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Scale Your Creator Affiliate Program & Automate Payouts

Are you drowning in spreadsheets trying to track your influencer affiliate program? Manually matching discount codes to sales, calculating tiered commissions, and processing payouts is a recipe for errors, wasted hours, and strained partner relationships. This administrative nightmare prevents you from scaling your most powerful marketing channel.

This playbook introduces the Digital Creator & SaaS Stack, a powerful combination designed to automate and scale your affiliate marketing. By integrating Rewardful directly with your Stripe account, you can instantly and accurately track every sale from your affiliates—no more manual code checking. Paired with ConvertKit, you can build a robust communication system to onboard, engage, and motivate your affiliates, ensuring they have everything they need to succeed.

Expected Outcomes

  • Eliminate manual tracking and attribution errors.
  • Automatically calculate and process tiered affiliate commission payouts.
  • Free up administrative time to focus on growing your business and recruiting top-tier affiliates.
  • Improve relationships with influencers through timely, accurate payments and clear communication.
  • Gain a clear, real-time view of your affiliate program's performance.

Core Tools in This Stack

Rewardful

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Rewardful helps SaaS companies and subscription-based businesses create and manage affiliate and referral programs by integrating directly with payment gateways like Stripe and Paddle.

Key Features
  • Direct Stripe & Paddle Integration
  • Automated Commission Management
  • Customizable Affiliate Portal
  • Referral & Affiliate Link Tracking
  • Coupon Code Tracking
  • PayPal Mass Payouts
  • Double-sided incentives
Ideal For

Company Size: Micro, Small, Medium

Industries: Technology & Software, Business & Professional Services, Creative & Media

Pricing

Model: Subscription, Free Trial

Tier: Mid-range

Ease of Use

Easy

ConvertKit

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The creator marketing platform that helps you grow your audience, foster community, and earn a living online by managing email lists, automations, and selling digital products.

Key Features
  • Visual Automation Builder
  • Landing Pages & Forms
  • Audience Segmentation and Tagging
  • Sell Digital Products & Paid Newsletters
  • Customizable Email Templates
  • Creator Network for Audience Growth
Ideal For

Company Size: Micro, Small

Industries: Creative & Media, Education & Non-Profit, Health & Wellness

Pricing

Model: Freemium, Subscription

Tier: Medium

Ease of Use

High

The Workflow

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Integration Logic

  • Stripe

    When a customer completes a purchase via a Stripe checkout, Stripe acts as the central event hub. It sends payment confirmation data to both Rewardful and ConvertKit. Rewardful receives the customer and payment information, checks for a referral cookie, and if one exists, it creates and attributes a commission to the correct affiliate. Simultaneously, ConvertKit receives the payment data, identifies the customer by their email, tags them as a 'customer' (or with a product-specific tag), and can trigger post-purchase email automations.

Automate & Scale Your Creator Program

Stop drowning in spreadsheets and learn how to build a scalable, error-free affiliate system.