impact.com Affiliate Marketing

Impact.com failed to deliver the product that was sold to us. After months of effort, the platform proved overly complex, inefficient, and misaligned with our needs, delivering none of the functionality, usability, or productivity gains represented during the sales process. This was not a matter of onboarding struggles or internal prioritization shifts—the software simply did not perform as promised and created more friction than value.

When we raised these concerns and requested a reasonable early termination, Impact’s response was to hide behind contract language rather than address the substance of the failure. Polite emails aside, the position was clear: outcomes don’t matter, performance doesn’t matter, and fees are owed regardless. Once off‑boarding begins, Impact bears virtually no ongoing cost, yet offers zero accountability or flexibility. If you’re evaluating Impact, understand that their commitment to customer success appears to end at contract signature, and the risk sits entirely with you.

Worst support no one helps you do anything!!!!!

I can see that affiliates are not happy with the app based on Trustpilot reviews . Let me share advertisers' perspective.
They use covert fees that advertisers must pay for slot fees with publishers, which is basically a legal way of taking money from your account for literally nothing. When an advertiser gets 10 contracts a day from so called publishers they allocate 1000s of dollars to the publishers and get nothing in return. Stay away. I was foolish enough not to check the billing for over 6 months. This guys will drain your account . I only got 3 sales in this time and paid them 10x of the revenuer received from these orders.

Overpriced. They lock you into 12 month contracts. Low quality affiliates in their marketplace. We started getting fraudulent orders for the first time in 6 years after signing up. I think if you're a large brand simply looking for a way to manage your existing affiliate payments, this would be adequate software, but you could certainly find a cheaper alternative on the Shopify app store if that's all you wanted. If you're looking to drive actual revenue from their affiliate partners, look elsewhere. So far this has been a huge loss of ROI for us. Wish we could cancel but they won't let us. We are not at all happy and they are forcing us to pay for this for another 9 months. Clearly a company that cares more about it's own bottom line than any customer satisfaction. Find an alternative.

This app is impossible to use as a small brand. it is the least intuitive app and the pages are al confusing. and the companies that contact me are all just discount bots. it's terrible.

I have never had an issue with Impact before. They have always been really great but this situation is beyond frustrating. I had an old legacy account that Impact no longer services and was told I needed to shut down that account. After the holidays we began the shut down and spoke with someone about having a new account within shopify. Well 4 weeks later Impact have not closed our legacy account and we can't open a new one so now affiliates have been waiting for 4 weeks?? All I get is someone will respond but nothing. No help from tech, customer service just nothing. I am guessing Impact no longer cares...

As of 2/19/25 - Our old account still has not been deleted - Nothing has been done all we get it will be fixed ASAP now 5 weeks later?

Impact was very responsive and proactive during the contract signing and implementation stages. However, after using the service for over a month, I changed my mind. Once the contract is signed, Impact doesn't seem to care about its customers. I raised a minor issue with email synchronization a month ago and asked Impact to resolve it, but it remains unresolved until now.

Non-stop spam. No matter what settings I applied I was bombarded with spam. Not real people but rather their "influencers" are a ton of questionable companies that offer coupons and fake reviews. Then from no where I could no longer log in. It suddenly started sending me a code to enter to get into my account - when I entered the code I kept getting this error. "A device with this name already exists. Please use a unique name to save a new device." Useless app. Glad I didn't sign up for the $500 a month and just opted for a free trial. Complete waste of time - best tho if they gave my email to a slew of spammers. Deleted.

Where do we start? At $500/month, we were disappointed that they seem to enable fraudulent orders and payouts. They allowed an affiliate to get $5980 on fraudulent orders, not one of them was a valid order and the order was placed in a foreign currency. They blamed it on our system (which we do not believe since they did our onboarding).

The lack of customer service was surprising, considering we had been clients since 2020.

We've paid $250K in monthly fees since being on their platform, and they just lost a 7-figure client. Had they done the right thing, we would have stayed for years more.

There are many more honest platforms out there... keep shopping!

I will never work with them again. We had a ton of fraud orders costing us thousands of dollars and for months they said the money would be refunded and they have never sent the money. In the meantime, we cancelled our account and yet they KEEP BILLING US. We provided email notice - they say, you must submitted a formal ticket to close the account. This is a month after we sent them notice.