Tolt vs TrackRev: what $69 and $29 a month each buy

Tolt vs TrackRev comes down to price steps, billing systems, who sends partner payouts, and whether partner revenue belongs next to your other channels.

Tolt costs $69, $99 or $199 a month depending on how much your affiliates bring in, reads Stripe, Paddle and Chargebee, and pays partners for you from the $99 plan.

TrackRev, SaaS affiliate software for indie hackers and small teams with link tracking built in, starts at $29 with no limit on tracked revenue, reads Stripe, Paddle Billing, Polar, Lemon Squeezy, Creem and Dodo Payments, and leaves the paying to you.

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.

Tolt's figures come from its pricing page, its Help Center and its public tracking script, all read in October 2026. The Tolt alternatives post covers other options.

Sources: tolt.com/pricing · help.tolt.com/en · files.tlt-cdn.com/tlt.js

Tolt vs TrackRev at a glance

Pricing: Tolt's three paid steps against TrackRev's two plans

The two price lists word their limits differently. Tolt's is money earned from affiliates, while TrackRev puts no limit on affiliate revenue or commission on either plan and varies its plans by workspaces, tracked domains and team members.

Tolt's pricing page adds a 14-day trial that asks for no card, a 30-day refund policy and a 0% commission claim on top of the plan price.

Tolt Basic also has 3 partner groups, 3 team members and 3 commission flows, Tolt Growth has 5 of each, and Tolt Pro has no limit. The page shows no yearly rate.

Both TrackRev plans include the full affiliate program, white-label partner pages and unlimited partners.

Indie covers 1 workspace and 1 tracked domain with no team members, and TrackRev Growth covers up to 10 workspaces and 10 tracked domains, so one account can run several sites, with unlimited team members included.

A year costs $348 on Indie or $299 on Growth, against $1,188 on Tolt Growth.

Sources: tolt.com/pricing

The same program on each plan

Assume partners earn 25% of every sale. The table finds the cheapest Tolt plan whose published limit covers each month, reading Tolt's limit as referred sales.

Neither the commission rate nor the sales volume moves TrackRev's column, so the $440,000 month costs the same as the $9,500 month, against Tolt's $69 for the smaller one. Tolt's pricing page doesn't say what happens above a limit.

Billing systems

Tolt's integrations collection has 14 articles, with setup guides for Stripe (Checkout, Payment Links, Pricing Tables and the Buy Button), Paddle Billing, Paddle Classic and Chargebee.

The FAQ on its pricing page still says Tolt works only with Stripe or Paddle, though the Help Center and the comparison block above that FAQ both list Chargebee.

TrackRev has no Chargebee connector but reads Polar, Lemon Squeezy, Creem and Dodo Payments as well as Stripe and Paddle Billing.

A Chargebee shop therefore picks Tolt, a Polar or Lemon Squeezy shop picks TrackRev unless it wants to build on Tolt's API, and everyone on Stripe or Paddle Billing can choose on other grounds.

Sources: help.tolt.com/en

How each tool connects a click to a charge

Tolt: a script on your site, then metadata in your checkout

Tolt's 4KB tracking script reads the referral from a parameter in the URL of the page a visitor lands on.

It checks 11 parameter names, including ref, via and fpr, posts the click to Tolt's API and writes a referral cookie with JavaScript, for as long as the API says or 30 days if it says nothing.

The last step is yours. Tolt's Stripe guide has your backend pass the referral ID to Stripe as metadata when it creates a subscription or a Stripe Checkout Session, as below.

Payment Links get a snippet that appends the ID to each link, and a signup call attaches the referral to an email address.

Sources: files.tlt-cdn.com/tlt.js · help.tolt.com/en

TrackRev: a redirect host, then a pixel

TrackRev partner links point at a redirect host: your own go.yourbrand.com after one CNAME record, a hosted trackrev.io subdomain or the shared short host.

The redirect logs the click on the server and hands a visitor ID to your pixel in the URL.

The pixel tags Stripe Payment Links and Buy Buttons itself, and for Checkout Sessions your server creates, you pass the vid cookie along, as below.

Revenue arrives through an hourly Stripe sync on a read-only restricted key, and a buyer who skips the ID is matched by the email you passed to identify.

Safari and the 7-day cookie rule

Both scripts write their ID cookie with JavaScript, and WebKit says Safari Intelligent Tracking Prevention deletes those after 7 days of no user interaction.

A visitor who clicks on day 1 and buys on day 9 can arrive without an ID in either tool.

An email captured earlier survives the gap, so call Tolt's signup or TrackRev's identify from your signup form on day one.

Commission rules and fraud controls

Tolt's rule engine is the part I would copy.

Per its flows guide, a flow pairs a trigger (a new signup or a new payment, renewals included) with an action (issue a commission or move the partner to another group) and optional conditions on the partner, the customer or the transaction.

Help Center recipes include 20% on one plan and 15% on another, a rate that climbs from 25% to 35% to 50% at 5 and 20 customers, and commissions that end 12 months after conversion.

