Stripe Marketplace app

The Rekomi app for Stripe puts your affiliate program where your revenue already lives: inside the Stripe Dashboard. Install it from the Stripe App Marketplace and you can see which affiliate referred a customer, attribute or re-attribute a sale, approve, adjust, or void a commission, claw back on a refund, issue a credit or comp a renewal, edit per-product commission rates, and jump to your payouts in Rekomi, all without leaving Stripe.

This is a pathway to the same native Stripe tracking, not a new payment processor. The sale and refund events still reach Rekomi over the Stripe rail, and the affiliate is still named by the attribution Rekomi captures. The app simply adds a management surface inside Stripe on top of that. If you have not connected Stripe yet, start with Stripe Connect; the app and Connect are covered side by side below.

What the app does

Stripe Apps render Stripe's own components on a fixed set of Dashboard viewports, so the app surfaces affiliate context exactly where you already work:

• Customer detail. See whether a customer was referred, by which affiliate, on which campaign, the conversion state, and attributed revenue to date. Attribute or re-attribute the customer to an affiliate with a searchable picker, or clear the attribution.
• Invoice and subscription detail. See the commission amount, the affiliate, and the status for each invoice. Approve, adjust, or void the commission inline.
• Payment and charge detail. See the attribution and commission for a charge, and claw it back with a reason if you need to.
• Product detail. View and edit the per-product commission rule from the Stripe product page.
• Issue a reward. Credit a customer's balance or comp their next renewal directly from the customer view.
• Drawer and home overview. A persistent leaderboard: top affiliates, attributed revenue this period, pending payouts, and recent conversions.
• Payout run. Review pending commissions and run a payout from a focused confirmation view, or hand off to Rekomi's payout rail.
• Open in Rekomi. Every deep-link lands you in Rekomi already signed in, for the heavier configuration that has no Stripe viewport (the full campaign builder, the affiliate roster, deep reporting and exports, payout onboarding and tax forms, and billing).

Money-moving actions (clawback, void, issue a credit, run a payout) are gated behind a confirmation step.

How to install

1. Open the Stripe App Marketplace from your Stripe Dashboard (Apps, then browse the marketplace) and search for Rekomi.
2. Click Install and approve the requested permissions. Rekomi asks for the minimal grant needed to read attribution and write commission metadata, coupons, promotion codes, and the per-product rules described above.
3. The app opens its setup view. Onboarding is automatic in the common cases (see below); for most merchants there is nothing else to do.

The app installs into both Stripe sandbox and live accounts, so you can try it against test data first.

How onboarding works

Onboarding is federated: the app treats your authenticated Stripe identity as the sign-in, so you usually do not type a password.

• Returning install. If your Stripe account is already linked to a Rekomi workspace, the app logs straight into it.
• Existing Rekomi account, matched by email. If your verified Stripe email matches exactly one existing Rekomi workspace and you are a Stripe account admin or owner, the app links your account to that workspace and signs you in. You will see a "Linked to your existing Rekomi workspace" notice the first time.
• New to Rekomi. If there is no match, the app provisions a fresh Rekomi workspace from your verified Stripe identity, with your email pre-filled. You start on a 14-day free trial.
• Ambiguous or low-privilege cases. If your email owns several workspaces, you pick one once. If your email is not verified or you are not a Stripe admin, you sign in to Rekomi once to prove control, then the link is permanent.

Two guardrails keep the email auto-link safe: both the Stripe and Rekomi emails must be verified, and the Stripe user must be an account admin or owner. A low-privilege Stripe teammate cannot enter an existing workspace.

Billing stays in Rekomi. Stripe has no app billing API, so your Rekomi subscription, trial, and plan are managed in Rekomi (reached by a deep-link from the app). The app itself is free to install.

Differences from Stripe Connect

The app is not a different way to track your sales; it is a different way to manage the program built on the same tracking. Stripe Connect (or, when you carry the affiliate referral on checkout, the stamping described in Install on Stripe) is still what delivers and attributes your sale and refund events. The app reads and writes on top of that:

• Connect is the data rail: it delivers sales, refunds, and the Stripe Connect transfers that pay affiliates out.
• The app is a management surface inside the Stripe Dashboard for the day-to-day actions above.

You do not choose one or the other as your "processor." Stripe is your native processor either way; the app is just an additional place to drive it from. The same webhook events, the same attribution, and the same commission ledger are behind both.

FAQ

Can I use both Stripe Connect and the app? Yes, and most brands will. They are a parallel pathway, not mutually exclusive. Connect delivers your events; the app gives you an in-Stripe console for them. Nothing changes about how your sales are tracked when you install the app.

Do I need a Rekomi account? You need a Rekomi workspace, but you usually do not create one by hand. If you are new to Rekomi, the app provisions one from your verified Stripe identity and starts your 14-day trial. If you already have one, the app links to it.

Does the app move my payouts? No. Affiliate payouts still flow through Stripe Connect transfers (or Rekomi's Stripe Express rail), exactly as they do without the app. The app's payout-run view is a convenient place to review and trigger a payout; it does not change where the money goes or who holds it. Rekomi never holds your money or your affiliates' money.

Is the app a new payment processor? No. It is a pathway to the same native Stripe tracking. Your processor is still Stripe.

Does installing the app require theme or checkout changes? No. The app runs inside the Stripe Dashboard. Affiliate attribution still comes from your existing setup (Stripe Connect plus, where relevant, the client_reference_id stamping).

Related

• Install on Stripe: the attribution half, stamping the affiliate onto each sale
• Stripe Connect (sales tracking): connect your account so Rekomi receives the events the app manages
• Integrations overview
• Payouts