# Affiliate calculator for Shopify | RecruitAffiliates.ai

Source: https://recruitaffiliates.ai/free-tools/affiliate-calculator

Free tool

# How many affiliates do I need?

Say how much a month you want affiliates to sell. See how many active affiliates that takes, and how many people to contact to find them. It runs in your browser and nothing you type leaves the page.

By the RecruitAffiliates.ai team · Published 23 October 2026 · Sources checked on 23 October 2026 · [Editorial policy](https://recruitaffiliates.ai/editorial-policy) · [About us](https://recruitaffiliates.ai/about)

In short

At $5,000 a month in affiliate sales, $60 orders and 4 orders per active affiliate each month, a store needs about 21 active affiliates and 2,100 people to contact. The 25% active default is a vendor planning figure. Three of the inputs rest on weak evidence, so the page shows a low and a high case. They give 11 to 42 active affiliates and 617 to 21,000 people to contact.

An **affiliate** is a person or site that recommends your products and earns a cut of each sale they send you. An **active** one has sent at least one sale in the month.

## Your numbers

Monthly sales you want from affiliates ($)