Shareasale Pricing Overview

Love how they charge for everything - including even a basic training manual on how to use the interface.

1. Full of coupon scam sites who do no work, except to use your brand name in order to intercept branded search traffic. 2. Possibly 1% legitimate sites with some traffic. The 99% are there just to waste costly time in monitoring their scam activities. 3. Terribly expensive with upsells for merchants around every corner. Giving performance marketing a very bad reputation, that is for sure. Struggling to get a refund from Shareasale - it is just money down the drain. The Shareasale CEO should really consider ways to give legitimate value to new merchants.

Nothing at all - quite disappointing.

Setup was fairly easy if you are familiar with some technical aspects and understand a little bit of legal terminology for the affiliate program contracts.

Lots to dislike. I was skeptical due to the high cost to start the program at $600, but thought I was paying a premium for best in class. Upon getting everything setup, I was told they had a huge list of affiliates that would be interested in my product, but all I ever got was a huge list of off-shore coupon sites applying to become affiliates. They will list coupons for my store, but not actively advertise my products. Coupon sites are the scourge of internet sales - stay away from them at all costs!

I didn't solve any problems other than my own education. It was a grand experiment to see if affiliate sales would work. It turned out to be empty promises and an expensive startup. The system is "broken" with regard to coupon sites. If you get a buying customer, cart full, checking out, and they see you have a discount code, they typically then search the Internet for a discount code. If they find one of your affiliates and click on a banner ad for a coupon, even if no coupon exists, the affiliate with the coupon site has essentially registered themselves in the loop. So when the customer finishes their transaction, the coupon site gets a commission for doing absolutely nothing.

BEWARE OF THIS COMPANY! I HAVE LOST THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS ON FRAUDULENT ORDERS. CUSTOMER SERVICE DOES NOT ANSWER THE PHONE, NOR DO THEY RETURN CALLS.

We have used Shareasale for years without incident. For several months we have lost thousands of dollars on fraudulent orders. We traced them all to Shareasale affiliates. We tried to contact Shareasale immediately for help. I left messages, and no one has returned a call. I guess Shareasale no longer vets their affiliates because scam affiliates are now robbing the merchants. I consider this site extremely dangerous now. My recommendation is to run away from this company as fast as you can.

They are not helping at all. They are creating a nightmare that has cost us thousands.

Great niche websites you won't find in other networks

Small, has been tough to scale the program

Low cost affiliate network

I love how easy ShareASale is to use, from setting up to getting connected with potential merchants and customize how you choose to display products or ads. You can also select what type of merchant you want to be associated with which would fit your personal site or blog the best. The platform is also very easy to use when communicating with merchants as well as seeing your performance.

The only downfall about the platform is the dashboard is a bit outdated and wish it was more tablet friendly. I am always on the go and don't always have a laptop handy so an app version for the platform would be better.

I have increased my number of readers and subscribers but also feel empowered when using ShareASale to really build my own personal brand. The platform also allows me to become a sort of blogger entrepreneur to reinvest in myself and blog.

As Shareasale is part of Awin it's a guarantee that this network is very professional towards their clients and always promptly helps if you face any issue. Shareasale has only premium affiliates, not influencers, mostly as we see on Awin.

The thing to dislike most about Shareasale is you have to be very specific to launch program on it as it requires basic 100$ fees for per merchant setup that's need to be maintained and you can only launch merchants that can be ROI positive with them.

We have one merchant which have mostly users from US market so we launched it on Shareasale network, till now merchant is performing very well with them and we're discussing with Awin Global team to launch more programs on Shareasale. Shareasale helps us in to retain this merchant by registering sales through affiliates on them and all traffic is of premium quality.

The upside to ShareASale (SAS, from this point forward) is that the network of affilaites and merchants is already very established- which is great. The benefits inherited from this vast network are great, yes- but I do feel there could be some polishing to the portal.

The portal interface is so outdated. The ability to retain reporting is very arbitrary, and there isn't a great way to consider different data sets. Not to mention, when checking through transactions- you should be able to filter out the ones you've already voided. Only leaving those awaiting their lock date/approval.

They aren't really problems, I suppose. I guess they are moreso limitations of the portal. I wish there was a way to sort through data better, filter and search in various ways.

Partnership options available on ShareASale feel limited, but it is difficult to tell because the website is archaic.

The entire navigational experience is a deterrent from using ShareASale unless I am desperate to affiliate myself with a client.

None. I opt for alternative Affiliate networking sites.