Allocora's answer

Allocora focuses on the calculation and governance layer before money moves. Instead of acting as a payout rail, it helps teams prove who should be paid, why the amount is correct, and what evidence supports the payout.

Key differences: - deterministic calculation runs - immutable snapshots for prior periods - versioned allocation rules - payee statements and structured exports - audit-ready evidence for finance workflows

Rekomi's answer:

Most affiliate tools stop at tracking and hand you a CSV at payout time. Rekomi closes the loop: it tracks the sale, holds the commission through your refund window, then actually sends the money to partners in 150+ countries through Stripe Express or PayPal. Two other things are unusual. First, affiliates are unlimited on every plan, including the $19 tier, because pricing is a flat 3% on payouts you actually send rather than a headcount tax on partners who may never convert. Second, fraud scoring is built in rather than sold as an upsell: every click and lead is checked in real time against bot, VPN, proxy, Tor, disposable email and self-referral signals before it can ever be paid, which matters the moment you offer per-click or per-lead rewards.

Allocora's answer

Choose Allocora when spreadsheets or partner tools are no longer enough for finance-grade payout operations.

Affiliate platforms usually track referrals. Payout rails usually move funds. Allocora sits between revenue data and money movement, where teams need governed rules, reproducible calculations, reviewable statements, and exports that can feed existing accounting, banking, or payout workflows.

Rekomi's answer:

Three practical reasons.

Your billing platform is probably already supported. Rekomi has native integrations with Stripe, Paddle, Shopify, Braintree, Chargebee, Recurly, Polar, Lemon Squeezy, Gumroad, Creem and Dodo, plus a server-to-server API for anything else. Most competitors support one or two processors and leave the rest to you.

Switching costs an afternoon, not a quarter. One-click importers pull partners, historical conversions and lifetime clicks from 13 platforms including Rewardful, FirstPromoter, Tolt, PartnerStack, impact.com, LeadDyno and Trackdesk. Your affiliates' existing referral links keep working, so nobody has to re-share a link or rebuild their content.

The economics scale with you, not against you. No per-affiliate fees, no setup fees, and commissions reverse themselves automatically when a customer refunds or churns, so you are never paying out on revenue you already lost.

Allocora's answer

Allocora is built for finance, operations, and founder-led teams that calculate recurring multi-party payouts.

The strongest fit is teams managing SaaS affiliate commissions, marketplace seller settlements, agency revenue-share agreements, royalty-style splits, or partner payouts that have outgrown spreadsheet formulas and manual copy-paste workflows.

Rekomi's answer:

SaaS and ecommerce companies running their own affiliate or partner program, typically founder-led teams between early revenue and mid-market. The common profile is a business already taking payments through Stripe, Paddle, Shopify or similar, that wants creators, newsletters, agencies and existing customers promoting them on commission, without hiring an affiliate manager or paying network rates. It suits teams who want to own the partner relationship directly rather than list on a marketplace, and agencies managing programs on behalf of those clients. It is not built for large publishers buying media, or for brands looking to join an existing affiliate network as an advertiser.

Allocora's answer

Allocora was built around a common payout-operations gap: revenue systems know what happened, payout rails move money, but teams still need a reliable way to calculate and defend the amounts in between.

The product turns that middle layer into a repeatable workflow: import revenue, define rules, run calculations, review statements, export evidence, and keep prior periods reproducible.

Allocora's answer

Allocora is built as a modern web SaaS. The product includes CSV and Stripe revenue ingestion paths, a REST API surface, deterministic server-side calculation services, and structured export workflows for finance operations.

Rekomi's answer:

Frontend: Next.js (App Router) with React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS and TanStack Query, deployed on Vercel.

Backend: ASP.NET Core on .NET (C#) with Entity Framework Core, running on DigitalOcean App Platform, with Hangfire for background jobs and Redis for caching and rate limiting.

Data: PostgreSQL with row-level security enforced per tenant at the database level, so tenant isolation does not depend on application code alone.

Infrastructure and services: Cloudflare for CDN, WAF and custom-domain routing, Clerk for authentication, Stripe and PayPal for payments and payouts, IPQS for fraud and IP reputation scoring, and Sentry for error monitoring.