Migrate from FirstPromoter to Reditus.
Free, white-glove, and your affiliates keep their existing links. More than 10 companies moved from FirstPromoter to Reditus in the past year, almost always for the same reason: they ran out of their own network to recruit from.
First: should you actually move?
FirstPromoter is a genuinely good tracker. If you want a heavily customized, branded affiliate portal and you only ever plan to work with affiliates you invite yourself, it does that job well and you probably should not move.
The other case where we tell people not to migrate: if your program never really got going. Changing tools does not fix a program that has not worked yet. If almost nobody is promoting you, the problem is usually the offer, the audience fit, or the fact that nobody has been asked. Fix that first, on whatever tool you are already paying for.
Migration makes sense when the program works and has stalled: you went from zero to one, you know the channel converts, and you have simply run out of people in your own network to ask.
Why teams move from FirstPromoter
Your own network dried up
You pushed the program to your users, your audience, and your contacts. It worked, and then it plateaued. Recruiting the next 50 affiliates by hand is slow, and FirstPromoter has no network for them to find you through.
Payouts became a job
Affiliates start asking for different payment methods and invoices, and finance starts asking about tax forms and sign-off. That admin grows with the program. Reditus runs automated payouts on the 1st of the month for every affiliate.
You want in-app referrals too
Running an affiliate program in one tool and an in-app referral program in another means duplicated cost, duplicated referrals, and duplicated work. Reditus runs both, plus the network, in one platform.
How the migration works
The data migration takes about a day. We do the work.
We export your current program
You give the team access to your current platform. We export affiliates, their links, and their referrals, then prepare an import sheet for you to review.
You approve the import
We walk through the sheet with you on a call so you can correct anything before it goes live. Nothing is imported until you are happy with it.
We import and take over tracking
Affiliates keep their existing links, referrals come across, and Reditus starts generating commissions on new payments. This part takes about a day.
You tell your affiliates
We provide email templates. Accounts are already created with links and referrals attached, so affiliates just reset a password and see their data.
The part nobody explains: the overlap window
Clicks that happened before the import were never cookied by Reditus, so a few referrals can still surface in your old platform afterwards. Both systems stay live for the length of your cookie window, usually 30 days and sometimes 60. In practice the overlap shrinks fast: most referred signups happen within a day of the click and nearly all within a week, so mismatches taper off almost immediately. Payouts are checked as part of the migration so nothing falls between the two systems.
What to plan for after you move
Two questions worth answering before you migrate, because almost nobody asks them and they decide how fast the channel grows.
How much time will you spend on recruitment each week? The network and AI discovery bring volume and show you who already promotes your competitors or ranks for your keywords. Turning that into active affiliates is still deliberate work, and the teams who block time for it grow noticeably faster.
What will you pay affiliates upfront? Recruiting quality affiliates is not purely revenue share any more. Getting listed in a serious comparison article or review usually means paying something upfront for the work, which is what campaigns are for. Decide your budget before you need it.
Frequently asked questions
Is the migration from FirstPromoter really free?
Yes. The Reditus team handles the export from FirstPromoter, prepares the import, and moves your affiliates, their links, and their referrals across. You review the import sheet before anything goes live.
Do affiliates have to change their links?
No. Existing affiliate links are carried over during the migration and Reditus takes over tracking them, so anything already published keeps working. Affiliates do not need to update a single link.
How long does the migration itself take?
The data migration is about a day: we get access to your current platform, export everything, prepare an import sheet, walk through it with you on a call, then import. Affiliates, their links, and their referrals all come across.
Why do both systems need to run for a while?
Clicks that happened before the import were never cookied by Reditus, so referrals from those clicks can still land in your old system. Both run in parallel for the length of your cookie window, typically 30 days and sometimes 60. The mismatch shrinks quickly, because most referred signups happen within a day and nearly all within a week.
What happens to commissions we already owe affiliates?
We check your pending payouts as part of the migration. Usually the cleanest path is to pay out everything currently open in your old platform, then Reditus takes over from that point. Outstanding payouts can also be migrated across. We handle it in one pass so nothing falls between the two systems.
What does it cost?
Migration is free and white-glove: the team does the export, mapping, and import for you. You run Reditus from $99 per month, and there is a 14-day free trial if you want to see the platform before committing.
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