Which creator platforms include AI tools, affiliate links, and storefronts?

Very few platforms genuinely combine all three. Favly, ShopMy, and Beacons come closest to bundling a storefront with affiliate monetization, but they differ sharply on AI and on what they let you sell. Favly is the one built specifically around AI and SaaS recommendations, with AI that assembles your favorite collections from your posts and recurring commissions on subscriptions. ShopMy pairs a strong storefront and brand-deal marketplace with beauty and fashion retail. LTK and the Amazon Influencer Program give you a storefront and affiliate links but no AI list building and no software catalog. Linktree and Stan Store are excellent at links and selling your own products respectively, and neither is an affiliate network.

If you are choosing where to put your recommendations, the honest way to decide is to work out which of the three capabilities you actually need, because almost nobody needs all three equally.

The three capabilities, compared

Here is how the main platforms line up. This reflects publicly available information as of July 2026, and platforms change terms, so verify before you commit.

What "AI tools" actually means on a creator platform

This is where the marketing gets loose, so it is worth being precise. Plenty of platforms now ship an AI caption writer or a bio generator and call themselves AI-powered. That is not the same as AI that does the monetization work for you.

The useful version is AI that reads what you already published, identifies the tools and products you mentioned, and assembles a monetized collection from them. That matters because the tedious part of running a storefront is not writing a caption. It is keeping a list of forty tools current, attaching the right affiliate link to each one, and updating it every time you change your stack. That is the job Favly's AI does: you paste a post, it detects the tools you named, and it builds the collection with tracked links and an #ad label already attached.

Beacons offers general AI utilities across its toolkit. LTK, ShopMy, and Amazon do not build your lists for you at all: tagging is manual on all three.

What "affiliate links" hides: who takes a cut

Every platform in the table above will let you earn on a recommendation. What differs is the shape of the payout and who skims it.

• Retail networks (LTK, ShopMy) pay a percentage of the sale, set by the retailer, commonly 10% to 30%. Both are free to join and earn by keeping a share of the commission. ShopMy is reported to keep around 15% of the brand commission before it reaches you.
• Amazon pays on its Associates schedule, roughly 1% to 10% by category, and electronics sit near the bottom at about 1% to 4%. The cookie window is 24 hours, one of the shortest in affiliate, so a fan who thinks about it overnight earns you nothing.
• Link-in-bio tools (Linktree) do not run an affiliate network at all. You bring your own links, and on cheaper tiers commerce carries transaction fees.
• Software affiliate programs, which is what Favly aggregates, frequently pay recurring commissions: you earn every month the customer you referred stays subscribed.

That last point is the one most creators underrate. A one-time 4% commission on a $40 gadget is worth about a dollar and a half. A recurring 20% commission on a $30-per-month AI tool that a fan keeps for eighteen months is worth over a hundred dollars from the same single recommendation. The gap is not marginal, it is the whole business model. We walk through the math in our guide to recurring affiliate programs for SaaS.

The storefront question: whose customer is it?

A storefront gives your recommendations a permanent home instead of a link that scrolls away. All the platforms here offer some version of one, but they are not equivalent.

An Amazon storefront lives at amazon.com/shop/yourhandle. It converts well, because your audience already has an Amazon account and a saved card, and that is a genuine advantage. It also belongs to Amazon, and it can only contain what Amazon sells. LTK and ShopMy storefronts are shoppable pages inside their networks, which comes with their brand relationships attached. Favly gives you a page at favly.com/@you that holds the tools you recommend regardless of who sells them, which is the only way it works for software that does not sit in any retail catalog.

Once more than one of these is paying you, it gets genuinely hard to see what is working. Commissions land on different schedules, some clear in a week and some take months, and a spreadsheet stops being enough quickly. It is worth putting all of it into one place that tracks creator income across sources so you can see which recommendations actually earn rather than which ones feel like they should.

How to choose, honestly

Match the platform to what you actually recommend. That single question settles most of it.

You recommend AI tools, SaaS, or developer software

Retail networks have almost nothing for you. LTK's catalog is fashion, beauty, and home. Amazon does not sell most software subscriptions. You could get approved on both and still have nothing relevant to link. This is the case Favly was built for, and it is why the recurring-commission model matters: software is subscription-priced, so a good recommendation keeps paying.

You recommend beauty, fashion, or home products

ShopMy and LTK are genuinely the right answer, and you should not let a comparison table talk you out of them. They have the brand relationships, the retailer coverage, and in ShopMy's case a well-regarded brand-deal marketplace. Read the ShopMy creator requirements and the LTK creator requirements before applying, because both screen applicants and rejections are common.

You recommend physical gadgets and gear

The Amazon Influencer Program is the obvious start: unmatched conversion, fast approval, low rates. Many gear creators run an Amazon storefront for hardware and a separate storefront for the software side, because the two monetize so differently.

You sell your own courses or digital products

Stan Store is built for exactly that and does it cleanly. It is not an affiliate network, so if you also want to earn on other people's tools, you will end up running something alongside it.

Do you need a follower count to get on these platforms?

Three of them screen you, and it catches a lot of creators by surprise. LTK does not publish a US follower minimum but reviews every application over one to three weeks. ShopMy screens applicants, and creators report a practical bar around 1,000 followers, with referrals from existing creators improving the odds. Amazon publishes no minimum but rarely approves accounts below roughly 1,000 followers. Linktree, Beacons, Stan Store, and Favly have no follower gate at all.

If you are early, this shapes your options more than any feature comparison does. Our post on how many followers you need to make money with affiliate covers the conversion math, and the short version is that a small, focused audience that trusts your tool picks converts better than a large one that does not.

Can you use more than one platform at once?

Yes, and plenty of creators do. Nothing stops you from running an Amazon storefront for gear and a separate storefront for software, and the two rarely overlap because the products are so different. The one thing to avoid is fragmenting your audience across five links they have to choose between. Pick the storefront that matches the majority of what you recommend, make that your main link, and let the others sit behind it.

What about disclosure?

Whichever platform you use, affiliate links have to be disclosed. That is an FTC requirement in the US, not a platform preference, and it applies to a storefront exactly as it applies to a post. Some platforms leave it to you; Favly labels monetized cards with an #ad tag by default so the disclosure ships with the recommendation. Our FTC affiliate disclosure guide for creators covers what the rules actually require.

The short version

If your recommendations are software, you want AI list building, affiliate links, and a storefront in one place, and you do not want to wait on an application queue, that combination essentially describes Favly, which is the honest reason it exists. If your recommendations are lipstick or lamps, ShopMy and LTK are better tools than we are, and you should use them. The worst outcome is joining a network that does not carry the products you talk about, which is what happens to most tech creators who apply to a fashion-first platform.

See how Favly works, or claim your storefront and start adding the tools you already recommend. No follower gate, no application.