For product owners selling through affiliate networks
Fees, approval, payouts, refunds and chargebacks on each network, read from the seller side, plus the funnel and checkout tools vendors run on them.
The shortlist
Each network wins a different seller. The order is ours; the reasons are in each review.
Best for: Vendors of digital and physical direct response offers who want a large open affiliate marketplace with full merchant-of-record checkout
The default network for a direct response offer that needs the biggest open pool of affiliates, with merchant of record, compliance review and payouts handled for you, at a higher per-sale fee than Digistore24 advertises.
Best for: Vendors selling into the US and EU who want tax and VAT handled with no setup or monthly fee
The low-fee merchant of record for vendors who sell into both the US and the EU and want VAT and sales tax filed for them, paying only when a sale goes through.
Best for: Experienced health and wellness vendors with a proven offer or a referral
A curated health and wellness network for vendors who already have a converting offer or a referral, with its own checkout and split testing, and no public fee schedule.
Best for: Digital product and software launches built around JV partners, leaderboards, and fast listing
The launch platform for digital products and software sold through affiliate partners and launch contests, taking 5% of each sale with your own Stripe or PayPal behind the checkout.
Best for: Digital, course and coaching sellers who want EU tax handled, buy-now-pay-later, collections and phone-close tooling in one checkout
The EU-born merchant-of-record checkout for digital, course and coaching sellers who want buy-now-pay-later, collections and phone-close tools on the order form, at a published fee of 4.9% + €1 per sale in the EU.
Network review
The default network for a direct response offer that needs the biggest open pool of affiliates, with merchant of record, compliance review and payouts handled for you, at a higher per-sale fee than Digistore24 advertises.
Network review
The low-fee merchant of record for vendors who sell into both the US and the EU and want VAT and sales tax filed for them, paying only when a sale goes through.
Network review
A curated health and wellness network for vendors who already have a converting offer or a referral, with its own checkout and split testing, and no public fee schedule.
Network review
The launch platform for digital products and software sold through affiliate partners and launch contests, taking 5% of each sale with your own Stripe or PayPal behind the checkout.
Network review
The EU-born merchant-of-record checkout for digital, course and coaching sellers who want buy-now-pay-later, collections and phone-close tools on the order form, at a published fee of 4.9% + €1 per sale in the EU.
What a vendor has to decide
What each network reviews before your product lists, from compliance checks of the funnel and sales copy to curated networks that only take vendors with a referral or a track record.
Presell, order form, upsells, downsells and thank-you page, and which of them the network's own checkout already covers.
JV pages, affiliate tools and commission terms that make a media buyer test your offer instead of the next one in the marketplace.
When each network pays you, how long refund windows run, and what a chargeback costs before it costs you the account.
Affiliate networks ranked for product owners: what each charges per sale, who it approves, how it pays out, and which kind of vendor should pick it.
Why you can trust this
Every fee, payout schedule and refund rule on this site comes from the network's own seller pages and help center, read on the date the page shows. When a third-party summary disagrees with the network, we print what the network says.
What it is like to sell there comes from vendors who have done it for years, in public threads and reviews. We do not run paid campaigns on the networks we cover, and no page claims we did. Some links earn us a commission; that never moves a network up the list.
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