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Affiliate payouts

Pay two hundred partners in one action

Paying affiliates one transfer at a time is the job that quietly eats a Friday. Referly groups every payable commission into one batch you approve, on PayPal, Wise, bank, store credit or coupons.

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  • 0% of your sales, every plan
  • Held through your refund window
  • Their currency, your schedule

$4,280.00 Payout Batch

READY

12 affiliates · Weekly · Held 30 days

  • Emma Larsen$1,284.00
  • Devon Reyes$862.40
  • Priya Nair$1,610.00

and 9 more

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Refund window cleared
One approval, 12 transfers

The rails

Five ways to pay, and one that pays for you

Every partner picks how they want the money. You pick which of those you support.

  • Batch API

    PayPal

    Mass payouts to any PayPal account. The most common rail for creator programs.

  • 49 currencies

    Wise

    Cross-border transfers in 49 currencies, at Wise's own rates rather than a card markup.

  • Manual

    Bank transfer

    Collect bank details from affiliates and pay them outside Referly. The record stays here.

  • Non-cash

    Store credit

    Shopify store credit, Stripe credits or WooCommerce credits instead of cash.

  • Non-cash

    Coupons

    Issue a discount code as the reward. Useful where a partner is also a customer.

Referly Payouts

Opt-in

One charge to you. We pay every partner worldwide, in their own currency, and handle the rails.

Referly Payouts

One charge to you. We pay everyone else.

Add a payment method, approve the batch, and every partner gets paid without you touching a transfer.

One charge to you

$4,280.00

Bank or card, once per batch

  • Emma LarsenSweden12,940 SEK
  • Devon ReyesUnited States$862.40
  • Priya NairIndia₹1,34,600
  • Jonas BergGermany€478.20

Each partner is paid in their own currency on their own rail. You see one charge and one batch.

  1. 1

    Referly builds the batch

    Every payable commission, grouped per affiliate, in their own currency.

  2. 2

    You approve it once

    One number to check and one action to take, however many partners are in it.

  3. 3

    We charge you once

    A single charge on your card or bank account for the whole batch, plus the rail fee.

  4. 4

    Partners get paid

    Each one receives their own amount, in their own currency, on their own rail.

What one batch looks like

200
$85
Owed to partners
$17,000
Your own PayPal or Wise
No Referly fee
Referly Payouts, from a bank account
+$850
Referly Payouts, funded by card
+$1,360

Referly takes 0% of your sales on every plan. The only percentage above is the opt-in payout rail, and running your own PayPal or Wise avoids it entirely.

What it costs, in full

Referly Payouts is opt-in and it is the one place a percentage exists: 5% when you fund it from a bank account or ACH, 8% when you fund it by card. Paying your partners through your own PayPal or Wise costs nothing extra, and Referly never takes a cut of your sales on any plan.

The calendar

Pay on the schedule you already run

Daily, weekly or monthly, with a holding period in front of it and a minimum underneath it.

The holding period is the one worth setting carefully. It keeps a commission unpayable until your refund window has passed, so a reversal lands before a payout does rather than after it.

What does NET 30 mean?

Payout settings

  • Frequency

    Weekly

    Every day, every week on the days you choose, or a fixed day of the month.

  • Holding period

    30 days

    Days a commission stays unpayable after the sale, whatever its approval state. Set it to your refund window.

  • Minimum payout

    $50.00

    Partners below this carry over to the next run instead of costing you a transfer fee.

  • Payment terms

    NET 30

    NET 0 through NET 60, if your finance team works to terms rather than a calendar.

Payout batch #418

12 affiliates · $4,280.00

READYPROCESSING
Emma Larsenwise$1,284.00PENDINGPAID
Devon Reyespaypal$862.40PENDINGPAID
Priya Nairwise$1,610.00PENDINGPAID
Jonas Bergpaypal$523.60PENDINGFailed

Jonas Berg · PayPal account not confirmed

Retry

3 of 4 sent · 1 needs attention

Approve and send

When it fails

Failed transfers are visible, not silent

A wrong PayPal address or an unfunded balance stops one row, not the batch.

