Turn on Affiliate commission for an Offer to credit purchases to the affiliate who referred them. You can set commission on one Offer at a time from the Offer’s settings, or on several at once from the Commission setup page. Once it’s on, you can track commission in the Affiliate Dashboard.

Activate Affiliate commission in an Offer

From the Dashboard, click Sales, then Pricing.
Select the Offer you want to edit.
Click the Settings tab.
Turn on the Activate affiliate commission for this offer toggle.
Select Percentage or Fixed amount and enter the commission.
For a Subscription or Payment Plan Offer, check Collect commission only on the first subscription payment or Collect commission only on the first payment plan payment if you wish.
Under Choose a payout method, select Manual or Automatic.
Click Save. A confirmation message appears, and affiliates now earn commission on purchases of this Offer.

Note: Affiliate commission isn’t available on free Offers. On Pay What You Want Offers it gets turned off, and Fixed amount commission isn’t available on Offers with pricing options.

Activate Affiliate commission from the Commission setup page

From the Dashboard, click Sales, then Affiliates.
Click the Commission setup tab.
Select the Offers you want to update.
Click Apply commission.
Select Percentage or Fixed amount and enter the commission. Fixed amount is only available when you select one Offer.
Under Choose a payout method, select Manual or Automatic.
Check Collect commission only on the first payment if you wish. One-time Offers in the selection are skipped when this is checked.
Click Done. A “Commission setup updated” message appears, and the new commission shows on each selected Offer.

Affiliate payout methods

The payout method decides how affiliates get paid for an Offer. You must choose one before you can save.

Manual: you pay affiliates yourself, on the manual payout schedule you set.
Automatic: affiliates are paid automatically, on the automatic payout schedule you set.

If an option is grayed out, hover over it to see what it needs. To set up payout schedules, click Affiliate payout settings below the Choose a payout method field.

Referral Conversion Window

The referral conversion window is how long a customer has to buy after clicking an Affiliate Share Link for the affiliate to get credit. You can choose 30 days (the default), 60 days, or 90 days.

Note: The conversion window only applies to Share Links. If a customer uses an Affiliate Coupon code, the affiliate who owns the code always gets credit.

Select a Referral Conversion Window

From the Dashboard, click Sales, then Affiliates.
Click the Settings tab.
In the Referral conversion window section, use the Select a conversion window dropdown to choose 30, 60, or 90 days.
Click Save. New Share Link clicks use the new window.

The referral conversion window uses cookies to connect a purchase to the affiliate link that was clicked. Many laws require you to tell site visitors about cookies and get their consent. Talk to legal counsel about which banners or disclaimers apply to your business.

Add a cookie disclaimer to a site.

Custom commission percentage for individual affiliates

You can give a specific affiliate a different commission percentage than the one set on the Offer. Affiliate commission must be turned on for an Offer for the custom percentage to apply.

From the Dashboard, click Sales, then Affiliates.
Click the My affiliates tab.
Select or search for the affiliate you want to edit.
In the Affiliate Percentages section, turn on the Enable Commission Override toggle.
Enter the commission in the Commission % field.
Click Save. A “Successfully updated affiliate user” message appears, and this affiliate now earns the custom percentage.

Note: A custom percentage replaces the Offer-level commission for this affiliate on every Offer with Affiliate commission turned on, including Fixed amount Offers. Turn off the toggle to go back to each Offer’s own commission.

Commission on Subscription and Payment Plan Offers

When a customer buys within the conversion window, or uses an affiliate’s Coupon code, that purchase and every later Subscription or Payment Plan payment are credited to the referring affiliate. By default, the affiliate earns commission on every recurring payment for the life of the Subscription.

If you check the first-payment-only option, the affiliate earns a single commission on the customer’s first paid charge. If the Offer has a free trial, that’s the first charge after the trial ends.

FAQs

Can a Fixed amount commission be higher than the Offer price?

Yes, but only on Subscription Offers with Collect commission only on the first subscription payment checked. On every other Offer type, including Payment Plans, a Fixed amount commission can’t be higher than the Offer price. A higher one-time commission paired with first-payment-only works well as an extra incentive for affiliates.

What happens if I change the first-payment-only setting after a Subscription has started?

If you turn it off, the affiliate earns commission on all future payments for that Subscription. If you turn it on, the affiliate stops earning on future payments once the customer’s first paid charge has gone through.

Why can’t I select Fixed amount on the Commission setup page?

Fixed amount is only available when one Offer is selected. It also isn’t available on Pay What You Want Offers or Offers with pricing options.

Why is a payout method grayed out?

Each payout method needs its payout schedule set up on the Affiliates page first.