ViralPayouts: affiliate software with no monthly fee

# ViralPayouts > Affiliate software with no monthly fee: it costs a brand nothing until its affiliates make it money, then a share of what partners are paid. Every partner can also recruit partners, and a recruiter earns an override only on approved sales of the partners they brought in. Two levels, never more. Every public page on this site also has a Markdown version with the same content: add .md to its address (the home page is /index.md), or request the page with "Accept: text/markdown". ## Key facts - Pricing: no monthly subscription and no setup fee. Option 1, "you pay your partners" (lowest price): 3.5% of what you pay partners, with no monthly fee, and nothing in a month with no payouts. ViralPayouts tracks the sales, works out every commission and override and makes the payout file or one-click payouts from the brand's own account; the money never passes through ViralPayouts. Option 2, "we pay your partners" (higher price because it does the work: ViralPayouts invoices the brand and pays every partner): 10% of what you pay partners on the first $10,000 a month, 5% on the rest. Option 3, "we recruit and pay": the "we pay" fee, plus 10% of what the partners we recruit for you earn, with a $2,500 bounty deposit credited to partner payouts. Programs paying partners $25,000 a month or more can agree a custom rate. Fees are added on top of commissions and reversed when a sale is refunded. A flat monthly plan from another tool can cost less at some sizes: the pricing and comparison pages work it out. - Payouts: under option 1 the brand pays its own partners and sends the money itself. Under option 2 ViralPayouts runs the payouts. The comparison pages state which tools pay affiliates for the brand. - Two levels: a partner's customer link and recruit link are kept separate. The recruiter override is set per program as a share of the commission, a share of the sale, or a fixed amount, and applies only to that program. - Sales are reported by the brand's server t

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