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We are Hotel Stay Now, LLC. Our Travelpayouts account was shut down on Sept 10,2025 — one day before payout. The bookings were 100% legitimate through Trip.com. Guests already stayed, Trip.com has already been paid, and we provided full documentation (including our Google Ads account records) as requested. Despite this, Travelpayouts is still withholding our commissions and not responding to emails or escalation requests. This is not how a professional affiliate network should operate. Unless they release our funds, we will continue to warn others about our experience. If they resolve the issue and pay what is owed, we will update this review. — Hotel Stay Now, LLC
You are lead on for months after the payouts dates and as reported by others bit by bit all details are deleted no explanation given but I Know Sale Was Legit And Paid FOR. It was never canx and no refund ever asked Don't trust
The best Pdt they have is Ekta they have a 1star rating the others are even worse. Ekta is Ukrainian as well as owners of travel payouts if you wish to spend your resources supporting this war go for it
But they should be more honest about the purpose of there business
Hello Rodney!
We're sorry to hear you were dissatisfied with the experience of working with our platform.
Please note that in case a booking is cancelled or not paid for by a customer, none of us shall receive any revenue for it. This applies to both Travelpayouts and our partners.
In your particular case, the booking made by your user within the EKTA program wasn't paid for by a customer, and should have been updated to "Cancelled" within 30 days of the booking date. However, due to a technical issue on the travel brand's side, the actual booking status was passed to our statistics with a delay. We're sorry for the inconvenience caused.
In addition, we'd like to note that all the travel brands we work with are our trusted partners, whose integrity is beyond question.
If you require any further assistance, don't hesitate to contact us at [email protected].
I used Travelpayouts for my blog. Although there are lots of programs, this was the first I tried and actually got happy with it. User friendly interface and easy-to-implement widgets - these were the most important features in the beginning. Then I started to dive deeper into affiliate marketing and free materials in Travelpayouts Academy were very helpful. And of course the payments - I dont use it for too long (around a year), but I already got paid several times.
Hi Caterine!
Thanks for taking the time to leave us this wonderful review.
We're glad to have you with us!
I'm giving them a neutral rating. I have nothing bad to say about them and I appreciate how they send you newsletters to try to help you out in addition to providing banners and links that operate successfully. If you get good traffic to your traffic blog/website and from social media and your visitors are consistently responsive plus convertible, I encourage you to give this site a try, as it has strong earning potential for everyone. However, I recently quit using them after being a member for nearly a year and a half because in addition to getting no sales, I never even got any clicks to my links/banners other than my first few months of membership when I got a few clicks.
Hi Lawrence! Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback.
Traffic verification is a standard procedure on our platform. It may be requested either by our brands or initiated internally if we notice unusually high activity within a program. During this process, payouts are temporarily put on hold until the review is completed. As our traffic managers carefully check all details, this procedure can sometimes take a bit of time.
We appreciate your cooperation and the fact that you provided all the requested information. Your traffic verification has now been completed, the payouts have been unlocked, and your rewards for the bookings have already been issued.
Thank you once again for your patience and cooperation!