Rewardful vs TrackRev: $49 with a sales limit, $29 with none

Rewardful vs TrackRev comes down to what each plan counts. Rewardful's Starter costs $49 a month and covers $7,500 of affiliate-attributed sales before it moves you up a tier.

TrackRev's Indie plan costs $29 and counts nothing, with no cap on partner sales or commission. Both tie a Stripe Checkout charge to a partner through an ID in client_reference_id, and both reverse commission when a charge is refunded.

Rewardful has the 14-day trial and the bigger customer base, with 3,000+ teams on its pricing page. TrackRev is SaaS affiliate software for indie hackers and small SaaS teams.

It includes white-label on every paid plan, reads six billing systems and ranks partner revenue beside your other channels.

I built TrackRev for exactly this: affiliate software for indie hackers and small SaaS teams, with link tracking and revenue attribution built in, 0% fees and no cap on tracked revenue.

Rewardful's figures come from its pricing page, its pricing schedule and its help center, read in October 2026.

Sources: rewardful.com/pricing · rewardful.com/pricing-schedule · help.rewardful.com

Rewardful vs TrackRev at a glance

Rewardful pricing in October 2026

Rewardful sells 3 plans. Each includes a 14-day free trial, unlimited affiliates and visitors, and a 0% transaction fee on affiliate-attributed revenue.

Starter allows 1 campaign and 2 team members and leaves out the branded affiliate portal and the custom domain. Growth adds unlimited campaigns and team members, the branded portal, a custom domain, private invite-only campaigns, custom rewards and custom scripts.

Enterprise brings one-click PayPal payouts and phone support, and its price follows a 9-step schedule. Yearly billing is 12 months for the price of 10.

Managed Payouts is optional on every plan and charges a 3% processing fee on the commissions it pays. Affiliates may pay withdrawal fees, and Stripe, PayPal and Wise bill their own rates on top.

What counts toward the monthly revenue limit

Rewardful's help article says the limit counts the full value of each payment from customers an affiliate referred, dated by when the customer paid.

Renewals count every month, and they keep counting after commissions end: a program that rewards only the first purchase still sees each later renewal add to the total. Customers who arrived without an affiliate don't count.

Pass the limit and Rewardful emails you, then moves you up a tier.

Take 150 referred customers on a $50 monthly plan. That is $7,500, exactly Starter's limit, and the 151st referral lifts your price from $49 to $99 whether you pay those partners 10% or 40%.

Sources: help.rewardful.com/en

What the same program costs on each tool

TrackRev needs no commission rate to price a program, because neither paid plan caps sales or commission. Each row picks Rewardful's plan from the sales figure in the schedule above.

Billed yearly, Rewardful Starter is $490 and TrackRev Growth is $299, while Indie bills monthly only and comes to $348 a year. At $900,000 of monthly partner sales, Rewardful's schedule asks $20,000 a year billed yearly against $348 for Indie.

TrackRev Growth averages about $25 a month, against about $41 a month for Rewardful Starter's $490 yearly rate, and it earns its price when you run several sites, with up to 10 workspaces and 10 tracked domains, or want team members beyond the owner.

Volume never forces the upgrade. At $45,000 of monthly sales Rewardful's $299 tier is about 10 times Indie's $29, and at $900,000 its $2,000 tier is about 69 times.

Tying a Stripe payment to a partner

Rewardful's Checkout guide has you add its tracking script, which sets a cookie when a visit arrives on a ?via= link, and then pass the referral ID to Stripe.

For Payment Links it has you add a data-rewardful attribute to each link and turn on Save payment details for future use, and the help center carries further guides for the Buy Button, the Pricing Table, Next.js, Rails and Django.

Its links point at any page on your own domain with a URL parameter and no redirect.

Sources: help.rewardful.com/en

TrackRev partner links resolve on a redirect host: your own go.yourbrand.com after 1 CNAME record, a hosted trackrev.io subdomain, or a shared short host.

The redirect records the click on the server and hands a visitor ID to the pixel on your site.

The pixel then tags Stripe Payment Links, Buy Buttons and Pricing Tables with that ID on its own, so no attribute goes on each link. For Checkout Sessions your server creates, you read the vid cookie and pass it along.

