Sprout Affiliate vs TUNE

Sprout Affiliate is a Shopify-focused service for managing affiliate programs and tracking referral sales. Merchants can attribute sales through discount codes or referral links, set percentage or flat-amount commissions including tiers, and manage multiple stores, programs, affiliates, orders, payouts, and messages. Affiliates get a branded signup page and account for referral links, earnings, and discount codes. Suspicious orders are held for review rather than rejected automatically. Growth and higher plans support automatic PayPal payouts; Free payouts are manual. API access and signed webhooks cover affiliates, programs, orders, and payouts, and listed integrations include PayPal, Shopify, REST API, webhooks, and MCP AI assistant integration. Companion apps are available for iPhone and Android. The Free plan covers one program and up to 200 referral orders per month. Growth costs $9.99 a month plus 2% of referral sales; Professional is $49.99 a month plus 1.5%; Enterprise is $119.99 a month plus 1%. Paid Growth, Professional, and Enterprise plans include a 14-day free trial.

TUNE is a partner marketing platform for brands, agencies and networks managing performance partnerships. Advertisers can recruit partners, manage offers, track conversions, optimize campaigns and pay commissions. Cookieless postback tracking covers apps, mobile web and desktop, with real-time reporting and data streaming. Automation can streamline workflows, detect and reject click fraud, and apply payout rules using configurable approvals, pay periods, currencies and payment processors. TUNE Marketplace helps customers find affiliate partners and manage partnerships, reporting and aggregated commission payments. The service is available on the web and through an API; TUNE says its two-way API has over 650 endpoints. Listed integrations include Branch, Kochava, AppsFlyer, Adjust, Singular, Payoneer, Tipalti, Shopify, WooCommerce and Google Tag Manager. TUNE lists SOC 2 Type II and SOC 1 Type II certifications and GDPR compliance with ePrivacy certification. The Enterprise plan is $899 a month, paid annually. Scale is $1,500 a month, paid annually, and includes 2,500 conversions per month. There is no free plan; partner payments and onboarding are fee-based on the listed Scale plan.