Whether you already run an Amazon Influencer Program storefront or you are sitting on the edge wondering if you should try, this is the toolkit I actually use.
I built mine the hard way: swapping out tools every few months, paying for things I never used, finally landing on the stack below. It is organized by where you are in the workflow, not by tool category. So if you are just curious about AIP, start at the top. If you already have a storefront and you are looking for the missing piece, jump to the section that fits.
Some links are affiliate links. I only list things I use. If I dropped a tool, it is not on this page.
Start where you are.
A note on links: some of the tools below use my affiliate or referral links, which means I may earn a commission if you sign up through them. It costs you nothing extra. I only list tools I use myself, and the affiliate piece never decides whether a tool makes this page. Everything I built (the last section) is mine.
Start Here
If you have never opened the Amazon Influencer app, or you are still in the “should I do this” phase, this is the section for you.
CC Academy
The entry point if you are curious about AIP but have not started yet. It is a beginner-friendly course that walks you through the whole Amazon Influencer setup, getting your storefront live, and shooting your first videos. The whole point is making the program feel less intimidating from the outside.
When to add it: before you do anything else, if the AIP setup feels overwhelming. If you already have a working storefront, you can skip this one.
BigScoots
Where this blog lives. Managed WordPress hosting that is genuinely fast, and the support team responds in minutes instead of days. I moved Jen Tried It here after burning out on a cheaper host that needed daily babysitting.
When to add it: once you decide to run a creator blog alongside your Amazon storefront. Not your first move, but a good one when you are ready to own a place that is not on someone else’s platform.
Find Brand Deals
Past a certain point, free product samples from Creator Connections are not enough. These are the platforms I use to find paid brand collaborations, sample opportunities, and bumped-commission deals.
Levanta
Where I find brand collabs. Mostly free samples and bumped-commission opportunities on products I am already a fit for. The chat-with-brands flow is easier than the Amazon side: you talk to a real person on the brand team instead of mailing into a void.
Worth checking weekly. New campaigns post in real time.
Logie
Auto-matches you with products that fit your profile and emails you when a sample opportunity opens. Less work on your end than Levanta because you do not have to go hunting. The pool is smaller, so I run both in parallel and let the offers come to me.
Good as a passive layer that pings you when something good lands.
OINK for Influencers
This one keeps getting more useful. The original pitch was a browser extension that auto-matches you to Creator Connections opportunities. Now it also matches you to Sponsored Products for Creators opportunities, runs storefront health checks, surfaces stolen videos so you can report them, searches for free sample opportunities, and stores your brand-outreach email templates.
The creator ships new features constantly and the community is genuinely helpful. Use promo code JENNIFER for 10% off when you sign up.
→ Try OINK (code JENNIFER for 10% off)
Organize Your Operation
The more brand deals and product reviews you stack, the more you need a place to track everything. I was all about Google Sheets until I met Airtable.
Airtable
The database under my entire operation. Brand inquiries, product database, video queue, social posts, coupon codes, the works. Everything flows through Airtable for me.
I started with one base for AIP videos, then added Brand Inquiries, then Coupons, then Social Posts. The growth was organic. You do not need to set up everything at once. Start with one base for your product reviews and add more as you feel the pain in your current process.
→ Start a free Airtable account
Make Better Content
Your video already does the heavy lifting on Amazon. But thumbnails, social graphics, and the occasional brand pitch deck still need to exist.
Canva
Thumbnails, social graphics, anything visual I need quickly. The free tier covers most of what AIP creators need. I use it for product showcase thumbnails, Instagram squares, and the occasional pitch slide.
(Not an affiliate link. Just what I use.)
Manage Your Links and Money
Every link is a chance to earn or to lose. Every dollar needs a real place to land. Three tools that handle different parts of that.
Geniuslink
Deep linking and smart affiliate links that route by country and platform. Deep linking is the keyword AIP creators search for here: it sends visitors straight to the product page on Amazon instead of a generic Amazon login page, which converts much better.
Useful if your audience is global, you cross-post between Amazon, Walmart, and Target, or you want one link that always points to the cheapest version of a product.
Benable
A curated affiliate storefront where you earn commission on purchases from forty thousand-plus brands. Think of it as your “things I love” page that is not locked into Amazon.
Bonus for AIP creators: Benable also plugs into Amazon’s new Sponsored Products for Creators program, which pays per click (not just per purchase). Two ways the same setup makes you money.
Mercury Bank
Business banking for when you are ready to go LLC. Skip the regular bank line, the whole application is online, and the review is fast.
We both get $250 if you sign up and deposit $10K within 90 days. Use it for AIP payments, brand collaboration payouts, and the tax accounts your accountant will eventually ask about.
Make More From What You Already Reviewed
After I review a product on my Amazon storefront, the unit still sits on my shelf. Some of it I keep. A lot of it I do not need long term. Recovering value from those products turns “free” samples into a second revenue stream.
Whatnot
Whatnot is one of the places I list those products for resale. The live-selling format works well for hauls and demo-style videos, which is already how AIP creators talk about products on camera. If you can review a product on Amazon, you can sell it live on Whatnot.
Recovers cost on “free” products you got from brands but do not need long term. Also fun for AIP creators who already enjoy being on camera.
Scale Without Burning Out
Doing all of this manually is the fastest path to dropping AIP entirely. These tools handle the boring half so the creative half is still fun.
Blotato
Cross-platform social automation. I write a post once and Blotato distributes it to Facebook, Instagram, X, and Pinterest at the right time for each. Cuts the “post the same thing five times” tax that nobody warns you about.
AppSumo
Lifetime deals on software. Where I check before paying monthly for anything new. Hit-or-miss, but when it hits, you get a tool you would have paid for forever, for one purchase.
Hostinger
Where I run my n8n automation server (a VPS). Overkill for most AIP creators. Worth it if you want to host your own tools.
Optional rabbit hole, my n8n stack. I run a pile of n8n workflows on the Hostinger VPS above. They organize brand partnerships, draft post-video outreach, schedule social posts, and automate the boring half of running an AIP storefront. Total overkill for most people. I love systems and enjoy building them, so I keep going. If you want to nerd out on what I actually run, I document the workflows on Jen8n.
AI Automation Society Plus
A Skool community for n8n and Claude users. Good for staying current on AI tooling without getting buried in Twitter threads. Optional, but a good fit if you went down the Hostinger rabbit hole above.
→ Join AI Automation Society Plus
Tools I Built for Side-Hustlers
Two free apps I built, both aimed at side hustlers (AIP creators count).
Side Hustle Garden
A gamified income-versus-bills tracker. Shows how close your side income (AIP payouts, brand deals, Whatnot sales) is to covering each individual bill. Watching one bill at a time get “paid for” by side income is more motivating than chasing a single huge total.
Free, no signup. Built for the side-hustle brain.
Dopamine Dealer Habits
A habit tracker I built. Free. Designed around the dopamine loop for ADHD-coded brains like mine. AIP work involves a lot of repeating tasks (record, edit, upload, post) and the apps that exist for habit tracking are built for people who do not need dopamine to function. This one is for the rest of us.
That’s It
That is mostly my whole stack.
If you want to see another piece of this in action, check out my deals page. It is auto-updated by another n8n workflow that pulls live coupon codes from the brands I work with, then expires them when they end. It also adds and removes those same coupons to the YouTube video. Same overkill spirit as the rest of my setup.
What do you use to help your AIP workflow? Let me know if you want to see any of mine in action.