Switching

Moving from Reditus to AffiliateRail

Your affiliates' Reditus links keep working. Reditus never publishes the name of its link tag, so we read it off their own script instead. It is gr_pk. Our tracker reads it. Nobody edits a link. The people and the history move by CSV. Reditus's terms say you can export your data, as CSV or JSON, for 60 days after you cancel. The importer does a practice run first. The money changes too, if Reditus paid your affiliates for you. You stop paying 5% or 2%. You start paying from your own PayPal or Wise. Plan a month of both running. Or hand it to us.

Published 6 September 2026. Every price and technical claim checked against its live source on 8 September 2026. Written by Jimi Barkway, who built AffiliateRail. Jimi has run affiliate programs from both sides of the link. Corrections go to support@affiliaterail.com.

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Moving from Reditus in four stagesThe four stages of moving a program from Reditus: links keep working, export and import, run both for a month, then switch payouts.1Links keep working2Export and import3Run both for a month4Switch payoutsAAn afternoon of your time, or an hour of ours.Nothing your affiliates published has to change.

01 Stage 1

Your existing affiliate links keep working

Reditus never names its link tag, not once in their help centre. A link tag is the bit after the question mark in a link, like ?gr_pk=marta.

So we read their script instead. The tag is gr_pk, and _pk is an older name it still answers to (the Reditus tracking script, read 8 September 2026). Our tracker reads both. An old link still pays the same affiliate. Nobody edits anything.

An old affiliate link keeps workingA link published years ago carries Reditus's referral parameter. The merchant's site reads that parameter and credits the same affiliate, with nothing for the affiliate to change.a link published in 2024yoursite.com/?gr_pk=janeYour site, with rail.js on itreads ?gr_pk as well as ?railCredited to Janethe same affiliate, no editsTwenty-seven referral parameters are read,Reditus’s among them.
The parameter list ships in the tracker itself. Read it in the script your own site serves.

02 Stage 2

What comes over, and how

There is no Reditus importer yet, so the move runs on CSV. Reditus's terms are unusually clear here. You can export your data with the platform's export features during the term and for 60 days after. On request they provide it as CSV or JSON within 30 days, and they do not charge for it (their terms, checked 6 September 2026). The importer takes three files:

  • Partners: email required. Their Reditus key can go in the referral token column, for your records.
  • Customers: one per referred customer, with their partner.
  • Transactions: one per payment, with the amount and date.
A practice run first, every time. Run it again and records are matched, not duplicated. One click rolls it back.

03 Stage 3

Run both for a month

Run both for a month. Compare sales, not clicks. The two scripts will never agree on clicks, and that gap is not a fault.

Reditus creates its payouts on the first of the month. So time the close for after one full Reditus payout has cleared and one has run on the new side.

Run both for a monthA four-week timeline. The old tracker stays on for three weeks while rail.js reads both sets of links; once the two dashboards agree, the old one is switched off.wk 1wk 2wk 3wk 4their tracker, still onoffrail.js, reading both sets of linksCompare the two dashboards. When they agree,switch the old one off.

04 Stage 4

How do payouts change after the switch?

This part changes most, if Reditus paid your affiliates for you.

Reditus has two routes. By hand, you paid each affiliate through PayPal and marked it paid. Automated, Reditus charged your card or invoiced you, then paid them, for 5% by card or 2% by invoice.

On AffiliateRail you connect your own PayPal or Wise. AffiliateRail logs in on your schedule and pays from there. The money goes from you to your partner and never through us, so the fee is 0%. Your partners enter their payout details again, because those belong to whoever pays them.

Paid through Reditus before? Now the money leaves your own account, and the fee is 0%. The custody page has both models side by side.

In their words

What Reditus's own terms say

We charge your payment method or send an invoice for all payouts to be done. A fee is added to cover banking costs. We pay out the affiliates on your behalf.

Reditus help centre, How do automated payouts work at Reditus, checked 6 September 2026

This is why the fee exists on the automated route. Reditus sits in the payment chain, and moving other people's money is a job that carries real regulatory weight. Their manual route avoids it by leaving the work with you.

