Big ShoutOut to these guys, they are fantastic!!
November 22, 2019
Big ShoutOut to these guys, they are fantastic!!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with ShoutOUT
We use ShoutOut as a way to manage our influencers and track their performance from a sales standpoint and also pay some of the affiliate commissions. Initially, we were using Commission Junction and weren't getting enough sales revenue out of it to justify the expense. This isn't necessarily a CJ flaw, but more of our problem. Most of the affiliates and influencers were are using to promote our brand aren't traditional affiliates and, indeed, are not very tech-savvy. Most of them still don't even have any clue on how to embed tracking code into their posts on Instagram. So ShoutOut allows us to focus on mainly providing them with a coupon code to track sales that they generate. The system has been really solid for us and easy to use.
- Great for simple, not very tech-savvy influencers or affiliates.
- Ties in seamlessly to Shopify Plus, which is a must for our organization.
- Simple dashboard, easy to manage affiliates.
- Not a vast network of affiliates to choose from if you need them to facilitate that side of your business.
- Sometimes the tracking by coupon code doesn't seem to work correctly, and the numbers don't match up with what we see on the backend of our Shopify numbers.
- Could make it easier to add creatives and deep linking for affiliates.
- Very positive right off the bat because we dropped our Commission Junction expenses and got most of our bigger affiliates to switch over to keep their sales.
- Easy to use and much simpler for our affiliate manager to do her work.
We used Shareasale and Commission Junction in the, and they are awesome to manage your traditional affiliates that run blogs or email campaigns. We would still be using those if we did more of a traditional approach to influencers. But since we moved over to a more influencer based marketing approach, ShoutOut is fantastic and has made it simpler for us and our affiliates.
Do you think ShoutOUT delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with ShoutOUT's feature set?
Yes
Did ShoutOUT live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of ShoutOUT go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy ShoutOUT again?
Yes
Using ShoutOUT
3 - The sales and marketing team, affiliate manager, and the finance guys. The sales team uses it as a way to pitch collaboration efforts with influencers on Instagram, the affiliate manager will then create and manage the accounts, and the finance guys will end up using the app to make payments and make sure that all of the sales data adds up.
1 - Basic computer skills with a little technical savvy, and you should be fine. It is a straightforward process to set up and integrates, at least into Shopify Plus. Pretty much a plug and play type setup, with a simple backend connection to Paypal for paying out our affiliates. If you can't figure out how to use it, though, the support seems to be pretty helpful. I would say my mother could use this, with a little training.
- Coupon code tracking for affiliates.
- Simple payout process for affiliates.
- Nice backend dashboard and account for each affiliate to log in to and track their sales and progress.
- Coupon code tracking for technically un-savvy Instagram users. We do a lot in the fitness space, and these people are known for their beauty, not for their technical skills.