Every payout carries its own status. A failed row names what went wrong and stays failed until you deal with it. Fix the details and retry, or pay another way and mark it paid with proof attached.

  • Pending

    Built into a batch, not yet sent.

  • Processing

    Handed to the rail and in flight.

  • Paid

    Confirmed by the rail, with the transaction id on the row.

  • Failed

    Rejected, with the reason. Nothing retries itself behind your back.

Paying outside Referly still leaves a record

Marking a payout paid by hand asks for proof: a screenshot or a document, stored privately on the row. One upload can back a whole batch, so reconciling forty manual transfers is one action.

  • Succeed

    “Customer service was incredibly responsive. As someone who had never used affiliate software before, I couldn't recommend Referly more highly.”

    Ben StacyBen StacyPartnerships, Succeed
  • Letterly

    “This platform is quite simple and easy to use, and you can start attracting people to your affiliate program very quickly. A big plus is that the founder, Ayo, is super responsive.”

    Ilfat KhayrullinIlfat KhayrullinFounder
  • Founder

    “Super simple to use, and includes everything that an affiliate program needs to end up a success.”

    Hammaad SiddeeqeeHammaad SiddeeqeeFounder

Currency

Your program's currency, their payout

Commissions are earned in your currency and paid in theirs, at a rate refreshed three times a day.

Rates come from a table Referly refreshes three times a day rather than being fetched at send time, so the batch you preview and the batch you send agree. Wise covers 49 currencies directly.

Wise currencies
49
Rates refreshed
3x a day
Rate source
One table
Payment terms
NET 0 to 60

Availability

Payouts by plan

Paying partners by hand, with proof and a CSV export, is on every plan. Scheduling it is not.

FeatureStartupBusinessEnterprise
Manual payouts with proof
Referly Payouts
Multi-currency programs
CSV exports
Automated payouts
Custom bank payout fields
EU-compliant self-billing invoices
  • Manual payouts, Referly Payouts and multi-currency conversion are on every plan, including Startup. Automated payout scheduling, custom bank fields and invoice generation start on Business.
  • Referly Payouts is opt-in and it is the one place a percentage exists: 5% when you fund it from a bank account or ACH, 8% when you fund it by card. Paying your partners through your own PayPal or Wise costs nothing extra, and Referly never takes a cut of your sales on any plan.
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FAQ

Before you connect anything

The questions founders ask in the first ten minutes.

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  • No. Commissions are grouped into a batch per affiliate and you approve the batch. Two hundred partners is one action. On the Business plan and above you can put that on a schedule so the batch builds itself.

  • Support Wise as well, or collect their bank details and pay them outside Referly, marking the payout paid with proof attached. You can also reward them in store credit or a coupon instead of cash.

  • Set a holding period to match your refund window. A commission stays unpayable until it has passed, so the refund reverses it before a payout ever includes it. Refunds are detected automatically from your payment platform.

  • It is opt-in, and the fee is 5% when you fund it from a bank account or ACH and 8% by card. Paying through your own PayPal or Wise costs nothing extra. Referly takes 0% of your sales on every plan either way.

  • That row goes to Failed with the reason on it and the rest of the batch carries on. Fix the partner's details and retry, or pay them another way and mark it paid. Nothing silently retries or silently disappears.

  • Yes. Commissions are earned in your program's currency and converted at payout, using rates refreshed three times a day so a preview and a send agree. Wise covers 49 currencies directly.

  • You set one, and it is usually worth setting. Partners below the threshold roll over to the next run rather than triggering a transfer fee that costs more than the commission itself.

  • Every batch and every payout is a record with its own status, amount and transaction id, exportable as CSV on every plan. From Business, Referly can also generate the self-billing invoice for each payout.

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