Payouts

A payout is one partner's earnings for one period, turned into a single amount you approve and pay. This tab is where you generate them, adjust them, and keep the record of why an amount changed.

Each row carries two amounts and they are deliberately different things:

• Calculated — what the approved conversions in that period add up to.
• Approved — what you actually agreed to pay.

They match until you change one. When they don't, the reason is recorded on the payout.

Generating payouts

Payouts are not created continuously — you generate them for a period when you're ready to settle.

Two constraints worth knowing before you start:

• A period must sit inside a single calendar month. A range spanning a month boundary is refused. Settle month by month.
• Generation runs in the background. For a network with many partners it won't be instant; the payouts appear as it works.

Leaving the partner list empty generates for every partner. Naming partners is useful when you're re-settling a period for one of them.

Only Approved conversions are counted. Anything still pending at generation time is simply not in that payout — approve it and it lands in the next one.

Statuses

Approving, and adjusting the amount

Opening a payout shows what it was calculated from and lets you set the amount you'll actually pay.

If you approve a different amount from the calculated one, you must say why — and that reason is shown to the partner. This is the opposite of the reason you give when rejecting a join request, which stays private to you. Write it for them to read: "adjusted for two duplicate conversions" settles a question before it's asked.

Once approved, a payout is locked. If something was wrong, handle it as an adjustment on the next period rather than editing history.

Common questions

"A partner's payout is lower than their conversions suggest." Only approved conversions count. Check the Conversions tab for that partner and that period — anything still Pending or Excluded is not in the payout.

"I generated for a quarter and got an error." Periods can't cross a calendar month. Generate three times, one per month.

"Can I edit an approved payout?" No. Approved is final by design, so the record of what you agreed to pay can't move after the fact.

When to escalate to engineering

• Generation finishes but a partner with approved conversions gets no payout row.
• The calculated amount disagrees with the approved conversions for that period.
• A payout stays in generation for an unreasonable time.