Affiliate commissions should not be one size fits all.
Rewarding affiliates only after a paid conversion works for some products.
But for many SaaS companies, the important steps happen earlier.
A qualified lead.
A demo request.
A trial start.
That’s why I’ve been adding more flexible reward models to Affonso.
First Pay Per Lead.
Now Pay Per Trial.
With Pay Per Trial, brands can reward affiliates the moment a referred user starts a trial.
It gives SaaS companies more room to build their affiliate program around their actual funnel.
Especially when the sales cycle is longer, that flexibility can make a big difference.
Affiliates get rewarded earlier.
Brands get more product signups.
The program becomes easier to activate.
I don’t want Affonso to be just affiliate tracking software.
My goal is to build a marketplace where SaaS companies can find active affiliates, and affiliates can find good products to promote.
That’s what I’m focused on right now.
More active affiliates means more revenue potential for every program on the platform.
Distribution is the real unlock.
Never asked for this review, which honestly makes it even better.
One of my customers just shared on @ProductHunt that Affonso helps them manage their affiliate program and that the affiliate finder saves them a ton of manual work.
Still a lot to improve, but moments like this are a nice reminder that the product is moving in the right direction.
Thanks Lade 🙏
One person. Somewhere in the world. Talking about your product.
Sometimes, that's all it takes to change your entire trajectory.
Once you have product-market fit and organic sales, setting up an affiliate program is a no-brainer.
You'll never predict where the breakout comes from.
I @useAffonso by @zilvestro for having affiliate program for my SaaS and highly recommend it.
Top product 👌🏼
Completely forgot to mention this. 😱😱
The risk center has been live for a while now.
Been deep in shipping and growth lately, so it kind of flew under the radar.
Which is ironic, because this is the stuff that actually matters.
If you’ve been around affiliate long enough, you know where money gets lost.
Brand bidding, self-referrals, disposable emails, paid traffic, low-quality traffic..
Nothing breaks.
But your margins slowly bleed.
That’s what the risk center is for.
Seeing what’s actually going on.
And keeping control over it.
Not a flashy feature.
But probably one of the highest ROI things I’ve built.
Build your own AI affiliate manager.
I realized something recently.
I spend way too much time doing things that are basically decision loops.
- Checking new affiliates.
- Looking at traffic quality.
- Figuring out who to focus on.
- Catching weird behavior early.
That’s literally the job of an affiliate manager.
But most tools just give you a dashboard and expect you to do all of that manually.
So I started building this differently.
Instead of forcing you into a UI, everything in Affonso is accessible programmatically.
Which means you can plug an AI directly into your affiliate program and let it handle the day to day work.
Not in a “AI wrapper” way.
This thing can actually run your program with you!!
Screen affiliates.
Catch bad patterns early.
Focus your attention where it matters.
You move from reacting to having something that actively helps you run the system.
Feels less like using a tool and more like having an actual affiliate manager next to you.
And honestly, this is where it gets interesting.
Because once you set it up, you don’t really think in dashboards anymore.
You think in systems.
Custom affiliate program landing pages are coming to Affonso.
You’ll be able to use ready to go templates or build your own from scratch with reusable components.
Most affiliate programs have terrible landing pages.
Some don’t even have one.
That’s about to change.