The hourly Stripe sync, which an optional webhook speeds up, looks for the ID in charge metadata first, then in the Checkout Session, and falls back to the buyer's email when you have called identify.

It needs only a read-only restricted key, which Stripe recommends over a secret key. Rewardful's permissions page lists what it reads and says its only writes are metadata, coupons and promo codes.

Stripe's rule for client_reference_id in a Payment Link URL allows up to 200 characters of letters, numbers, dashes and the _ character, and a value that breaks the rule is silently dropped.

Both tools use UUIDs, which fit, but make 1 test purchase and confirm the ID shows on the payment. Coupon codes are the second route.

With coupon tracking on, Rewardful creates a promo code in Stripe for each affiliate, and TrackRev credits any sale that used a partner's code, so creators who never post a link still earn.

Sources: help.rewardful.com/en

Refunds, holds and payouts

The hold default is the setting to check before launch. Rewardful's overview suggests stretching its 30 days to match a longer refund policy, such as 90 days for a 90-day policy.

TrackRev starts at 0, so set the days on each program before the first payout. Affiliate commissions on Stripe refunds covers the reversal rules, and how to pay affiliates covers rails and tax forms.

Sources: help.rewardful.com/en

Where Rewardful is the better pick

• Every Rewardful plan starts with 14 free days, so you can test with real affiliates before paying. TrackRev's free plan stops at link tracking, and its affiliate side begins at Indie, $29 a month.
• No-code stacks have a documented path. Its help center lists install guides for Memberstack, Bubble, Podia, Teachable and SamCart, among others.
• Managed Payouts sends commissions by ACH for a 3% fee, and Enterprise adds one-click PayPal. TrackRev stops at a CSV you upload to PayPal or Wise.
• A ?via= link goes straight to a page on your domain, with no redirect. TrackRev's links pass through a host you own, which is how it records each click on the server.
• Its pricing page lists 3,000+ teams and a Premier Stripe Partner label, which matters if you want a vendor many Stripe SaaS companies already use.

Where TrackRev is the better pick

Price at volume is the plain reason. Past $15,000 of partner sales, Rewardful's bill climbs a tier at each step, while TrackRev holds at $29 whatever the volume. Branding follows the same pattern.

Rewardful keeps the branded portal and custom domain for Growth at $99, and TrackRev's white-label partner pages come with Indie at $29 a month, $70 under Growth's $99, along with unlimited programs where Rewardful's Starter allows 1 campaign.

Billing coverage is the next gap. Rewardful's Paddle page says it integrates with Paddle Classic and not Paddle Billing, and its integrations page names only Stripe and Paddle as billing systems.

TrackRev reads Stripe, Paddle Billing (not Paddle Classic), Polar, Lemon Squeezy, Creem and Dodo Payments. On Lemon Squeezy the join key is the buyer's email, so a buyer who pays under a different address is missed.

Reporting is the other difference. A buyer clicks a partner's link, then a newsletter link, then pays $90, and TrackRev's revenue attribution credits that $90 by the model you choose.

Sources: rewardful.com/paddle

Rewardful's documentation describes visitors, leads and conversions from affiliates, and I found nothing on ranking your newsletter, ads or search traffic by revenue. That comparison would take a second tool such as Google Analytics 4.

The affiliate program page shows how TrackRev, affiliate software with link tracking and revenue attribution built in, covers both halves.

Moving partners from Rewardful to TrackRev

TrackRev lists Rewardful as an import source. Export your affiliates from Rewardful as a CSV with the token column included, upload the file on the import page and check the column preview. Email is the only required column.

By default each token becomes the slug of that partner's TrackRev link, coupon codes keep crediting the partner, historical clicks and sales arrive as opening balances, and unpaid earnings become 1 carried-over commission.

Links partners already posted in the ?via= form point at your own site, where TrackRev's pixel doesn't read that parameter, so partners need their new URLs. Keep the Rewardful account running until they swap.

The affiliate program, and so the import, needs a paid plan: Indie at $29 a month or Growth at $299 a year.

The Rewardful comparison page lines the features up row by row, best Rewardful alternatives prices 6 other tools, and pricing lists every TrackRev plan.