Affiliates

Affiliates are the people or organizations who send traffic into your program and later receive commission credit and payouts. In Affilibee, the affiliate record is the commercial identity behind the slug used for attribution, the commission tier used for calculations, and the payout details used later in the payment cycle.

How affiliates enter the system

There are three main ways to bring affiliates into your program, depending on whether you are inviting known partners or opening the program to applicants.

• Email invite is useful when you already know which affiliates should join the program. Invitations are tied to the email address you send them to, and invited users are automatically approved when they register.
• Landing pages are useful when you want applicants to discover and apply to the program through a branded registration flow.
• Import is useful when you are onboarding an existing list of partners in bulk.

Those entry points create the affiliate records that later participate in attribution, commission calculation, and payout.

Affiliate lifecycle

Once an affiliate exists in Affilibee, their record becomes part of the broader program lifecycle. They can be active or revoked, they can move between tiers, and they can build up performance history as attributed orders are submitted from your platform.

This is why the affiliate record is more than a contact entry. It connects affiliate traffic to the commercial rules defined in Commissions and to the payout details later used in Payments.

Managing an affiliate record

The affiliate detail view is where you manage the commercial state of an affiliate after they have joined the program.

Two actions matter especially for program operations:

• Revoking an affiliate stops future attribution from producing new commission credit for that affiliate, while preserving any commissions that were already earned.
• Changing the affiliate tier changes which commission rules apply to future attributed orders for that affiliate.

You can also inspect whether the affiliate has connected the payout details needed to receive payment, as well as the identifier used in their tracking links.

What to pay attention to operationally

The most useful questions to ask when reviewing an affiliate record are:

• is this affiliate active and intended to keep receiving credit
• is the affiliate assigned to the right tier
• is the tracking identifier the one you expect to see in attributed traffic
• is the payout setup complete if the affiliate is expected to be paid soon

If an order is attributed correctly but the commission result seems wrong, the affiliate's assigned tier is often one of the first places to inspect.

Where to go next

Continue with Commissions to understand how affiliate tiers affect commission outcomes, or Payments to see how affiliates move from earned commissions into payout.