The moment your own SaaS product has paying customers, "should I have an affiliate program" stops being hypothetical. Reditus is infrastructure for running one without building tracking, payouts, and a partner dashboard from scratch.
Makes sense once you have any recurring revenue and want referrals to be trackable and payable without manual spreadsheet work. Not worth it pre-revenue — there's nothing yet for an affiliate to be paid a percentage of.
Running an affiliate program means solving three unglamorous problems: attributing a signup to the right referrer, calculating what they're owed as customers renew or churn, and actually paying out on a schedule without doing it by hand. Reditus wraps all three into a dashboard plus a public marketplace listing, so people can find and apply to your program instead of you having to recruit every affiliate individually.
For a solo founder, the double use case is worth noting: you can run your own program through it, and — as covered in the SaaS programs list this site is built around — you can also join other founders' programs through the same marketplace as an affiliate yourself. It's infrastructure sitting on both sides of the same transaction.
Worth knowing: Reditus itself runs an affiliate program for Reditus, listed on this site alongside the tools it helps other founders sell. That's not a conflict — it's the same mechanism this whole site is built to document.
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