Gumroad affiliate program software, for sellers who outgrow the built-in one.
Gumroad ships a good built-in affiliate program, and plenty of sellers should simply use it. Rekomi is for the ones who outgrow it: an approval and anti-fraud step before money moves, real payout rails with tax handling, a program that is not locked inside one storefront, and a migration importer that brings your existing Gumroad affiliate roster and sales history with you. Connecting is one click: authorize Rekomi once on Gumroad's consent screen, and sales, membership renewals, refunds, and disputes track automatically.
Connect once, and your Gumroad affiliates track end to end.
Click Connect Gumroad and approve once on Gumroad's consent screen; the request is scoped to read-only sales access and nothing more. Rekomi resolves your seller identity and registers the sale, refund, dispute, and membership lifecycle notifications in your Gumroad account itself: no Ping URL to configure, no webhook to paste, no relay code to write.
Gumroad hosts the checkout, so the referral travels as a query parameter: ?rekomi_ref=SLUG on the product link. Rekomi-generated affiliate links carry it automatically; links from your own marketing site get decorated by a one-line snippet after the head script captures the click. Renewals never carry the parameter, so Rekomi credits them from the customer's first attributed sale.
The first charge books the conversion, whether a one-time purchase or a first membership charge, and every recurring membership charge accrues recurring commission for the same affiliate. Full refunds and chargebacks claw the commission back automatically, membership lifecycle is tracked, and your own test purchases never create money.
Unsigned pings, so money is read back from the source.
Stated plainly: Gumroad does not sign its webhook notifications, so Rekomi refuses to take a notification's word for money. Every sale, refund, and dispute is read back from Gumroad's API before anything is recorded; amounts come from that authoritative readback, never from the raw delivery, and a notification that fails the readback is rejected. Deliveries arrive on a per-workspace secret URL bound to your seller identity, credentials rotate on every reconnect, and because revoking the app in Gumroad silently stops notifications, Rekomi's health check catches it and emails you.
Gumroad affiliate marketing, beyond a single storefront.
Outgrow one storefront
Gumroad's built-in program is per-seller and Gumroad-only. With Rekomi your affiliates, links, and history live in your own program: every product in your Gumroad account tracks under one campaign, and if you later add or move to Stripe, Paddle, or anything S2S, the roster comes along instead of starting over.
All integrationsMoney verified at the source
Gumroad does not sign its notifications, so Rekomi never records money from a raw delivery: every sale, refund, and dispute is read back from Gumroad's API, and amounts come from that authoritative answer. Notifications that fail the readback are rejected.
Memberships on autopilot
Recurring membership charges record as recurring conversions for the original affiliate, and cancellations, ended memberships, and restarts are tracked, so churn-aware reporting and recurring commissions stay correct without any lifecycle glue code.
Clawbacks the ping route misses
The sales-ping and Zapier integrations most tools rely on see sales and nothing else. Rekomi's native connection also receives refunds and disputes: a full refund or chargeback claws the commission back automatically, and partial refunds are recorded for your judgment rather than silently ignored.
Bring your roster with you
The migration importer takes Gumroad's own affiliates CSV export, then pulls your sales history straight from the API and matches past sales to the imported roster. Lifetime stats and recurring attribution carry over; history lands as settled, so nothing becomes retroactively payable.
Real payouts, tax handled
Gumroad's built-in program pays affiliates on Gumroad's own cycle; when you graduate, payouts do not become your problem. Rekomi runs them on real payout rails with tax handling, approval and anti-fraud checks before money moves, and per-campaign minimums, for 3% of payouts.
Flat plans plus 3% of payouts. No revenue cut.
For solo founders running a focused campaign.
For SaaS scaling beyond one campaign.
For mature SaaS with serious affiliate ambitions.
14-day free trial on every plan · 3% of affiliate payouts (2.5% on Enterprise), payouts and tax handled · Full pricing
Common Gumroad questions.
Is the Gumroad integration native?
Yes, and it is the simplest connect of any Rekomi rail: one click. You authorize Rekomi once on Gumroad's consent screen (read-only sales access only), and Rekomi registers the sale, refund, dispute, cancellation, and membership lifecycle notifications in your Gumroad account itself. Sales, recurring membership charges, refunds, and chargebacks are recorded automatically, with no Ping URL to configure and no relay code to write; disconnecting removes the registrations again. Rekomi also health-checks the connection and emails you if the app's access is ever revoked.
