# Easy Affiliate review (2026): is it worth $249 a year? > Self-hosted affiliate program plugin for WordPress stores Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Easy Affiliate is a WordPress plugin that runs an affiliate program on the merchant's own site, tracking clicks and sales, managing applications and paying commissions. It works with MemberPress, WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads, and is made by the MemberPress team. - **Category:** Affiliate & Referral Software - **Made by:** Easy Affiliate - **Website:** https://easyaffiliate.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you are not on WordPress, as it does not run anywhere else. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Easy Affiliate is a paid product, starting at $249 per year for 1 site at renewal, after a first year for $99.60. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Basic | $249 per year for 1 site, at renewal | 1 site, unlimited affiliates, WooCommerce, MemberPress and Easy Digital Downloads support. Introductory first year $99.60. | | Plus | $374 per year for 3 sites, at renewal | Adds multi-level commissions, fraud detection and email list add-ons. Introductory first year $149.60. | | Pro | $499 per year for 5 sites, at renewal | Adds commission rules, tax reports, the developer API and webhooks, and premium support. First year $199.60. | Read from https://easyaffiliate.com/pricing/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Easy Affiliate before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Introductory first-year pricing** (Other savings): The pricing page shows $99.60, $149.60 and $199.60 for the first year of Basic, Plus and Pro, with renewals at full price. A 14-day refund policy applies. Source: https://easyaffiliate.com/pricing/ ## Key features - **Self-hosted tracking:** Clicks and sales are tracked on the merchant's own domain with first-party cookies, so no third-party service sits between the store and its affiliates. - **Affiliate dashboard:** Affiliates log in to see clicks, sales, creative assets and payments. Merchants manage applications and see real-time reports in WordPress. - **Payouts:** Pay affiliates with PayPal one-click payouts, generate a PayPal mass payment file, or pay manually. The vendor charges no per-payout fees. - **Commission rules and levels:** Per-user and per-product commission rules, and multi-level commissions through add-ons, depending on the plan. - **Fraud detection:** Flags suspicious affiliate transactions so they can be reviewed before payment, on Plus and above. - **Recurring commissions:** Tracks commissions on rebills with MemberPress, WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads, and with PayPal. ## Good for - WordPress membership sites and WooCommerce stores - Merchants who want no monthly platform fee or per-payout fee - Sellers who want affiliate data to stay on their own site ## Worth knowing - Runs only inside WordPress; the requirements page lists WordPress 6.0, PHP 7.4 and MySQL 8.0 or newer. - The listed plan prices are the annual renewal prices; the lower prices on the page are introductory first-year prices. - Multi-level commissions, fraud detection and email integrations need Plus; the API and commission rules need Pro. - Payouts are built around PayPal; other methods mean a mass payment file or manual payment. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Easy Affiliate is a WordPress plugin that runs an affiliate program on your own site, with tracking, applications and PayPal payouts. It only runs inside WordPress, there is no free plan or trial, and the plan that adds the API and commission rules costs $499 a year at renewal. - **Value for money: B.** Basic is $249 a year for 1 site, about $20.75 a month, just inside the cheaper quarter of affiliate tools ($31.17 a month). The first year is $99.60, but renewals go back to full price. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial. The page offers a 14-day refund policy, which is not the same thing. - **Features: C.** Tracking, applications, PayPal payouts, recurring commissions and fraud flags. Payouts are built around PayPal, and multi-level commissions, fraud detection and the API are locked to Plus and Pro. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. It is a plugin you install and set up on a WordPress site that meets PHP and MySQL minimums, then connect to your cart or membership plugin. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, inside WordPress, but it connects to MemberPress, WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, PayPal and four email tools, with an API on Pro. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Easy Affiliate's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among affiliate and referral tools - Easy Affiliate's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 45 of the 89 other affiliate and referral tools we grade, and level with 9. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 76 of 89) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $20.75 a month when paid by the year, against a middle price of $65.46 for the category: 5 of the 49 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/affiliate-software ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Easy Affiliate you would be making payouts to partners in many countries, with their tax forms. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $249 a year. - You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Payouts to partners in many countries, with their tax forms. - You could not: Every click and sale traced back to the right partner. - You could not: It plugs into other products, MemberPress, WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with MemberPress, WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, PayPal, Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign, ConvertKit, GetResponse **Tags:** Affiliate tracking, Partner payouts, Reports, Public API ## Alternatives - [AffiliateWP](https://toolgpa.com/tools/affiliatewp): WordPress plugin for running your own affiliate program. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/affiliatewp-vs-easy-affiliate) - [SliceWP](https://toolgpa.com/tools/slicewp): WordPress affiliate plugin with a free edition and paid add-ons. 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