The affiliate terms

The affiliate terms are the default contract between an app and an affiliate. Once an affiliate makes a new referral, commissions are based on those terms.

You can always change the app's default terms or change them for an individual affiliate.

Terms breakdown

• Commission Rate:

  The percentage you are willing to pay an affiliate for every transaction made by a store they referred. You can read more about the affiliate commission.

• Commission Rate Period Limit: The number of months an affiliate earns commissions from transactions made by the referred store. If there is no limit, the affiliate earns commissions while the referral is active.

• CPI:

  Cost per install. The amount an affiliate is rewarded for each successful app install. You can set the amount to 0 if you do not want to pay per install. For post-install matches, CPI is charged on the next nightly update that includes that shop from Shopify. If Shopify never reports the shop, CPI is not charged. Owner-approved manual referrals are charged when you approve them.

• Minimum Withdrawal:

  The minimum amount an affiliate must earn before they can request a withdrawal. This amount is in USD.

• Auto Approval:

  If enabled, every affiliate who joins your affiliate program is approved automatically — including market requests and affiliates who use a group invite link. If disabled, you must approve each request manually on the Affiliates page, no matter how the affiliate applied.

• Recurring charges only: If enabled, affiliates receive a share of revenue only from recurring payments, not from one-time fees.

• Require invoice: If enabled, affiliates must attach an invoice to every payout request for this app before they can submit it — either upload a PDF (up to 2MB) or paste an https:// link. You can review that invoice from payment details on the Payouts page before paying.

• Disable manual referrals: If enabled, affiliates cannot submit manual referrals for this program. You can still add referrals yourself from the affiliate connection page, and the Shoffi API addReferral endpoint still works.

• Custom Terms And Conditions (optional): A link to a webpage with your own affiliate program terms. When set, affiliates see and must acknowledge that link when joining.

Advanced Terms

On the app page, Disable manual referrals, Require invoice, and Custom Terms And Conditions live under Advanced Terms, which is collapsed by default. When you edit a group or a single affiliate’s terms, Advanced Terms shows Disable manual referrals only (Require invoice and custom terms stay app-wide).

Changing only these Advanced Terms settings does not send a terms-changed notification or email to affiliates. Affiliates are notified when you change commission terms such as rate, period, CPI, or minimum withdrawal.

Editing the affiliate terms

You can edit your app's main affiliate terms when editing your app.

You can also change terms for a specific affiliate by editing affiliate terms.