Every affiliate feature you'd ever buy.
One plugin. One bill. Forever yours.
Most affiliate plugins force a choice: pay $599/yr for the leader, hand your data to a SaaS forever, or stitch together half a dozen add-ons that fight each other. Asteris ships 31 modules in one plugin — MLM, AI swipe-copy, Stripe Connect, cloud-assist fraud, EDD + Surecart adapters, REST API — for $149/yr. Self-hosted. Your database. Your customers.
The six reasons people switch to Asteris
One plugin instead of six
AffiliateWP needs add-ons for MLM ($199/yr), per-product rates ($79), bank-CSV payouts ($59), A/B emails ($129/yr) and impersonation ($79). That's $545/yr in add-ons on top of the $299–$599 base. Asteris ships every one of them in the box. See the 31 modules.
Your database, your data, forever
Tapfiliate charges $890/yr and your affiliate list, click data and payout history live on their servers. Cancel and you lose the data. Asteris stores everything in your own wp_ tables on your own host. Export anywhere, anytime, with a single wp asteris export command.
Stripe Connect at 0.25% beats PayPal at 2%
Every other major WP affiliate plugin defaults to PayPal Mass Payouts (2% per payout, capped at $1). On a $50K month of commissions you keep $1,000 more with Asteris's Stripe Connect Express integration. PayPal is still there if you want it — Stripe is the default. How it works →
Three carts, one plugin, one UX
WooCommerce. Easy Digital Downloads. Surecart. Same admin screens, same affiliate portal, same commission engine. AffiliateWP's EDD add-on costs $79/yr extra; no rival ships a Surecart adapter at all. Run a Woo store and a course site on one licence. Integration docs →
Cloud-assist fraud detection no rival has
Opt-in SHA-256 hashed signal sharing across Asteris stores: when one shop sees a fraud pattern, every shop's defences update. No PII leaves your site. No competitor — AffiliateWP, SliceWP, Tapfiliate, YITH — has anything like this. How it works →
Locked launch pricing for the life of your licence
$149/yr Starter, $349/yr Pro, $549/yr Agency at launch. Lock in today's price for the life of your active subscription — even when we raise prices in 2027. Pricing →
The honest objections
"AffiliateWP has been around since 2014. Aren't you risky?"
Longevity isn't a feature. AffiliateWP is solid software — it's also expensive, add-on-laden, and hasn't shipped a meaningful new differentiator in three years. Asteris is built by a small team that ships a release every 1–2 weeks. You'll see more new functionality from us in Q3 than from AffiliateWP in the whole calendar year. The product moves; the price doesn't.
"What happens if Asteris goes out of business?"
The plugin is GPL-2.0+. The code is yours forever. The data is in your database. Self-hosted updaters degrade gracefully — if our licence server vanishes tomorrow your plugin keeps working, you just stop receiving updates. Compare to Tapfiliate: cancel them and you lose the entire system overnight.
"Why not just use SliceWP — it's cheaper."
SliceWP Pro is $299/yr (more than our $149 Starter) and ships fewer modules. It doesn't have MLM, AI swipe-copy, cloud-assist fraud, Stripe Connect, an EDD adapter, or a Surecart adapter. We respect the SliceWP team — we just out-feature them at lower price. Full comparison →
"I'm on Easy Digital Downloads / Surecart, not WooCommerce."
Good. Most WP affiliate plugins are WC-only or charge $79/yr for the EDD bridge. Asteris ships both adapters in core, same admin, same affiliate portal. If you're on a different cart, the Order_Source interface is one PHP file — point us at your cart and we'll build you an adapter. Custom adapter docs →
"What's the catch with the locked pricing?"
None. As long as your subscription is active, you pay what you signed up for. Cancel and re-subscribe later, you pay the then-current rate. This isn't a "for 12 months" trick — it's a "for life of active subscription" lock. The Founder cohort is capped at 100 paid + 20 competition winners per product; after that everyone pays regular pricing forever.
"Why should I trust an Australian small team over a US-based company?"
Same legal protections (we're a registered Pty Ltd — ACN 652 358 159), same Stripe / GDPR / consumer-rights frameworks, support in your timezone if you're APAC. If you're US/EU, our small team writes the code, answers the support email, and ships the fixes — no offshore L1 funnel, no "let me check with engineering." Meet the founder →
What you get for $149/yr that costs $545+ elsewhere
Numbers verified from competitor websites on the date of publication. We don't quote a competitor price we haven't verified.
Stop renting your affiliate program.
Self-hosted. Your database. Locked launch pricing for the life of your licence. 14-day refund — no questions asked.