Comparison
Verza vs Refersion
Refersion tracks affiliates and influencer codes, mostly for Shopify. Verza finds the creator and then tracks the code.
Choose Refersion if the people and the emails already exist and you need links, codes, and commission payouts on a Shopify store. Choose Verza if you still have to find the creators and you want that search, the email, and the ROAS question in one place.
Checked against public product pages in September 2026. Prices and features change. Confirm the current plan on the vendor’s site before you buy.
| What you need | Verza | Refersion |
|---|---|---|
| Find people | Optic searches five networks. | No. Refersion assumes affiliates or influencers you already have. |
| Written, then sent or held in Gmail. | Invite and notification mail. Not a personal first email about the product. | |
| Codes and links | Unique per creator, then ask for ROAS. | This is the center. Commission tracking for Shopify programs is why it exists. |
| WooCommerce | Named on the product, beside Shopify. | Shopify is the fit. Treat other stores as something to confirm, not something to assume. |
| Pay | Creator payouts and tax forms on Verza. | Affiliate commission payouts. A different paperwork habit. Read who files what. |
| Price you can read | Verza’s first campaign is free. Launch is $69 a month with 100 Optic leads. Enterprise and Flagship are custom, at 3,500 and 8,000 Optic leads. What you pay creators stays separate from the subscription. | Refersion publishes SaaS-style plans. You pay for tracking, not for search. |
A full bar means this is a reason to buy it. A shorter bar means it can do this. No bar means it does not.
Run it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or Codex
Start from a product URL
Search Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch
First email, sent after approval or held in Gmail
Shopify orders tied to that creator
WooCommerce orders tied to that creator
Ask for status and ROAS
Pay creators and handle tax forms
Creators can still apply
A price you can read before a sales call
What Refersion is built for
Refersion is affiliate and influencer tracking for ecommerce brands, with Shopify as the home store. You create offers, people share links and codes, commissions accrue, you pay them. It is a clean product if recruitment already happened in your inbox.
It will not look across Twitch for someone who fits a serum. That search is the expensive human work Refersion leaves with you.
What Verza is built for
Verza does the recruitment and the tracking. Optic returns the person. The Vault returns the email. Attribution returns the link and the code. The chat returns the status and the ROAS. Refersion is one of those layers. Verza is the sequence.
Where the work happens
Stay on Refersion if a developer or an affiliate manager already loves it and the only gap is payout math. Move if the gap is “who do we even email.” Adding Verza on top of Refersion means two systems will both want the code. Pick one owner of the code.
Money, tracking, and tax forms
Refersion’s plans are the cost of tracking. Creator fees and tax handling still need an owner. Verza’s plan is the cost of the loop, and creator fees sit beside it as media. Compare a Refersion invoice plus a search tool plus a payout tool with Launch at $69 plus media.
Which one to pick
Pick Refersion when
You have the creators, you sell on Shopify, and you want commission tracking without a new campaign front door.
Pick Verza when
You do not have the creators yet, or you want the email and the ROAS question in the same thread as the search.
Questions people ask
- Is Refersion only for affiliates?
- It is used for influencer codes too. The workflow is still offer, link, commission. Verza’s workflow starts earlier, at the product URL.
- Does Verza take a commission on sales?
- No take rate is published. You pay the plan and you fund creator pay separately. Refersion charges for the software and your creators earn the commission you set.
- What if I am on WooCommerce?
- Verza names WooCommerce. Refersion is Shopify-first. Confirm any WooCommerce path before you migrate codes.