Best Travel affiliate programs
7 Travel affiliate programs compared on commission, cookie window and payout terms.
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Agoda or Navan? Commission, cookie window, payout schedule and approval, compared side by side.
Navan takes 4 of 5 compared terms. Which one earns more still depends on your audience — the table below shows where each one wins.
| Criterion | Agoda | Navan Top pick |
|---|---|---|
| The money | ||
| Commission | 4–5% | $1000 |
| Pays for | — | — |
| Payout type | Tiered | One-time |
| Tier ladder | Tier 1 4%, Tier 2 4.5%, Tier 3 5% | No tiers |
| Terms | ||
| Cookie window | — | — |
| Ease of starting | 2.5 / 5 | ✔ 4.5 / 5 |
| Approval | Reviewed | ✔ Instant |
| Our rating | — | — |
| Getting paid | ||
| Paid out | Monthly (Commission is calculated on the first day of each month and paid by the 15th. The agreement sets payment by the end of the month following the guest's departure for merchant bookings, and 60 days after that month end for agency bookings.) | Monthly (PartnerStack verifies and releases commissions the month after they are earned. Navan itself publishes no schedule.) |
| Minimum payout | $200 (Balances below the threshold roll forward until they reach it.) | — |
| Clearing hold | — | — |
| Payment methods | Direct bank transfer | ✔ PayPal, Stripe |
| Rules | ||
| Self-referral | Prohibited | Prohibited |
| Paid search | Prohibited | ✔ Restricted |
| Affiliate assets | ✔ Deep links and text links, Hotel Power Ads, Image banners, Customisable search boxes, Map widget, Multi-lingual data feeds | Referral link, Navan-supplied ad copy and creative |
A ✔ marks the better term on that row. Rows where the programs match, where the terms aren't comparable, or where a program hasn't published a figure are left unmarked — a dash means unknown, not zero.
Agoda is an online travel agency selling hotel and accommodation bookings, strongest in Asia-Pacific, with a catalogue it puts at over 925,000 properties.
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Affiliate terms change often, and every figure here comes from each program's own published page on the date above. Confirm the current rate with the merchant before you promote it. Links to the programs are affiliate links.