What is Refersion?
Refersion is a well-known affiliate tool in the e-commerce space, especially among Shopify and BigCommerce merchants. It integrates smoothly with major storefronts, offers coupon tracking and gives store owners an easy way to launch an affiliate program without custom development. That convenience explains its popularity with small to mid-sized brands. The limitations appear once businesses want to do more than just basic affiliate tracking. Refersion has limited flexibility in commission logic, reporting is elementary and larger brands often complain about slow performance and the lack of enterprise features. Pricing is also considered high compared to what the tool actually delivers, with extra costs for add-ons that still don’t cover advanced workflows.
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Refersion vs PalDock
We spent hundreds of hours researching our competitors. Instead of guessing, we built a full step-by-step guide on How to choose the right affiliate software. We used it ourselves to analyze dozens of different tools, mapping over 30 features and limitations along the way. We didn’t stop at the surface. We actually integrated them and went through their onboarding like real users. These are the key differences:
| Refersion | PalDock | |
|---|---|---|
| Tracks affiliate links |  | |
| Lead capture via embedded forms |  | |
| Lead capture via embedded API | | |
| Unified dashboard for link, form and API conversions | | |
| Advanced lead handling | | |
| GDPR compliant | | |
