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Affiliate Marketing Engine

People buy from people they trust. AME turns their recommendations into your sales. A complete system for running your own affiliate programme under your brand. People who join to earn bring you customers and leads, rewards keep them selling, and every sale is tracked to the affiliate who sent it. The sign-up page, dashboard, commissions and payouts are all set up for you.

Beyond commission

Rewards that keep them selling

Keep your affiliates working

Reward the effort that brings results. Send 500MB when ten people have opened an affiliate’s link, and they stay online and keep selling for you.

Give your affiliates something to offer

A customer who buys through one of your affiliates can get a reward too. Sell shoes? Give 1GB to everyone who buys a pair through an affiliate. The affiliate has a better pitch, and the customer has a reason to buy now.

Rewards are not only for affiliates. You can reward any customer who buys, whether or not an affiliate sent them: everyone who buys a pair gets 1GB, or a voucher, or points. It works as a simple loyalty reward for your own shop.

What makes it different

It works with the shop you already have

Most referral tools are built into one platform and stop existing the moment you move. This one sits beside whatever you sell on, and keeps working if you change it.

What you get on day one

  • Your own affiliate programme on your own domain, with its own sign-up page.
  • Every affiliate gets a login, their own link, and a dashboard showing what it has done.
  • Fraud and self-referral checks from the first sale, not sold as an upgrade.
  • Rewards you name yourself: a discount, a voucher, points, or mobile data.
  • Your logo and colours on every page and email people see.
  • People confirm their email, and their mobile number for gifts, with a code before they can join, so fake sign-ups never reach you.
  • A ready-made page for each programme, written from your own settings, which you can edit.
  • Data gifts tracked to the end: you see when each one is delivered, and the person is texted when it arrives.
  • Affiliates add their own payment details, and you pay them by M-Pesa, bank, PayPal or Stripe. Each one gets an email when they are paid.
  • A ready-made terms page for your programme, with a dated copy of every version and a record of who agreed.

What it does not do

  • It never holds your money. Payouts go through accounts you own, and we are not in the middle.
  • It does not apply discounts on your shop for you. It works out who earned what and hands you the number.

Connections are ready for WHMCS, WooCommerce and Magento. No connection yet? The programme still runs, and you tell us inside which one to build next.

Both sides, one purchase

Rewards for views and sign-ups, commission on sales

Rewards for views and sign-ups

A reward for each step that counts: a sign-up, or a number of people opening an affiliate’s link, counted once per person. Money off, a voucher, points that add up, or data straight to a phone. It suits affiliates who send volume, and customers who recommend you. You decide what it is called and what it is worth.

Commission on sales

Someone sends you a sale and earns real money for it. This is how affiliates who join to earn work for you. You set the rate, you see every sale it led to, and nothing is paid until it has cleared the period you set.

They are two halves of one product and one price. A rule can be set so a single sale never pays both, which matters more than it sounds when one is a gift and the other is income.

The part nobody advertises

Referral programmes get gamed

People refer themselves, buy through their own link, and sign up twice with a second email. Every programme sees it eventually.

AME checks for it on every sale: the buyer who is the affiliate, the purchase made on the affiliate’s own device, the same network, too much too fast, and one customer appearing under two people. Anything that looks wrong is held for you to look at rather than rejected, so an honest sale is never lost to a rule. And the affiliate is told it is being checked, never which check it was, because a published rule is a published way around it.

On both plans. A programme that cannot spot a self-referral is not a cheaper programme.

Have a look first

See a working programme before you pay for one

We will send you an admin login to a working Affiliate Marketing Engine, with affiliates, clicks and rewards already in it. No card, nothing to cancel.

Compare packages

Two plans. Start on Core and move up whenever you need to.

AME Pro

$50/mo

Everything in Core, plus commission that varies by product or affiliate, texts, pay runs, and live payouts through your own gateway.

21 features included

Everything in AME Core, plus:

  • Tiered and per-product commission
  • SMS notifications
  • Automatic gateway payouts
  • Pay runs and bulk payout
  • Your own message on held referrals
  • Team roles
  • Import an existing programme
  • Governance export
Do I need an online shop for this to work?

No. If you sell on WHMCS, WooCommerce or Magento there is a connection that records sales automatically. Without one you enter the sale yourself and everything else works the same.

Who can be an affiliate?

You choose. Most businesses open it to anyone who wants to earn, and some keep it to existing customers. It is a setting, not something you are stuck with.

How do people actually get paid?

Through your own accounts. On Core you pay however you already pay people and record what you did. On Pro it can go out on its own through M-Pesa, Paystack, PayPal or Stripe. Either way the money is yours until it reaches them and we never hold it.

Can I move a programme I already run?

Yes, on Pro. You upload what your current system exports, see exactly what would happen including every balance owed, and only then commit. Nobody loses what they had already earned.

What happens to my affiliates if I leave?

You export them. Their details and their balances are yours, and we would rather you could leave easily than keep you because you cannot.