Zapier Affiliate Program Integration
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What arrives in Referly
4 steps to connect, none of which need a developer.
Overview
Referly and Zapier
Use Zapier to connect Referly to 8,000+ other Apps
Running more than one platform? They all feed one ledger, so partners get a single link, a single balance and a single payout.
What connects
What Referly tracks in Zapier
Fourteen things, each one read from what Zapier 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.
- YesConnects without a developer — The connection is an app install or a plugin, so nothing has to be added to your checkout by hand.
- 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
- With a conditionRecurring commissions on renewalsA renewal is tracked when your flow fires a second time. Referly does not poll the source app.
- NoRefunds reverse the commissionNothing is polled from the source app, so add a refund step to your flow or reverse the sale in Referly.
- NoCoupon-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.
- NoA discount code per partner — Referly creates the discount code inside your platform when a partner joins, so you never mint codes by hand.
- NoPer-product commission rules — Referly reads your product catalogue, so a rule can pay one rate on one product and a different rate on another.
- 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 taxTax is deducted when your flow passes a tax amount.
- NoCommission net of shipping — Shipping is subtracted before the commission is calculated. On by default, and switchable.
- NoPay partners in store credit — Instead of cash, a partner's balance can be issued as credit inside the platform they already shop in.
- NoConnect from the dashboardYou build the connection in Zapier or Make, using your Referly API key.
- 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 Zapier 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 Referly in Zapier with your API key
Generate the key in your program settings and paste it into the Zapier connection.
- 2
Pick the app that knows about your signups
Your CRM, your forms tool, your billing platform, whatever holds the event.
- 3
Map the partner id and the amount onto the Referly step
Referral for a signup, sale for a payment. The partner id comes from your own field.
- 4
Turn the Zap on, then set your commission
Test it once with a real record, pick a rate, and invite your first partners.
No code, but a Zap only fires when the source app fires. Renewals are tracked when your flow runs again, and a refund is reversed when you add a step for it, nothing is polled for you. API access is on Business and up.
Guides
Step-by-step for Zapier
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.
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No. You connect Referly with an API key, pick the app that already knows about your signups or payments, and map the partner id onto the Referly step.
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