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Social Snowball

Turn every customer into an affiliate with automatic discount-code attribution

Social Snowball is a Shopify app developer based in the United States that makes Snowball: Affiliate Marketing, an affiliate programs app on the Shopify App Store. It provides an influencer, affiliate, and referral marketing platform for ecommerce brands. Among the 14,859 Shopify brands over $5M that dtcmvp tracks, 366 (2.5%) run Snowball: Affiliate Marketing, #8 of 128 affiliate programs apps by that count. Its share is highest among Health & Wellness (9.1%), Pets (4.2%) and Beauty & Personal Care (3.2%) brands. It is rated 4.5 out of 5 from 208 reviews on the Shopify App Store. It carries Shopify's Built for Shopify badge. Snowball: Affiliate Marketing has 2 plans on the Shopify App Store, from $249 to $899 a month. Some plans add usage charges on top, listed with each plan.

Social Snowball turns every post-purchase customer into an affiliate by auto-issuing a unique discount code and commission offer at checkout. Built for Shopify brands with strong repeat buyers and word-of-mouth pull who want a referral channel without recruiting influencers one by one.

What Social Snowball does for Shopify brands

  • Auto-enrolls every customer as an affiliate with unique discount code at post-purchase
  • Customer-base affiliate pool removes manual recruitment vs managed influencer programs
  • One-tap payouts replace spreadsheet tracking & manual commission processing
  • Theft Shield blocks leaked codes from coupon sites to protect margin

Among Shopify brands over $5M

Brands running Social Snowball
2.5%
366 of 14,859 brands dtcmvp tracks
Rank in affiliate programs
#8 of 128
By how many of those brands run each app
All brands over $5M2.5%
Health & Wellness9.1%
Pets4.2%
Beauty & Personal Care3.2%

Share of each sector's brands running it, where that beats the overall rate.

On the Shopify App Store

  • Snowball: Affiliate Marketing

    4.5 · 208 reviews
    Built for ShopifyFree planPaid from $249/moOn 2.5% of brands over $5MLaunched 2020Affiliate programs

    Ready to improve your customer acquisition costs? Social Snowball makes it easy to build, launch, and automate your word-of-mouth marketing program...

    Pricing

    Snow Day
    $249/month

    Starts at $249/m + 3% of affiliate revenue.

    • For brands new to affiliates & referrals
    • Unlimited affiliates
    • Influencer management
    • Post-purchase referrals
    • +4 more
    Blizzard
    $899/month

    Starts at $899/m. After installing, our team will set you up with a custom plan tailored to your needs.

    • Everything in Snow Day, plus
    • TikTok Shop
    • Creator Search & Outreach
    • Social listening
    • +4 more

Ratings, reviews, plans, prices and descriptions as the Shopify App Store lists them. how we count.

Alternatives to Social Snowball

The most used affiliate programs apps among Shopify brands over $5M.

AppBrands over $5MApp Store
ShareASale12%—
Awin · Awin Ltd11.1%—
GOAFFPRO · GoAffPro6.7% 4.6 · 951
UpPromote Affiliate Marketing · UpPromote6.5% 4.9 · 3,850
impact.com Affiliate Marketing · impact.com4.5% 4.4 · 202
AvantLink Affiliate Marketing · AvantLink2.7% 4.6 · 23

Often used with Social Snowball

What its brands run more often than Shopify brands over $5M do overall.

What Shopify apps does Social Snowball make?

Social Snowball has 1 app on the Shopify App Store: Snowball: Affiliate Marketing.

How many Shopify brands use Social Snowball?

Among the 14,859 Shopify brands over $5M that dtcmvp tracks, 366 (2.5%) run Snowball: Affiliate Marketing, #8 of 128 affiliate programs apps by that count. Its share is highest among Health & Wellness (9.1%), Pets (4.2%) and Beauty & Personal Care (3.2%) brands.

What are the alternatives to Social Snowball?

The most used affiliate programs apps among Shopify brands over $5M, after Social Snowball: ShareASale (12%), Awin (11.1%), GOAFFPRO (6.7%), UpPromote Affiliate Marketing (6.5%), impact.com Affiliate Marketing (4.5%) and AvantLink Affiliate Marketing (2.7%).

What do Social Snowball's brands use alongside it?

Of the brands running Social Snowball, 12.6% also run Richpanel, 40.2% also run Intelligems, 34.4% also run Alia, 34.2% also run Aftersell Post Purchase Upsell and 17.5% also run KNO Post Purchase Surveys. Each is at least 5.5 times as common among them as across all brands over $5M.

How is Snowball: Affiliate Marketing rated?

Snowball: Affiliate Marketing is rated 4.5 out of 5 from 208 reviews on the Shopify App Store.

How much does Social Snowball cost?

Snowball: Affiliate Marketing has 2 plans on the Shopify App Store, from $249 to $899 a month. Some plans add usage charges on top, listed with each plan. Snowball: Affiliate Marketing: Snow Day, $249/month (Starts at $249/m + 3% of affiliate revenue); Blizzard, $899/month (Starts at $899/m. After installing, our team will set you up with a custom plan tailored to your needs).

Updated 2026-09-10. Method notes and every source: how we count →

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