Afflytics Review | Pricing, Features, Details and Screenshots from My Trial Account

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Peter Drucker said, "What gets measured gets managed." Out of the 1,000s of little business quotes I've heard over the years, this one sits atop the list as one of the most meaningful. 

If we don't know our numbers, we don't know what to do to improve.

Are you doing well and should you double down on what's working? Are you doing poorly and should you do less of what's not working? Do you know? 

To get to where we want to go, we need to know where we are currently, and we need to track growth consistently, so we can make any necessary adjustments quickly and efficiently.

Affiliate marketing presents a unique challenge when it comes to tracking our results.

Here's why...

• Most affiliate marketers promote more than one program or product
• Many affiliate programs run on different networks
• Many networks show reports in very different ways

Until now, I've had to make do with what I've had. That's been a combination of a bookkeeping service called Bench.co and virtual assistants manually extracting the data for me and putting it into spreadsheets. 

Smaller affiliate programs that only drive a couple of sales per month often don't get checked more than once every couple of months.

Although I'm a huge fan of Bench and will continue using them, they can only report transactions from my connected financial accounts like Chase bank, PayPal, and Stripe or from reports I upload.

For years I've been looking for a better way to do this, but nothing ever came. Until this year when friend Chris Fong introduced me to a new software that promised to help me get all my affiliate programs organized: Afflytics. 

Supported Affiliate Networks (As of Late March 2021)

Now, I absolutely understand the difficulty that Afflytics is facing. They're at the mercy of the layout of the popular affiliate programs. 

For example, Refersion is a popular affiliate program that last month set up a CAPTCHA on their log-in page. This made it impossible for Afflytics to connect to them (legally and within the terms of service of course).

The beautiful thing is that it's obvious that the folks at Afflytics care about supporting as many networks as possible, so they have an easy "make a request" button.

Unfortunately, a lot of the affiliate programs that I use now weren't yet supported or can't be supported. I only connected 5 of my programs for this demo, and I'm waiting for connections to the following to complete my full set up.  

1.  LinkMink
2. PartnerStack
3. Cake
4. Refersion
5. ThriveCart
6. PayKickStart
7. Amazon Associates (Not possible given their TOS) 

Again, they are extremely new, and I'm guessing I'll be updating this article in the next couple of weeks to cross some of these domains off the list. 

It seems that they will eventually be able to add most of them if not all of them.

The only one that for sure isn't coming is Amazon associates, which is fine by me. I'm no longer promoting them after their recent slap in the face to their affiliates.

Afflytics Pricing

Afflytics has several pricing tiers. Each tier offers unlimited websites*, daily commission updates, and email reports

• $0/Year Free - 5 affiliate programs, 30 days historical data and under $1,000 in monthly commissions.
• $209/Year Blogger - 15 affiliate programs, 90 days of historical data and under $5,000 in monthly commissions.
• $539/Year Affiliate - 50 affiliate programs, 365 days of historical data and up to $25,000 in monthly commissions. 
• $1419/Year Business - 100 affiliate programs, unlimited historical data, and up to $100,000 in monthly commissions.
• $---/Year Agency - Unlimited affiliate programs, unlimited commissions and unlimited historical data. Also includes premium support.

As with most software programs, you'll save a little bit of cash if you go with the annual option, so the prices shown above are for annual memberships.  Reporting software like Afflytics is something that is best used consistently and not in monthly spurts, so I recommend always going annual if you can afford it.

If you're looking for monthly options, you'll pay about 9% more per year. 

*Websites are not the same as affiliate programs. These are your own sites that you organize different programs under.

Although this might be a little pricey if you're brand new to affiliate marketing, the value is tremendous once you scale. 

Oh, and knowing your numbers is a great way to scale faster and more efficiently 🙂 

Afflytics Alternatives

When it comes to tracking affiliate conversions, there just isn't anything comparable to afflytics. 

Sure you can track conversions with tools like Voluum, but it's far from the same.