Herd
v1.0 — Now in public betaBuilt for B2B SaaS founders on Stripe

Your customers
want to be your
salesforce.
Let them.

The Stripe-native referral program for B2B SaaS founders. Connect Stripe, pick a recurring-commission shape, and your power users start closing your next ten — inside your own product, in under five minutes.

Free under $1K/moNo credit cardLive in 5 min
The problem

Most referral programs
die in a Google Doc.

Every founder knows referrals are their best channel. Almost none of them ever ship a program. Four reasons keep showing up.

Killer 01

Price before proof.

Tools want $49–$149/mo before your program ships a single reward.

Killer 02

Affiliate portals feel rented.

Your best customers log into someone else's product to see their earnings.

Killer 03

Payouts are a spreadsheet.

CSV → PayPal → manual paste. Embarrassing for a product that moves money all day.

Killer 04

Tax compliance is on you.

1099s appear in December. The Google Doc dies in November.

Herd is what happens when you remove every one of those steps.

How it works

Three steps.
Under five minutes.

No sales call. No implementation partner. Just you, a Stripe key, and a cup of coffee.
1

Connect Stripe

One click. We read your customers, orders, and subscriptions. We never touch your payment flow.

Integrations · 1 of 1
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Payment processor
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Connected
✓ Reads customers & orders
✓ Issues rewards via Connect
✗ Never sees card data
2

Pick a reward

Four templates that actually convert, or build your own. Preview updates live as you choose.

Template · selected
GIVE
$20
GET
$20
↳ Highest conversion across retail
3

Turn on touchpoints

Receipts, checkout pages, portals, renewals. Herd shows up where your customers already are.

Surfaces · 3 live
Post-checkout page
Receipt email
Customer portal
Subscription renewals
Invoice SMS
Pricing

Pay when it works.
And only as much as it works.

Variable pricing. Free under $1K/mo of referred revenue. Above that, you only pay as much as the program is paying off — and the rate gets smaller as you grow.

Starter

Free

Up to $1,000/mo in referred revenue. Every feature. Every touchpoint. Forever.

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Most picked
Growth

Variable

Scales with your referred revenue

We earn when you earn. Our incentive is your growth — and the rate we charge gets smaller as the program scales, so we have to keep helping you grow to keep growing ourselves. See the curve on the pricing page.

Start free →
Add-on · White-label
Remove "Powered by Herd" from your touchpoints.
+$49/mo
See the full pricing page →
The math, in plain English

You only pay after
they pay you.

With ads, you spend money to maybe get a customer. With Herd, money only changes hands once a real, paying customer walks in the door. That's it. That's the whole pitch.

The way you do it now

Run an ad.

You spend
on a click that might convert
$300
Maybe they subscribe
if you're lucky, ~1 in 30 do
$200/mo
True CAC per paid customer
paid up front, no refund if they churn
$300+
You're out the cash either way.
The way Herd does it

Reward a referral.

They subscribe first
real MRR landing in your Stripe
$200
Advocate reward
30% recurring credit note, clawback-protected
−$60/mo
Friend reward (their first month)
one-time discount on their first invoice
−$60
Net new MRR you keep
recurring, only when a real one stays subscribed
$140/mo
You can't lose money on a Herd referral. It's mathematically not possible.
Calculator

Type your numbers.
Watch your revenue
get bigger.

Every field has a ? if you're not sure. Move a slider, watch the chart breathe. This is what next year could look like.

Pre-filled with industry medians ↓
● Live · 30 new/mo · $3600 ACV
YOUR FIRST YEAR — NEW REFERRED MRR, NET OF REWARDS
+$2,880
That's $240/mo net new revenue, after every reward you'd ever pay out.
YOUR NUMBERS
$/yr
mo
$
0%INDUSTRY AVG · 6%30%
NEW MRR / MO, REFERRED
$720
MONTHLY REWARD COST
$480
NET NEW MRR / MO
$240
PAYBACK PERIOD
0.7 mo
Reward / monthly contract value
12-MONTH PROJECTION · NET $2,880
■ revenue — net · cost
Referred revenue vs reward cost over 12 monthsM1M3M5M7M9M11
LTV LIFT (EST.)
+$2,664/customer
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Numbers update live as you type. No "calculate" button. No email gate. Just math.↑ Try changing the referral rate slider — that's the lever.
What's in the box

Six things we
got right.

EDIT
PREVIEW
$20
for you. for them.

Live previews everywhere

Every edit is visible in the customer-facing surface before you ship.

In-app widget
Billing portal
Renewal email
Onboarding
Invoice
NPS banner
Invite link
Slack

Eight native touchpoints

In-app widget, billing portal, renewal email, onboarding state, NPS banner. Rendered in your product, not someone else's portal.

14:22 · auto-paid
Sarah K.$20.00
Marcus J.$20.00
Net +$340

Rewards on autopilot

Stripe Connect pays out the moment the criteria trip. You approve nothing.

BLOCKED · 3
Self-referral · same IP
Disposable email
Stacked coupon

Fraud rules that learn

We flag self-referrals, coupon-stackers, and disposable emails before payout.

POSITIVE-CAC RATIO
17.0×

The ratio that matters

Positive-CAC ratio shown every place you look. Nothing else is the point.

refer.yourbrand.com
Your Brand
Powered by Herd

White-label in one click

Your brand, your domain, your customers. We get quieter as you get louder.

What the first 30 days look like

Most of our early customers
ship their first referral
in the same week they sign up.

We're in white-glove beta with a small founding cohort of B2B SaaS companies. When they're ready to put their numbers on a page, we'll replace this with the retrospective — names, charts, payout totals, the whole thing. Until then, here's the timeline you should actually expect.

  1. Day 0

    Connect Stripe, pick a reward shape, copy the snippet into your app.

    We read your MRR, ACV, and customer count on connect. You pick the template closest to your program — 30% recurring for 12 months, 1 month free per referral, flat $250 per Pro customer, or custom. Every value is editable.

  2. Day 1

    Your first three customers see the widget and click share.

    Embedded inside your own product. No external portal, no second login. Advocate links are generated per-customer the first time the widget renders. We log every click.

  3. Day 3–7

    First referred signup lands in your Stripe.

    Attribution matches on cookie, promo code, or referred email. The reward sits in pending until the refund clawback window clears, then pays automatically to the advocate's next invoice as a Stripe credit note.

  4. Day 30

    Weekly digest shows you what referrals are worth.

    Referred-ARR this week. Effective CAC versus paid channels. Top advocates. If your referred cohort already beats your CAC math, you'll see it here before your board deck asks.

Founding cohort

We're personally onboarding the first hundred B2B SaaS teams. White-glove setup, direct Slack with the founder, and a public quote when your program has shipped real revenue. If that's you, come say hi.

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