Affiliate Program
Send growers to Matt’s. Get paid on every order they place.
5% on everything we sell online, up to 10% on featured items, sale items and commercial deals. No follower minimum, no excluded products, no coupon games, no code to type. If you already tell people where to buy their gear, you should be getting paid for it.
5%on every order that comes through your link, first order and every reorder after it
up to 10%on featured items, sale items, and locked-in commercial and facility deals you send us
0excluded products, follower minimums or fees. Dehumidifiers, trimmers, pallets of coco: if we sell it, it counts
How it works
- Apply. Takes two minutes. Tell us where you post and the word you want in your link. You hear back within seven business days, approved or denied, either way.
- Get your link. Something like mattshydroponics.com/yourname. Every visit that comes through it is tagged to you, and any order that follows within 30 days is yours. Nothing for the customer to type, no code to remember.
- Share it your way. Grow diaries, YouTube, Instagram, a podcast, your grow club, a text to a buddy who is building a room. No scripts, no minimum posts.
- Get paid automatically. Track every order in your own dashboard and get paid through Collabs. Nothing to invoice, nothing to chase.
One 5%, not two. Your customer pays the same everyday price as everyone else, and the whole 5% comes to you. No coupon games, no arguing over margin, nothing of yours ever ending up on a deal site.
What you earn
| Sale | Your commission | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Anything in the catalog | 5% | Baseline on every order. No product is excluded. |
| Featured items | up to 10% | A rotating list we publish to affiliates each month, with the rate shown per item. |
| Sale items | up to 10% | When we run a sale, the sale items pay above the baseline. We tell you before it starts. |
| Commercial and facility deals | 5% guaranteed, up to 10% | Licensed facilities, greenhouses, pallet orders. Starts at 5% and climbs with the size and margin of the deal, once the sale is locked in. Not guaranteed at 10%; guaranteed at 5%. |
| Repeat orders | same rates | Every order that comes through your link pays, not just the first one. |
Commission is calculated on the product subtotal after discounts, before tax and shipping. Paid once the order has shipped or been picked up and the return window has closed.
How we stack up against the big guys
Every number below is taken from the other companies’ own published affiliate pages, September 2026. Go read them. Then come back.
| Matt’s Hydroponics | HTG Supply | AC Infinity | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base rate | 5% on everything | “up to 10%”, rate not published | 5% at 1,000 followers |
| Top rate | 10%, reachable on featured, sale and commercial deals | up to 10% | up to 10%, at 100,000+ followers |
| Follower minimum | None | None stated | 1,000 (7% needs 10,000; 10% needs 100,000) |
| Excluded products | None | Dehumidifiers, trimmers, buckers, 55-gallon nutrients, CropKing, USA Lab | Not stated |
| Commercial / B2B sales | Paid, 5% to 10% | Excluded (B2B account holders do not qualify) | Not offered |
| Attribution | Your link, 30 days, every order it brings in | Link cookie, 30 days from first visit, new customers only | Custom code |
| Customer discount | None; everyday price, the 5% goes to you | None; offering coupons is prohibited | 10% off code |
| Repeat orders | Paid every time | New customers only | Not stated |
| Payout | Automatic, paid through Shopify Collabs | PayPal only | Not stated |
Sources: htgsupply.com/affiliates and htgsupply.com/affiliate-program-terms-and-conditions; acinfinity.com/pages/company/become-an-affiliate.html. Their terms can change; ours are above.
Who this is for
Growers who post their runs. YouTube and TikTok channels. Podcast hosts. Grow-club and meetup organizers. Consultants and facility designers who spec equipment. Anyone who gets asked “where do you get your stuff?” more than once a week.
You do not need a big audience. You need one grower who trusts you. Some of our best referrers have never posted a thing; they just send friends their link.
The rules, in plain English
- Your link is for other people. Your own purchases do not pay commission.
- Commission is paid on orders that were paid for, shipped or picked up, and not returned. Refunds and chargebacks come back off your next payout.
- For commercial deals, tell us who you sent before they order, or have them name you. We credit the referral when the sale is locked in.
- No bidding on our name or our brands in paid ads, no posting your link on coupon or deal sites, no spam. Share it with people, not with bots.
- Say what you actually think about the gear. We would rather have an honest review that sends us five customers than hype that sends fifty and returns forty.
- Rates for featured and sale items change month to month; the 5% baseline does not. If we ever change the baseline we give you 30 days’ notice in writing.
- Either of us can end it at any time. Commission earned before that date still gets paid.
Payouts
We run this on Shopify Collabs, so you get your own dashboard: every order your link brought in, what you earned, and what is still pending. You set your payout details up once inside Collabs and it pays you out from there on its own schedule. Nothing to invoice and nothing to chase.
Commission clears once the return window has closed, so refunds have time to settle before anything pays out.
Questions we get
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Do I need a website or a big following?
No. A link works in a text message as well as it works on a channel with 50,000 subscribers.
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Does it work if they buy in the store?
No. This one is online only. Commission is tracked by your link, so the order has to be placed on mattshydroponics.com. Send people to your link and it counts.
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How do commercial deals get credited?
Tell us who you sent, or have them name you when they call for a quote. Commercial pricing is quoted, not coded, so we track those by hand. You get 5% when it closes, and up to 10% depending on the deal.
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Does my customer get a discount?
No. They pay the everyday price and the whole 5% comes to you. There is no code to type; your link does all the work. That is also why nothing of yours will ever end up on a coupon site.
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What about returns?
If the order comes back, the commission comes back off your next payout. Simple and fair both ways.
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How fast do you approve?
You get an answer within seven business days, approved or denied, either way. We look at whether you actually grow or talk to people who do. That is the whole test. No guessing and no silent rejections.
Apply in two minutes
Use our contact form. Start your message with “Affiliate” and tell us who you are, where you post (links), roughly how many people see it, how you would share Matt’s, the word you want in your link (mattshydroponics.com/yourword), and an Instagram handle or phone so we can reach you. A real person reads it and gets back to you within seven business days, approved or denied.
Apply nowOr DM @mattshydroponicsWebster: 508-461-5850 · Milford: 508-478-0710. Ask for Matt.Matt’s Hydroponics Affiliate Program, Webster and Milford, Massachusetts. Rates above are current as of September 2026 and apply to orders placed on mattshydroponics.com. Commission is not paid on tax, shipping, gift cards, or orders that are cancelled or returned.