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Shopmycode vs Cuelinks — which fits what you are doing?
Cuelinks is an Indian affiliate network that aggregates many store programmes into one publisher account, with automatic link conversion for content sites and reporting of validated conversions. Shopmycode is a live referral platform for any link where brands fund results and marketers are paid as they happen. Here is how the two differ, point by point.
Cuelinks
- Stores and programs on the Cuelinks network
- Clicks and validated conversions in reports
- After the store validates, typically monthly cycles
- Commission plus the network's share
Shopmycode
- Any link — your site, your app, marketplaces, a poster
- Live people: platform, city, page they are on, journey
- The moment a result is counted, from a budget the brand locked
- Reward you set + 15% fee, shown per result
Point by point
Where each one works, what you see, when money moves, what it costs, and how they sit together.
Where each one works
Cuelinks, like other networks, works for the stores and programmes on the network: you link to their pages and the network reports what the store validates. Shopmycode tracks any link — your own site, an app, a marketplace listing, a poster — and brands publish offers of their own on it, so it covers the programmes networks carry and everything they do not.
What you can see
A network report typically shows clicks and validated conversions, updated on the network's schedule. Shopmycode shows people: each open with the platform it came from and the city, who is on the page right now and which page, a forwarding estimate for chats, and each result the moment it is counted.
When money moves
On a network, the marketer is paid after the store validates the order and the network runs its cycle, which is usually measured in weeks. On Shopmycode a brand's offer pays the reward into the marketer's wallet the moment the result is counted, from a budget the brand locked before the campaign started. Marketplace orders still arrive on the marketplace's timeline; the platform tells you which is which.
What it costs a brand
Networks charge the brand a commission plus the network's own share, agreed in the programme. On Shopmycode the brand sets a reward, the platform adds 15%, and both come from the locked budget; the subscription for funded campaigns is ₹4,999 + GST a year and link tracking is free.
What it costs a marketer
Networks are free to join and take their share from the commission before you see it. Shopmycode is free for life for marketers and you keep 100% of the stated reward; the brand pays the platform's fee separately.
Disputes and trust
With a network, a marketer's report and a store's report can disagree, and the network mediates. On Shopmycode brand and marketer read one record: the same opens, the same results, the same reversals with reasons. There is much less to dispute.
Using both
Most marketers keep their Cuelinks account for the store programmes it carries and add Shopmycode for live numbers on every link and for direct brand offers. There is no conflict; they measure different things.
Where Shopmycode differs most from Cuelinks
For a content site that already converts links automatically, the gap is the live view and direct brand offers: seeing opens by city as an article travels, and taking a brand's offer with a stated reward instead of waiting for a programme's validation cycle.
At a glance
The Cuelinks column describes how an affiliate network generally works; check their site for current terms. Corrections welcome at legal@ttlmedia.in.
Cuelinks is the better fit when
Publishers who want one account for many Indian store programs and are happy with monthly reporting.
Shopmycode is the better fit when
Brands and marketers who want live numbers, any-link tracking and instant rewards from a locked budget.
What stays true either way
You can use both
Many marketers keep their network accounts and add Shopmycode for live numbers and brand offers.
Honest limits
Some apps hide where a tap came from; what happens inside a native app is invisible unless the app reports it.
Marketers are free here
No plan, no cut of the reward; the brand pays the platform fee.
What a switch looks like
Keep your Cuelinks account
Step 1
Add one Shopmycode link to a post
Step 2
Watch the open arrive live
Step 3
Take a brand offer with a stated reward
Step 4