How Affitor Works
See how Affitor runs from affiliate click to attributed revenue and payout operations.
Affitor runs alongside your existing stack. You keep your site, signup flow, and checkout; Affitor adds tracking, attribution, commission operations, 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 creates the click/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:
- the server-side Sale API, or
- Stripe metadata + webhook handling in Bill Flow
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 lead/sale APIs, and Stripe Bill Flow metadata.
60-day default attribution window — public docs currently describe a 60-day default window for affiliate attribution.
Bill Flow model — in the current public model, advertisers keep charging customers in their own Stripe/payment setup; Affitor attributes conversions and handles billing/payout operations through its workflow.