Rewardful

Name: Rewardful
Rating: 4.6 (10 reviews)

Turn your biggest fans into your best marketers!

4.6•10 reviews•

103 followers

Turn your biggest fans into your best marketers!

4.6•10 reviews•

103 followers

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Turn your biggest fans into your best marketers. Rewardful is a simple way for SaaS companies to setup affiliate and referral programs with Stripe.

Launch tags:Web App•Marketing•SaaS

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Bublup

@kylefox Is the primary use case here a referral program? For example, could I give all my users this link and as they share and grow my user base, give them premium services they would otherwise pay for? I’ve looked at platforms like Viral Loops in the past that are also very good, but this is simple and we already use Stripe for upgrade payments. Are there an examples of the upgrade logic other apps have used? My goal is to grow free app users vs. driving product sales.

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8yr ago

Rewardful Affiliate Tracking for Paddle

Maker

@justinotherjohnson Good question — right now we're more oriented around "affiliates", i.e. people (who may or may not be customers) you reward with cash. But "referrals", i.e. customers who are rewarded with credits for referring other customers is definitely in the roadmap. The mechanics are very similar. (By the way, not sure if my distinction between "affiliates" and "referrals" makes sense, but it's how we've been talking about them internally) > Are there an examples of the upgrade logic other apps have used? Not entirely sure I understand. You mean that because your goal is to grow free users, you'd like some incentive structure that doesn't involve rewarding with cash or credit?

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8yr ago

Bublup

@kylefox Makes sense. I’ve done affiliate marketing and do understand the difference between getting paid vs. some sort of app-based upgrade or benefit. My follow up question was specific to apps that give rewards vs. cash. Based on your initial response, rewards outside of payment may not have been explored yet.

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8yr ago

Cool app! How is Rewardful specifically tailored for SaaS companies as opposed to consumer-facing startups (i.e. subscription services, ecommerce, etc)?

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8yr ago

There

@donny I think SaaS is the same as "subscription services"?

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8yr ago

I've been looking for something simple like this for a long time. I'm trying to fully understand how the attribution works though: Example: Let's say a company offers free accounts, with a paid offering that a small percentage convert to. It sounds like in this scenario, I'd implement the signup "form" tracking code on the upgrade form, which sniffs for the referral parameter. At this point, I'm going to assume you know that bob@company.com has upgraded for a $19/mo plan, and was referred by a Rewardful affiliate. This makes sense, but what happens if I was referred by a Rewardful vendor, I then signup for a free account, clean my cookies, switch computers, etc and then upgrade 2 weeks later. Am I correct to assume that you would not have referral information as the cookie doesn't exist? The reason why I ask is because I'd want to ensure that affiliates are compensated correctly, and when the window of time expands, the potential to lose the referral params increases. Super curious to learn a bit more about how this works.

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8yr ago

Rewardful Affiliate Tracking for Paddle

Maker

@lukethomas14 good question – that's correct. One potential way to get around this is to store the Rewardful.referral token in your own database as a safeguard for when cookies get wiped. A similar but even more common scenario is where a referred customer doesn't actually click through a link so a cookie never gets set in the first place. For these reasons we've built a feature that allows companies to easily manually associate a referral afterwards and even re-generate previous commissions on that referrals if you wish.

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8yr ago

Podia

Affiliate marketing is one of the most effective marketing channels for MANY SaaS businesses, but for some reason, affiliate software tends to either be (1) prohibitively expensive for smaller companies or (2) confusing and ugly. (2) wouldn't be such an issue if it were just an internal tool, but our affiliates have to use this software, too, so having something that's easy to use and polished-looking is really important. I didn't think we'd find something like that without ponying up for one of the (1) options, but Rewardful saved the day. We love it, our affiliates love it, and I'm happy to see it on here today. Congrats @kylefox and @bradycassidy!

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8yr ago

Rewardful Affiliate Tracking for Paddle

Maker

@bradycassidy @lenmarkidan Thanks Len! It's only going to get better too 😘

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8yr ago

Podia

We switched to Rewardful about a month ago and have been loving it. It's such a welcome change from the clunky, complex and stale feel of most affiliate platforms.

Pros:

Incredibly simple to use, far easier on the eyes than any other affiliate platform 😍

Cons:

None. It does what it says on the box, and it does so beautifully.

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8yr ago

With a View

Congratulations on the launch. I've been using it for my affiliate account with Podia. Don't have much idea about the setup, but seems pretty nice for the end users.

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8yr ago

Rewardful Affiliate Tracking for Paddle

Maker

@weirdowizard Thanks for the kind words Darshan :)

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8yr ago

Desktop Fruit

Oh wow, you guys did it! I've been waiting for something like this (see my comment here: https://www.indiehackers.com/for...). I hope you make a ton of money, and I'll be a customer very soon. Congrats!

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8yr ago

Rewardful Affiliate Tracking for Paddle

Maker

@brendonrell Interesting! It's long been a thorn in my spine, which is why I finally just rage-built my own 😂Interesting you mentioned coupons in that thread — that's something we're in the planning stages of right now (ex: auto-apply coupons to referred customers). Give me a shout on Intercom or kyle@getrewardful.com if you want to chat more!

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8yr ago

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4.6

Based on 10 reviews

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Reviewers describe Rewardful as easy to set up and straightforward to use, with an intuitive interface that makes configuring affiliate programs simple. User feedback is strongly positive but thin, so the clearest pattern is smooth onboarding and low-friction navigation rather than a broad range of use cases. One founder of Oriane adds that API integrations and affiliate onboarding are especially solid. There is also a lone low rating without any written explanation, so the available comments skew positive but limited.

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