How to set affiliate level commissions for affiliates
Here’s how to set commissions for affiliates within your program. There are specific hierarchy’s for commissions, so we recommend you read how they interact with each other.
- Program level – Program level is a blanket commission across your entire program. This is what all affiliates who get accepted into your program will automatically be assigned.
- Affiliate level – Affiliate level means you can offer commission to specific affiliates
- SKU level – SKU level means you can assign a commission % against a specific SKU. For example, a pair of shoes could be assigned 10% whilst a hat could be assigned 12%
- Referrer level – referrer levels allows you to assign commission to a specific referrer within a sub-network affiliate account
- Flat rate commission / CPA – CPA means you can offer a flat monetary value for each conversion. This is designed for eBooks and insurance companies
Program level commissions
Program level commission applies to all affiliates who are accepted into your program, unless you have set either Affiliate Level or SKU level commission.
- Go to Settings
- Scroll down to Set default commissions
- Enter the commission you’d like to offer
- Scroll up and press the yellow Save button
Affiliate level commissions
Setting Affiliate level commission is almost as simple as setting Program level commission. The specific affiliate must be accepted into your program for you to set Affiliate level commission.
- Go to My Affiliates
- Find the affiliate you like by searching for their name in the Search Affiliate box
- Click the % Set commission button (yellow). This will take you to their profile
- Under Agreement, you’ll find their commission agreement. Enter the desired commission into the Commission % box and press Update
SKU level commissions
Setting SKU level commission is once again, incredibly simple. We recommend only doing this if you have a sale on or would like to alter commission for specific products and/or affiliates.
- Go to Settings
- Scroll down to Commission Table and click Download Template
- Open the downloaded template and follow the instructions on the sheet
- Once you’re happy, just download the template again and re-upload the sheet back into the upload box
- The system will notify you of any errors, or if everything is properly formatted, it will notify you that it has accepted your upload
Referrer level commissions
This type of commission is most common for applying commission rates to specific publishers in sub-networks. For example, if you want to set a 15% commission rate for The Guardian through Skimlinks, then you would do this by setting a referrer level commission.
For referrer level commission to be applied, the referrer value must be entered in the click_referrer commission table column. If multiple commission values are found (i.e. multiple clicks were attributed) then their average commission value is used.
Example click_referrer values:
- theguardian.com
- https://theguardian.com
- https://theguardian.com/
- https://theguardian.com/thefilter/2025/feb/06/best-mattress
- not_a_url (exact match)
- Go to Settings
- Scroll down to Commission Table and click Download Template
- Open the downloaded template and add the referrer url to the click_referrer header
- Once you’re happy, re-upload the sheet back into the upload box
- The system will notify you of any errors, or if everything is properly formatted, it will notify you that it has accepted your upload
Contact support
If the above steps do not work for you, please contact our Support Team.