Shopify App Affiliate Programs: Verified Commission Terms (2026)

Of the 13 Shopify app affiliate programs we checked, only 7 publish their actual commission terms. The other 6 either say nothing on their partner page or route affiliates into a private application with no public rate attached.

Here is the method: every figure in the table below was read directly from the vendor's own affiliate or partner page, not copied from a third-party roundup. Each row links to the exact source page we used, so you can verify it yourself. Where a vendor does not publish a number, we left that row blank instead of repeating a figure from a listicle we could not verify against a primary source. That is the whole reason this page exists: most "Shopify affiliate programs" lists circulating online cite numbers nobody can trace back to the vendor.

The clearest example is Shopify's own affiliate program. Most roundups describe it as a recurring percentage of subscription revenue. It is not. Shopify pays a flat, one-time bounty per qualifying referral: $150 in higher-value regions (the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the EU, Japan, Hong Kong, China, and the Middle East) and $25 everywhere else, with no recurring component at all. If a list tells you Shopify pays a monthly percentage, that list is wrong.

One disclosure before you read the table: Eevy AI, the company publishing this page, is a Shopify app with its own affiliate program, and it is listed here too, in the same format as everyone else. We are not hiding that. Eevy's base rate of 30% is the highest base rate in this table, but it is not the highest ceiling: Gorgias reaches 40% at its Diamond tier, which requires 100+ referrals to unlock. We would rather publish our own number next to a competitor's higher peak rate than build a comparison that quietly omits the one case that makes us look less than first.

The table below covers six things for each program: the base commission rate any affiliate starts at, the peak rate available at the top tier (and what unlocks it, if anything), whether the commission recurs on every payment or is a one-time payout, how long the recurring window lasts, and the minimum balance required before a payout is issued. Programs are sorted by base rate, highest to lowest, with the programs that publish nothing grouped at the bottom.

Program	Base rate	Peak rate	Recurring	Duration	Payout min
Eevy AI	30%	30%	Yes	18 months	$50
Gorgias	20%	40% (100+ referrals)	Yes	2 years	Not stated
Okendo	20%	20%	Yes	Not stated	Not stated
Privy	10%	20% (Platinum)	Yes	Life of subscription	Not specified
Rebuy	5%	20% (+5% managed)	Yes	12 months	$200
Vitals	10%	25% (30+ refs/mo)	Yes	Life of subscription	$100
Recharge	10%	10%	Yes	12 months	Not specified
Shopify (own program)	$150 flat	$150 flat	No, one-time	One-time	$10
Yotpo	Not published	Not published	Not published	Not published	Not published
Judge.me	Not published	Not published	Not published	Not published	Not published
Loox	Not published	Not published	Not published	Not published	Not published
Stamped	Not published	Not published	Not published	Not published	Not published
Klaviyo	Not published	Not published	Not published	Not published	Not published
Smile.io	Not published	Not published	Not published	Not published	Not published

What the verified programs actually pay

Gorgias

Gorgias runs a tiered percentage program: 20% at the base Coral tier, 22% at Gold (5 to 19 referrals), 25% at Platinum (20 to 100 referrals), and 40% at Diamond, which requires 100 or more referrals. The commission is recurring and pays out for 2 years per referred merchant, the longest duration of any verified program on this page. Gorgias's affiliate page does not state a cookie window or a payout minimum, so both are listed as not stated rather than assumed. Source: gorgias.com/affiliate-program.

The 40% figure is the highest ceiling in this table, above Eevy's flat 30%, but it only applies once an affiliate has driven 100+ referrals. At the base tier, Gorgias pays 20%, the same base rate as Okendo and half of Eevy's flat 30%.

The climb between tiers is uneven. Coral to Gold needs only 5 referrals for a 2-point bump, from 20% to 22%. Gold to Platinum needs 20 referrals for a 3-point bump, to 25%. Platinum to Diamond needs 100 total referrals, a much steeper climb, for the jump to 40%. In practice, most affiliates will sit somewhere in the 20 to 25% range; the 40% headline rate describes the top of a curve that only a high-volume partner reaches, not the return a typical affiliate should plan around.

Okendo

Per Okendo's partner documentation, the agency partner program pays a 20% revenue share on closed deals. The article does not state whether this recurs for a fixed number of months or for the life of the account, so duration is not stated. It likewise does not state a cookie window or a payout minimum. This is a medium-confidence source: it is a help-center article aimed at agency partners, not a standalone terms-of-service document, so treat the 20% figure as the clearest public number available rather than a fully specified contract. Source: Okendo partner documentation.

