Zapier Affiliate Program Integration

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What arrives in Referly

Referrals trackedSales tracked

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.

Referrals trackedSales tracked

What it does

  • YesA signup, trial or new customer is recorded against the partner who sent them, before any money moves.
  • YesEvery completed payment arrives as a sale with its amount, products and currency, and a commission is calculated from it.
  • YesThe connection is an app install or a plugin, so nothing has to be added to your checkout by hand.
  • YesAn `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 conditionA renewal is tracked when your flow fires a second time. Referly does not poll the source app.
  • NoNothing is polled from the source app, so add a refund step to your flow or reverse the sale in Referly.
  • NoA customer who types a partner's discount code at checkout is attributed to that partner, with no link click and no cookie involved.
  • NoReferly creates the discount code inside your platform when a partner joins, so you never mint codes by hand.
  • NoReferly reads your product catalogue, so a rule can pay one rate on one product and a different rate on another.
  • NoTarget a whole collection instead of listing its products one by one, and new products in that collection inherit the rate.
  • With a conditionTax is deducted when your flow passes a tax amount.
  • NoShipping is subtracted before the commission is calculated. On by default, and switchable.
  • NoInstead of cash, a partner's balance can be issued as credit inside the platform they already shop in.
  • NoYou build the connection in Zapier or Make, using your Referly API key.
  • NoPartners 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.
  • NoMoney actually leaves through this platform. Referly hands it the batch, and it moves the funds to each partner.
  • NoOne 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. 1

    Connect Referly in Zapier with your API key

    Generate the key in your program settings and paste it into the Zapier connection.

  2. 2

    Pick the app that knows about your signups

    Your CRM, your forms tool, your billing platform, whatever holds the event.

  3. 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. 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.

Read the Zapier setup docs

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.

OptimizePress
SaaSSite builder

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

James Dyson

Founder & CEO, OptimizePress

7 figures
in affiliate-driven sales
4,554
active affiliates
10,536
referrals
Letterly
Mobile appAI writing

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

Ilfat Khayrullin

CMO & Co-founder, Letterly

300K+
app users
689
active affiliates
24,114
clicks tracked
Moov
EcommerceFitness

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

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.