App guide
How to get affiliates on Refersion
Refersion gives you a free marketplace listing, a sign-up page and a post-purchase widget. Its pages say listing is free but approving affiliates needs a paid plan, and brands cannot message affiliates first. So its free tools bring in people who choose to apply. This page covers what Refersion gives you, what it costs and where it stops. For the steps, see our recruiting guide.
An affiliate is anyone who sends you buyers for a cut of each sale. That cut is the commission. A marketplace is a directory where affiliates browse brands and apply. A creator is someone with an audience on Instagram, TikTok or YouTube. Blogs, review sites, podcasts and newsletters can be affiliates too.
Facts about Refersion below come from its pricing page, blog and Shopify App Store listing. Each has the date we read it. Our other guides go deeper, and we link each where it applies.
What ways does Refersion give you to find affiliates?
Refersion's recruiting guide lists five (Refersion blog, last modified 14 June 2024, checked 23 October 2026):
- Marketplace. You publish an offer, and affiliates browse and apply. See how the marketplace works.
- Registration page. A sign-up page you link or embed on your site.
- Post-purchase widget. A pop-up after checkout that invites customers to sign up.
- Affiliate Recommendations. Refersion introduces you to affiliates whose audience matches yours.
- Premium Ecommerce Affiliates. A paid service where Refersion's publisher team helps find and onboard partners. The blog gives no price.
Our recruiting guide covers each one.
What does Refersion cost?
Plans on its pricing page, checked 23 October 2026 (Refersion pricing):
- Marketplace Listing is free. It gives a public listing that affiliates can view and apply to. Reviewing or approving affiliates, tracking referrals and paying commission need a paid plan, per its pricing FAQ.
- Launch is $39 a month, or $29 a month billed yearly, plus 3% of affiliate-driven sales. It lists unlimited affiliates and "Personalized affiliate discovery".
- Growth is $199 a month, or $159 a month billed yearly, plus 2% of affiliate-driven sales.
- Scale has no listed price. You contact sales.
The pricing page mentions no free trial. The Shopify App Store listing is rated 4.8 from 495 reviews (Shopify App Store, checked 23 October 2026).
What do brands say about finding affiliates with it?
These are single opinions, picked to show a range, from the App Store reviews page when we read it. One brand praised hand-picked matches: "personally curating a list of affiliate matches aligned with our brand" (Shopify App Store review, 26 November 2025). The review does not say which Refersion service that was. Another called Refersion "overpriced" and "completely inflexible" (13 November 2025). A third wrote "The staff are responsive and helpful" (17 August 2026). We found no review that measured how many good affiliates the marketplace sent. Test it on your own store.
What gets good affiliates to join?
Use the free routes first: a marketplace listing and a sign-up page. Then email people who already promote shops like yours, and send them your sign-up link. Our step-by-step recruiting guide has the steps and a sample email. Our guide to the Refersion marketplace covers what a listing can and can't do.
How does RecruitAffiliates.ai work with Refersion?
It works alongside Refersion, with no integration. It does the finding and the emailing for you. You type your website. It finds sites, blogs, newsletters, podcasts, YouTube channels and creators who appear to promote or write about your rivals. It gets each person's verified email and sends the outreach from your inbox. You handle the replies. In our scan, about 3 in 10 people shown had an address on record. None were checked.
Every email carries your own Refersion sign-up link. People join through that link. Refersion stays your tracker. Compare it with others in Refersion alternatives. To size your list first, try our free affiliate calculator. See our pricing. Launch costs $79 a month, and you can try it free for 7 days with no card.
Here is what we found when we ran the find step on 30 hand-picked public Shopify brands. We did not record which of them use Refersion. We sent no emails, so we have no reply or sign-up rate.
We ran this · 22 October 2026
We ran our scanner on 30 public Shopify brands
- A first search showed a median of about 92 people per brand, from 35 to 188.
- Of the 2,924 people shown, 1,877 (64%) had a review, roundup or comparison page as their strongest evidence. Another 573 (20%) were blog-style pages.
- 916 of the 2,924 (31%) had an email address on record. These were found, not checked for delivery in this test.
- An AI model read 30 random rows against each page's title and address, without opening the pages. 19 were a clear fit, 2 a loose fit and 9 (30%, a range of about 17% to 48%) were not promoters.
A first search for a brand, 22 Oct 2026, 30 public Shopify brands in all. It stopped at finding addresses and ran no email checks, which the product runs when a campaign starts (what each result means). In a 30-row check, 9 were not promoters (likely 17% to 48%). Full method and limits.
Questions people ask
What's the easiest way to get affiliates on Refersion?
List your offer on the marketplace, which Refersion says is free, and link your registration page. Both wait for people to find you, so also email people yourself. Steps are in our recruiting guide.
Does Refersion find affiliates for you?
Partly. Its recruiting guide lists Affiliate Recommendations and a paid Premium Ecommerce Affiliates service (Refersion blog, last modified 14 June 2024). The pricing page lists "Personalized affiliate discovery" on Launch without defining it. Ask Refersion what it includes.
Do you need a paid plan to use the marketplace?
Listing is free. Approving the people who apply is not. See the marketplace guide.
Is RecruitAffiliates.ai a Refersion app?
No. It is a web app that works alongside Refersion. It finds people and emails them your own sign-up link. It has no Refersion integration.
Sources
All checked on 23 October 2026, apart from the review and article dates shown.
- Refersion, pricing, plans, fees, free listing, FAQ.
- Refersion blog, affiliate recruiting solutions, the recruiting methods.
- Shopify App Store, Refersion, plans, 4.8 from 495 reviews.
- Shopify App Store, Refersion reviews, the three quoted reviews.