Affiliate link in bio that pays you for what you recommend
Your bio link sends fans somewhere. It should also pay you when they buy. Favly turns the one link in your bio into a storefront where every AI tool and product you recommend earns.
Direct answer
An affiliate link in bio is a single link in your social profile that opens a storefront where the products you recommend carry your affiliate links, so you earn a commission when a fan buys. Favly builds that storefront at favly.com/@you: add a favorite, and Favly attaches your affiliate link where a program exists and labels it #ad for FTC honesty. For AI and SaaS tools, many programs pay recurring commissions, so a fan who subscribes keeps paying out month after month. There is no follower gate, and payouts run weekly once you clear the minimum.
One link, one storefront
Favly turns the single link in your bio into favly.com/@you, a storefront of the tools and gear you recommend, each one a card fans can buy from.
Every link earns where it can
Favly attaches your affiliate link to any favorite that has a program, so the recommendations you already make start returning commissions instead of nothing.
Labeled #ad, paid weekly
Each affiliate link is clearly marked #ad for FTC honesty, and cleared commissions pay out weekly with no follower gate to unlock them.
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At a glance
What each kind of bio link costs you, and what it can charge
The fee question comes up on every link in bio comparison and it is almost always answered wrong, because the answer depends on which of your two income types is being discussed. Figures below were read from each vendor's own pricing page in September 2026. The last column is the one that decides whether any of it applies to you.
| Tool | What it costs monthly | Cut of products you sell yourself | Cut of your affiliate commission |
|---|---|---|---|
| Favly | See pricing | Not what the product does | None, and none is possible |
| Linktree | $0, or $6 to $30 a month | 9%, dropping to 0% on the $30 tier | None, and none is possible |
| Beacons | $0, or $100 to $900 a year | 9%, dropping to 0% on the $300 tier | None, and none is possible |
| Stan Store | Subscription, no free plan | 0% platform fee, plus your own processor | None, and none is possible |
| Gumroad | $0, no plans at all | 10% plus $0.50, or 30% through Discover | None, and none is possible |
| A plain link page | Usually $0 | It has no checkout | None. It also earns you nothing |
The last column is identical on every row on purpose. A platform can only take a percentage of money that passes through it, and affiliate commission never does: the merchant pays you directly, weeks after the click, from its own margin. So if your income is commission, every seller fee in this table is a zero for you and the comparison has to be made on features instead.
Questions creators ask
What creators ask before putting affiliate links in their bio
What commission do link in bio platforms take on sales?
On products you sell yourself, commonly 9% on entry tiers falling to 0% on an upper tier, and Gumroad charges 10% plus $0.50 with no subscription. On affiliate commission they take nothing, because they cannot. That money goes from the buyer to the merchant and the merchant pays you directly, so no link page is ever in the payment path.
Do link in bio tools charge transaction fees on sales?
Yes, on checkouts they process. Linktree and Beacons both publish a 9% seller fee that drops to zero on a higher plan, and Gumroad charges 10% plus $0.50 per transaction. Stan Store advertises 0% but charges a monthly subscription instead. All of those apply to your own products only, never to commission you earn recommending someone else's.
How much do link in bio tools usually cost per month?
Entry paid tiers cluster between $6 and $10 a month, mid tiers between $12 and $30, and the tiers that remove seller fees sit around $25 to $30 a month. Gumroad is the outlier with no subscription at all, charging only per sale. Most tools also keep a genuinely usable free tier, so the monthly cost buys branding removal and analytics rather than basic function.
Can I offer paid memberships through my link in bio?
Yes on most tools, though it is usually gated behind a paid tier and carries the same seller fee as any other product you sell. A membership is money you collect, so the platform processes it and takes its cut. Affiliate commission on a subscription someone else runs works the other way: the merchant bills the customer and pays you, often every month it renews.
Is an affiliate link in bio allowed on Instagram and TikTok?
Yes. Putting an affiliate link behind your bio URL is standard practice on every major platform, and several run their own affiliate programs alongside it. What platforms do enforce is disclosure and, in some cases, rules about redirect behavior. Label commission carrying links clearly, which US FTC guidance requires regardless of which platform sent the visitor.
Do I need a lot of followers to earn from a bio link?
No. Affiliate programs pay on sales rather than reach, so there is no follower minimum to clear before commission starts. Follower gates belong to native platform monetization programs, not to merchant affiliate programs. A small audience that trusts your recommendations routinely out-earns a much larger one that scrolls past them without clicking.
What is the difference between a link in bio page and an affiliate storefront?
A link page holds URLs and earns nothing by itself. An affiliate storefront presents the same recommendations as shoppable cards, each carrying your affiliate link and your note on why you use it. The difference is not design. It is whether the page is a directory of destinations or a shop front that credits you when someone buys.
Which link in bio tool is best for affiliate income specifically?
Judge it on three things the fee tables never cover: whether it can link to any merchant rather than one retailer, whether it reports which recommendation earned rather than which link was clicked, and whether disclosure is attached automatically. Seller fees are irrelevant to commission earners, so a tool priced around them is optimizing for a different business than yours.
Go deeper
A bio link only earns if the links inside it are tracked and disclosed properly. How to monetize your link in bio covers the setup end to end, and the FTC affiliate disclosure guide covers the labelling rules that apply to every one of those links.
If you are choosing between a link page and something that actually pays you, the difference is covered in Linktree alternatives, and the best link in bio platforms comparison puts the pricing and seller fees side by side. Worth settling first is whether link in bio tools take a cut of your sales, since the answer differs for affiliate income. For the programs that make a bio link worth monetizing in the first place, see recurring affiliate programs. And if you also sell a product of your own alongside the links, Gumroad pricing covers the per sale model that charges nothing monthly.
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