WordPress affiliate plugin

ViralPayouts vs SliceWP

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 SliceWP, you pay your affiliates yourself and has two-tier recruiting on some plans only. It costs $0 to $21.58 a month.

Every figure for SliceWP comes from its own pages or named review sites, checked 12 October 2026. Sources are listed at the bottom.

Why brands pick ViralPayouts over SliceWP

Best fit: A brand that is not on WordPress or does not want to handle payouts, and wants recruiter overrides plus partner discovery through a directory.

$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.

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Side by side

	SliceWP	ViralPayouts
Price	$0 to $21.58 a monthTerm: Annual (sale price first year only, renews at full price) or one-off lifetime licence; 30-day money-back guarantee	$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	None from SliceWP ("SliceWP doesn't add any fees of its own"); Stripe Connect/transfer fees or PayPal fees paid by the merchant	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	Novia Merchant's own Stripe and PayPal accounts	Yes You fund by bank transfer; we pay every partner
Two-tier recruiting	Higher plansNo maximum stated (create as many levels as needed; example shows 2) levelsPro or Pro Plus ("This add-on is available with an active Pro & Pro Plus license")	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	Referral link cookie; Affiliate coupons (WooCommerce, PMPro, PMS, MemberPress, GetPaid, Studiocart; Pro); Custom affiliate slug; Lifetime and recurring commissions (Pro)	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	No	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	WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, MemberPress, Paid Memberships Pro, Restrict Content Pro	Stripe Checkout, Shopify orders, any backend via the event API

SliceWP plans in full

Free (WordPress.org): $0 a month. Core features only
Pro: $14.08 a month billed yearly. $169/yr (was $229) or $429 lifetime (was $589); 1 site; all add-ons; email support
Pro Plus: $21.58 a month billed yearly. $259/yr (was $349) or $649 lifetime (was $899); 10 sites; all add-ons; priority support

Pricing source

Where ViralPayouts comes out ahead of SliceWP

What SliceWP offers

Small and mid-sized WordPress businesses (WooCommerce, EDD, membership plugins, SureCart) wanting a simple, low-cost self-hosted affiliate program, with a free core plugin to start.

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Why ViralPayouts is the better choice

ViralPayouts pays partners for the brand; SliceWP needs the merchant's own Stripe/PayPal balance and Stripe cross-border is limited to a few regions
Platform-agnostic tracking (signed S2S API, Stripe Checkout webhook) vs WordPress cookie tracking
Public directory where partners find programs, with one account across programs
Recruit links built in rather than a Pro add-on

What SliceWP users say

Paraphrased from public reviews. Follow each link to read the original.

Praise

Developer (Mihai) answers within 24 hours, is patient and ships requested features such as product revenue share; reviewer plans to upgrade to lifetime. wordpress.org
Recent reviews repeatedly praise support, ease of use and interface (e.g. "Amazing Plugin, Amazing Support", Sept 2026). wordpress.org

Complaints

Free version: dashboard looks basic, approval emails not received, no admin reports without Pro, and visits not tracked in tester's trial. wordpress.org
Free version cannot set per-product commission rates; paid Pro is too expensive for a small start-up. wordpress.org
Settings not saved on reload, making it unusable for that reviewer (July 2024). wordpress.org

About SliceWP

In their words:: "The powerful affiliate plugin for WordPress that's refreshingly easy to use" (homepage H1); pricing H1: "Start your affiliate program without the high costs"
Company:: Independent; built by Mihai (Iova) and his brother ("Alongside with my brother, we've been hard at work creating a simple, more refined tool")
Team:: Founder plus brother named on about page; no headcount stated
Named customers:: Claims "trusted by 12100+ businesses"; testimonials from individuals (Maarten Belmans, Roland Murg, Jonas Fehre, Thomas Vu) with no companies named
Website:: slicewp.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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Sources for SliceWP (22), checked 12 October 2026

SliceWP is a trademark of its owner. ViralPayouts is not affiliated with SliceWP. Prices and features change: check slicewp.com before you decide. Spot something out of date? Tell us and we will fix it.