The source article is titled around Okendo's "agency partner program" specifically, not a general affiliate program, though the article does not state an eligibility restriction either way. The bigger gap is duration: because neither a cookie window nor a commission duration is stated, an affiliate cannot tell from the public documentation how long a click stays attributed before it must convert, or how long the 20% keeps paying once a deal closes. That is a wider gap than most of the other verified programs, all of which state at least a duration even in cases like Gorgias where the cookie window is also unstated.

Privy

Privy's partner program agreement lays out a tiered structure: 10% at the entry Affiliate and Silver tiers, 15% at Gold, and 20% at Platinum. The commission recurs for as long as the referred merchant stays subscribed and the affiliate remains an "Active Partner," which Privy defines in the agreement itself. Registration on a referred lead expires after 90 days if it does not convert. Privy's page does not specify a payout minimum.

One clause worth calling out on its own: if the referred merchant redeems a discount code, Privy's commission on that account drops to 5%, regardless of tier. No other program's public page states a discount-linked commission reduction, so this is a real term to model before promoting a discount alongside a Privy referral link. Source: privy.com/partner-program-agreement.

This is Privy's own partner program agreement, a legal document rather than a marketing or help-center page, putting it in the same source tier as Recharge's terms rather than Okendo's or Rebuy's help-center articles. Privy also does not use cookie language at all: instead of a browser cookie window, the agreement expires a registered lead after 90 days if it has not converted, which functions the same way a cookie window does elsewhere on this table. It sets a hard deadline on how long a referral stays attributed to the affiliate who registered it, just expressed as a registration expiry rather than a click-tracking window.

Rebuy

Rebuy pays 5 to 15% typically, rising to 20%, with an additional 5% managed revenue share available to partners who actively manage the account, which requires an aggregate $500 in monthly recurring revenue across managed accounts. The commission is recurring for 12 months per referral. Rebuy does not state a cookie window. The payout minimum is $200, paid via PayPal, the highest stated payout floor of the verified programs. Source: Rebuy partner payouts.

Like Okendo's source, this is a help-center article, titled around partner payouts specifically rather than a standalone partnership agreement, so treat it with the same medium confidence. The base range itself is published loosely: "5 to 15% typically, rising to 20%" describes what partners tend to earn, not a set of named tiers with explicit referral-count thresholds the way Gorgias or Vitals publish theirs. The $500 aggregate monthly recurring revenue bar for the extra 5% managed share is stated precisely, though, and it favors agencies running several managed accounts over a single affiliate promoting one referral link, since one small referred store is unlikely to generate $500 in MRR on its own. With no cookie window stated and a 12-month recurring cap, an affiliate also cannot verify how long a click stays attributed before it needs to convert, only that the commission itself stops paying after 12 months per referral regardless of when the merchant converted.

Vitals

Vitals pays 10% at 1 to 10 referrals a month, 20% at 11 to 29, and 25% at 30 or more, recurring for the life of the subscription with a 30-day cookie and a $100 payout minimum. Those tier percentages come from Vitals's affiliates marketing page. Source: vitals.app/affiliates-program.

Worth reporting on its own: the separate terms document at vitals.app/affiliates/terms states no percentage at all. The commission structure that affiliates actually see is published on the marketing page, not the legal terms page that governs the relationship. That is a gap, not a contradiction we can resolve from outside the program, so we are reporting both: the marketing page's numbers, and the fact that the terms page does not restate them.

One structural detail worth flagging: Vitals's tiers are tied to that month's referral volume, not a lifetime total. An affiliate who refers 30 merchants in one month earns 25% on those referrals, then drops back to 10% the next month if volume falls to single digits. That is different from Gorgias's tiers, which accumulate over the lifetime of the partnership and only move up. A Vitals affiliate's rate can move in both directions month to month, which matters when projecting earnings from a single strong month rather than sustained volume.

Recharge

Recharge pays 10% of what it calls Qualified Merchant Revenue, recurring for 12 months only. The agreement does not state a cookie window or a payout minimum. Recharge is the only verified program in this table with a single flat rate and no tier to climb, base and peak are both 10%. Source: Recharge agency partner terms.

