Shopify app affiliate program

Launch an affiliate program for your Shopify app in 15 minutes. Connect your Shopify Partner account, and affiliates earn a commission on every charge Shopify bills the stores they send.

Launch your Shopify app affiliate program today. 14 days free, no credit card.

Trusted and loved by amazing startups

High Performer on G2, Fall 2026
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Setup

Connect your Partner account and add one script to your site: your app’s affiliate program can be live within 15 minutes, with nothing to change in your app.

Shopify Partners · Settings
// In Shopify: Partners Dashboard > Settings > Partner API clients// > Manage Partner API clients > Create API clientName: ToltPermissions:  View financials  Manage apps

Only your Partner organization’s owner can create API clients.

Nothing to change in your billing

Shopify keeps billing your merchants as it does today. Tolt reads the charges from your Partner account, so your app’s billing code stays as it is.

“Tolt allowed us to launch our affiliate program very quickly, without heavy development on our part. The integration was simple, and the tracking of links and commissions is reliable and transparent, both for us and our affiliates.”
Romuald P.CEO & co-founder, on G2

Not selling on Shopify? Check our other integrations.

Stripe affiliate programPaddle affiliate programChargebee affiliate program

Rather do it together? We’ll connect Shopify Partners with you on live chat. Our other setup guides are in the help center: Integrations

Synced with Shopify Partners

Tolt reads your app’s installs and charges from your Partner account. Each affiliate’s earnings follow the stores they sent: up when a store pays, back on a refund, stopped when it uninstalls.

Every event goes by Shopify’s own name for it, so your Partners Dashboard and Tolt tell the same story.

Features

15-minute integration

Connect your Shopify Partner account and add one script to your site: your app’s affiliate program can be live in about 15 minutes. Billing outside Shopify too? Tolt also works with Stripe, Paddle and Chargebee.

Branded portal for your affiliates

Change the look and feel of your affiliate portal to match your app’s brand. Your affiliates might be your merchants, or the agencies and creators who build their stores, so make them feel at home. Use your own domain, like affiliates.yourdomain.com.

See the affiliate portal

Fast and easy payouts for affiliates

Easily export all pending payouts and use PayPal Mass Payments or Wise Batch Payment to pay your affiliates. Or just let us pay your affiliates: turn on auto payouts and don’t worry about payments anymore.

See auto payouts

An easy way to manage your affiliate program

Invite, track and manage your affiliates with a point and a click: edit, delete and view affiliates and referrals within two clicks. See how your affiliates are doing, compare them, and check their conversion rate, earnings and more.

Take a look inside our dashboard

Why affiliates

Agencies, store builders and creators recommend apps to merchants every day. An affiliate program gives them a reason to recommend yours, and you pay commission only on what Shopify bills.

What it could add

$8,700a month

in new MRR after a year, from 300 new stores on Shopify

25
1
$29
30%
Paid to affiliates, a month
$2,610
Yours to keep, a month
$6,090
Tolt’s cut of it
0%

An estimate, not a promise: it assumes no store uninstalls, a commission on every charge, and comes before Shopify’s share and fees.

Why Tolt

Yes, there are other affiliate software providers. Here’s what we offer, next to what you’ll find with our competitors.

What we offerOur competitors
Beautiful branded UI for your affiliates, with your own domain on every planRewardful and FirstPromoter charge $99 a month for your own domain
0% of your revenue, on feature-rich pricing plansPartnerStack takes a share of every commission your partners earn
Integrates with Stripe and Paddle, Billing and ClassicRewardful and PartnerStack work with Paddle Classic only, not Paddle Billing
Integrates with ChargebeeRewardful has no Chargebee integration
Auto payouts with PayPal, Wise, bank or wire, on every planRewardful charges 3% to pay partners, and FirstPromoter pays them on Enterprise only
Especially built for SaaS startups, billed monthlyPartnerStack sells a yearly contract, paid up front, after a demo

Our competitors’ side as their own pricing pages, help centers and docs describe it, as of 9–13 October 2026. Each comparison page has the sources.

