Awin vs Refport

Awin connects brands with more than one million partners for partnership marketing. Its directory, recommendations, and campaign marketplace help advertisers discover publishers and promotional opportunities. Reporting covers campaign results, customer journeys, and publisher, product, and creative performance. Advertisers can create commission groups using product, customer status, coupon code, campaign, publisher, and transaction-date criteria; Advanced adds further rules. Tracking records basket value, product count and type, customer status, coupon use, and click-to-sale delay. Ecommerce plugins and a Conversion API support tracking integrations, while Awin lists more than 80 technology partners. Automated payouts, fraud prevention, last-click attribution, and API access are included capabilities. Security information includes ISO 27001 certification, regular penetration testing, and GDPR measures. Self-managed advertisers maintain and test their tracking, with paid integration help available. The publisher app supports link creation, partner discovery, storefronts, offer filtering, earnings, and performance insights. Access costs £99 a month plus VAT and a 3.5% transaction fee; Accelerate costs £199.00 GBP plus VAT and a 2.5% fee.

Refport is affiliate software for SaaS teams that tracks referrals through paying subscriptions and automates partner payouts. It links referrals, attribution, conversions, commissions and payouts in an auditable data trail. Its Stripe connection calculates commissions from Stripe revenue; Shopify sales ingestion, REST API access and webhooks support other billing setups. Payouts can go through Stripe Connect or PayPal. Configurable fraud rules include duplicate customer-email detection, suspicious-domain monitoring, blocked traffic sources and exclusions across programs. The 14-day trial requires no credit card and includes paid features except payouts, with limits of 500 links, 10,000 clicks per month, one custom domain, three Partner Groups, one Program and three seats. The free plan includes 100 links, 5,000 monthly clicks and one seat. Starter costs $49 a month and includes two Programs, three seats and a $10,000 monthly Partner Revenue limit. Refport provides web and API access and a partner portal. The maker says adding its SDK and connecting Stripe takes about five minutes. Refport is based in Dijon, France, and offers support by email and a free 30-minute demo with the founder.