The source document is titled "agency partner terms," the same framing Okendo uses for its own program, and different from the plain "affiliate" language Gorgias, Privy, Rebuy, and Vitals use for theirs. Recharge does not define what makes revenue "Qualified" beyond using the term, so it is not possible to confirm from the public page alone whether refunds, discounts, or specific plan tiers are excluded from the 10% base. The practical consequence of the 12-month cap is the one worth planning around: commission on a referred merchant stops after 12 months while that merchant keeps paying Recharge every month after that, so a Recharge referral's total lifetime value to an affiliate is capped even for a merchant who stays subscribed for years.

Shopify (own program)

Shopify's own affiliate program pays a flat, one-time bounty per qualifying referral rather than a percentage of anything: $150 in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the EU, Japan, Hong Kong, China, and the Middle East, and $25 in Africa, India, Latin America, and the rest of Asia. There is no recurring component. Click tracking runs on a 30-day cookie, but Shopify separately tracks a referred merchant's trial-to-paid conversion for up to 400 days, so a bounty can still land well after the initial click. The payout minimum is $10 USD, paid through Impact. Source: help.shopify.com/en/affiliates/earnings.

The source is a help-center earnings article rather than a standalone contract, the same tier of document as Okendo's and Rebuy's sources. The $125 gap between the $150 and $25 regions is the largest geography-driven swing on this table: every other verified program pays the same rate regardless of where the referred merchant is based, so region mix matters more to a Shopify affiliate's expected payout per referral than it does anywhere else in this table. Because the bounty is flat and one-time, an affiliate's earnings scale only with referral count and region, not with how long a merchant stays subscribed or how much they grow, the opposite of every recurring program on this page, where a single high-retention referral can compound in value for months or years after the initial click.

Two things every other list gets wrong

Shopify's program is a one-time bounty, not a recurring percentage

The single most repeated error in Shopify affiliate roundups is describing Shopify's own program as a recurring percentage of subscription revenue. It is not. Per help.shopify.com/en/affiliates/earnings, Shopify pays a flat $150 bounty per qualifying referral in its higher-value regions, and a flat $25 bounty everywhere else (Africa, India, Latin America, and the rest of Asia). That bounty pays once, on that one referral, and nothing more.

A "Basic $58 / Advanced $598" figure still circulates on some pages. That number described Shopify's earlier 200%-bounty model, which has been retired. Citing it today describes a program Shopify no longer runs.

The practical consequence matters more than the correction itself: one Shopify referral pays $150 once. One Gorgias referral, by contrast, pays 20 to 40% of that merchant's subscription, recurring for 2 years. Gorgias's own page states the commission as recurring for that duration; it does not state a monthly cadence, so we report it exactly as published rather than assuming a monthly payout. A list that puts these two programs side by side as if they were the same kind of payout, both described loosely as "commission," is misrepresenting the economics an affiliate should actually expect. Comparing them on rate alone, without noting that one is one-time and the other recurs for 2 years, understates Shopify's own program and overstates how it compares to recurring alternatives.

Privy is recurring for the life of the subscription, not "15% first year"

A "15% first year" figure for Privy shows up across multiple ranking pages. Per Privy's own partner program agreement, that is not what the program pays. Privy's commission is tiered from 10 to 20% (10% at Affiliate and Silver, 15% at Gold, 20% at Platinum) and it recurs for as long as the referred merchant keeps the subscription, not for a single year.

The agreement also states a term no competing page mentions: if the referred merchant redeems a discount code, the commission on that account drops to 5%, regardless of tier. An affiliate promoting Privy alongside a discount offer is not earning the tiered rate on that referral, they are earning 5%. That clause changes the real economics of pairing a Privy link with a coupon, and it is the kind of term that only shows up by reading the agreement itself rather than a third-party summary of it.

The six programs that publish nothing

Six of the fourteen programs in the table above have a row that reads "Not published" all the way across: Yotpo, Judge.me, Loox, Stamped, Klaviyo, and Smile.io. That is a report of what we found, or did not find, on each vendor's own site as of the verification date. We are not saying these programs are secretive or that anyone is hiding anything, only that we could not find a published commission rate, duration, or payout minimum on their public affiliate or partner pages. Any number attached to these six names elsewhere is not sourced to the vendor.

Yotpo, Loox, and Stamped each have some form of partner or referral page, but none of the three states a commission percentage, a recurring duration, a cookie window, or a payout minimum anywhere we could find. An applicant has to apply first and presumably learn the terms afterward, which means the terms are not public in the way Gorgias's or Vitals's are.

