Shopify

Public store-plan offer: $150 or $25 by merchant location; Basic/Grow/Advanced eligible after at least one full-price paid month. Contract via Impact.

At a glance

• Eligible plans : Basic, Grow, and Advanced under the public store-plan offer.
• Commission : Published $150 or $25 depending on merchant location.
• Qualifying event : At least one month paid at full price after the trial.
• Management : Tracking and contract through Impact.
• Audience : An established audience interested in commerce and entrepreneurship.

Shopify’s affiliate program makes sense for publishers who help people start an online store. The commission follows a merchant becoming a qualifying full-price customer, not simply opening a trial. We like the fit for ecommerce educators and comparisons of selling platforms. The recommendation needs to explain the store owner’s decision, rather than promise an affiliate payment for every signup.

A trial is the beginning of the customer journey

The merchant may start with a free trial and then a discounted paid trial before reaching a full-price plan. Shopify’s help center distinguishes those stages from the payable online-sale action. We would assess how many referred merchants reach that stage instead of counting all trials as commissions. This is relevant to a tutorial that helps someone build a usable store: the reader needs a realistic project, product, and budget. A trial link added to unrelated content is a much weaker fit.

The location and plan determine eligibility

The public table lists $150 for specified markets, including the United States, and $25 for other listed regions. Basic, Grow, and Advanced referrals are eligible under the store-plan offer; Plus, Enterprise, and Retail are not. Hypothetical example: five approved US referrals at $150 produce $750. Five discounted trials do not automatically produce that amount. We like having a defined acquisition event. Check the merchant location and the accepted Impact agreement before applying a public rate to a mixed international audience.

Payment follows the full-price sale

Shopify describes locking the previous month’s eligible actions on the 21st and processing them to the Impact balance the following day. Withdrawal from Impact is a separate step. That timeline explains why activity can appear well before cash is available. The program requires an active website, established audience, original content, and relevant commerce experience. Present what you teach or publish, and how your readers use it. A functioning ecommerce education project is a more coherent application than a page built solely around the payout headline.

Our choice for an ecommerce audience

We would consider Shopify where the audience is choosing a store platform or learning to launch a business. We like that the affiliate program rewards a merchant who moves beyond the trial into a real paid plan. The limit is the gap between curiosity and readiness to run a store. Explain the plan, ongoing costs, and product fit without turning the customer’s subscription into a claim of recurring affiliate revenue. This is Shopify’s merchant-referral affiliate program, which should also be distinguished from individual stores recruiting their own product affiliates.

For readers who want to delegate part of their store launch, Fiverr Affiliates covers freelance services rather than the ecommerce subscription itself.

Public information checked October 7, 2026. Your accepted agreement determines the applicable terms.