Index

Affiliate's first payout

Affiliate, on phone; owner or affiliate manager, on desktop.

1. Merchant's sign-up page, in the merchant's language

   Terms

   Join with Google · or email

   1. Invited, or from a link on the merchant's site, the affiliate opens the sign-up page and joins with Google or email; an existing affiliate uses the same account.

2. Email: new application

   Applicants: name · answers · Approve · Decline

   2. The owner or affiliate manager, prompted by email, approves it the same day; a program may approve everyone.

3. Your link · your code

   Creatives

   Payout terms: hold · threshold · payout date

   3. The affiliate receives its link, its code, the creatives, and the payout terms.

4. Clicks · referrals · commissions

   Referral: customer masked · commission pending

   4. It promotes and sees clicks, referrals, and commissions as they arrive, each referred customer masked.

5. Tax form: W-9 · W-8BEN · W-8BEN-E

   Payout method: PayPal · Wise

   What prompts the affiliate to give them, and when: unsettled

   5. Before its first payment it gives its tax form and payout method, once, held for every program it joins.

6. Balance held by: hold · threshold

   Commission voided: refunded inside the hold

   6. Commissions pass the hold; a refund inside it voids one, explained beside it. Each held balance names what holds it.

7. Payout run: everyone above the threshold · tax form and method in

   Approve

   7. On the payout date, the merchant's payout run pays it, above the threshold.

8. Email: you've been paid ⚠

   Payout: method · reference · invoice

   Lines: each commission and adjustment in it

   8. The affiliate is paid for every sale it brought and sees why, line by line.