Judge.me needs a specific caveat rather than a flat "not published." Their program appears to run on Mantle, and the public description frames it in credits toward swag, free trial extensions, and co-marketing rather than a cash percentage of revenue. It may not be a cash affiliate program at all in the sense the other rows in this table are, and we are not confident enough in that reading to state it as fact, so treat the hedge as deliberate rather than a hole in our research.

Klaviyo and Smile.io are a different kind of gap. Both run partner ecosystems oriented toward agencies and solution partners rather than individual affiliates, and neither publishes a commission percentage on a page we could find that is open to the public without an application or a partner-manager conversation first.

The pattern worth naming and leaving alone: the review apps in this table (Yotpo, Judge.me, Loox, Stamped) are the least transparent about commission terms, while Vitals, Gorgias, and Privy publish real, specific numbers on pages anyone can read without applying first. That is a factual grouping, not a judgment about which category of app runs a better program.

One naming note for anyone cross-checking this against other lists: ReConvert, a Shopify upsell and cross-sell app that used to run its own affiliate program under that name, rebranded to Upsell.com. Most existing affiliate roundups still refer to it as ReConvert, which is another example of the kind of stale detail that spreads when nobody checks the primary source.

Why the six blank rows matter if you are the one deciding what to promote: an undisclosed rate is a real risk, not just an inconvenience. You cannot model what a referral is worth to you before you apply, so you cannot compare a Yotpo referral against a Vitals referral, or decide which app is worth building content around, until after you have already committed to the relationship. Every program with a published number lets you do that math up front. The six that do not, do not.

Eevy AI

One disclosure again, in its own section this time rather than a footnote: Eevy AI, the company publishing this page, runs its own affiliate program, and we are holding it to the same factual register as every other row in this table.

Eevy AI is a conversion optimization operating system for Shopify. It runs two layers of testing at once: it finds the winning content to show on a product page (reviews, images, UGC video, FAQs, guarantees, expert endorsements) and the winning way to present it (layouts, sections, styling), and it proves the exact revenue it added. Describing it only as a list of the content types it tests misses that second layer, the part that decides how that content gets shown, and it runs autonomously rather than needing someone to set up and read each test by hand.

Eevy's affiliate terms: 30% of everything a referred merchant pays, every month, for 18 months. The payout minimum is $50. Tracking and payouts run on Shoffi, an affiliate platform built for Shopify apps. Attribution is wired directly into the app install flow rather than tracked with a browser cookie, so unlike Vitals's 30-day cookie or Privy's 90-day registration expiry, there is no window that can lapse before the install completes. Agencies managing several client stores can apply through a dedicated agency partner track at the same 30% rate instead of the self-serve signup.

Here is the honest comparison, measured against the same table above. Gorgias beats Eevy at the top: its 40% Diamond tier, unlocked at 100 or more referrals, is higher than Eevy's flat 30%, and its 2-year duration is longer than Eevy's 18 months. Vitals and Privy both beat Eevy on duration too: both pay for the life of the referred merchant's subscription, not a fixed 18-month window, though both cap lower than Eevy on rate, at 25% and 20% respectively. What Eevy wins on is the base rate: 30% is the highest starting rate in this table, and there is no volume tier to climb to reach it. An affiliate's first referral earns the same 30% as their hundredth.

If that trade-off works for you, the terms are on the Eevy AI affiliate program page.

How we verified this

Every figure in this table and in the sections above was read directly from the vendor's own affiliate, partner, or terms page on 2026-07-16. Each verified row links to the exact page we used, so the claim is checkable, not just citable. Where a vendor's page stated nothing for a field, the row says so rather than filling in a number from a third-party list we could not trace back to a primary source.

Affiliate and partner terms change without much notice, sometimes in a vendor's favor and sometimes in an affiliate's. A number that is accurate today can be stale in six months. This page gets re-verified periodically rather than published once and left alone, and if a program that currently publishes nothing starts publishing terms, or a verified program changes its rate, this page is where that update lands. If you are citing a figure from here in your own writing, cite the vendor's source link next to it rather than this page alone, since the vendor's own page is the one that is authoritative if the two ever disagree.

If you run a Shopify-focused audience and want to see how Eevy's own program compares once you have read all thirteen competitors, the full breakdown is on the affiliate program page.