Gumroad already has a built-in affiliate program. Why add Rekomi?
Keep it if it fits; connecting Rekomi does not touch it, and Gumroad's 10% marketplace affiliates can keep doing their thing alongside. The built-in program is per-seller and Gumroad-only: an affiliate needs a Gumroad account, earns only on your Gumroad products, and commission is computed on the tax-and-shipping-inclusive total, with no approval step on conversions, no fraud gating, and no cross-platform analytics. Rekomi is the graduation path: affiliates sign up without Gumroad accounts, conversions pass approval and anti-fraud checks before money moves, payouts run on real rails with tax handling, and your program lives in Rekomi rather than inside one storefront, so it also covers Stripe, Paddle, Shopify, and anything else via the S2S API (each workspace keeps one conversion source of truth, so a second platform runs as its own workspace).
Can I migrate my existing Gumroad affiliates?
Yes, and it is a first-class feature, not a support ticket. Step one uploads Gumroad's own affiliates CSV export: each affiliate lands with their fee percentage and product scope noted in the import, and gets a fresh Rekomi link (Gumroad's /a/ links only route inside Gumroad, so they cannot carry over). Step two pulls your sales history straight from Gumroad's API and matches past sales to the imported roster, so lifetime stats and recurring attribution carry over. History imports as settled: Gumroad already paid those affiliates, so nothing becomes retroactively payable and no one is owed money twice.
How do affiliates get credited when Gumroad hosts the checkout?
The referral travels as a query parameter on the product link: ?rekomi_ref=SLUG. Affiliate links generated by Rekomi carry it automatically, and if you send buyers to Gumroad from your own marketing site, the Rekomi head script captures the click and a one-line snippet decorates your Buy links. Gumroad preserves the landing URL's parameters onto the sale notification, which is how each sale finds its affiliate. Renewals never carry the parameter; Rekomi credits recurring membership charges from the customer's first attributed sale automatically.
How are notifications secured if Gumroad does not sign them?
Plainly: Gumroad does not sign its webhook notifications, so Rekomi does not pretend otherwise, and it goes a step further than authenticating the delivery: it authenticates the money. Notifications arrive on a per-workspace secret URL that rotates on every reconnect and are bound to your seller identity, and for every money event Rekomi reads the sale back from Gumroad's API, recording amounts from that authoritative answer; a notification that fails the readback is rejected. The access token is stored encrypted at rest and never shown again.
Are membership renewals, refunds, and disputes handled?
Yes, with one edge stated plainly. Recurring membership charges record as recurring conversions for the original affiliate, and cancellations, ended memberships, and restarts are tracked so churn-aware reporting stays correct (a restarted membership resumes crediting the same affiliate). A full refund claws the commission back in full, and a chargeback claws back the same way. Partial refunds are the honest edge: Rekomi records that they happened but does not reduce the commission automatically, leaving the call to you; a series of partial refunds that reaches 100% claws back once, in full.
What about my own test purchases?
Excluded from money, on purpose. Gumroad flags a seller's own test purchases, and Rekomi records them as connection checks rather than commissions: a test purchase updates the last-event indicator on the setup page so you can verify the pipe end to end without creating money. Free-trial starts arrive as $0 sales and create no conversion either; the first real charge does. And since Gumroad settles every charge in US dollars, amounts are always recorded as USD.
Which affiliate platforms actually integrate with Gumroad?
Almost none, natively. Rewardful, Tolt, and FirstPromoter do not list Gumroad at all, and Tapfiliate officially routes Gumroad sellers through Zapier; scan the Gumroad integrations most affiliate tools lean on and you find sale triggers only. That gap matters: a sales-only pipe never hears about refunds, disputes, or membership lifecycle, so commissions drift from reality. Rekomi's native connection subscribes to all of it: sales, refunds, disputes, cancellations, ended memberships, and restarts.
Can I run Gumroad alongside another billing connection?
No; Rekomi enforces one conversion source of truth per workspace so the same sale is never recorded twice. Pick one rail for Gumroad sales and keep it; if you genuinely sell on two platforms, run them as separate workspaces.
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Ten minutes to first click.
Click Connect Gumroad, approve once, and sales start crediting affiliates today; the importer brings your existing roster along. 14-day free trial, no card.
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