AffiliateRail Partners

Earn 40% of every payment, for as long as they stay

We run our own affiliate program on AffiliateRail. Same tracking, same portal, same payouts your merchants would get. Send us a SaaS founder and you earn 40% of everything they ever pay us.

Run by Jimi Barkway, the founder, on our own product. Read the affiliate program terms, version 1, 7 September 2026.

Your rate

40%

Of every payment, not only the first. It recurs for the life of the account.

On a Grow customer

$427

$89 a month at 40% is $35.60 a month. Stay a year and that is $427.20 to you.

Taken out of it

$0

Paid to your own PayPal or Wise. We never hold it and never take a cut.

01 Your portal

What you see when you log in

Your own portal on our program. Your link is there with a one-click copy. So are your earnings, clicks, leads and customers, and every referral with its status.

Read it in any of thirteen languages. It is the same portal your merchants' affiliates get, on our brand.

The portal you get, on our program. Recorded on a demo program.

02 Your money

How you get paid

Your payouts page shows four numbers: what you have earned, what has been paid, what is due next and when, and the payout after that.

Once you clear the payout threshold, we pay on our schedule to your own PayPal or Wise account. Nothing is taken out. A commission matures after the refund window and then joins the next run.

The affiliate's payouts view: total earned, total paid, the next payout and its date, the one after, and where the money goes
The payouts view, from the affiliate's side

How it works

Four steps, and the third one is us doing the work

  1. Join

    One form. You get a portal on our program with your link in it, in whichever of thirteen languages you read.

  2. Share the link

    In a post, a newsletter, a video description, a client email. Anywhere a SaaS founder will see it.

  3. We track and count

    Their trial, their first payment and every payment after it. You watch it happen in your portal.

  4. You get paid

    Once you clear the payout threshold, on our schedule, to your own PayPal or Wise account.

Who this is for

Who this works for

People whose audience is SaaS founders, and the people who work for them.

Works for

People founders already listen to

  • Consultants and agencies who set up billing or growth for SaaS clients.
  • Newsletter writers and YouTubers in the indie SaaS and bootstrapping world.
  • Anyone already recommending tools to founders who are about to start an affiliate program.

Declined

Two things we say no to

  • Coupon sites.
  • Anyone whose plan is to bid on our brand name.
  • Both are in the program terms, and both get declined.

03 The honest demo

Why we run it on our own product

Every affiliate tool tells you to run an affiliate program. Most do not run one themselves, or run it on someone else's software. Ours runs on AffiliateRail, in public. What you get as our affiliate is what your affiliates get as yours.

It is also how a merchant on the Launch or Grow plan earns from us. The "Powered by AffiliateRail" line at the bottom of your affiliate portal is your affiliate link. A click that becomes a customer earns you 40% for as long as they stay.

In public

  • Runs on AffiliateRail

    Same tracking, portal and payouts your merchants get.

  • The Powered by line is a link

    Yours, at the bottom of your own portal.

  • Two referrals cover Launch

    Two customers on Grow pay you $71.20 a month, more than the Launch plan costs.

The small print

The detail

What you are agreeing to

  • 40% recurring, for the life of the account

    Not a first-month bounty.

  • 60-day cookie

    The referral is also carried through the account they create. A founder who takes two months to decide still counts as yours.

  • Paid on cleared money

    Commissions mature after the refund window, then join the next payout run.

  • Refunds and cancellations correct themselves

    If a merchant we both introduced refunds, the commission voids. Your portal shows exactly why.

  • Self-referrals do not count

    A trial started through your own link is caught and voided.

All of it, clause by clause, is in the affiliate program terms. You accept them by version when you join. Questions first? support@affiliaterail.com reaches a person.

Questions

Common questions

How much do I earn?

40% of every payment a merchant you refer makes to us, for as long as they stay. Not a first-month bounty. On a Grow customer that is $35.60 a month, or $427.20 over a year.

How long does the cookie last?

60 days. The referral is also carried through the account they create, so a founder who takes two months to decide still counts as yours.

When and how am I paid?

Commissions mature after the refund window, then join the next payout run. Once you clear the payout threshold you are paid on our schedule, to your own PayPal or Wise account, with 0% taken out.

Who gets declined?

Coupon sites, and anyone whose plan is to bid on our brand name. Both are in the program terms. Self-referrals do not count either: a trial started through your own link is caught and voided.

Join

Send us one founder. Earn on every payment they ever make.

40% of every payment, to your own PayPal or Wise, with 0% taken out.

Published 26 August 2026, updated 3 September 2026