10 Best SaaS Affiliate Programs to Promote in 2023
One of the best ways to earn money, as a creator or simply for anyone who just wants to make some money on the side, is affiliate marketing. And it’s honestly easier than ever before.
I make around $1,000/month, just by promoting affiliate programs I joined.
I do this in my weekly newsletter, in my YouTube videos, on my social media channels, and I included a bunch in my SaaS course as well.
You know, the whole affiliate marketing industry is growing and growing, to now over $15 billion!
Why choose SaaS affiliate programs?
First off. Why choose SaaS affiliate and referral programs as your main priority?
Simply put: SaaS is growing and growing (over $600 billion right now!)
Everyone’s looking for new SaaS and software products.
So, it’s easy to create content for, and you get higher returns since SaaS is focused on monthly or annual subscriptions and you often get a cut as long as the customers stay on the SaaS platform.
The benefits:
Higher commissions: usually between 10 - 35% of the monthly or annual subscription revenue.
The landscape is wild: there are tons of cool products to choose from!
Recurring: often, people build their habits and businesses with SaaS products and aren’t likely to cancel their subscriptions soon
No returns: of course, churn and cancelations do occur, but in comparison to promoting affiliate links for, let’s say, Amazon, is that a SaaS product isn’t a physical product and isn’t likely to be returned, like clothing for example.
The SaaS affiliate programs you need!
Let’s discuss 10 of my best-performing ones and the ones you can integrate into your promotional content as well.
1. Grammarly
Everyone needs to write better when creating content; Grammarly is the perfect tool to promote.
Not only do people trust Grammarly’s brand (it’s been there for years), but it’s also a super straightforward tool to use.
On top of that, it starts with a freemium plan (so an easy sell - and you’ll also get $0.20 per freemium sign-up!), and you can make it visually super clear why using Grammarly would be a great fit (“it makes you a better writer, instantly,” etc.)
Commission: $0.20 per freemium user, $20 for paid users.
Sign up: here
2. Webflow
Everyone needs a website, and Webflow is one of the best choices in 2023. Not only for beginners, but also advanced webdesigners love working with Webflow. It’s basically an all-in-one website (and software!) builder with no-code.
It has super cool features with their drag and drop system, which you can easily promote.
Webflow has an established brand that is trustworthy, 1000s of 5-star reviews, and in general, just an awesome brand and tool to promote.
Commission: 50% for 12 months
Sign up: here
3. Zero to SaaS Course
A course is the perfect way to incentivize people to get into SaaS in the first place.
The Zero to SaaS course is one of the best-reviewed SaaS courses out there and has a super high commission on each sale.
Selling the course will be pretty easy.
You promote the course + on top of that, you can also incentivize promoting the lifetime community access that comes with it.
Commission: 50% for each sale
Sign up: here
4. Riverside
Creating podcasts is growing in popularity and will keep on growing rapidly in the next 10 years.
Riverside FM is one of the best software tools for creating and hosting Podcast and it has a reallt great affiliate program.
You’ll earn a whopping 20% commission on sales generated by your referrals, life time!
That means, as long as your referral stays on their subscription, you’ll earn 20% in commissions!
Commission: 20% on every subscription
Sign up: here
5. Pixally
This awesome SaaS is widely popular among advertisers, mainly marketers and other software companies advertising on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, and other major platforms.
This makes promoting the Pixally affiliate program instantly rewarding: you’re targeting a wide audience (I mean, everyone advertises online, right?!).
It also gives you a REALLY GOOD commission: 50% on every monthly or annual subscription!
Commission: 50% on every subscription
Sign up: here
6. Beehiiv
Email marketing is hotter than ever! And it keeps on growing.
Beehiiv is one of the best tools and is used by the majority of creators online, such as myself.
So, if you don’t believe the 100s of 5-star reviews, trust me when I say it’s an awesome software to promote and earn a good commission yourself.
Beehiiv is not just an email marketing software. It’s famous for promoting other creators in its built-in referral program (you can incentivize new sign-ups to sign up to other creators’ newsletters as well, and vice versa, which makes the software super popular.
Commission: 50% on every subscription for 12 months
Sign up: here
7. Crisp
One of the best and most-commonly-used software products to use for your SaaS would be a website chat.
Crips is the perfect tool for that! It’s afforable, super good, and widely popular.
It’s honestly your go-to software to promote to other b2b SaaS businesses.
I use it for all of my software products and more and more people are likely to switch from other software platforms such as Intercom (could be an interesting affiliate marketing campaign, lol).
Commission: 20% on every subscription (discount codes available!)
Sign up: here
8. Hypefury
Both creators and companies want to promote their content on social media. This will become more and more popular over the upcoming years as it’s likely that search will decline and brand awareness will be more and more important.
Using a tool like Hypefury, businesses and creators can create content (using AI as well) and schedule and publish their content on platforms like Twitter (X).
The Hypefury team gives you everything you need to promote the program in the best way possible.
They offer videos, handouts, and other helpful resources.
Commission: 35% on every subscription
Sign up: here
9. Jasper AI
AI will obviously become more and more popular in the upcoming years.
Jasper AI offers a great affiliate partner program promoting their all-in-one AI tool for content creators and writers.
It’s the perfect AI tool to promote to your audience visually, you can basically do it all: from creating tweets, and social media captions, to advanced blog posts and even books!
Commission: 30% on every subscription
Sign up: here
10. Notion
One of the most popular software tools out there and it’ll likely attract more and more people in the upcoming years.
Notion replaces basically all the to-do, project management apps, and note-taking software.
So yes, when people will see what Notion can do for you (your job!), they’re likely to switch.
They can start on the free plan, but they’ll likely upgrade soon to one of the paid plans if they want more features or work together with their team.
And you’ll earn a whopping commission!
Commission: 50% on every subscription
Sign up: here