Polar Affiliate Program Integration
Connect Polar once. Pay partners per sale.
Connect your polar account to your affiliate program to track payments and products
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What arrives in Referly
4 steps to connect, 1 of which need someone technical.
Overview
Referly and Polar
Connect your polar account to your affiliate program to track payments and products
What connects
What Referly tracks in Polar
Fourteen things, each one read from what Polar reports rather than from a feature list. The two chips below are the short answer.
What it does
- YesReferral tracking — A signup, trial or new customer is recorded against the partner who sent them, before any money moves.
- YesSale tracking — Every completed payment arrives as a sale with its amount, products and currency, and a commission is calculated from it.
- YesRecurring commissions on renewals — Renewals arrive as their own payments, so a partner can be paid for a set number of payments, a set number of months, or for the life of the customer.
- YesRefunds reverse the commission — A refund reverses the commission it earned, so a partner is not paid for revenue you gave back.
- YesCoupon-code attribution — A customer who types a partner's discount code at checkout is attributed to that partner, with no link click and no cookie involved.
- YesA discount code per partner — Codes are created in Polar when a partner joins.
- YesPer-product commission rules — Referly reads your product catalogue, so a rule can pay one rate on one product and a different rate on another.
- YesCommission net of tax — Tax is subtracted before the commission is calculated, so you are not paying a percentage of money that belongs to a tax authority. On by default, and switchable.
- YesConnect from the dashboard — You authorise the connection from inside Referly. There is nothing to configure on the other side afterwards.
- YesCarries your own click id — An `rsubID` on the inbound link travels all the way to the sale, so an ad platform or a network can match the conversion back to its own click.
What it does not, or only sometimes
- NoCollection-level rules — Target a whole collection instead of listing its products one by one, and new products in that collection inherit the rate.
- With a conditionCommission net of shippingPolar sells digital products, so there is no shipping to deduct.
- NoPay partners in store credit — Instead of cash, a partner's balance can be issued as credit inside the platform they already shop in.
- With a conditionConnects without a developerPayment Links need no code. Embedded checkout and the Checkout API need one field passed through.
- NoSyncs partners into a list — Partners are added to a named list or group in your email platform as they join, so onboarding and announcements go out from the tool you already write in.
- NoPays partners through it — Money actually leaves through this platform. Referly hands it the batch, and it moves the funds to each partner.
- NoPays everyone in one batch — One approval sends every partner what they are owed, rather than one transfer at a time.
Setup
Connect Polar in four steps
Four steps, in order. The honest note underneath says which of them need someone technical and what the connection does not do.
- 1
Connect Polar from your dashboard
Paste your Polar credentials in the integrations screen and Referly validates them.
- 2
Add the tracking script to your site
One line in your head tag, then let Referly verify it.
- 3
Pass the partner id into your checkout
Payment Links carry it for you. Embedded checkout and the Checkout API take one extra field.
Needs a developer - 4
Set your commission and invite partners
Pick a rate, decide whether partners get a discount code, then send your first invites.
Payment Links need no code at all; only embedded checkout and the Checkout API do. Polar sells digital products, so there is no shipping to deduct. Discount codes are created in Polar for each partner, and coupon attribution works alongside links.
Guides
Step-by-step for Polar
Written for the setup you actually have, not the one that makes the shortest article.
Customer stories
What a program on Referly looks like
Three businesses, three different stacks, and the numbers their partners produced.

“We have been running affiliate programs for over a decade, and ours is one of the biggest parts of how OptimizePress grows. Referly is the first platform where an operation with thousands of partners actually feels manageable, from recruiting new affiliates to tracking every sale they send.”

James Dyson
Founder & CEO, OptimizePress
- 7 figures
- in affiliate-driven sales
- 4,554
- active affiliates
- 10,536
- referrals

“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 Khayrullin
CMO & Co-founder, Letterly
- 300K+
- app users
- 689
- active affiliates
- 24,114
- clicks tracked
“Affiliates drive a serious share of our revenue across three countries. Since we moved to Referly everything runs from one place, tracking has been spot on, and our partners get paid without me chasing spreadsheets.”

Alexander Koppers
Affiliate Manager, Moov
$6.9M
in total affiliate-driven revenue
- 1,154
- active affiliates
- 19,017
- affiliate sales
- 1,240,030
- clicks tracked
FAQ
Before you connect anything
The questions founders ask in the first ten minutes.
14-day free trial · No credit card required · Cancel anytime
Only if you use embedded checkout or the Checkout API, and then it is one field. Payment Links carry the partner id on their own.
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