Shortly — Affiliate Marketing

Shopify affiliate programs app by Shortly·Create Short Links for Affiliates Marketing, Affiliate Programs, Social Media, Email, SMS & Youtube

Snapshot

4.80(212 reviews)#10of 225 inAffiliate programs

Ongoing.AI tracks Shortly — Affiliate Marketing daily — category rank, keyword positions in App Store search, install footprint, listing changes, and reviewer sentiment — back to when we first observed the listing.

Rating

4.80

212 reviews

Pricing

From $9/mo

freemium

Built for Shopify

Yes

Years live

5

launched Apr 28, 2021

Last updated

Jun 30, 2026

Shopify listing

Recent activity

Review trajectory.

Daily review count and rating drift. The blue line is cumulative review count; the dashed amber overlay is the rating on the right axis. Boring is good — sudden swings stand out against an otherwise stable curve.

New reviews

7-day Δ

+0

28-day Δ

+2

Rating change

7-day Δ

+0.00

28-day Δ

+0.00

2122112102092085.003.752.501.250.00May 28Jun 4Jun 12Jun 19Jun 27Total reviewsRating (0–5)
Shortly — Affiliate Marketing added 2 reviews over the last 28 days.

Category rank over time

Where Shortly — Affiliate Marketing sits day-by-day in Affiliate programs.

Position across the Affiliate programs page, snapshot daily. Lower is better — the Y axis is inverted so the strongest ranks sit at the top of the chart. Open the full Affiliate programs leaderboard →

#2#12#22#32#42May 28Jun 5Jun 14Jun 23Jul 2Shortly — Affiliate Marketing · #4BixGrow Affiliate Marketing · #3Simple Affiliate Marketing · #5
Best position observed: #4. Shortly — Affiliate Marketing climbed 35 positions over the window. Greyed lines: the apps sitting immediately around it on the latest snapshot.

Catalog position

Where Shortly — Affiliate Marketing sits in the App Store.

Rank and percentile inside the Affiliate programs category — the competitive shape of the niche around this app.

Rank in Affiliate programs

#10

of 225 active apps

Review count percentile

96th

vs category siblings

Rating percentile

72th

vs category siblings

Years on App Store

5

since 2021

Listing change cadence

What Shortly — Affiliate Marketing has changed lately.

Every pricing tweak, tagline refresh, and Shopify-side listing ping. Captured from Ongoing.AI’s per-scrape diff log — the cadence and the content of changes, in one strip.

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Shopify Lastmod · Jul 1

2026-06-29 → 2026-06-30

Shopify Lastmod · Jun 30

2026-06-28 → 2026-06-29

Shopify Lastmod · Jun 29

2026-06-27 → 2026-06-28

PricingIdentity & listingCadence

Reviews

What merchants are saying

4.80(212 reviews)
  • 98%positive255
  • 0%neutral0
  • 2%negative6

Popular mentions

  • ease of use
  • customer tracking

Top themes

  1. ease of use1
  2. customer tracking1

What merchants praise

Athar helped me with a broken link. Saved the day now I can run ads for my jewelry line with post that has good engagement! Five stars!
You Had Me At Camo · 5

What merchants complain about

Order status not properly trackedThere was no proper order tracking, no support, and no way to contact anyone for corrections.
bixdo shop · 1 · 2025-11-23

Plans

Shortly — Affiliate Marketing pricing tiers.

Free

Free to install

  • Limited Features

Basic

$9.99/month

  • Create up to 100 Trackable Short Links
  • Influencers Portal
  • Track Orders
  • Add up-to 50 Influencers

Premium

$19.99/month

  • Create up to 500 Trackable Short Links
  • Influencers Portal
  • Track Orders
  • Add up-to 100 Influencers
  • Coupons Tracking
  • Live Chat Support

Pro

$29.99/month

  • Create Unlimited Trackable Short Links
  • Unlimited Affiliate Programs
  • Unlimited Influencers
  • Branded Influencers Portal
  • Track Orders
  • Live Chat Support

Capabilities

What Shortly can do.

The 29 capabilities Shortly lists across each of its 2 categories, in Shopify’s own taxonomy. Pulled directly from the App Store listing.

Affiliate programs

Commission options

4
  • Automated rules
  • Tracking
  • Custom commission
  • Product commission

Referral management

7
  • Affiliate links
  • Analytics
  • Auto-tracking
  • Collection links
  • Discounts
  • Email tracking
  • Real-time tracking

Affiliate experience

8
  • Custom dashboards
  • Page creation
  • Custom registration
  • Branded portal
  • Custom links and discounts
  • Custom domain
  • Custom forms
  • Custom branding

Payments

2
  • Bank transfers
  • Multi-currency

Order tracking

Tracking

3
  • Real-time tracking
  • Custom tracking link
  • Analytics

Notifications

5
  • Email
  • Real-time notifications
  • SMS
  • Custom notifications
  • Automations

FAQ

Shortly — frequently asked questions.

What is Shortly on Shopify?
Shortly, officially listed on the Shopify App Store as Shortly — Affiliate Marketing, is a Shopify app in the Affiliate programs category. This powerful Marketing Tool that allows you to generate trackable links for email marketing, Influencer marketing, Affiliate links, and Social media campaigns links. This app also provides conversion tracking and Traffic insights flow from each short link. Affiliate Marketing + other features include trackable bio links, preloaded checkout links, shortened affiliate links, Track UTMs, SMS campaign links, YouTube video links, and more. It averages 4.80 out of 5 across 212 merchant reviews on the Shopify App Store.
How much does Shortly cost?
Shortly offers a free plan and 3 paid plans starting at $9/month and going up to $29.99/month. The free plan includes Limited Features. The paid plans unlock advanced features beyond what's available on the free tier.
Is Shortly free?
Yes — Shortly offers a free plan alongside paid options. The free plan includes Limited Features. Paid plans start at $9/month for advanced features.
When was Shortly launched?
Shortly launched on April 28, 2021 — over 5 years on the Shopify App Store. In that time it has gathered 212 merchant reviews.
Is Shortly Built for Shopify?
Yes — Shortly carries Shopify's Built for Shopify badge. This certification is awarded to apps that meet Shopify's published standards for performance, ease of use, and merchant value, and is reviewed by the Shopify team rather than self-declared by the developer.
What are the best Shortly alternatives?
Merchants commonly compare Shortly with 17TRACK Order Tracking, UpPromote Affiliate Marketing, ParcelWILL Order Tracking, and Track123 Order Tracking. Each alternative covers a similar use case but differs on pricing model, integration depth, and the specific themes merchants praise in reviews — see the alternatives section above for a side-by-side.
What complaints come up about Shortly?
2% of analyzed merchant reviews are negative. The pain points most often raised in critical reviews are ease of use and customer tracking — see the review fingerprint above for the per-merchant detail.

Methodology

Where the numbers come from.

Ratings, review counts, pricing tiers, “Built for Shopify”, launch date, and category memberships come from the live Shopify App Store listing — refreshed daily by Ongoing.AI’s crawler. The review-count trajectory is the diff between today’s snapshot and snapshots from 7 and 28 days ago. Topic counts and sentiment come from the review corpus, topic-tagged with Claude. Install footprint is observed via Ongoing.AI’s tech-detection pass against actively-tracked Shopify storefronts. Catalog position is computed at snapshot time against every active app sharing the primary category. Snapshot generated .

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