Baremetrics

Baremetrics is a subscription analytics and financial-metrics platform built for SaaS and subscription-based businesses. It plugs into billing systems like Stripe and gives founders and operators real-time dashboards for MRR, ARR, churn, LTV, failed-payment recovery, and cancellation insights. For affiliates, Baremetrics runs a straightforward in-house-branded program (powered by Rewardful) that pays a recurring 20% commission for the entire lifetime of every customer you refer.

About Baremetrics

Baremetrics helps subscription companies understand their revenue without building spreadsheets or custom reports. It tracks over 28 key subscription metrics including Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR), Annual Run Rate (ARR), churn rate, upgrades, and downgrades. Beyond core analytics, the product includes add-on tools such as Payment Recovery (dunning) and Cancellation Insights, each priced at an additional $129/month, that help businesses recover failed charges and reduce churn.

Pricing is structured around a company's ARR: a Launch tier covers roughly $0–360K ARR with a single integration, a Growth tier covers roughly $360K–3.6M ARR, and higher tiers scale past $3.6M ARR with unlimited integrations. Because pricing scales with the customer's own revenue, Baremetrics states that its average revenue per customer is roughly $150/month, with plans starting around $50/month and scaling well past $1,000/month for larger accounts.

The product your audience gets

When someone signs up through your link, they get a tool that connects to their billing stack (such as Stripe, and other subscription platforms) and turns raw payment data into clear dashboards. Baremetrics markets features like Subscription Analytics, Trial Insights, automated email reports, autogenerated customer segments, data enrichment, forecasting, Recover (payment recovery), and Cancellation Insights. The pitch to customers is that they can see what's happening today, plan for tomorrow, and strategize for growth without pulling numbers into spreadsheets — which makes it an easy product to demonstrate in a review, tutorial, or case study.

How the Baremetrics affiliate program works

The headline offer is simple: you earn a 20% commission for every person who signs up through your affiliate link, and you keep earning that 20% every month for as long as they remain a customer. This is genuinely recurring (lifetime) commission, not a one-time bounty. As an added incentive for your audience, customers you refer get 50% off their first month.

Commissions also apply when a referred customer upgrades or adds paid add-on products, so your earnings can grow as your referrals grow. Using Baremetrics' own example of a ~$150/month average customer, five active referrals translate to about $150/month in recurring affiliate earnings.

• Commission: 20% recurring, paid monthly for the lifetime of the customer.
• Cookie window: 60 days — if a visitor signs up for a paid account within 60 days of clicking your link, you get credit.
• Payouts: Affiliates are paid on the 1st of the month, with first commissions paid out after 30 days.
• Tracking: You get a dashboard for stats and payments via Rewardful.
• Cost to join: Free, and open to anyone.

To join, sign up through the Baremetrics affiliate portal at affiliates.baremetrics.com/signup (linked directly from the "Become a Baremetrics Affiliate Partner" button on baremetrics.com/affiliate). Once approved you receive a unique link and access to the Rewardful dashboard.

Who should promote Baremetrics

Baremetrics is a niche B2B SaaS tool, so it converts best with a focused, relevant audience rather than broad consumer traffic. According to Baremetrics, agencies, consultants, freelancers, and content creators tend to get the most out of the partnership. You'll likely be most successful if you:

• Have an audience of SaaS or subscription-based founders and businesses.
• Understand the importance of in-depth metrics and analytics.
• Create content around startup growth, acquisition, retention, and churn.
• Run blogs, newsletters, webinars, reviews, or case studies aimed at subscription businesses.

Because commissions are recurring and the product is sticky (once a company relies on its revenue dashboards, it tends to keep the subscription), a handful of quality referrals can compound into stable monthly income.

Pros and cons

• Pro: True lifetime recurring 20% commission — you get paid every month the customer stays.
• Pro: Commissions apply to upgrades and paid add-ons, so earnings can grow over time.
• Pro: Higher-value B2B customers (avg ~$150/mo) mean meaningful per-referral payouts.
• Pro: 50% off the first month gives your audience a real incentive to convert.
• Pro: Free to join, open to anyone, with a clean Rewardful dashboard.
• Con: The 60-day cookie is decent but not generous for a considered B2B purchase.
• Con: First commission isn't paid until after 30 days, so there's a wait before your first payout.
• Con: Strict advertising rules — no paid search on branded terms/domains, no Facebook ads, or other ads competing with Baremetrics' own marketing.
• Con: Self-referrals are prohibited, and it's a narrow niche audience, so it won't suit generalist affiliates.

How to get started

Head to the Baremetrics affiliate page, click "Become a Baremetrics Affiliate Partner," and complete the free sign-up in the Rewardful-powered portal. Grab your unique link, then share it through blog posts, product reviews, client recommendations, guest newsletters, or webinars — all promotion methods Baremetrics explicitly encourages. Just steer clear of the prohibited paid-ad tactics, and let the recurring commissions build over time.

Overall, Baremetrics is a solid recurring-commission program for anyone with a SaaS or subscription-focused audience. The lifetime 20% payout and higher-value B2B customers make it attractive, provided you can respect the ad restrictions and reach the right buyers.