Affiliate Manager Part 4 - How to Manage Affiliate Payouts

In this article, we will review how to manage your affiliate payouts. Check out our other Affiliate Manager articles for additional tips, best practices, and an overview on the feature.

Step 1: Managing Payouts

• Navigate to Marketing > Affiliate Manager > Payouts

• You'll see four sub-tabs that indicate the payout statuses

  • PENDING: all payouts across every affiliate campaign are populated into this status monthly. The Affiliate owner/admin has to come in and approve those eligible for a payout. The admin can ‘Deny Payout’ if the commission is not applicable.

  • APPROVED FOR PAYOUT: when a payout is approved it moves to this tab, and the Affiliate owner/admin can then upload the affiliate name/info to their payment gateway. An affiliate can be moved back to pending from this tab if needed.

  • PAID: Here you’ll see a list of all affiliates that have received a payout, with dated transactions. Payouts cannot be moved from here.

  • DENIED PAYOUTS: This is where you’ll find payouts that have been denied. The affiliate payouts can end up here from either the “Pending” or “Approved for Payout” tabs.

PRO TIPS:

• Payments are completed manually. The Affiliate Manager owner/admin must complete them.

• Affiliate commissions can be recurring or one-time, depending on the Stripe product being sold and how it’s set up.

• Affiliate commission is tracked by sales happening in Stripe. our software doesn’t track refunds for subscriptions or one-time products.

• Subscription cancellations should be effectively monitored - the Affiliate Manager administrator can choose to pay out affiliates 15, 30, or 60 days post-sale, allowing for the commission to be denied for a canceled subscription.

• Commission can be set up to be a flat rate commission