Your audience.
Your recurring cut.
Send your audience to DropStart Chat. We build their Shopify store in two minutes — brand, theme, real products, writing, ready to sell. You earn 20% on every dollar they pay us — setup, AI features, ongoing chat editing — for as long as they're a customer.
Two minutes, not 30
Your audience doesn't drop off during onboarding — they see a real store before their attention fades.
Ready to sell day one
20+ real products installed with images, copy, pricing. Their first order can come the day their store ships.
Their Shopify, your residual
Stores publish to the merchant's own Shopify. They keep ownership. You keep getting paid every time they renew or upgrade with us.
We pay 20% commission on every dollar your referred merchants spend with DropStart Chat — setup fees, AI branding, ongoing chat-editing subscriptions, every upsell. Not just the first month, not just the first year. As long as they're a customer, you keep getting paid.
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Everything a real partner needs.
Most "affiliate programs" hand you a link and call it a day. Ours hands you a custom-domain funnel, branded emails, a live commission dashboard, and the controls to make it feel like yours.
Your domain, our engine.
Point your custom domain (yourbrand.com) at our setup flow. Your audience signs up and onboards on your domain — the editor itself runs on DropStart Chat where we handle all the AI heavy lifting.
Branded merchant emails
Set your own reply-to, subject line, and message body. Every "store ready" email lands in your merchants' inboxes feeling like it came straight from you.
Live commission dashboard
Every store, every charge, every dollar earned — visible in your partner portal. Filter by store, niche, or date. No vague month-end statements.
Pick your funnel flavor
AI chat-based, our classic guided wizard, or our theme-import flow — we install your own pre-built store templates onto the merchant's Shopify. Pick the flow per audience, switch any time from the portal.
Sales tax handled for you.
We're the merchant of record on every transaction through our funnel. We collect, remit, and stay compliant on sales tax across every state and country your audience signs up from — your 20% lands net of all that, no filings on your side.
Drop your Shopify store-setup affiliate link into the partner portal — our setup flow uses it for every brand-new Shopify store your audience creates. Shopify pays you their commission directly, separate from our 20%. Two revenue streams from one referral.
Four steps. Then keep referring.
No tracking pixels to install, no funnel to build. We give you a link, you send people to it, we handle the rest — and your dashboard tracks every store + every dollar.
Apply
Tell us about your audience. We review within two business days.
Get your link
You get your unique referral link plus access to the partner portal where you can configure your funnel and track every sale.
Send people to DropStart Chat
Every store they build through your link is attributed to you — for life.
Get paid monthly
20% of every dollar your referred merchants pay DropStart Chat. Direct deposit, no minimum threshold.
Stores built through us publish directly to your merchant's own Shopify — we're a Shopify Partner organization in good standing, and our app meets Shopify's listing and security requirements.
Creators and agencies.
Whether you've got an audience or you build for a roster of clients, DropStart Chat fits the way you already work — and pays you for it.
Creators & influencers
YouTubers, newsletter writers, TikTokers, podcast hosts. Anyone with an audience that asks "how do I start a Shopify store?"
- 2-minute build keeps your audience watching
- "Type your idea, watch it build" is a tweetable demo
- Real products day one — your referrals don't ghost on setup
- Custom referral codes for tracking by video / campaign
Agencies & resellers
Refer your clients through DropStart Chat instead of building manually. We do the work in minutes, you collect 20% on every DropStart Chat subscription they keep paying — at scale.
- Cut your build time from weeks to minutes
- Recurring 20% on every store you bring through — scales with volume
- Bring your own store templates — we install them onto every referred Shopify store
- Edit-by-chat means client revisions take seconds
Tell us about your audience.
We review applications within two business days. Approved partners get a referral link and partner portal access the same week.