Getting started for businesses

From sign-up to the first conversion reported from your site - six steps.

Step 1 - Sign up and create an organization

Sign up at affilink.co.il/signup (email and password, or a Google account).
On the "How would you like to use affilink?" screen, choose "I'm a business" and enter your business name.
An organization is created, and you are its Account Owner - full control, including billing and deletion.

Have a promo code? Enter it in the dashboard ("I have a promo code") - the benefit takes effect immediately for the period stated in the promotion.

Step 2 - Create your first offer

An offer is a product or service you want affiliates to promote. For each offer you define:

Title and product link - where the visitor lands after the click.
Commission - a percentage of the sale or a fixed amount. This is what the affiliate receives, in full - platform fees are on you, on top of the commission, and never reduce it.
Attribution window - how many days after the click a sale is still credited to the affiliate (default: 30).
Visibility - private (invitation only) or public in the affilink marketplace (exposure to all affiliates in the network, for a 3% exposure fee - on you, not on the affiliate).
Affiliate approval - whether every affiliate needs your approval before promoting, or joining is open.

A new offer is created as a draft. You move it to "pending review" and approve it - from that point affiliates can apply.

Step 3 - Connect your site to conversion tracking

This is the only technical step, and it's critical: without it, clicks are counted but sales are not. When the offer is created, a webhook_secret is generated for it - a secret key used to sign the reports from your server.

Give your developer the offer_id and the webhook_secret (over a secure channel - not in plain email).
The developer follows the integration guide (in English, about 30 lines of code, including a ready WooCommerce example).
Verify with a test order that the report comes back with a conversion_id.

Step 4 - Invite your team (optional)

From the dashboard you invite team members by email, with a role:

Role	What they can do
admin	Everything except billing and deleting the organization
affiliate_manager	Managing affiliates, approving applications and offers, special rates
finance	View-only access to financial reports
analyst	View-only access to dashboards

The invitee signs up with the same email they were invited to and accepts the invitation - the invite is valid for 7 days.

Step 5 - Approve affiliates

When an affiliate applies to your offer, it appears in the "pending affiliate applications" queue in the dashboard. Take a look at the profile - site, promotion channels, audience description - and approve or reject. An approved affiliate can immediately generate a tracking link and start promoting.

Step 6 - Ongoing monitoring

Clicks - every click is recorded with the affiliate's traffic source.
Conversions - every sale is reported, with the calculated commission and the platform fee.
Refunds - when your site reports a refund, the conversion is reversed and the commission is automatically deducted from the affiliate's next payout.

How do you pay affiliates?

affilink calculates and reports who is owed how much - but the payment itself goes from you directly to the affiliates, through a channel you already work with (bank transfer, etc.). An Israeli affiliate issues you an invoice. The system produces the entitlement report; you mark it "paid".