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Playbooks for SaaS affiliate growth

Field notes on launching and scaling affiliate programs — attribution, commissions, fraud and payouts, without the fluff.

July 28, 2026

HighLevel Affiliate Manager in 2026: Setup, Costs and Limits

A plain-English guide to GoHighLevel's built-in Affiliate Manager — which plans include it, the five pieces you assemble to launch a program, how tracking and payouts actually work, where it earns its keep, and where the manual work piles up.

July 19, 2026

FirstPromoter Pricing in 2026: What You'll Actually Pay as You Grow

A plain-English breakdown of FirstPromoter's plans — the real price of Starter, Business and Enterprise, the revenue ceilings that decide your bill, the caps that aren't obvious, and how to work out what a growing affiliate program actually costs.

July 17, 2026

How we built a cross-program fraud network without sharing anyone's data

Confirmed fraud at one affiliate program should protect every other. Here's the design that makes that possible — one-way hashes, aggregate-only reads, a confirmed-fraud bar, and why we disabled one of our own features to keep the list trustworthy.

July 17, 2026

How to migrate from FirstPromoter without breaking a single affiliate link

A step-by-step guide to moving your affiliate program off FirstPromoter — API import, link preservation, the go-live checklist, and how to run both platforms in parallel until you've verified everything.

June 24, 2026

How to launch a SaaS affiliate program in an afternoon

A practical, no-fluff playbook for going from zero to a live affiliate program — script, Stripe, commission rules, and the first ten affiliates — without re-platforming.

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