Referral links,
billed by the link.
Flat-fee referral vendors want $200–750 a month whether your users share anything or not. RefDaddy charges 50¢ per link it actually mints. Customer #1 is the Acoco platform — every number on this page is its live ledger. You’d be customer #2, and we act like it: same pollers, same public billing, a person on the other end of every email.
$12.99/month base + 50¢ a link. No tiers, no seats, no annual contract — and the pilot’s first 500 credited links are free.
Our whole business runs in the open.
Those aren’t marketing numbers — they’re our production ledger for customer #1, straight from the same database the pollers write to. A reconciliation job checks that ledger against the platform’s own records every day, and any disagreement lands in our inbox before it lands anywhere else. The failure log is public too, on the stats page, because a vendor you can’t audit is a vendor you have to take on faith.
Latest daily reconciliation run: 2026-09-16 (UTC). Read live from the same ledger the pollers write to — audit every number, failure log included, on the stats page.
50¢ a link beats a flat fee. Usually.
You pay for links that exist, not for a dashboard you might use. Drag the slider to your volume and watch the bill — then check it against the flat-fee range those vendors quote.
At 200 credited links a month you keep $87.01–$637.01 every month — $7,644.12 a year against a $750 vendor.
The same math at fixed volumes
| Links minted / month | RefDaddy | Flat-fee vendor |
|---|---|---|
| 50 | $37.99 | $200–750 |
| 200 | $112.99 | $200–750 |
| 750 | $387.99 | $200–750 |
| What the bill is made of | $12.99/mo + 50¢ × links | |
The honest part: past roughly 1,470 links a month, a $750 flat fee wins. Our billing is public, so you’ll see that line coming on your own stats page — and we’ll say so before you cross it. Want the full-year version of this math? See the annual cost comparison. Comparing named vendors instead? Verified pricing and breakevens for Rewardful, FirstPromoter, PartnerStack, and Tapfiliate sit in one comparison table.
Live in under a week.
Your side is four small endpoints: two queues we poll, two we post results back to — the same four Acoco exposes today. We build and run everything else: minting, redirects, click logging, first-touch matching, reconciliation, reporting.
| When | You do | We do |
|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | 30-min scoping call — walk us through your signup flow | Map the queue contracts to your API and hand back a written plan |
| Days 2–3 | Expose pending-mints and pending-conversions queues on staging | Mint against staging every 5 minutes; codes and short URLs land in the ledger |
| Day 4 | Feed signups into the conversions queue | Redirects, click log, and first-touch matching run end to end |
| Day 5 | Flip staging credentials to production | Wire daily reconciliation and your weekly digest, then cut over |
Rewards, fraud rules, and payouts stay on your side, where they belong. We mint, redirect, log, match, and report — nothing that moves money.
You could build this yourself.
Honestly — you could. A redirect and a random code is a weekend project. Here’s what the weekend doesn’t include, and what you’d be paying an engineer to keep honest forever.
- Queues that drain
- Pollers every five minutes that drain to empty, survive replays without double-billing, and retry with a fresh code when one collides with somebody else’s link. Ours have been doing this in production since day one.
- An answer for every signup
- First-touch matching that always posts back — matched or no-match, explicitly — so no conversion sits in a retry queue forever and no user argues about credit.
- A ledger you can audit
- Every mint in our own database, reconciled daily against the platform’s records. When an incident once cost us 14 ledger rows, the backfill was idempotent, bill-safe, and written up in the open. That’s the discipline you’re actually buying.
- The months after
- Failure audit logs, weekly digests, a public stats page. The boring 90% of a referral system is everything after the redirect — and at 50¢ a link, a year of ours usually costs less than the engineer-week it takes to build the fun 10%.
Book a 30-min scoping call.
Tell us what your referral flow looks like today — even if the answer is “nothing.” We’ll reply within one business day with the queue contracts, the four endpoints you’d expose, and a realistic go-live date.
Prefer email? Write to [email protected] — the same person reads both.