Affiliate Manager Part 4 - How to Manage Affiliate Payouts

July 31, 2024•2 min read

In this article, we will review how to manage your affiliate payouts. Check out our other Affiliate Manager articles for additional tips, best practices, and an overview on the feature.

Step 1: Managing Payouts

Navigate to Marketing > Affiliate Manager > Payouts
You'll see four sub-tabs that indicate the payout statuses
- PENDING: all payouts across every affiliate campaign are populated into this status monthly. The Affiliate owner/admin has to come in and approve those eligible for a payout. The admin can ‘Deny Payout’ if the commission is not applicable.
- APPROVED FOR PAYOUT: when a payout is approved it moves to this tab, and the Affiliate owner/admin can then upload the affiliate name/info to their payment gateway. An affiliate can be moved back to pending from this tab if needed.
- PAID: Here you’ll see a list of all affiliates that have received a payout, with dated transactions. Payouts cannot be moved from here.
- DENIED PAYOUTS: This is where you’ll find payouts that have been denied. The affiliate payouts can end up here from either the “Pending” or “Approved for Payout” tabs.

PRO TIPS:

Payments are completed manually. The Affiliate Manager owner/admin must complete them.
Affiliate commissions can be recurring or one-time, depending on the Stripe product being sold and how it’s set up.
Affiliate commission is tracked by sales happening in Stripe. BILT doesn’t track refunds for subscriptions or one-time products.
Subscription cancellations should be effectively monitored - the Affiliate Manager administrator can choose to pay out affiliates 15, 30, or 60 days post-sale, allowing for the commission to be denied for a canceled subscription.
Commission can be set up to be a flat rate commission
Paypal is now an option on the payout page. The PayPal account must be integrated into the payment’s integrations area.
You can now pay your Affiliates using Paypal Auto Payouts please see the article titled “How to pay your Affiliates using Paypal Auto Payouts”

If you need to manually add sales navigate to the Affiliates tab, click on the menu dots and select Add Manual Sales

Moe Ameen | BILT CRM

Moe Ameen is a real estate investor, software creator, and general over-caffeinated human who somehow made automation cool (or at least tolerable). He built a cutting-edge real estate CRM because manually chasing leads is so last century. Specializing in creative finance, deal structuring, and making things unnecessarily efficient, he helps investors close more deals while doing less actual work. When he's not automating the real estate world, he’s probably pretending to work while staring at spreadsheets or convincing himself that buying another domain name is a good idea.

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