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The BigCommerce Creator Hub: Automate & Scale Your Influencer Marketing

Your influencer program is growing, but so is the administrative headache. Manually tracking sales from countless unique discount codes and affiliate links is a nightmare of spreadsheets, leading to payment errors, wasted hours, and strained relationships with the very creators driving your sales.

The BigCommerce Creator Hub is a low-cost, low-effort playbook for building a scalable influencer marketing engine. By integrating a creator-friendly affiliate platform with essential communication and link management tools, you can automate tracking, tiered commission management, and payouts. This frees you to focus on building relationships and growing your brand, not managing spreadsheets.

Expected Outcomes

  • Eliminate manual tracking and attribution errors for accurate performance data.
  • Automate the calculation and processing of tiered affiliate commissions and payouts.
  • Significantly reduce administrative time spent on affiliate program management.
  • Improve influencer satisfaction and retention with a transparent, professional system.
  • Confidently scale your influencer marketing program without increasing overhead.

Core Tools in This Stack

Refersion

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Refersion is a comprehensive affiliate and influencer marketing platform designed to help businesses launch, manage, and grow their partner programs. It automates commission tracking, provides personalized affiliate dashboards, and offers real-time analytics to scale referral-based revenue.

Key Features
  • Automated commission tracking
  • Custom-branded affiliate registration page
  • Personalized affiliate dashboard
  • Flexible commission structures (flat-rate, percentage, tiered)
  • Direct affiliate communication tools
  • Real-time performance analytics and reporting
  • Integrations with major e-commerce platforms (Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce)
  • Automated affiliate payouts
Ideal For

Company Size: Micro, Small, Medium, Large

Industries: Retail & E-commerce, Technology & Software, Health & Wellness, Creative & Media, Business & Professional Services

Pricing

Model: Subscription, Custom

Tier: Mid-range

Ease of Use

Medium

Mailchimp

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Mailchimp is an all-in-one marketing platform that helps small businesses and larger enterprises market smarter, not harder. It provides AI-powered tools to create and send engaging email campaigns, automate marketing tasks, manage audiences, and analyze campaign performance.

Key Features
  • Email Campaign Builder
  • Marketing Automation
  • Audience Management & Segmentation (CRM)
  • AI-powered Content Optimizer
  • Landing Page and Website Builder
  • A/B Testing
  • Advanced Reporting & Analytics
  • Extensive Integrations with other apps
Ideal For

Company Size: Micro, Small, Medium, Large

Industries: Technology & Software, Business & Professional Services, Retail & E-commerce, Creative & Media, Education & Non-Profit, Health & Wellness, Other

Pricing

Model: Free, Freemium, Subscription

Tier: Mid-tier

Ease of Use

User-Friendly

Linktree

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Linktree is a popular tool that allows users to create a personalized and easily-customizable landing page, housing all the important links they want to share on their social media profiles and beyond.

Key Features
  • Unlimited links
  • Customizable themes and backgrounds
  • Link scheduling
  • Analytics and traffic insights
  • Monetization tools (e.g., tips, affiliate links, payment lock)
  • Integrations with third-party apps (e.g., Mailchimp, Zapier)
  • QR code generation
  • Email and SMS collection forms
Ideal For

Company Size: Medium

Industries: Creative & Media, Retail & E-commerce, Technology & Software, Business & Professional Services, Health & Wellness, Education & Non-Profit

Pricing

Model: Free, Freemium, Subscription

Tier: Free

Ease of Use

Easy

The Workflow

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Integration Logic

  • Refersion Affiliate Onboarding Flow

    When an affiliate is approved in Refersion, it triggers a Zapier workflow. The workflow adds the affiliate as a new subscriber to a specific Mailchimp audience, applying a unique tag (e.g., 'new-affiliate'). This tag initiates a pre-built automated welcome email sequence in Mailchimp. The affiliate's unique tracking link from Refersion is passed into a custom field in Mailchimp, allowing it to be dynamically inserted into the welcome emails. The email content then provides the affiliate with their unique link and clear instructions on how to add it to their Linktree profile, along with other promotional resources.

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