Step by step

The switch, step by step

Three words first, because the steps use them. A dry run is a practice import that writes nothing. It tells you what it would have created. A referral token is the bit inside an affiliate link that names the partner. Keeping each partner's old one is why published links carry on working. Attribution is the job of deciding which partner gets credited for a sale. Most merchants do this in an afternoon. If you would rather hand it over, we run migrations white-glove. A screen-share and an hour, and we do the rest. We finish inside two working days of getting your details. Email support@affiliaterail.com.

  1. Create your program

    Connect Stripe or Paddle. The link is read-only. We read billing events to credit sales. We cannot write to your account.

  2. Export from Reditus

    Use the platform's export, or ask for CSV or JSON under their terms. You have 60 days after you cancel, read-only and free.

  3. Practice-run the import

    Map the columns. Read the counts. Check them against your Reditus dashboard. Only run it for real when they match.

  4. Install the script

    One tag in the head of every page. From that day the old Reditus links credit the same affiliate on our side. Nobody re-issues a link.

  5. Overlap, then close

    Run both for a month. Watch one payout run finish on the new side before you close Reditus.

14 days free, no card. Old links keep crediting from the day the script goes on.

Said plainly

What does not carry over

A migration page that lists only the good news is an advert. These do not come across.

  • Portal passwords

    Your affiliates set a new one from their invite. Their identity, links and balance are waiting. Their old login is not.

  • The marketplace listing

    Reditus's marketplace is theirs. Affiliates you found there stay yours. The listing does not come with you, and AffiliateRail has no equal.

  • The in-app referral program

    If your own customers referred people from inside your product on Reditus, that widget ends. AffiliateRail runs affiliate programs with links and codes.

  • Raw click logs

    People and money move. Click-by-click traffic does not. Click counting starts fresh.

  • Payout details and tax forms

    Bank details belong to whoever pays, and that is about to be you. Collect fresh W-9 and W-8BEN forms too. The payer has changed.

Cost

What the same program costs on each

Reditus bands on the ARR your program generates, then adds 2% by invoice or 5% by card if it pays your affiliates. So its column climbs twice. Ours does not. This table assumes you pay a 25% commission and pay Reditus by invoice, the cheaper fee. Earn $20,000 from affiliates and you pay out $5,000. Checked against Reditus's pricing page on 6 September 2026.

Monthly revenue from affiliatesReditus, monthly billing where offeredAffiliateRail foundingAffiliateRail list
$5,000$174 (Growth $149 + 2% of $1,250)$29 (Launch)$59
$10,000$449 (Scale Up $399, yearly only, + 2% of $2,500)$29 (Launch)$59
$20,000$499 (Scale Up $399, yearly only, + 2% of $5,000)$59 (Grow)$89
$40,000$999 (Enterprise from $799, yearly only, + 2% of $10,000)$99 (Scale)$179

Reditus's column climbs at the band, then again with the payout. By card the fee is 5%, so add $37 to $500 to each row. What the table cannot show is Reditus's marketplace and its AI affiliate search. AffiliateRail has neither. If those are why you are on Reditus, the bigger bill may be the right one.

Questions

Common questions

Will my affiliates' Reditus links keep working?

Yes. Reditus publishes no name for its link tag, so we read their script. The tag is gr_pk, with _pk as an older name. Our tracker reads both. A link published a year ago credits the same affiliate from the day our script goes on your site.

When do I stop paying the 5% or 2%?

On the first payout run made from AffiliateRail. The money leaves your own PayPal or Wise and never passes through us. Anything Reditus still pays out carries their fee, so close the account once you have overlapped.

What about the marketplace?

It stays with Reditus, and AffiliateRail has nothing like it. Affiliates you found there stay your affiliates and come across in the import. You will not get new ones that way. It is the clearest reason to stay.

Do affiliates have to do anything?

Two things. Set a password from their invite. Enter their payout details, because those belong to whoever pays them, and that becomes you. Their links, customers and balance are already there. One email covers it.

All product names, logos, and brands are property of their respective owners. Comparisons are based on publicly available information as of 8 September 2026. If a linked source has changed since, tell us at support@affiliaterail.com. We will correct this page.

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