CRM and sales decision
Revshare.so
A competent developer can reproduce core tracking, webhook attribution, and a basic dashboard in ~40 hours using docs and open-source infra, but Revshare's populated publisher/influencer marketplace and managed payouts are durable advantages that are expensive to replicate.
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$99/mo
$1,188/yr
Read off the official pricing page.
$100one-off40 h to build
$0/mo6 h/mo upkeep
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 1 seat.
No open-source build does this yet
Nothing published replaces this one, so a replacement starts from an empty file. Here is what it would have to cover.
What a replacement has to do
- Capture click/ref codes, persist click events, receive payment/webhook events, attribute transactions to clicks/referral codes, show basic dashboard of clicks/sales, and export payouts.
What it still won’t have
- Access to Revshare's managed publisher/influencer marketplace and 3rd‑party partner network
- Hosted discovery tools (100k+ influencer database, pre-built affiliate programs)
- Built-in managed payouts and fraud/anti-abuse operations
- Polished multi-touch analytics, SEO spy, and pre-built integrations catalogue
- Support, uptime SLAs, and UI polish of the hosted product
What remains hard
- Marketplace liquidity
Tap into our vast network of affiliate publishers already waiting to join programs like yours and start sending qualified traffic.
- Marketplace liquidity
An always-updated database of 100k+ influencers, 2,000 promotional affiliate sites, and 2,000 advertiser programs to copy.
First-year cost
Keep paying
Paying is—cheaper in year one.
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 1 seat.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a self-hosted affiliate attribution service using Next.js (frontend + tracking script), Node.js/Express or Next API routes, and Postgres (hosted on Heroku/Render/AWS RDS). Core features in scope: (1) a client JS tracking snippet that captures ?ref and creates a persistent first-party cookie and click_id; (2) a redirect endpoint that logs clicks and issues a click_id before forwarding; (3) webhook handlers for Stripe/Paddle/LemonSqueezy to accept payment events and call an internal /api/referral attribution endpoint; (4) backend attribution logic supporting last-click, first-click and simple recurring-customer rules, storing clicks, transactions, attributions and commission amounts in Postgres; (5) an admin dashboard to list clicks, pending transactions, approve/decline commissions, and export payout CSVs; (6) configuration for cookie duration, program_id, and commission rules. Out of scope: building a publisher marketplace, influencer discovery database, and automated managed payout rails. Require error handling, replay-safe webhook verification, basic unit/integration tests, and documentation for embedding the tracking script and integrating Stripe webhooks.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Pay verdict base20
- 3 cited sources+3
- Price verified on pricing page+3
- Hard moats found in the evidence-3
- Evidence score23
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 3
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productRevshare homepage
- official pricingRevshare pricing
- official docsRevshare docs
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
