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Sub-affiliate networks

A sub-affiliate network lets you recruit other affiliates to work under you. They get their own tracking and their own login; the traffic they drive is attributed to them and rolls up into your numbers. You earn on volume you did not have to run yourself — and you decide what you pay for it.

How the whole thing fits together

Four things have to exist before money moves, and each is a deliberate act by someone. Nothing in this feature happens on its own.

  1. A partner joins. You share your network's invite link, they request to join, you approve. Approving is what creates them — until then a request is only a request.
  2. An offer defines what you'll pay for. An offer names the brand, the countries, the rates and the window. It is the contract: everything later either matches it or doesn't.
  3. The partner sends traffic using links generated under your network, and their clicks and conversions are attributed to them.
  4. You review the conversions. Each one is approved, rejected, or was excluded automatically because the offer's terms didn't cover it.
  5. You generate a payout for a period, which totals that partner's approved conversions into one amount you approve and settle.

The step most people misread is 1 → 2. A pending partner deliberately has nothing attached: no tracking, no account, no figures. That's why a pending row looks so empty, and why approving is more than a formality.

The step that causes the most support questions is 3 → 4. A conversion arriving is not the same as a conversion being payable — see Conversions.

The tabs

Tab Use it to
Partners Approve and reject join requests, and see what each partner is producing.
Public Offers Publish offers any partner in the network can pick up.
Assigned Offers See which offers are attached to which partner.
Pending Offers Action partners' requests for access to a specific offer.
Conversions Review, approve and adjust what your partners generated.
Payouts Turn approved conversions into amounts you owe, and settle them.

Two rules worth knowing up front

Approval is where things become real. Approving a partner provisions their tracking. Approving a conversion commits it to a payout. Approving a payout locks the amount. In each case the step before it is reversible and the step after it is not.

Your plan caps active partners, and the cap is applied when you approve. Not when a request arrives. That's deliberate: you keep seeing everyone who's waiting even when you're at capacity, so you can choose who's worth the slot.

Where to go next

  • Partners — recruiting, approving, and reading the partner list.
  • Conversions — why a conversion is or isn't payable, and how to fix it.
  • Payouts — generating, adjusting and settling what you owe.