Run Your First Program on Siren Cloud
The whole Siren Cloud setup in order: start a free trial, connect your store, create and test a program, approve the sale, pay out, and choose a paid plan.
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Last updated: October 28, 2026
This page walks through a first program on Siren Cloud, from starting your free trial to choosing a paid plan. Each step says what to do in a sentence or two and links to the page with the details. Work through them in this order, because each step needs the one before it.
1. Start a free trial
Start a free trial on the Siren website, create your account, and confirm your email, as Create Your Siren Cloud Account describes. Your organization gets 30 days of Siren Pro, with no card. If you bought a plan instead, set up your login from your receipt email, then carry on from step 2.
2. Add a Property and connect your store
A Property is your store inside Siren Cloud. An Admin adds one under Settings > Properties with “Add property”, and enters the store’s address as its “Site URL” so referral links point at your store. Then connect the store to it, through Shopify, Stripe, or a WordPress site.
3. Create a program
Go to Create > Programs, click “Add Program”, and choose “Start from scratch”, or start from a recipe. Pick the currency your store charges in, set how collaborators earn, such as 15% of each sale, and click “Create”, as Create a Program in Siren describes.
4. Bring in collaborators
Add people you know under Manage > Collaborators with “Add Collaborator”, enroll them in the program, then tick them and click “Send Signup Email” so they can reach their portal. Managing Collaborators covers each field. To let people apply instead, publish an application form and share its link.
5. Test a referral
Open a collaborator’s referral link, which they copy from their portal, and place an order through it. The order appears under Track > Conversions, credited to that collaborator. Shopify test orders count as real sales, so reject the test conversion afterwards, as Connect Shopify explains. To see who a program credits before you place an order, send a test sale from your dashboard first.
6. Approve the conversion
Under Track > Conversions, tick the conversion and click “Approve”, which makes its reward payable. A program with “Auto Approve Completed Transactions” checked does this for you. See Approve and Reject Conversions.
7. Pay out
Under Reward > Obligations, set the Status filter to “Approved”, tick the rewards, and click “Create Fulfillments”. Pay each payout yourself and click “Mark Paid”, as How to Pay Collaborators describes. On Plus, Pro, and the trial, Siren Cloud can send payouts through Stripe or PayPal instead, as Set Up Automatic Payouts describes.
8. Choose a paid plan
Before the trial ends, click “View plans” on the trial banner and buy the plan that covers what you set up. Automatic payouts, collaborator groups, and lifetime commissions need Plus or Pro, and cascades need Pro, as What each plan includes lists. Buy with the email you sign in to Siren Cloud with, and your organization moves onto the plan with everything you built. Choose or change a plan has the details.