More features that make us better than the competition.

  • Easy to use

    Our intuitive dashboard is specifically made to lower the time you spend managing your affiliate program.

  • Percentage or fixed commission

    Offer your affiliates a percentage of your app’s plans, or a fixed commission for every store that pays.

  • Synced with Shopify Partners

    New installs, charges, refunds and uninstalls reach your affiliates’ earnings from your Partner account.

  • Manually approve affiliates

    Approve all affiliates automatically or have them apply for access, in a public or a private affiliate program.

  • Custom email notifications

    Edit and brand the emails your affiliates get, including the payout email, new referrals and more.

  • Cross subdomain tracking

    It doesn’t matter if your app is hosted on a subdomain like app.domain.com: Tolt tracks your root domain and subdomains just fine.

The platform

Run your entire affiliate program. One app for your team, one portal for your affiliates.

When a referred customer pays, Tolt credits the right partner, applies your commission rules, checks the sale for fraud and lines up the payout.

See the whole platform

Shopify FAQ

Tolt and Shopify

01Does Tolt work with Shopify apps?

Yes. Tolt connects to your Shopify Partner account and reads your app’s installs and charges, so you can run an affiliate program for any app you sell on the Shopify App Store. If you also bill outside Shopify, Tolt works with Stripe, Paddle and Chargebee too.

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02How do affiliate referrals work for a Shopify app?

An affiliate shares their link to your app. When a store installs your app through it, Tolt credits that affiliate with the store, and every charge Shopify bills the store from then on becomes their commission, as your commission rules set it.

03Which Shopify charges earn commission?

Subscription charges, usage charges and one-time charges, as Shopify reports them in your Partner account. Refunds and downgrades come through as adjustments, and Tolt takes the commission back.

  • AppSubscriptionSale
  • AppUsageSale
  • AppOneTimeSale
  • AppSaleAdjustment
04What happens if a store uninstalls or gets a refund?

When a store uninstalls your app or cancels its subscription, we stop calculating commissions for its affiliate. And on refunds, we deduct the commission from the affiliate.

Refund in Shopify
−$199.00
Commission taken back
−$59.70
Uninstall
Commissions stop

Setting up

05How long does it take to set up?

About 15 minutes: create a Partner API client, connect it to Tolt and add the tracking script to your site. You can always reach us on live chat, and we can connect Shopify Partners together.

15 minFrom start to your first referral
06Which permissions does Tolt need?

A Partner API client with View financials, for your app’s transactions, and Manage apps, for its installs, uninstalls and charges. Only your Partner organization’s owner can create one, in the Partners Dashboard under Settings.

  • View financials
  • Manage apps
07Do I need to change my app’s billing?

No. Shopify keeps billing your merchants through its Billing API as it does today, and Tolt reads the charges from your Partner account.

08Can I track stores before they pay?

Yes. A store that installs your app through an affiliate’s link joins that affiliate’s customers on its trial, and turns active once Shopify starts billing it.

Plans and payments

09Is there a free trial?

Yes, a 14-day free trial, so you have enough time to see if affiliate marketing will work for your startup. Plus, we don’t require a credit card for the trial.

14 daysFree, no credit card
10How can I pay my affiliates?

Export your pending payouts and pay them with PayPal Mass Payments or Wise Batch Payment. Or turn on auto payouts, on every plan, and we pay your affiliates for you, by PayPal, Wise, local bank or wire.

PayPalWise
Auto payouts
11What’s Tolt’s refund policy?

We have a 30-day refund policy. If either affiliate marketing or Tolt isn’t the right fit for your SaaS, you can request a full refund within 30 days, no questions asked.

30 daysFull refund, no questions asked

  • 14 days free, no credit card
  • Live in about 15 minutes
  • 0% of your revenue, on every plan