impact.com pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
impact.com (impact.com) is a affiliate & referral tool. Tiered platform fee: self-serve Starter charges the greater of $30 or 2.5% of partner-driven revenue; Essentials, Pro and Enterprise are flat monthly fees on 12-month contracts with included partner p. No free plan.
What impact.com costs
- $5k referred/mo: $125/mo (Starter: greater of $30 or 2.5% x $5,000 partner-driven revenue = $125/mo. Starter is only offered to stores on Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Adobe Commerce and similar platforms; other brands start at Essentials ($500/mo).)
- $25k referred/mo: $500/mo (Starter would be 2.5% x $25,000 = $625; Essentials is $500/mo (12-month contract) and includes $2,500/mo in partner payouts, so it is cheaper if commissions stay at or under $2,500 (10% of $25k). Payouts above $2,500 are charged at 20% per the Essentials billing help article.)
Plan compared: Starter (greater of $30/mo or 2.5% of monthly partner-driven revenue). Monthly USD on monthly billing for a defined program size (referred sales, affiliates, participants and clicks), including any platform fee the tool takes on referred sales or conversions. Commissions you pay affiliates and payout transfer fees are not included.
What impact.com does
Core: Affiliate program, Flexible commission rules, Automated affiliate payouts, Partner discovery marketplace.
Important: E-commerce store integrations, Coupon code attribution, Refer-a-friend programs, Influencer & creator management, Fraud & self-referral protection, Affiliate onboarding & emails, B2B lead & partner tracking.
Also has: Billing integrations, Branded affiliate portal (partly), Performance network tracking (partly), Loyalty points & VIP tiers (partly), API, webhooks & Zapier.
impact.com price hikes
No price hikes on record for impact.com.
Cheaper alternatives to impact.com
At a small program ($5k/mo in referred sales, 100 affiliates), impact.com costs $125/mo. 1 affiliate & referral tool costs less:
- Rewardful: $49/mo (Starter ($49/mo, up to $7,500/mo affiliate-attributed revenue)), covers 58% of impact.com; missing or partial: Partner discovery marketplace, E-commerce store integrations, Refer-a-friend programs (partly), Influencer & creator management, Fraud & self-referral protection (partly)
impact.com alternatives: 2 affiliate & referral tools compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- Oct 2024 · Price cut: The Starter plan's usage fee fell from 3% to 2.5% of monthly revenue, with the $30/mo minimum unchanged (Shopify App Store listing showed 3% through Aug 2024 and 2.5% by Oct-Dec 2024). At $5k partner revenue that is $150 down to $125.
Sources
Pricing page: impact.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices from impact.com/pricing (Oct 2026), the Shopify App Store listing and impact.com help-center billing articles; history from web.archive.org snapshots of the Shopify listing. The help center describes the Starter fee as 2.5% of the total monthly revenue of locked partner actions; this assumes it applies to partner-driven revenue. Essentials/Pro/Enterprise need a 12-month contract.