Run a BigCommerce affiliate program from your own control panel.

No, and the difference matters. BigCommerce runs a partner and affiliate program where people earn money for referring new merchants to BigCommerce itself. Rekomi is the other thing that phrase means: software for running your own affiliate program, where your store recruits affiliates and influencers, they promote your products, and you pay them a commission on the sales they bring you. If you want to promote BigCommerce, look up the BigCommerce partner program on bigcommerce.com. If you want affiliates promoting your BigCommerce store, that is exactly what this app does.

Not as a native store feature. BigCommerce has no built-in way to recruit affiliates, track their sales, or pay them, which is why affiliate apps exist in the App Marketplace. Rekomi adds the whole program in one install: a branded signup page for recruiting, link and coupon tracking, commission rules, fraud screening, and automatic payouts, all managed from the Rekomi app inside your own control panel.

From the BigCommerce App Marketplace: search for Rekomi (or open the listing), click Install, and approve the permissions. Rekomi never asks for checkout access; its only script on the order side is a small beacon on the order confirmation page. The app registers the webhooks and scripts automatically, so there is no code step at all. You pick a plan inside the app (14-day free trial, billed through BigCommerce), create a campaign, and share the affiliate signup link. Your store needs a paid BigCommerce plan, because BigCommerce does not bill apps on trial or free stores. Most stores go from install to a working program in under ten minutes.

Two ways, and both follow real money. Link tracking: the auto-injected script stores the affiliate click in a first-party cookie on your own domain, and when that visitor's order is paid, BigCommerce's order webhooks tell Rekomi and the commission is created; a small beacon on the order confirmation page ties the order to the click. Coupon tracking: each affiliate can claim a personal code, created as a real promotion on your store, so a sale that uses the code credits that affiliate even when nobody clicked a link. Commissions are calculated on the pre-tax order total, and orders on offline payment methods (like cash on delivery) count as soon as you mark them paid. Both scripts sit in BigCommerce's analytics consent category, so on a store with a cookie banner they run once the shopper accepts analytics cookies; an order from a shopper who declined is still credited when it uses an affiliate's code.

Yes, and for influencer marketing this is usually the channel that matters, because Instagram and TikTok audiences type codes, they do not click tracked links. Affiliates claim a personal code from their portal, Rekomi creates it as a real promotion in your BigCommerce store with the discount you configured, and every order that redeems it is attributed to that affiliate. Codes are cart-wide (a BigCommerce platform rule), and revoking a code disables the promotion instantly.

Through BigCommerce, on your regular invoice. Plans start at $29/mo with a 14-day free trial, and the charge shows up with your other BigCommerce app subscriptions, not on a separate card. Three BigCommerce rules worth knowing up front: your store needs a paid BigCommerce plan (BigCommerce does not bill apps on trial or free stores), plan changes are not available during the trial (pick your plan when the trial converts, or cancel and subscribe directly to the plan you want), and uninstalling the app cancels the subscription.

Commissions adjust themselves. When you refund an order, fully or partially, Rekomi claws back the affiliate's commission in proportion, on the same pre-tax basis it was earned, and chargebacks claw back too; a duplicate refund event is never counted twice. Your affiliates earn on revenue you actually kept, and the ledger shows every adjustment, so month-end never turns into a spreadsheet argument.

Stencil themes (Cornerstone and everything modern) are fully automatic. If your store still runs a legacy Blueprint theme, BigCommerce does not render app-injected scripts there: order tracking through webhooks still works, and click tracking uses a one-line manual snippet from inside the app instead.

Free tools track clicks and show you a number; what they leave out is everything after the sale, which is where programs actually break. Rekomi handles the full loop: fraud screening on clicks and conversions before money moves, automatic payouts to affiliates in 130+ countries, a 1099-NEC candidates export for your accountant every January, refund-aware commissions, and per-product control synced from your live catalog. It costs money because it replaces the work you would otherwise do by hand every month. If your program is a hobby, a free tool is fine; if it is a revenue channel, this is the professional version.