Running an affiliate program is a powerful way to boost brand awareness and revenue for your SaaS.
However, between affiliate tracking, managing their payouts, and fostering strong relationships, managing an affiliate program can be challenging. Luckily, Rewardful is here to help you with its robust automation and other powerful affiliate tools.
We've designed our affiliate management tools to remove the complexity from SaaS affiliate programs, so you can focus on growth without drowning in admin.
Let’s look at ten ways Rewardful’s SaaS affiliate software can simplify every aspect of running an affiliate program.
1. One-Click Payouts: No More Messy Spreadsheets or Manual Payments
Ensuring timely and accurate affiliate payouts is paramount for a successful affiliate program.
A single missed or incorrect payment can significantly damage relationships and undermine program momentum.
Managing affiliate payouts can be complex, especially when dealing with multiple affiliate campaigns, diverse commission structures, and international affiliate programs using multiple currencies.
Manual processing increases the risk of errors, making it essential to implement efficient systems for tracking, calculating, and disbursing commissions.
How Rewardful Simplifies Affiliate Payouts
Rewardful streamlines affiliate payouts by simplifying commission calculations and payments.
With integrations for Stripe, PayPal, and Wise, you can ensure timely and accurate rewards for your affiliates.
Related: Discover the four best affiliate software for Stripe based on features and price.
Beyond one-click payouts, Rewardful offers mass payment capabilities. Send rewards to up to 5,000 affiliates at once using PayPal or Wise. Choose from 24 major currencies, and enjoy fast processing times.
Simply set the commission rules and payments, and Rewardful takes care of the rest automatically!
2. Automatic Refund Handling: Stop Second-Guessing Commissions
Refunds can be a nightmare, but they are part of running an affiliate program.
So what happens when you’ve already paid out commissions, and a refund request lands in your inbox? You might think you'll be stuck adjusting commissions, potentially clawing back payments (from disappointed, if not angry affiliates), and doing all of that manually.
How Rewardful Simplifies Refund Handling
Rewardful automatically adjusts commissions when a refund is processed. It tracks everything, so you’re not stuck figuring out who owes what.
This means that your affiliates only get paid for successful sales, and you don’t have to second-guess your numbers or have awkward conversations about getting your money back from them.
3. One-Click Integrations: Get Started Without Your Tech Team
Let’s face it—getting new software set up is often a struggle.
If you need to loop in developers or spend days setting it up, that’s time lost. And for SaaS companies, time is money. You need an affiliate management tool that works and delivers as soon as you adopt it.
How Rewardful Simplifies Installations
We know how important it is to get everything set up quickly, and correctly.
That's why we built Rewardful to integrate with your existing systems in one click. Whether you’re using Stripe or Paddle Classic, it connects seamlessly. No code is required, and no back-and-forth with your tech team either.
A lot of our customers can set up Rewardful in just 15 minutes. If that isn't easy to set up affiliate software, we don't know what is.
Check out how you can connect Stripe to Rewardful with just three easy steps!
4. Customizable Affiliate Commissions: Keep Your Affiliates Engaged
Your affiliates are likely working with multiple affiliate programs, or at least have checked out what other SaaS affiliate programs offer.
If your commission structure isn’t competitive or flexible, you’ll lose their attention and dedication fast. One way to keep them engaged is by offering a a customized commission structure.
How Rewardful Simplifies Customizing Affiliate Commissions
Rewardful lets you set up customizable commission structures in just a few clicks.
You can easily create performance tiers, offer bonuses for top affiliates, or introduce special incentives for promoting new products—all without any extra admin, of course.
Our platform gives you straightforward tools to keep your affiliates excited about promoting your product without the need for endless tweaking and risky mistakes on your end.
5. Advanced Performance Analytics: Make Data-Driven Decisions
Tracking affiliate performance is crucial.
You want to know what's working and what's not, but you may not have the time to distill all the affiliate data into spreadsheets, graphs, and insights. What's even worse is if you’re relying on manual tracking. You’ll always be one step behind.
How can you make the right the decision at the most pressing moments?
How Rewardful Simplifies Affiliate Perfomance Analytics
Rewardful gives you real-time data on your affiliate program’s performance, across all the metrics that truly matter.
