How Affitor Works
See how Affitor runs from affiliate click to attributed revenue and payout operations.
Affitor layers on top of your existing stack — your site, signup flow, and checkout stay unchanged. It adds tracking, attribution, commission calculation, and partner payout workflow.
The affiliate lifecycle
1. Advertiser creates a program
You define commission rules, partner approval criteria, and payout/hold settings.
2. Partner joins and gets a referral link
Approved partners receive links that identify their traffic.
3. Partner promotes your product
Partners share links through content, social, communities, newsletters, or direct outreach.
4. Customer clicks and is tracked
Affitor records the visit and stores the click-to-customer relationship needed for attribution.
5. Customer signs up and pays
You send signup attribution with your internal customer ID, then record revenue either through:
- Server-side tracking — your backend calls POST /api/v1/track/sale, or
- Stripe integration — Stripe metadata + webhook handling
6. Commission is created
Affitor calculates commission from the program's applicable rules and moves it into the commission workflow.
7. Payout operations continue in Affitor
Validated commissions move through review, hold, and payout operations for partners.
Key points
Flexible integration paths — Affitor supports browser-side signup tracking, server-side tracking vs Stripe integration, and server-side lead APIs.
60-day default attribution window — Affitor documents a 60-day default window for affiliate attribution.
Invoice billing model — Advertisers charge customers through their own Stripe or payment setup. Affitor attributes conversions and manages billing and payout operations through its workflow.