Tolt Basic includes 3 flows, Tolt Growth 5 and Tolt Pro no limit.

TrackRev's settings are plainer. A program sets a percent or flat commission, paid once, for a number of months or for life, with a cookie window that defaults to 60 days and runs from 1 to 3,650.

Partner groups override the rate, term, cookie window and minimum payout. Partner Accelerator pays commission up a referral chain from one pool capped at 30% by default, and I found no multi-level commissions in Tolt's Help Center.

No TrackRev rule varies the rate by plan, billing interval or customer count.

Tolt's Radar settings go deeper on fraud, with blocks for ad traffic from YouTube, Google and Bing, social traffic from 5 networks, same-email self-referrals, chosen parameter keywords and chosen countries.

TrackRev lists fraud and self-referral detection as built in, without a rule list that long.

Sources: help.tolt.com/en · help.tolt.com/en

Paying partners, holds and tax forms

On Tolt Basic you pick a NET-15, NET-30 or NET-60 schedule, download a CSV, pay through PayPal Payouts, Wise Batch Payment or a bank transfer, and mark the payout paid, per its manual payout guide.

From Tolt Growth, automatic payouts have Tolt draft an invoice before each payout date, you pay it by bank transfer or card, and Tolt sends the partners their money.

Tolt also collects W-9 and W-8 forms and files 1099 forms, and partners without tax details or a payout method are left off the invoice.

TrackRev closes a payout batch weekly, every 2 weeks, monthly, quarterly or by hand. You download one PayPal or Wise CSV, pay it from your own account and mark each payout paid with its reference.

Partners upload W-9 or W-8 forms during onboarding. TrackRev neither moves money nor files 1099 forms, and how to pay affiliates covers the rails and tax rules.

Sources: help.tolt.com/en · help.tolt.com/en

The same $5,000 month

A program near the top of Tolt Growth, $20,000 of partner sales at 25%, owes partners $5,000.

Tolt Growth with automatic payouts costs $99 plus a 2% fee, which is $100 if the fee applies to the amount paid out, so $199 and no payout work.

TrackRev Indie costs $29 and leaves you to pay the CSV, which makes the monthly upload worth $170 of your time.

Set the hold before the first payout on either tool. TrackRev's hold period counts days after a payout period closes, runs from 0 to 180 and defaults to 0, so a new program pays as soon as a period closes.

Match either to your refund window, because commission paid on a refunded sale has to be clawed back, and affiliate commissions on Stripe refunds covers the reversal rules.

What TrackRev adds: partner revenue beside your other channels

I read 48 articles in Tolt's Programs collection, which covers partners, customers, commission flows, fraud rules and messaging, and found nothing that ranks partners against Google Ads, newsletter or organic search traffic.

TrackRev builds its links and pixel into the affiliate program on one data model, so a single revenue attribution report ranks partners, newsletter, YouTube and paid ads by the MRR each one pays.

The credit rule is set once for the whole workspace, so choose it before launch. Take a buyer who clicks partner A's link, then partner B's, then subscribes at $60 a month with commission at 25%, which is $15.00.

When Tolt is the better pick

• Tolt Growth ($99) handles partner payments and tax filing, where TrackRev stops at a CSV.
• Flows can pay a different rate per plan, per billing interval, or once a partner passes a customer count.
• Chargebee billing works with Tolt and not with TrackRev.
• Tolt's trial and refund window let you test with real partners, while TrackRev's free plan covers link tracking only, with 50 links and 1,000 events a month.
• Tolt's script reads a parameter on your own pages, so you set up no redirect host.
• If partners are your only channel, TrackRev's channel report would sit unused.

When TrackRev is the better pick

Entry price is the plain reason: $29 against $69, a $40 gap.

Since no TrackRev plan caps partner revenue or commission, $45,000 of monthly partner sales, which puts a Tolt program on Pro at $199, still costs $29, a gap of $170 a month or $2,040 a year.

TrackRev Indie also has unlimited programs against Tolt Basic's 2, and Tolt has no native Polar or Lemon Squeezy connector.

The channel report matters once a newsletter, a YouTube channel or paid search is worth comparing with partners on one axis, and TrackRev Growth adds up to 10 workspaces for several sites or products, with unlimited team members included.

Moving partners from Tolt to TrackRev

TrackRev lists Tolt as a CSV import source on every paid plan, from TrackRev Indie at $29 a month. Export your partners from Tolt with the referral code column, then upload the file. Only email is required.

Each referral code becomes the slug of that partner's TrackRev link, coupon codes keep crediting the partner, historical clicks, leads and sales arrive as opening balances, and each unpaid balance becomes a single carried-over commission.

Links partners already posted carry Tolt's parameter, which TrackRev's pixel doesn't read, so they need the new URLs.

Run both scripts for at least your longest cookie window (Tolt's 30-day fallback, TrackRev's 60-day default), pay each sale from one system only, then remove Tolt's script and the checkout code that sends the referral ID to Stripe metadata.

The Tolt comparison page lines the two tools up row by row, and pricing lists every TrackRev plan.