AdultShop

What AdultShop is

AdultShop is an Australian adult retailer, with a web shop and physical stores, that runs a product affiliate program. It pays affiliates a commission when a visitor they send buys something, and joining costs nothing: the program page describes a free affiliate account created through its network partner, Commissionfactory. It serves the Australian market, because the store's FAQ states that it delivers to Australia only.

That last point decides who the program is for. A creator or affiliate whose audience sits in Australia has a store that ships to them. Someone with a mostly American or European audience would be sending traffic to a shop that cannot deliver to those visitors.

The retailer has a long history. According to its about page, AdultShop was founded in early 1999, when the company was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, and it launched in Australia in December 1999 with parties from Perth to Sydney. It later bought the Barbarellas chain of adult stores in Western Australia and Tasmania and rebranded those shops over the following years, and it says it now has 13 stores in Western Australia and 3 in Tasmania. In November 2010 the previous owner bought the stores and the website back from the public company and became sole owner again, and in 2019 the business was sold to new Perth-based owners with experience in Australian adult retail. The page describes the business as wholly Australian owned and operated from offices in Perth, Western Australia. For an affiliate this matters as the background of the merchant behind the links: a web shop with physical stores and a brand that has traded under one name since 1999.

How earning works here

The model is a plain product affiliate program, paid per sale. The affiliate picks products from the AdultShop range, places links, and earns when a visitor buys. The program page says affiliates can select from over 1000 products, which is the retailer's own claim about the size of the catalog.

Tracking works through links. According to the program page, a member is supplied with a range of banners and text links to place wherever they like. When a user clicks one, they arrive on the AdultShop website and their activity is tracked by the affiliate program. Once that user completes a purchase, the affiliate earns the commission. The store's FAQ repeats the offer in one line for shoppers who ask about it: commissions can be earned by placing a banner or link.

The retailer takes on the parts of ecommerce an affiliate usually does not want. The page says affiliates can forget about delivery, billing and customer service, because AdultShop handles all of it, and it lists quality products at competitive prices among the reasons to join.

Reporting is real time. The program page promises statistics and reports with data on sales, traffic generated and the commission balance, and says earnings and traffic accounts can be viewed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The program is not run on the retailer's own software. The page states that the AdultShop affiliate program is run by its partners at Commissionfactory, and the sign-up link sends the applicant there to create a free affiliate account. So the agreement, the dashboard and the payout mechanics sit with that network.

What an affiliate can promote is clearer from the rest of the store. The partner page lists the brands and bodies AdultShop works with: LELO, California Exotic Novelties, Doc Johnson, JOPEN and We-Vibe, plus the Eros Association, which it calls Australia's national adult retail and entertainment association, and a Perth entertainment business. The buying guides give ready-made topics. Product guides cover bullet vibrators, clitoral stimulators, G-spot vibrators, rabbit vibrators, cock rings, fetish and fantasy, male pleasure products, penis pumps, strap-ons, lubricants, lingerie, condoms, cleaning and storage, batteries and sex education books. A second group covers travel, toy materials and phthalates, prostate play, and anal play, hygiene and aftercare. For an affiliate writing product content, those guides show what the store's shoppers read before they buy and which pages a text link can point to.

The buyer's experience after the click is set out in the FAQ, and it is what an affiliate's audience will meet. Orders go out in plain packaging through Australia Post or a courier, with no mention of AdultShop on the outside, and a parcel that cannot be handed over is held at the nearest post office against a card. The store accepts Visa and MasterCard, including debit cards, plus PayPal, zipPay and AfterPay. On a card statement the narration is "Ashop", although the FAQ warns that some banks show the trading name GT Safro Pty Ltd instead. The FAQ says card details are protected by industry standard encryption and are not retained after an order is processed. In October 2026 the FAQ lists free delivery within Australia on orders of $59 or more and a flat $10 rate below that.

Returns shape how many referred sales stand. The FAQ says faulty, damaged or incorrectly described items may be returned for a refund or replacement under Australian Consumer Law, that the store may inspect returned goods, and that change-of-mind returns of lingerie, intimate apparel and costumes are refused for hygiene reasons. Sale, clearance and discounted items are not eligible for a refund or exchange unless faulty. A buyer has to notify the store "within five (5) days from the date of receiving your order", needs a return authorization number, and pays the return postage.

Money and rules

The payout model is a flat percentage of product sales, with no tiers. As of October 2026 the program page prints 2 different rates. One passage says "No sliding scales, 24% on all products". The benefits list says affiliates "Earn a huge 18% commission on all products sold". The page gives both without reconciling them, so the rate shown on the Commissionfactory sign-up screen is the one that counts.

The AdultShop pages do not publish a payout threshold, schedule, payout method or cookie length; those sit in the network's terms.

On who may join, the rule is generous. The page says "If you have a website, you can!" and adds that the site does not have to sell anything and may simply be a links site. The restrictions are about content. AdultShop restricts websites that contain or promote violence, discrimination based on sex, race, religion, nationality, disability or sexual orientation, illegal activities, or violation of intellectual property.

Who it suits

The program fits an affiliate with Australian traffic: a toy review blog, a sexual wellness newsletter, a links page. Content creators with an Australian following who already talk about products can use the banners and text links without running a shop of their own. Because delivery, billing and customer service stay with the retailer, the affiliate's work is traffic alone. The known brands, the discreet packaging and the payment options at checkout are selling points an affiliate can repeat honestly, since the store's own pages state them.

It suits less well anyone whose audience is outside Australia, since the store ships only there. Affiliates who want a predictable rate have to settle the 2 percentages on the program page before they plan around either. The short notice period and the exclusions on returns are worth knowing when writing about lingerie or sale items. A page built around the restricted themes above will not be accepted. Finally, this is a single-store retail program: it pays on product sales, and the page describes no per-lead or per-signup payout.