# UpPromote

> Affiliate, influencer and referral programs for Shopify stores

UpPromote is a Shopify app for online stores that run affiliate, influencer and customer referral programs, tracking sales by affiliate link or coupon and paying commissions as store credit, by PayPal or through Wise. It adds anti-leak discount codes, multi-level commissions, gifts and bonuses, and an optional add-on for finding creators on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. A free plan covers the basics, and paid plans add a percentage of referral sales to the monthly fee.

- **Category:** Affiliate & Referral Software
- **Made by:** UpPromote (since 2019)
- **Website:** https://uppromote.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026

## Pricing

UpPromote has a free plan. Paid plans start at $24.99 per month, billed annually ($29.99 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** One affiliate program with link and coupon tracking, analytics, fraud detection and manual payouts, reviewing up to $3,000 of referral sales a month. No performance fee.
- **Free trial:** 14-day free trial on Growth, Professional and Enterprise.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | One program, one coupon per affiliate, up to $3,000 of referral sales reviewed a month, manual payouts and 24/7 live chat support. |
| Growth | $24.99 per month, billed annually ($29.99 billed monthly) | Plus 2% of successful referral sales. Unlimited programs, 300 referral orders reviewed a month, customer referrals, marketplace listing and store credit. |
| Professional | $74.99 per month, billed annually ($89.99 billed monthly) | Plus 1.5% of referral sales. 600 referrals a month, anti-leak discounts, PayPal auto-payouts, multi-level commissions, 1099 forms, API and MCP. |
| Enterprise | $166.66 per month, billed annually ($199.99 billed monthly) | Plus 1% of referral sales. Unlimited referral reviews and staff accounts, multi-store sync and coupon code commissions. Shopify Plus pricing is custom. |

Read from https://uppromote.com/pricing on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with UpPromote before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save 17% with yearly billing** (Annual discount): Yearly billing saves 17%: Growth is $299.90 a year, Professional $899.90 and Enterprise $1,999.90, against $29.99, $89.99 and $199.99 a month. Source: https://uppromote.com/pricing

## Key features

- **Link and coupon tracking:** Credit affiliates by link or coupon, with auto-generated coupons, custom affiliate links and anti-leak discount links on higher plans, and third-party tracking for pages not on Shopify.
- **Commission rules:** Rates by order value, product or collection, lifetime and subscription commissions, new-customer rates, automatic tiers between programs and multi-level marketing.
- **Customer referrals and recruiting:** Turn customers into ambassadors, list your offer in the UpPromote marketplace, and find creators with the Creator Discovery add-on from $39 a month.
- **Payouts and tax forms:** Pay as store credit, through PayPal or with Wise bank transfers, schedule automatic payouts, export invoices and generate 1099-NEC forms.
- **Affiliate engagement:** A customizable affiliate account in 8 languages, in-app chat, bulk emails, a media gallery for brand assets, and gifts or bonuses.

## Good for

- Shopify stores starting an affiliate or ambassador program for free
- Brands paying affiliates in store credit instead of cash
- Stores fighting coupon-code leaks from influencer codes

## Worth knowing

- Paid plans add a fee of 2%, 1.5% or 1% of successful referral sales to the monthly price, charged monthly.
- It is built for Shopify; pages off Shopify need the third-party tracking integration.
- PayPal auto-payouts, anti-leak discounts, 1099 forms and the API start on Professional; unlimited staff accounts need Enterprise.
- Creator Discovery is a separate add-on starting at $39 a month on any plan.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. UpPromote is a Shopify app for affiliate, influencer and referral programs, and its free plan is a real one: link and coupon tracking, fraud detection and no fee on sales, up to $3,000 of referral sales a month. Past that, paid plans take a cut of 2% down to 1%. It's built for Shopify, so pages elsewhere need extra tracking.

- **Value for money: C.** Free stops at $3,000 of referral sales a month, so a store at $5,000 needs Growth: $24.99 a month on yearly billing plus 2% of sales ($100), $124.99 a month in all. That's on the dear side of this category, where several tools take no cut at all.
- **Free plan and trial: B.** A free plan with link and coupon tracking, analytics, fraud detection and manual payouts, and no fee on sales, up to $3,000 of referral sales a month. A new store could live on it a good while; one at $5,000 a month is past it.
- **Features: B.** Link and coupon tracking, commissions by product, collection or order value, lifetime and multi-level rates, customer referrals, a marketplace, payouts in store credit, PayPal or Wise, and 1099 forms. Anti-leak codes come on Professional. The whole job.
- **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. It installs on Shopify and the free plan gets you going, but there are programs, commission rules and payouts to set up.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, built for Shopify, with PayPal, Wise, Klaviyo, Mailchimp, Omnisend, Recharge and Appstle. The API and MCP start on Professional. No desktop or phone app, so B is the ceiling.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from UpPromote's own pages and its Shopify App Store listing on 18 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among affiliate and referral tools

- UpPromote's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 11 of the 14 other affiliate and referral tools we grade, and level with 2.
- It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 13 of 14) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $24.99 a month, against a middle price of $49 for the category: 1 of the 11 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/affiliate-software

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace UpPromote 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 is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.6 is higher than 11 of the 14 other affiliate and referral tools we grade. It costs $299.88 a year.

- 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, Shopify, PayPal and Wise among them, and has an API.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

Shopify, PayPal, Wise, Klaviyo, Mailchimp, Omnisend, Recharge, Appstle

**Tags:** Affiliate tracking, Partner payouts, Public API

## Alternatives

- [GoAffPro](https://toolgpa.com/tools/goaffpro): Affiliate and multi-level marketing app for online stores. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/goaffpro-vs-uppromote)
- [Refersion](https://toolgpa.com/tools/refersion): Affiliate and influencer program software for online stores. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/refersion-vs-uppromote)
- [Social Snowball](https://toolgpa.com/tools/social-snowball): Affiliate, influencer and referral programs for Shopify DTC brands. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/social-snowball-vs-uppromote)
- [ReferralCandy](https://toolgpa.com/tools/referralcandy): Customer referral and affiliate programs for online stores. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/referralcandy-vs-uppromote)
- [Superfiliate](https://toolgpa.com/tools/superfiliate): Creator, affiliate and referral programs for Shopify brands. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/superfiliate-vs-uppromote)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026:

- https://uppromote.com/pricing
- https://apps.shopify.com/affliate-by-secomapp

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/uppromote
Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).