Pay your beehiiv subscribers real cash for real conversions.
beehiiv ships a built-in referral system that rewards subscribers with free swag and tier-unlocks. Rekomi adds the missing layer: actual cash commissions on actual conversions for the subscribers who are driving real revenue. And because beehiiv records how every subscriber arrived, the same connection credits paid subscriptions to the affiliate whose link brought the reader, with nothing in the reader's browser.
From paste-API-key to first paid affiliate in 10 minutes.
Paste your Beehiiv API key into Rekomi. Rekomi runs a test call to verify the key, then pulls your list/audience picker live from Beehiiv so you pick the right destination.
Affiliates apply via your public landing page or your bulk invite. Approve them manually, auto-approve on a campaign, or import an existing affiliate roster from Rewardful and six other platforms via Settings > Migrate.
Approved affiliates land in your Beehiiv list as tagged subscribers within seconds. Rekomi handles idempotency, retries, and per-campaign overrides; you handle the nurture sequence.
The exact Beehiiv fields Rekomi writes.
No surprise fields, no overwrites of contact data you already have. Empty values are omitted so existing nurture data is preserved.
- Referred customers and leads (optional): every attributed sale or lead is upserted on email with the referring affiliate, campaign and last event in custom fields, tagged
Rekomi customerorRekomi lead email, affiliate email, deduped against your beehiiv publicationreactivate_existing: true, re-activates an unsubscribed contact rather than failing the callsend_welcome_email: false, Rekomi sends its own welcome, beehiiv stays out of it- Publication ID, required by beehiiv (one publication per integration; switch publication = disconnect + reconnect)
- Sync semantics: publication-wide subscribers, no per-list partitioning
- Read back, never written: the arrival record beehiiv stored on the subscriber at signup, when a paid subscription arrives with no affiliate named, so the connection credits it to the affiliate whose link brought the reader
The Beehiiv connection credits sales to the right affiliate.
Every affiliate link Rekomi hands out carries a tag beehiiv stores on the subscriber at signup. When that subscriber pays for a Premium subscription, Rekomi reads the record back and credits the affiliate. Nothing runs in the reader's browser: no script, no tag manager, no cookie banner in the way.
What you need. The Stripe account beehiiv created for paid subscriptions connected under Setup, and the beehiiv connection with Credit sales through beehiiv on (it is on from the moment you connect).
- Sales arrive through the Stripe account beehiiv created for your paid subscriptions, connected once under Setup
- Tagged signups reach Rekomi as leads before they pay on beehiiv Scale and above, through a webhook Rekomi registers for you
- Check a subscriber's email on the integration page tells you, for one address, whether a sale from it would be credited and why
- One sentence of status and a lifetime count of sales credited through beehiiv sit under the Credit sales through beehiiv switch
beehiiv writes the arrival once, at signup, so a reader who was already on your list before they clicked an affiliate link is not credited by the connection. The optional click-stats tag records those readers by email when they type it on your site after the click.
What Beehiiv customers actually do with Rekomi.
Paid-subscriber to ambassador upgrade path
Build a beehiiv automation that fires on `Paid Subscriber Status: Active`: send a 'become a Premium Ambassador' email at month 3. Ambassadors who accept earn 30% recurring on every new paid subscriber they bring in, and your beehiiv referral system continues to reward them with free perks on top.
Newsletter cross-promotion as an affiliate offer
Negotiate a cross-promotion deal with another newsletter operator: they recommend your newsletter to their list, you pay them per referred paid subscriber via Rekomi. The deal lives outside beehiiv's built-in 'Boost' marketplace, with your own commission terms.
Author/contributor revenue share
Multi-author newsletters can use Rekomi to track per-author traffic + conversions. Each contributor gets their own tracking link (so deep-link to their posts), and beehiiv shows them as subscribers. Pay your top contributors a slice of your subscription revenue.
Rekomi handles Beehiiv's edge cases so you don't have to.
