Overall
Overview · Attribution · Analysis
Spend, revenue, ROAS and contribution margin across channels and markets.
Influencer marketing for Shopify brands
Your best creator drove €40,000 in revenue. Did you make money on it?
arca puts the fee, the ad spend, the revenue and the returns of a collaboration side by side, then works out what is actually left.
No account, no trial. A conversation.
arca plugs into what you already use
- ShopifyOrders, discount codes, every buyer's path
- Meta AdsWhat you put behind a video
- Google AdsSame spend, different platform
- InstagramCreator reach and account data
- TikTokSame bookings, another channel
- YouTubeFormats from Shorts to integrations
The difference
Others count estimated reach. arca counts money.
A person downloads the video and uploads it into the ads manager themselves. The money never touches the tool. It never sees the spend. What is left is an estimated “Earned Media Value”.
arca pulls spend from Meta and Google Ads, revenue from Shopify, and computes ROAS and contribution margin from both. Not an estimate. These are the numbers your accountant sees.
@username
- Spend
- €4,100
- fee €1,200 + ads €2,900
- Revenue
- €8,400
- after returns
- ROAS
- 2.05
- revenue per euro spent
- CM3
- −€1,100
- 8,400 − 5,400 goods and shipping − 4,100 spend
How arca counts: This creator costs you €1,100 a month.
Othersarca
Creator feein a spreadsheeton the booking
Ad spend behind itnever sees itfrom Meta and Google
Revenueestimatedfrom your store
Returnsnever sees themtracked for thirty days
What is left“Earned Media Value”ROAS and margin
A creator who drives revenue and still burns money looks excellent in every other tool.
How it works
From store to number in three steps
1Connect your store
One button; you approve the permissions in Shopify. arca fills in brand name, address and markets itself.
2Book a creator
Create the collaboration: market, campaign, date, fee. Code and click link appear by themselves; the brief goes out as a page.
3See the numbers
Orders come in, returns are deducted, the commission works itself out — and the payout is ready.
01Collaborations
Every booking from yes to proof
Campaign, market, stage, posting date, fee — in the market's currency, with the total underneath. The posting plan shows the week by day: what is due, what is approved, what actually went live.
- Prices in euros, pounds or kronor, converted at the day's rate
- A rate per market, not one average across all of them
- What did not happen is as visible as what did
02Briefs
A brief in minutes, as a page for the creator
Product, message, do's and don'ts, dates — created once, delivered per creator. They open a link instead of a PDF attachment, and you see whether they read it.
- Templates per campaign, wording adjusted per creator
- Content approval in the same record
- Changes arrive without anyone sending a new file
03Affiliate
Codes, click links, commission — no second tool
Every partner gets their code and their link under your domain. arca works out revenue, returns and commission from your store's orders, not from a spreadsheet.
- Commission rules per partner, per market, per period
- Return window: what can still come back has not been earned yet
- Replaces Uppromote & co. — the only connection is your store
04Money
Payouts and credit notes in one place
Net per partner, due or still in the window, bank details present or not. Paying out creates the credit note as the document — not afterwards in another programme.
- Missing bank details hold a payout back instead of sending it nowhere
- Fixed fees and commissions in one list
- Documents as PDF, numbered, in the partner's currency
05For creators
A portal where the creator sees their own balance
Bookings, code, link, sales, balance — behind email and password. Access is created with the first booking. New creators apply through a page of your own.
- Bank details and address are entered by the creator
- Credit notes to download, invoices to upload
- Carries your brand name, not ours
06Finding creators
Your roster, sorted by where it stands
Every creator with their markets, the live enquiry, the last contact and who owns it. Grouped by where they actually are — not alphabetically.
- Multi-step outreach that stops the moment someone replies
- Reach and account data sit on the person, not in an attachment
- Permissions per market: someone who only runs UK sees only UK
Scope
What's inside
Creators
Leads · Insights
Your roster, with numbers instead of gut feeling.
Collaborations
Bookings · Posting plan · Campaigns · Briefs
Every booking from yes to proof.
Affiliate
Codes · Partners · Payouts
A full affiliate programme. Portal, commission, payout.
Paid
Channels · Ads · Creatives
What you put behind which video, and what came back.
Store
Orders
Straight from Shopify, with each buyer's path.
Admin
People · Settings
Permissions per market, per area and per page.
Your data
What arca may do — and what it may not
When you connect, Shopify shows you every single permission before you agree. Here is the same list up front, so there is no surprise.
Reads
- Orders, including past ones
- New customer or returning customer
- Products and sizes
- Discount codes
- The path a buyer took to the order
Writes
- Create discount codes, one of their own per creator
- Create draft orders, for product shipping
- Edit and cancel orders
- Mark a shipment as sent
Never
- No payment details of your customers
- No access to your Shopify password
- Nothing is passed on to third parties
- Undo is one click in Shopify
Who it fits
Who it fits — and who it doesn't
A fit
- brands on Shopify
- several markets and currencies
- an in-house team working with creators directly
- ad spend behind creator content
- an affiliate programme, or the wish for one
Not a fit
- if you only want to buy a creator list
- if you don't sell on Shopify
- if you're looking for an agency to do the booking
- if you run no ad budget, because then half the maths is missing
Pricing
€649 to €2,490 per month
We look at your case before a number goes on it. Three things decide where in the range you land:
- Markets
- One market or nine. That changes the scope.
- People
- How many of your team work in it.
- Channels
- Influencer only, or affiliate and paid as well.
Always included
- Every feature of your scope, no surcharge
- Unlimited creators and collaborations
- Setup together, not by manual
- No commission on your revenue
I run influencer marketing for a D2C fashion brand across nine markets. Every week the same question: was this creator worth it? No tool could answer it, because none of them knew the ad spend. That is why arca exists.
FAQ
What we get asked most
Do I need a developer?
No. You connect your store with one click and approve the permissions in Shopify. There are no credentials to copy and no app anyone has to build.
Where does a creator's revenue come from?
From your store. arca sees the discount code, the click link and the path a buyer took to the order. Shopify keeps that chain for every order anyway.
What about returns?
They count. A creator's revenue is net of refunds, and a commission only becomes payable after the return window. What can still come back has not been earned yet.
Does arca replace my affiliate tool?
Yes. Partners, codes, commission rules, payouts, credit notes and a portal of their own for the creator are all in. The only connection outwards is your store.
And if I have several markets?
Then arca works in several currencies. Prices sit in the market's currency and convert at the day's rate. Permissions can be granted per market. Someone who only runs UK sees only UK.
Can I bring my existing data?
Creators, collaborations and affiliates can be imported. What that looks like in your case is what the conversation is for.
Where is my data held?
On servers in Germany. arca passes nothing to third parties, and you can end the connection in Shopify with one click at any time.
Is there a free trial?
No, deliberately. arca only shows its worth once your store is connected and real numbers are in it. So we set it up together instead of handing you an empty account.
See it on your own numbers
We connect your store, and you see your last collaborations worked out. No account, no trial. Just a conversation.