ClickBank
Affiliate marketing software
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$49.95 one-time
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- Education and training
- Healthcare and life sciences
- Media and communications
What is ClickBank
ClickBank is an affiliate marketing platform and marketplace that connects product creators and sellers with affiliates who promote digital and some physical offers. It provides tools to list offers, manage affiliate relationships, track referrals, and handle payments and tax-related workflows for commissions. It is commonly used by direct-response marketers and small to mid-sized merchants that want access to an existing affiliate network rather than building a program from scratch.
Large affiliate marketplace access
ClickBank operates as a network and marketplace, which can help merchants recruit affiliates without sourcing partners individually. Affiliates can discover offers through the marketplace and apply to promote them. This model can reduce the time required to stand up a basic affiliate channel compared with running a standalone program.
Integrated payments and payouts
The platform supports order processing and commission payouts, reducing the need to stitch together separate tracking and payment systems. It also provides reporting around sales, refunds, and affiliate commissions. For merchants selling digital products, this can simplify operational workflows compared with tools focused only on tracking and partner management.
Built for direct-response offers
ClickBank’s ecosystem is oriented toward performance-based promotion of offers, especially digital products and subscriptions. It supports common affiliate constructs such as hoplinks/tracking links and commission rules. This can be a fit for teams that prioritize rapid offer testing and affiliate-driven acquisition.
Less suited for B2B partnerships
The platform is primarily designed for affiliate-style promotion rather than complex B2B partner ecosystems. Organizations that need multi-tier partner structures, deal registration, co-selling workflows, or partner enablement content management may find gaps. Those use cases often require broader partner relationship management capabilities than a marketplace-centric affiliate network provides.
Marketplace fit and brand control
Because affiliates often select offers from a marketplace, merchants may have less control over how partners position the brand compared with tightly curated partner programs. Some categories and promotional tactics common in affiliate marketplaces may not align with all brand guidelines. Merchants may need additional monitoring and compliance processes outside the core platform.
Integration depth can be limited
Compared with platforms that emphasize enterprise integrations, ClickBank may require additional work to connect data to CRM, data warehouses, or advanced attribution stacks. Reporting is oriented around network transactions and affiliate performance rather than full-funnel measurement. Teams with complex analytics requirements may need supplemental tooling or custom integrations.
Plan & Pricing
Pricing model: Pay-as-you-go / transaction + one-time seller activation fees
Free tier/trial (platform): ClickBank account sign-up is free (affiliates and sellers can create accounts at no cost).
Account / onboarding costs:
- One-time product activation (seller): $49.95 (due after first product approval). Discounted $29.95 for additional accounts tied to an existing active account.
Per-transaction / usage fees:
- Transaction fee (ClickBank margin): 7.5% + $1.00 taken from each sale (ClickBank purchases product from seller at wholesale and retains this margin).
- Free-trial transaction fee (when seller offers a free trial): $0.50 per free-trial purchase.
Payment & payout fees (costs to account holder when receiving payouts):
- Paycheck processing fee: $5.00 charged against each payment issued (effective 10/24/2024; was previously $2.50).
- Wire transfer fee: $45.00.
- Returned direct deposit/wire reprocessing fee: $20.00.
Returns / chargebacks:
- Return fees on returned initial sales: $1.00 for returns where product price+shipping >= $10.00; $0.50 for returns where product price+shipping < $10.00.
- Chargeback fee schedule (examples): $22 if chargeback rate <1.0%; $29 + ClickBank margin if 1.0%-1.49%; $49 + ClickBank margin if >1.5%.
Example costs:
- Selling a $100 product: ClickBank fee = 7.5% of $100 + $1 = $8.50 retained by ClickBank (seller/affiliate split depends on commission settings).
- Offering a free trial: seller pays $0.50 when a customer starts the free trial; first bill follows seller-defined trial duration.
Discounts / special programs:
- No public volume/commitment pricing for the platform itself. Enterprise/Platinum benefits (eligibility-based) exist for high-volume accounts (qualification thresholds listed on ClickBank site).
Notes & limits:
- Affiliates: platform is free to join and promote products. Sellers: required one-time activation fee per account after first product approval.
- Free trials for products are vendor-enabled; minimum free-trial duration is 4 days. $1 trial options are admin-enabled on request.
(Information sourced only from ClickBank official website: product pages and ClickBank Support/Accounting Policy.)
Seller details
ClickBank, LLC
Boise, Idaho, USA
1998
Private
https://www.clickbank.com/
https://x.com/clickbank
https://www.linkedin.com/company/clickbank/
