🤝 Reflink
Run your affiliate program from one Node process and one SQLite file.
Tapfiliate is $89 a month and FirstPromoter starts at $49 a month, forever, to answer one question: who sent this sale and what do I owe them. Reflink is $39 once. Give every affiliate a tracking link, count their clicks, attribute their conversions, compute their commissions, and export the payout CSV — from one Node process and one SQLite file that you own. No subscription.
Reflink screenshot is being captured — the app is shipped and real.
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.
Reflink vs Tapfiliate
Tapfiliate at $89/mo runs roughly $1068/year — $2,136 over two years. Reflink is $39, once.
| Reflink | Tapfiliate | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $39 once | $89/mo |
| Cost after 1 year | $39 | $1,068 |
| Data ownership | Your server, your SQLite file | Their cloud |
| Affiliates | Unlimited | Tiered limits |
| Clicks / conversions | Unlimited | Plan-capped |
| Affiliate portal | Yes | Yes |
| Payout CSV export | Yes | Yes |
| MLM tiers / integrations marketplace | No | Yes |
Pays for itself in the first two weeks of a Tapfiliate subscription, then keeps running for free.
Three steps, no subscription
Buy once on Whop
One payment of $39 gets you the packaged Windows installer, or clone the MIT source and deploy it yourself for free.
Deploy and wire your checkout
Run it as a desktop app or on a $5 VPS, then call the postback from your checkout webhook on each purchase.
Approve and pay
Approve conversions in the dashboard, bundle them into a payout, export the CSV and pay via Stripe or PayPal.
Honest answers
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — the source is MIT and always will be at github.com/bensblueprints/affiliate-tracker. 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.
Own Reflink forever
$39 once. Deploy on your own server — your data never leaves it. No renewal, no account with us, no meter. Or build it yourself from the MIT source — it's the same app.