You can see which affiliates are driving sales, which campaigns are performing, and where there’s room for improvement—all without having to set up any difficult parameters or install any special tracking tools.
There's no need to export data, no need to sort through spreadsheets. Everything is right there in your Rewardful dashboard, ready for action.
Top tip: Not sure about what affiliate metrics worth tracking? This affiliate metric guide can help.
6. Coupon Code Tracking: Generate Affiliates Sales Beyond the Typical Link Click
It's highly likely that you'll want to build an affiliate program that goes beyond just links. Podcasts, social media shoutouts, and influencer campaigns work incredibly well, but make tracking a bit harder.
So how do you track those conversions, without having to jump in with a lot of manual labor?
How Rewardful Simplifies Affiliate Coupon Code Sharing
We've got great news for you: Rewardful’s coupon code tracking lets you track sales without needing direct links.
Affiliates can share unique coupon codes in their videos, podcasts, and anywhere they like, and Rewardful tracks the sales generated.
This means you can reward affiliates for every sale they drive—even when there’s no link involved.
7. Integrated Affiliate Onboarding: Faster Onboarding to Reduce Churn
A clunky onboarding process can kill affiliate interest before they even start.
If affiliates struggle to find the resources they need, they’ll lose interest fast. You need a smooth, intuitive process that sets them up for success from day one.
How Rewardful Simplifies Affiliate Onboarding
Rewardful’s customizable affiliate portal simplifies onboarding, ensuring a seamless experience for both you and your affiliates.
A centralized hub provides access to tutorials, tracking tools, and promotional materials, streamlining the process.
To further enhance onboarding, automate welcome emails and guides. This provides new affiliates with immediate support without requiring individual attention from your team.
Pro tip: This guide shows you what you need to properly onboard and activate your affiliates.
8. Accurate Affiliate Payouts: Even for Complex Pricing Models
SaaS pricing models can vary significantly, with options like monthly subscriptions, annual deals, and one-time purchases.
Manually calculating commissions across these different models is time-consuming and error-prone.
How Rewardful Simplifies Payouts for Any Pricing Model
Regardless of whether your affiliates earn commissions on monthly subscriptions, one-time payments, or a combination, Rewardful's automated system handles it all.
You won't need to manually adjust commissions based on pricing tiers or payment schedules.
9. Customizable Affiliate Portal: A Self-Service Channel for Your Affiliates
Affiliates need to stay in the loop, but keeping up with communication can be a full-time job.
From updates to new product launches and performance reviews, there’s always something that needs to be communicated.
How Rewardful Simplifies Communicating With Affiliates
Rewardful's centralized communication platform offers a streamlined approach to affiliate management.
Through email integrations and a dedicated portal, affiliates can easily access performance data, upcoming promotions, and important updates. This self-service model eliminates the need for constant email communication, saving time for both you and your affiliates.
Additionally, segmenting affiliates allows for targeted messaging, ensuring that each affiliate receives relevant information. By centralizing communication, Rewardful enhances efficiency and improves the overall affiliate experience.
Pro tip: Learn what our affiliate experts recommend to improve your affiliate conversions here.
10. Seamless Campaign Management: Effortless Affiliate Transfers
Managing multiple campaigns often involves transferring affiliates between them.
Manual transfers can be time-consuming and error-prone, impacting efficiency and affiliate satisfaction.
How Rewardful Simplifies Transferring Affiliates Between Campaigns
Rewardful empowers you to effortlessly transfer affiliates between campaigns.
While manual transfers are possible, our API automates the process for maximum efficiency. When affiliates switch campaigns, their information is automatically updated, ensuring seamless transitions and eliminating the need for manual adjustments.
Rewardful Makes Affiliate Program Management Easy
Affiliate marketing isn’t a set-and-forget marketing channel. This is why managing and growing it can be challenging.
Adopt Rewardful and leverage our dedicated SaaS affiliate management solution to help you lift the burden of your team while ensuring all aspects of your affiliate programs are running smoothly.
Ready to simplify your affiliate program? Explore Rewardful’s pricing and see how you can manage your affiliate programs differently.
