🤝 Reflink
Run your affiliate program from one Node process and one SQLite file.
Reflink at a glance
| Price | $39, once — no renewal |
| Replaces | Tapfiliate at $89/mo — roughly $1,068 a year, every year |
| Type | Self-hosted web app |
| Platforms | Your own server (VPS / Docker), any browser |
| Category | Marketing & SEO |
Reflink features
🔗 Tracking links
A short link records the click and 302-redirects to your landing page with a ref code appended for client-side pickup.
🍪 Cookie-based attribution
A configurable window of 30, 60 or 90 days is your call.
🎯 Conversion tracking two ways
A server-to-server postback from your checkout webhook, or a JS pixel with a convert call.
🚫 Order-ID dedupe
The same order can never pay commission twice.
💵 Commission rules per affiliate
Percent of sale or a flat amount.
✅ Approval workflow
Pending to approved or rejected to paid, so nothing pays out by accident.
👤 Affiliate portal
Affiliates sign in with an access key and see only their own clicks, conversions, earnings, link and your banners.
🔒 Privacy-sane
Visitor IPs are stored only as salted hashes, never raw.
$39 once — that's the whole pricing page
Tapfiliate charges $89/mo — roughly $1,068 a year, every year. Reflink is a single payment, and it keeps working whether or not we ever sell another copy.
Or get Reflink inside the full suite — every app in the catalog, currently $97 for the bundle. See the bundle →
Reflink guides & pages
Honest answers
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — the source is MIT and always will be at github.com/bensblueprints/affiliate-tracker-mvp. The $39 buys a packaged Windows installer with updates; building from source is free.
Where does my affiliate data live?
On your server. Reflink is one Node process and one SQLite file that you own, and visitor IPs are stored only as salted hashes, never raw.
Does it replace Tapfiliate entirely?
No, on purpose. If you need multi-level marketing trees and 40 native integrations, buy Tapfiliate. If you need who sent this sale and what do I owe them, that's Reflink.