WordPress affiliate plugin

ViralPayouts vs Solid Affiliate

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 Solid Affiliate, you pay your affiliates yourself and has no two-tier recruiting. It costs $12.47 to $18.73 a month.

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

Why brands pick ViralPayouts over Solid Affiliate

Best fit: Brands that want recruiters to earn overrides and payouts handled for them.

$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

	Solid Affiliate	ViralPayouts
Price	$12.47 to $18.73 a monthTerm: Annual licence; 30-day no-questions money-back guarantee; renewals at regular price	$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 vendor ("0% additional fees")	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 Brand's own PayPal account from the WordPress dashboard	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	No	Yes Partners browse and join with one account
Tracking	referral links; first-party cookies; WooCommerce coupon tracking; coupon discount links	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	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	WooCommerce, WooCommerce Subscriptions, PayPal, Mailchimp, reCAPTCHA	Stripe Checkout, Shopify orders, any backend via the event API

Solid Affiliate plans in full

Starter: $12.47 a month billed yearly. $149.60/year intro (regular $374), 1 site
Expert: $14.55 a month billed yearly. $174.65/year intro (regular $499), 3 sites; adds tags, email reports, signup bonus
Pro: $18.73 a month billed yearly. $224.70/year intro (regular $749), 10 sites; adds lifetime commissions, revenue sharing, fraud suite, white-label area, landing pages

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Where ViralPayouts comes out ahead of Solid Affiliate

What Solid Affiliate offers

WooCommerce store owners, plus developers and agencies running stores for clients.

WordPress affiliate plugin · Trustpilot 4 (31 reviews)

Why ViralPayouts is the better choice

Two-level recruiter overrides built in; Solid Affiliate has no multi-tier at all
Pays affiliates for the brand; Solid Affiliate uses the brand's own PayPal
Works beyond WooCommerce via S2S API and Stripe Checkout
Public partner directory

What Solid Affiliate users say

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

Praise

Trustpilot reviewers say setup is quick and the interface straightforward ie.trustpilot.com
Several Trustpilot reviewers praise fast, attentive support ie.trustpilot.com

Complaints

3-star (Dec 2024, updated Feb 2026): no meaningful updates since late 2024 and no tiered affiliate commissions, so the reviewer switched ie.trustpilot.com
2-star (Apr 2025): paid Pro 'priority support' extremely slow, no reply for weeks ie.trustpilot.com
1-star (Dec 2021): says the company treats customers poorly ie.trustpilot.com

About Solid Affiliate

In their words:: "The Best WooCommerce Affiliate Plugin for WordPress"
Company:: Solid Plugins, LLC
Named customers:: Breakdance (Louis Reingold, CEO), WP All Import (Joe Guilmette, VP), WP Debug Toolkit
Website:: solidaffiliate.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 Solid Affiliate (4), checked 12 October 2026

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