I am setting up a website that pays affiliates 2 levels deep commissions for helping us sell ebooks.

The commissions to the first person is $18.75
and the other commission is $5.00

I want to pay in bitcoin.

So $18.75 USD worth of BTC
and $5.00 USD worth of BTC

I am completely NEW to cryptocurrency.

My programmer already has the code to do this.
But I heard that to send any amount of bitcoin costs: 0.0004 BTC
In today's value that is $7.72 which is more than the $5.00 commission
and almost half of the first commission.

Is there a way to do it cheaper?

I can pass any fee's to the affiliate, but that much, is insane.

Anyhow know of a way to not have to pay that high of a fee on smaller commissions?

Thanks,
-Rich