PartnerStack is the network where B2B SaaS lives. Circle, Xero, the whole "tools for people who run businesses" crowd. If you sell software to companies, your competitors are probably on it, and the consultants, agencies and SaaS reviewers who'd promote you are already logged in.
I'm a PartnerStack affiliate. I like it. The UI is the best in the networks category, the brands communicate well through it, and it does the centralisation job that makes a network worth joining. I haven't run a brand program on it, and the brand side has a few things the nice interface doesn't show you, starting with the contract.
Who it's for
B2B SaaS companies with a partnerships function, or at least a founder who's going to treat partnerships as a function, who want a marketplace of SaaS-literate partners and a platform that handles affiliates, referral partners and resellers in one place.
The marketplace is the point. Tolt and Rewardful are tools; you arrive with zero partners. PartnerStack is a room with the right people already in it, and the price reflects that.
Who should skip it
Anyone who isn't B2B SaaS. DTC brands, courses, physical goods: wrong room. The partners on PartnerStack promote software to businesses, and there's nobody there for your skincare line.
Anyone under roughly $1M ARR. There's no public price, but the third-party numbers put the floor around $1,000 a month plus a percentage of commissions, on an annual contract. At that size, Reditus at $99 to $399 gets you a smaller marketplace of the same kind of people.
Anyone who can't sign a twelve-month agreement that renews itself at a higher price. More below.
From the affiliate side
The dashboard is the cleanest of the networks I'm in. Finding a program, grabbing a link, seeing what converted: all where you'd expect, none of the HTML-snippet nonsense CJ puts you through. Brands communicate well through the platform, which sounds minor until you've been on a network where reaching a brand is impossible. On PartnerStack, programs send updates, offers and context, and it reads like they want you there.
The brand mix is narrower than impact.com's, and that's a feature or a limit depending on who you are. impact.com has everything. PartnerStack has a certain kind of company: SaaS, usually mid-market, usually selling to other businesses. Circle, Xero, that bracket. If that's your audience, it's a better-curated room. If it isn't, there's nothing for you.
One real annoyance: the API doesn't expose impressions to affiliates. I can get clicks and conversions, but not how many times a link was shown, which matters if you're trying to work out whether a placement is underperforming because nobody saw it or because nobody clicked. impact.com's API gives affiliates impressions. Awin has an API feed for affiliates too. PartnerStack is the one that holds that back, and for a platform that gets most of the affiliate experience right, it's a strange gap.
What this means for you as a brand: your partners will be happy on the platform, and the ones who build their own reporting will grumble about impressions.
Pricing, decoded
PartnerStack publishes no prices. Launch, Growth and Enterprise tiers, all behind a demo. Third-party snapshots from early 2026 put the entry around $1,000 a month, plus a monthly "PartnerStack fee" on commissions paid that's commonly cited at about 15% and described by customers as "ask your CSM."
So at $10,000 a month in affiliate sales with a 20% commission, you'd be paying $2,000 in commissions, about $300 in PartnerStack's cut, and the subscription on top. Call it $1,300 or more. At $50,000 a month, around $2,500 or more. impact.com Essentials is $500 flat at the first volume and $2,500 at the second. Reditus Scale Up is $399 at both.
Those are third-party numbers. Get yours in writing, and get the percentage in writing too.
The contract, which is what the UI doesn't show
PartnerStack was acquired by AppDirect in April 2026. The SaaS agreement that comes with it:
- Initial term per your order form, then auto-renews for one year at a time.
- At least 60 days' written notice to not renew, or you're in for another year.
- Fees increase 7% automatically at every renewal. Not "may." Do.
- No termination for convenience. Late payment is a material breach.
- Commission invoices land on the 1st and are charged around the 7th or 8th.
And the clause that matters most if you ever leave: non-circumvention. Any partner you were introduced to through the PartnerStack marketplace must be paid through PartnerStack, forever. If you had a relationship with them before, you have to disclose it within 14 days of them joining your program or they count as "referred." So the marketplace isn't a place to find partners you then own. It's a place to find partners PartnerStack owns a piece of, permanently.
Export is full while you're a customer: partners, customers, transactions and commissions as CSV, emailed within about 15 minutes. But you get 30 days of login access after termination, and data may be deleted after that. Pull everything before the term ends, not after.
What it does well
The marketplace, for the right brand. The partner base is SaaS-literate and actively looking for programs, which is more than you can say for most marketplaces in this directory.
Payouts are managed: one invoice by card or ACH, partners withdraw via PayPal, Stripe or direct deposit with published fees, W-9 and W-8 collected, 1099-K for direct deposit. Integrations cover the B2B billing stack: Stripe, Chargebee, Recurly, Chargify, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, plus a CSV importer and Zapier.
And the partner experience, which I've covered. Your partners will like being on it.
Lock-in: 4 out of 5
What gets you out: full CSV export while you're a customer. Standard billing integrations. The partner contact details come with the export.
What keeps you in: the annual auto-renewal with a 60-day notice window and a built-in 7% increase. The non-circumvention clause, which follows your marketplace partners out the door. The 30-day post-termination access window. And the fact that your best partners found you through PartnerStack's marketplace, so they're PartnerStack's community first.
Four. Not five, because the export is real and includes contacts.
Gotchas
- No public pricing. Third-party floor around $1,000 a month plus about 15% of commissions.
- Auto-renews annually with a 7% increase, 60 days' notice to stop it. Calendar the date the day you sign.
- Non-circumvention is forever on marketplace-introduced partners. Disclose existing relationships within 14 days.
- 30 days of access after termination. Export before, not after.
- API doesn't give affiliates impressions. Your partners who track placements will notice.
- Acquired by AppDirect in April 2026. Ownership changes precede pricing changes. The 7% is already in the contract.
- Trustpilot 1.8 out of 5 on 61 reviews, mostly from partners about bans and withheld payouts. Read it to know what your partners fear, not as a verdict on your experience.
- No Shopify, no Paddle. B2B billing stack only.
Integrations
Stripe, Chargebee, Recurly, Chargify, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Google Tag Manager, Zapier, CSV importer.
Not supported: Shopify, Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, WooCommerce, any course platform.
If you're leaving
Find your term end date and subtract 60 days; that's your real deadline. Export partners, customers, transactions and commissions while you're still active. Read the non-circumvention clause with your lawyer and work out which partners you can take and which you'll be paying through PartnerStack regardless. Build the new program first. Then give notice in writing, in time, and keep the receipt.
Verdict
For B2B SaaS past $1M ARR that wants a marketplace of the right partners and a platform those partners enjoy using, PartnerStack is the best-curated room in the category and the partner experience is excellent. I'd rather be paid through it than through almost anything else.
The contract is the cost. A year at a time, 7% more each year, 60 days to escape, and a non-circumvention clause that keeps a piece of every marketplace partner forever. Sign it knowing that, with the renewal date in your calendar and your export schedule set. And if you're smaller than that, Reditus is the same idea at a tenth of the price, or impact.com if your partners are broader than SaaS.
Last verified November 1, 2026. Contract terms from partnerstack.com/legal/saas-agreement. Payout and tax details from support.partnerstack.com. AppDirect acquisition from AppDirect's press release, April 2026. Pricing figures are third-party and unverified. Reviews referenced from Trustpilot and Capterra, 2023 to 2026. Affiliate-side observations from the author's own PartnerStack account.
