You can edit an Affiliate's profile at any time to update their setup, postbacks, contacts or payment details.
How to open an Affiliate
Go to Performance → Affiliates. Click the Affiliate's name or the Edit affiliate icon (pencil) in the Actions column.
The other icon in that column, View as affiliate, opens the Affiliate Marketplace as this affiliate sees it.
The Affiliate's profile opens on the General tab. The tabs at the top give you access to the rest of the profile:
Tab | What you manage there |
General | Main setup, Postbacks and Macros |
Contacts | The people who log in to the Affiliate Marketplace |
Payment details | How the Affiliate gets paid |
Referral program | Rewards for bringing new affiliates to your network |
Comments | Internal notes about the Affiliate |
Resources | Files for your team |
History log | Every change made to the Affiliate |
💡 Changes on the General tab are only applied when you click Save at the bottom right. Cancel discards them.
General
Main setup
All the fields you set when you created the Affiliate, grouped in sections:
Affiliate information — Name, Status, Affiliate Manager (all required), Tags, Country, Timezone (the timezone in which the Affiliate sees their stats in the Affiliate Marketplace), address and website.
Billing information — billing contact and legal details, Auto-generate proforma, Due date of the month and VAT (both required).
Custom fields — the extra fields from your affiliate signup form.
Affiliate setup — Impression error handling, Revenue share, Restrictions bypass, exclusive traffic domains, Default traffic domain (required) and Offer feed access.
Affiliate fallback — where to send the traffic when the requested offer isn't available or the traffic is blocked.
Firewall options — reject datacenter, non-HTML, iframe or blank-referer traffic.
For a description of each field, see Create an Affiliate – Advanced setup.
Postbacks
The postbacks Aftrad sends to the Affiliate when a conversion happens. Rules are checked top to bottom (Offer postbacks, Global postbacks, then the Default Postback) and the first one that matches fires. See Affiliate Postbacks.
Macros
The parameter names the Affiliate's platform uses for each value (click ID, source, device IDs, custom values…). Aftrad uses them to build the Affiliate's Tracking and Impression URLs. See How to configure Affiliate macros.
Contacts
The people at the Affiliate who log in to the Affiliate Marketplace. Click Create to add one, or click the edit icon of a contact to change it.
Email, First Name and Last Name (required) — who the contact is. The email is also their login.
Phone and Instant Messenger Type (optional) — other ways to reach the contact.
Status (required) — Active for a working contact. Blocked and Deleted have the same effect: the contact is inactive, can't send traffic to Aftrad and can't log in to the Affiliate Marketplace.
Block access — turn it on to stop the contact from logging in to the Affiliate Marketplace. An Active contact with Block access on can still send traffic to Aftrad.
Blocked by failed login attempts — switched on automatically after too many failed logins. Turn it off to unlock the contact.
Notify — sends email notifications to the contact (off by default). The default notifications are set for your whole network, and each contact can choose which ones to receive from their Affiliate Marketplace account.
Welcome email
You don't set a password for the contact. When you save a new contact, Aftrad sends them a welcome email with:
the link to sign in to your Affiliate Marketplace;
their login email;
a link to set their own password and sign in for the first time;
the name and email of their affiliate manager.
The welcome email goes out whenever Block access is off, even if Notify is off. Only the new contact receives it.
Note: Aftrad only sends the access credentials (the welcome email or Notify affiliate credentials) when Block access is off. It's off by default.
Contact actions
Each contact in the list has three actions:
Edit Contact (pencil icon) — open the contact form.
Copy reset password link — copy the link the contact uses to reset their password, and share it with them yourself (for example, in a chat).
Notify affiliate credentials (envelope icon) — send the welcome email again. It goes out at once, with no confirmation step. Use it when the contact didn't receive the email or lost it.
Payment details
The Affiliate's payment methods, used for proformas. Click Create and fill in Payment detail name, Payment method, Currencies (all required) and, if needed, Affiliate notes. The star marks the primary payment method.
The options in Payment method are the methods your network has set up in Control → Performance Hub → Payment method.
Referral program
Reward affiliates for bringing new affiliates to your network. When it's on, the referring Affiliate earns a share of the referred affiliate's profit for a set period.
Referral ID — share it with potential affiliates so their signups are linked to this Affiliate.
Include affiliates in referrals program — turns the program on for this Affiliate.
Shared profit percentage — the percentage of the profit from referred affiliates that this Affiliate earns.
Referral profit period — the number of days, from the referred affiliate's signup, during which this Affiliate earns that share.
The Friends sub-tab lists the affiliates referred by this Affiliate: when they joined, until when their profit is shared, the referral link they used, the % and the profit earned. Profit by friends shows the total.
Comments, Resources and History log
Comments — internal notes about the Affiliate. Use Pin comment to keep the important ones at the top.
Resources — upload files (images, documents, zip files) related to the Affiliate. Only your team sees them, not the Affiliate.
History log — every change made to the Affiliate: action (create or update), date, number of fields changed, author and the author's IP address.
