Getting started

Affilibee is designed for teams that want to run affiliate attribution, commissions, and payouts through their own platform. If your team can control the storefront, checkout, or order lifecycle, the recommended path is to connect completed orders to Affilibee through the API rather than treating Affilibee as a plugin-first tool.

Start with the model

Before changing settings or writing integration code, make sure your team understands the full workflow. Affilibee receives attributed orders from your platform, calculates commissions based on your tiers and segments, and moves confirmed commissions into payout periods.

The best starting point for that model is How Affilibee works together with Core concepts.

Configure the commercial rules

Once the model is clear, configure the parts of the program that shape how commissions are calculated and paid. That usually means defining commission tiers, product segments, affiliate approval rules, and payout expectations before you connect live order traffic.

Review these guides before launch:

• Commissions for tiers, rates, and product segments
• Affiliates for invitations, approvals, and affiliate lifecycle
• Payments for payout timing, periods, and PayPal requirements

Implement the integration

When your rules are in place, connect your platform to Affilibee. The recommended implementation flow is to capture the affiliate slug when a customer arrives, persist that attribution on the order, and submit the completed order to Affilibee once it is valid in your system.

The API integration guide covers the implementation flow. The API introduction page explains how the API reference is organized, and Create order contains the endpoint details and payload reference.

Validate the full flow

Before launch, run the full journey end to end. Create or invite a test affiliate, click a real affiliate link, place a test order, and confirm that the right affiliate receives attribution in Affilibee.

A good validation pass checks four things:

1. the affiliate slug is captured correctly
2. the attribution is stored on the order in your platform
3. the completed order is submitted successfully to Affilibee
4. the order appears in Affilibee with the expected commission outcome

Next steps

If you are still orienting yourself, continue with How Affilibee works and Core concepts. If your team is ready to connect the platform, move to API integration.