An Affiliate in Aftrad represents a traffic partner who sends clicks to your Offers. This guide covers the minimum configuration to get an Affiliate created and ready to go.
Go to Performance → Affiliates in the left menu and click Create in the top right corner.
Basic setup
The creation form opens on General → Main setup. Fill in the mandatory fields, marked with an asterisk, and click Save.
Name (mandatory) — the Affiliate's name as it will appear throughout the platform.
Status (mandatory) — controls whether the Affiliate can send traffic to your Offers:
Active — the Affiliate is operational and can send traffic. Use this for live, approved Affiliates.
Pending — the Affiliate is being onboarded or reviewed. No traffic will be accepted.
Paused — temporarily stops accepting traffic without deleting the account.
Blocked — the Affiliate is blocked from sending traffic. Use this for compliance or quality issues.
Rejected — the Affiliate's application was not approved.
Deleted — marks the Affiliate as deleted. The record is kept for reporting.
Affiliate Manager (mandatory) — the account manager responsible for this Affiliate, used for internal assignment and reporting.
💡 Tip: set the status to Pending during onboarding and switch to Active once the integration is tested and ready.
These mandatory fields come pre-filled with default values, so you usually don't need to change them when creating the Affiliate:
Due date of the month (Billing information) — the day of the month when this Affiliate gets paid. It's added to their proformas as the default due date.
VAT (Billing information) — the VAT percentage applied to their proformas.
Impression error handling (Affiliate setup) — what Aftrad returns when an impression fails: an HTTP response code or a redirect to an Impression Traffic Back URL.
Default traffic domain (Affiliate setup) — the domain used by default to build this Affiliate's Tracking URLs.
Some optional fields worth filling in from the start:
Tags — labels to group and filter Affiliates.
Country — where the Affiliate is based.
Timezone — the timezone used to show their stats in the Affiliate Marketplace.
Click Save. The Affiliate is created and its profile opens, with the tabs General (subtabs Main setup, Postbacks and Macros), Contacts, Payment details, Referral program, Comments, Resources and History log.
What's next?
Once the Affiliate is created, you'll typically want to:
Configure their postback — so Aftrad can notify them when a conversion is confirmed. Go to General → Postbacks in the Affiliate's profile. See Affiliate – Postbacks.
Set up their macros — so Tracking URLs generated for this Affiliate automatically include their platform's parameters. Go to General → Macros. See How to configure Affiliate macros.
Assign Offers — give the Affiliate access to the Offers they will promote. See Offer – Affiliates configuration.
For a full reference of all configuration options, see Create an Affiliate – Advanced setup.