Proven Affiliate

Objects

Merchant account
├── Team: owner, managers, accountant
├── Plan and billing
├── Sales connections: billing system, store, subscription app, course platform, funnel checkout
├── Products: synced from the sales connections
└── Program  (one or more)
    ├── Brand and portal: logo, colours, portal domain, link domain, language
    ├── Terms
    ├── Sign-up page and application fields
    ├── Marketplace listing
    ├── Campaign  (one or more)
    │   └── Commission rules: rate, product and plan rates, recurring limit, cookie window,
    │       new customers only, lifetime customer link, levels and bonuses, second tier,
    │       customer reward, hold period, scheduled rate
    ├── Affiliate  (its membership in this program)
    │   ├── Links and sub-IDs
    │   ├── Coupon codes
    │   ├── Own rate, tags
    │   └── Postback
    ├── Creatives
    ├── Emails: automatic emails, sequences, broadcasts
    ├── Referral trail
    │   ├── Click
    │   ├── Referral: the referred customer, masked to the affiliate
    │   └── Commission: pending, held, approved, rejected, reversed; adjustments
    ├── Missing-referral claims
    ├── Payout run
    │   └── Payout: method, reference, invoice
    └── Tax records: forms received, year's payouts by payee

Affiliate account  (one per person, across programs)
├── Profile
├── Tax form
├── Payout method
└── Programs joined: each program's links, codes, creatives, trail, balance, next payout

Journeys

Core

• Owner's first referral: the first hour, from Google to the first referral.
• Affiliate's first payout: from sign-up page to paid, line by line.

Merchant

• Recruiting affiliates: sign-up page, invitations, store buyers, marketplace, to affiliates who promote.
• Weekly review: from the email notice, the program kept moving in fifteen minutes.
• Leaked codes and fraud: flagged commissions held or rejected before payout, the reason shown.
• A referred customer's sale through its life: every later change reaching the commission.
• Monthly payout run: everyone above the threshold paid in one run.
• Refund after payout: deducted or absorbed as the terms say, the reversal explained.
• Dispute: settled from one record on the referral trail.
• Tax season: 1099-NECs furnished and filed by 31 January.
• Handing the running over: a manager, agency, or accountant invited, nothing changing for affiliates.
• Paying for the software: a plan only once the program earns.
• Switching in: support imports, no affiliate re-onboarded.
• Leaving: links keep redirecting, everything exported.

Affiliate

• Across programs: one sign-in, every program's balance and next payout.
• Joining another program: the same account; tax form and payout method carry.
• Asking: our support on the helpdesk, or the merchant's named contact.

Support

• Answering: any plan, on the helpdesk widget or address.
• Importing: on the owner's ask, through the import path, shown in history as done by support.