Affiliate softwareFor founder-led SaaS & AI teams on Stripe
Install the Refport SDK, connect Stripe, and start tracking every referral through to a paying subscription. Give partners a branded portal and automate commissions and payouts without building the system yourself.
14-day free trialNo credit card requiredStripe SDK integration
Refport follows one referred visitor the whole way: the SDK stores the click, your server reports the signup, Stripe reports the subscription, and the commission is calculated from the revenue that subscription created — not from the click.
Example data, shown to illustrate the sequence. Names and amounts are placeholders, not customer results.
The whole path, with the real packages and the real Stripe metadata key. Nothing here is a placeholder API you have to guess at.
One package for React, Next.js, TanStack Start, and Remix. Not on React? Load the same tracker from a script tag with refport-js.
npm install @refport/react
Render it once near the root. It reads the refp_id click ID from a partner link and stores it in a first-party cookie. The leading dot keeps that cookie readable when visitors land on your site and sign up on an app subdomain.
import { RefportTracker } from "@refport/react"
export default function RootLayout({ children }) {
return (
<body>
<RefportTracker options={{ domain: ".example.com" }} />
{children}
</body>
)
}
Install the refport server SDK, read the refp_id cookie after the account is created, and report the lead. Wrap it so a tracking failure can never block a signup. On Better Auth, the @refport/better-auth plugin does this step for you.
import { Refport } from "refport"
const refport = new Refport({ apiKey: process.env.REFPORT_API_KEY })
await refport.track.lead({
clickId,
customerExternalId: user.id,
eventName: "Sign Up",
})
Connect Stripe from Settings → Integrations, then pass the same customer ID into your Checkout session. Refport receives the Stripe events, attributes the subscription to the referring partner, and shows it under Conversions. You write no webhook handler.
const session = await stripe.checkout.sessions.create({
mode: "subscription",
line_items: [{ price: priceId, quantity: 1 }],
metadata: { refportCustomerExternalId: user.id },
})
Connecting Stripe and creating the first program happen in the dashboard, so total time depends on your own auth and checkout code.
Four steps from a connected Stripe account to a live program: install the SDK, set the rules, invite the first partners, and let Refport attribute the subscriptions and settle the commissions.
Add the Refport tracker to your app, then connect your Stripe account from the dashboard. No webhook handler to write, nothing to replatform.
Set the commission rate, the attribution window, and whether partners are approved automatically or reviewed by hand.
Invite customers or creators by email, share one invite link, or let signed-in users enrol from the portal inside your product.
Refport credits each referred subscription to the right partner, holds the commission through your attribution window, then pays out via Stripe Connect.
14-day free Trial. No credit card required. Payouts start on a paid Plan.
Four outcomes, in the order they matter when you are launching: know who brings revenue, give partners something credible, settle the money, and stop running the whole thing by hand.
Revenue by partner, campaign, and source in real time, so you can tell which partners bring paying subscriptions and which only bring clicks.
A white-label portal embedded inside your product, where partners copy their link and follow their own clicks, conversions, and earnings.
Commissions calculated from confirmed sales and paid through Stripe Connect on your schedule, with clawbacks when Stripe reports a refund.
Commission rates, attribution windows, and approval rules live in the product, so nobody has to reconcile a referral spreadsheet at month end.
The infrastructure underneath: short links on your own domain, with geo and device routing so every partner click lands where it should.
Refport is built for teams launching or validating a partner channel for the first time. If you already run a partnerships department with tiered ecosystems and a dedicated affiliate manager, you will outgrow it.
You still talk to your own customers, and nobody in the company owns partnerships full time.
Subscriptions, invoices, and refunds already live in Stripe. Refport reads those events and credits them back to a partner.
You are launching or validating one program, not operating a partner ecosystem across several tiers and regions.
No affiliate manager, no commission spreadsheet, no in-house attribution service to keep alive.
Not on Stripe? Refport also ingests Shopify orders, and the REST API and webhooks cover custom billing — Stripe is simply the fastest path for a SaaS subscription.
Referral attribution, an embedded partner portal, payouts, and the branded links underneath them — in one focused workflow.
Features
Others
Pricing
The 14-day Trial includes referral tracking and the partner portal, but payouts start only on a paid Plan.
Multiple subscriptions
$49/month
Referral Tracking
End-to-end attribution from partner click to Stripe subscription.
Manual spreadsheets
Real-time
Branded Domains
Your own custom domains on every short link and portal.
Fragmented attribution
Automated
Partner Payouts
Automated payouts via Stripe Connect and PayPal.
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Embeddable Portal
White-label partner portal embedded directly in your product.
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The 14-day Trial is separate from every paid Plan and needs no credit card. It includes every paid Feature except payouts on its own tighter Limits. When it ends, choose a paid Plan to keep every Feature; your data and Links stay, Links beyond the first 100 deactivate, and your custom domain is released after seven days.
2 Programs, 3 seats and up to $10,000 in monthly Partner Revenue.
5 Programs, 10 seats and up to $30,000 in monthly Partner Revenue.
Unlimited Programs, seats, links and clicks, with a $60,000 monthly Partner Revenue Cap.
A custom Partner Revenue Cap, unlimited standard volumes and enterprise support.
Background on referral programs in general, not a measurement of Refport. Peer-reviewed research provides useful context, but it does not guarantee a specific outcome for every business. Results depend on the offer, audience, reward design, and measurement method.
A Journal of Marketing study followed approximately 10,000 bank customers for nearly three years. Referred customers had an average value at least 16% higher than comparable non-referred customers, although the advantage varied substantially by customer segment.
Read the peer-reviewed studyA separate field experiment reported that one referral reward design reduced defection from 19% to 7% and increased monthly revenue by 11.4% relative to a matched control group. The study supports testing incentive structure rather than assuming that every reward produces the same response.
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Install the SDK, connect Stripe, and see which partners bring paying subscriptions.
14-day free trial · No credit card required · Stripe SDK integration
