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Partner guide

Apply to brands, promote their offers, track every traffic source, and get paid per sale, lead, application or booking.

1. Create your account

  1. 1
    Go to Sign in → Create account and choose I'm a Partner.
  2. 2
    Enter your company name, email and a password, or use Continue with Google.
  3. 3
    Confirm your email. Your affiliate ID is under Settings.

2. Apply to brands

Open Marketplace to browse brand programs, their commissions (flat per sale, percent of sale, per lead, or per product) and cookie window.

  1. 1
    Open a brand and read its terms & conditions.
  2. 2
    Enter your website, traffic channels and a short pitch, accept the terms and submit.
  3. 3
    The brand reviews your application. Some brands approve automatically. You'll see the status under Marketplace → My brands.

Links only track for brands that approved you. If a brand pauses your partnership, clicks stop being recorded until they resume it.

Pick an offer

Once approved, the brand's offers appear under My Offers and on the brand's page, alongside any custom rate the brand gave you and announcements like coupon codes.

3. Build your tracking link

Add up to five SubIDs so you can see later which source drove each result. Use a consistent naming scheme:

  • sub1: traffic source (facebook, google, newsletter)
  • sub2: campaign (spring_sale)
  • sub3: ad or creative (video_a)
  • sub4: placement or country
  • sub5: anything else, like an ad-network click ID
Example link
https://affn.io/api/public/track?offer_id=OFFER_ID&aff_id=YOUR_ID&sub1=facebook&sub2=spring_sale&sub3=video_a

Most ad platforms can fill SubIDs automatically with their own macros, e.g. sub5={{ad.id}} on Meta.

4. Read your results

Dashboard shows today's clicks, conversions, conversion rate (CR) and earnings per click (EPC). SubID Reports groups results by any SubID, or two at once, and lets you filter, so you can scale what works and cut what doesn't.

FAQ

My click isn't showing. Clicks only count when the link is opened from the live site, not the editor preview. Check that the offer is still live, and wait up to 15 seconds for the dashboard to refresh.

What does "pending" mean? The brand is reviewing the result. Pending results don't count toward earnings until they're approved.

Who pays me? Each brand pays its partners directly. The brand page shows pending, approved-but-unpaid and paid amounts.

Can I change a link after sharing it? Yes. SubIDs are just labels, so make as many link variations as you like.

Test your setup
  • Generate a link with sub1 set to 'test'
  • Open it in a private browser window and check you land on the brand's page
  • Within 15 seconds, the click appears under SubID Reports → sub1 = test