SherGuard pays 20% Recurring

What SherGuard is

SherGuard is a trust intelligence platform for businesses that need to work out whether a signup is real before it costs them money. It runs five detection modules: email risk, device analysis, bot identification, API abuse monitoring and payment fraud review, each available on its own or bundled into the full platform. The intended buyer is a SaaS, marketplace or ecommerce team dealing with fake accounts, promo abuse, card testing and scripted traffic.

The product itself is real rather than a landing page. There is published pricing, API documentation with sample requests and responses, a dashboard, a free tier, and billing through Paddle. It is operated by SHER MALIK LLC. What it does not yet have is visible traction, and the counters on its own homepage sit at zero, so treat it as an early product with a working platform rather than an established vendor.

The program at a glance

What 20% actually pays

Unlike most programs at this stage, the arithmetic here is fully checkable, because SherGuard publishes its prices. The full platform runs Free at $0, Starter at $39 a month, Growth at $99, Business at $299, and Enterprise on request. Individual modules sell separately from $19 to $179 a month.

So a referral on Starter pays $7.80 a month, Growth pays $19.80, and Business pays $59.80. Held for a year, that is $93.60, $237.60 and $717.60 respectively, and it keeps running while the customer stays. Two or three Business accounts is a genuinely useful line of income, and B2B fraud tooling is sticky once it is wired into a signup flow, because ripping it out means touching the part of the stack nobody volunteers to touch.

That stickiness is the real case for this program. A lifetime rate is only worth anything if customers stay, and infrastructure that sits in the signup path tends to.

The seven day cookie is the term to argue with

Seven days is the shortest cookie of any security or VPN program we list, and the rest of the category is not close. The others run 30, 45, 60, 90 days, or in one case never expire at all.

On a consumer impulse purchase a short window is survivable. On this product it fights the sales cycle directly. Fraud prevention is bought by engineering and risk teams, and it gets evaluated: someone reads about it, opens the free tier, runs test traffic through a module, waits for a colleague to look, then takes it to whoever holds the budget. SherGuard actively invites that path by offering a free plan for testing all five modules. A reader who signs up free on your link and upgrades three weeks later, exactly the behaviour the free tier is designed to produce, earns you nothing.

There is a way to work with it rather than against it. Content that reaches someone already shopping, comparison pieces against the established fraud tools, or a post written for a team that has just been hit by a wave of fake signups, can convert inside a week. Broad awareness content aimed at people who might eventually need this will mostly expire before it pays. If you can get the reader to the paid plan in the same session, the recurring rate is worth chasing. If your traffic browses and returns later, this cookie will quietly eat most of it.

What we verified, and what we did not

Worth being precise, because these are not all on the same footing. The 20% recurring rate is stated on SherGuard's own affiliate page and we confirmed it there. The pricing above is published on their pricing page and we confirmed that too.

The seven day cookie, the payout methods, and the lifetime duration are not published on the affiliate page. They come from the program owner directly when the listing was submitted. We record them as given and have flagged them here rather than presenting them as verified, and we will confirm them from inside the dashboard when an affiliate account has run long enough to show it. If those terms matter to your decision, get them in writing before you build content.

Who should promote it

This is a developer and operator audience, not a consumer one. It fits SaaS and startup newsletters, backend and API focused content, ecommerce operations writing, payments and chargeback coverage, and anyone whose readers run a signup flow they are worried about. Agencies building products for clients are a second natural fit, since they hit fake signups on someone else's behalf and can specify the tool.

It does not fit general audience security content. Readers looking for a VPN or antivirus are not buying an API driven fraud platform, and the mismatch will show in your conversion rate long before it shows anywhere else.

The honest read

Ungraded for now. A grade follows cleared payments over time, and this program has no payout history we can observe yet.

Three things to weigh against it. The seven day cookie is genuinely short for a considered B2B purchase and is the single term most likely to cost you money. The company is early, with no visible customer traction, and an early company is the kind most likely to change or end a program. And an in house program means no network arbitration if a payment goes wrong, only the merchant.

In its favour, the pricing is public so you can calculate your earnings before writing a word, which is rarer than it should be. The recurring rate runs for the life of the subscription rather than a capped twelve months. The product is real, documented and billed through Paddle. And the payout options are unusually broad for a small program, with PayPal, Payoneer and bank transfer all offered, which matters more to affiliates outside the US than most merchants realise.

Common questions

How much does the SherGuard affiliate program pay? 20% recurring for the life of each referred subscription. On published prices that is $7.80 a month on Starter, $19.80 on Growth and $59.80 on Business.

How long is the SherGuard cookie? Seven days, according to the program owner. That is the shortest of any security program in this directory, where 30 to 90 days is normal, so a referral has to convert within a week of clicking.

Does SherGuard have a two tier affiliate program? No. You earn on customers you refer, not on other affiliates you recruit.

How do SherGuard affiliates get paid? PayPal, Payoneer, or bank transfer, as stated by the program owner. The affiliate page itself does not publish payout methods or a minimum threshold.

Is SherGuard worth promoting? It suits developer, SaaS and ecommerce operations audiences where readers can go from your content to a paid plan quickly, because the recurring rate is good and the pricing is public. It suits slow burn awareness content poorly, because the seven day window will expire first.