Tracking script with ?via=/ ?ref= links direct to brand domain (no redirect); Optional redirect links with click IDs (rs_cid); Optional first-party CNAME domain; Stripe one-click (incl. Checkout metadata) | 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, MCP server | REST API for brands and partners with an OpenAPI spec, an MCP server for AI agents, a signed event API and partner postbacks |
| Integrations | Stripe, Shopify, Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, Polar | Stripe Checkout, Shopify orders, any backend via the event API |
Revshare plans in full
- Starter: $5 a month, plus 3% of affiliate revenue. Unlimited affiliate revenue, publishers and programs; 5 short links; no dynamic links/tags/folders/UTM templates
- Growth: $99 a month. 0% transaction fee up to $15,000 (fee above that not stated); 50 short links; 50 dynamic links
- Enterprise: price not published. Custom pricing and custom transaction fee
Where ViralPayouts comes out ahead of Revshare
What Revshare offers
Budget-conscious SaaS, Shopify/ecommerce brands and influencer-driven brands that want cheap affiliate tracking with detailed click attribution; also affiliate publishers, who get SEO/research tools and a program database.
Affiliate software for SaaS
Why ViralPayouts is the better choice
- Two levels built in with a recruit link and recruiter override; Revshare states none
- Payouts handled through Whop with published pricing; Revshare's managed payout terms are not published
- Signed server-to-server event API and append-only ledger with a test network
- Fee falls to 3% of payouts at volume rather than 3% of sales
What Revshare users say
Paraphrased from public reviews. Follow each link to read the original.
Praise
- Customer (Omhu) says it finally let them measure influencer contribution across long, multi-touch journeys (vendor-hosted testimonial) revshare.so
Complaints
- None found.
About Revshare
- In their words:
- "Attribute every click" - "From first click to payout, attribute every conversion and launch your affiliate program for $5/month."
- Company:
- Åbyhøj (Aarhus), Denmark · Revshare ApS (CVR DK-44524279); founder Emil Klitmose
- Funding:
- Bootstrapped: "built without VC money or investor funding", financed through affiliate marketing
- Team:
- "Small, efficient team" (number not stated)
- Named customers:
- Omhu (testimonial on homepage), Beckli (program on Revshare)
- Website:
- revshare.so
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://revshare.so
- https://revshare.so/pricing
- https://revshare.so/features
- https://revshare.so/about
- https://revshare.so/docs
- https://revshare.so/mcp
- https://revshare.so/programs
- https://revshare.so/publishers
- https://revshare.so/compare
- https://revshare.so/cheapest-affiliate-tracking
- https://revshare.so/sitemap.xml
- https://www.g2.com/products/revshare/reviews
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