Every CRM API has quirks. Rekomi's integration code was built and audited against the live Beehiivdocs, these are the ones you'd otherwise hit yourself.
beehiiv's data model is one publication = one audience. There's no per-list partitioning. Rekomi's connect form skips the list-picker step and uses publication-level tags for segmentation. Multiple publications = multiple Rekomi CRM integrations.
Without `reactivate_existing: true`, beehiiv returns 400 for any email that's been unsubscribed at any point in the past. Rekomi defaults to `true` so your affiliate-program acceptance overrides a prior unsubscribe (the affiliate has just opted in to receiving program emails by accepting the terms).
beehiiv has no tags in the marketing-CRM sense, so Rekomi writes no tags on the affiliate sync. It does create the Rekomi custom fields on your publication the first time it syncs (Rekomi referral link, Rekomi referral slug, Rekomi campaign and Rekomi affiliate status) and fills them on every affiliate, so you can segment on them or merge a partner's link into your emails.
Built for newsletter founders on beehiiv's Scale or Max tier with active paid subscriptions + Boosts. If you're already monetizing your audience via ads + paid subs + the Boost marketplace, Rekomi adds the formal-affiliate-program revenue layer that beehiiv's built-in referral system can't. And because most of what a newsletter audience promotes is subscription-priced, recurring commissions are the default motion here, not an afterthought.
Common Beehiiv questions.
Does beehiiv have an affiliate program?
beehiiv runs a Partner Program (15% recurring) for promoting beehiiv itself. That's separate from running YOUR affiliate program on YOUR newsletter. Rekomi is the platform for the latter, your subscribers become affiliates, get tracking links, earn commissions on referred subscriptions or one-off sales. beehiiv's existing free-swag referral system can run in parallel.
Can I run an affiliate program on a newsletter?
Yes, Rekomi tracks clicks + conversions on whatever you're selling (paid subscription, course, product), calculates per-affiliate commissions, and pushes the affiliate audience into beehiiv as subscribers. The affiliate-side experience runs through Rekomi; the email-side runs through beehiiv.
Can I pay recurring commissions to affiliates I recruit from my beehiiv audience?
Yes, recurring revenue share is a first-class commission model in Rekomi: pay a percentage of every renewal, and pick one-time, capped, or lifetime duration per campaign. The engine is churn-aware (the recurring commission stops and auto-reverses when the referred subscriber cancels) and refund-aware, so long-running payouts stay accurate without manual cleanup. Rekomi pays your affiliates for you, running the payouts via Stripe Express for a 3% platform fee, which is exactly what newsletter operators promoting subscription products want: commissions that renew for as long as the customer does.
Does this stack with beehiiv's built-in referral system?
Yes, they target different rewards. beehiiv's built-in referrals unlock free perks (swag, premium tiers) for free subscribers. Rekomi's affiliate program pays cash commissions on paid conversions. Many newsletter operators run both: free subscribers refer for perks, paid subscribers refer for cash.
How does a paid subscription get credited to an affiliate?
Every affiliate link Rekomi hands out carries a tag beehiiv stores on the subscriber at signup. When that subscriber pays for a Premium subscription through the Stripe account beehiiv created for you (connect that one under Setup), Rekomi reads the record back and credits the affiliate. No script, no tag manager, no cookie banner in the way. The one case it cannot cover is a reader who was already on your list before clicking; the optional click-stats tag records those readers by email.
Which beehiiv plan do I need?
beehiiv's pricing page lists API access on every plan, including the free Launch plan (only the Send API is limited to Max and above), so any plan can connect. Signup alerts, which push tagged subscribers to Rekomi as leads before they pay, use beehiiv webhooks and need Scale or above; sales credit on any plan.
Is this beehiiv's own affiliate program?
No. beehiiv's Partner Program pays you to promote beehiiv, and beehiiv runs it on its own portal. This page is beehiiv affiliate tracking for your newsletter: your affiliates, your Premium subscriptions, credited from the record beehiiv keeps at signup. If you searched for affiliate software for beehiiv, this is it.
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