Run a Shopify affiliate program from inside your Shopify admin.

No, and the difference matters. Shopify runs an affiliate program where people earn money for referring new merchants to Shopify 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 Shopify, look up the Shopify Affiliate Program on shopify.com. If you want affiliates promoting your Shopify store, that is exactly what this app does.

Collabs is Shopify's own creator tool, and the two can run side by side on the same store. Rekomi adds what Collabs does not: cross-platform affiliate accounts (one affiliate working multiple brands from one login), commission tiers and per-product rates, sub-affiliate recruiting, a branded signup page, fraud screening before money moves, and done-for-you payouts with tax paperwork. If Collabs already covers your needs, you may not need Rekomi; if your affiliate channel is a serious revenue line, this is the fuller toolkit.

From the Shopify App Store: open the Rekomi Affiliate Marketing listing, click Install, and approve the permissions (read orders, read products, read customers, and write discounts, which only mints affiliate discount codes). There is no code step at all. You pick a plan inside the app (14-day free trial, billed through Shopify), create a campaign, and share the affiliate signup link. Most stores go from install to a working program in under ten minutes.

Two ways, and both follow real money. Link tracking: the app installs its own web pixel to capture the affiliate click, and when the order is paid, Rekomi also reads the buyer journey Shopify itself records on each order, so link attribution works even when the buyer blocks trackers. Discount-code tracking: each affiliate can claim a personal code, created as a real Shopify discount code in your store, so a sale that uses the code credits that affiliate even when nobody clicked a link. Conversions are recorded server-side from Shopify's order webhook, never guessed from the browser.

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 discount code in your Shopify store with the discount you configured, and every order that redeems it is attributed to that affiliate. You can scope a coupon offer to specific products using Shopify's own product picker, or leave it storewide.

Through Shopify, like your other apps. Plans start at $29/mo with a 14-day free trial, and the charge shows up on your Shopify bill, not on a separate card. On top of the subscription Rekomi charges 3% of the affiliate payouts it processes for you (2.5% on Enterprise), and in return runs the payouts and the tax paperwork. Most Shopify affiliate apps charge a percentage of your referral sales; Rekomi's fee is on the commissions you actually pay out, which is a much smaller number.

Commissions adjust themselves. When you refund an order, fully or partially, Rekomi adjusts the affiliate's commission automatically, and an order refunded before attribution completes never mints a commission at all. Your affiliates earn on revenue you actually kept, and the ledger shows every adjustment, so month-end never turns into a spreadsheet argument.

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 165+ countries, a ready-to-file 1099-NEC export every January, refund-aware commissions, and per-product rates 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.