Run your affiliate program from one Node process and one SQLite file.
Creators bleed money on per-month editing, caption and thumbnail tools that charge more the more they publish. Pay-once apps let them produce unlimited content without a meter running.
The tool this job usually means renting is Tapfiliate, at $89/mo — roughly $1,068 a year, every year. Reflink does the job for a one-time $39 — running on infrastructure you control.
A short link records the click and 302-redirects to your landing page with a ref code appended for client-side pickup.
For content creators, tracking links pays off when there's a publishing schedule to hit — and it's covered by the same one-time $39, not metered per month.
A configurable window of 30, 60 or 90 days is your call.
For content creators, cookie-based attribution pays off when there's a publishing schedule to hit — and it's covered by the same one-time $39, not metered per month.
A server-to-server postback from your checkout webhook, or a JS pixel with a convert call.
For content creators, conversion tracking two ways pays off when there's a publishing schedule to hit — and it's covered by the same one-time $39, not metered per month.
One payment of $39 gets you the packaged Windows installer, or clone the MIT source and deploy it yourself for free.
Run it as a desktop app or on a $5 VPS, then call the postback from your checkout webhook on each purchase.
Approve conversions in the dashboard, bundle them into a payout, export the CSV and pay via Stripe or PayPal.
Reflink is $39, once. Tapfiliate at $89/mo — roughly $1,068 a year, every year. Pays for itself in the first two weeks of a Tapfiliate subscription, then keeps running for free.
Pays for itself in the first two weeks of a Tapfiliate subscription, then keeps running for free. Reflink costs $39 once; Tapfiliate charges $89/mo — about $1068 a year. For content creators, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.
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.
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.