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A flat commission pays your best affiliate the same as someone who made one sale. Commission tiers raise the rate as an affiliate sells more in a period, and milestone bonuses reward them once when they reach a number of sales.
Affiliate tiers are part of the Pro plan and above. They build on your affiliate program.

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Set it up

1

Open Commission tiers

Go to Affiliates → ⋯ → Commission tiers (or Commission tiers in the sidebar) and turn Tiered commissions on.
2

Choose what counts

Sales made this month, this quarter, this year (calendar periods, UTC) or all time. A new period starts every affiliate’s count from zero.
3

Build the ladder

Each tier starts at a sale number and has a rate. For example:Before the first tier, the affiliate’s own rate applies.
4

Add milestone bonuses (optional)

For example 50atsale25∗∗and∗∗50 at sale 25** and **200 at sale 100. Milestones count all-time sales, and each bonus is paid once per affiliate.

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How a sale is priced

The rate is decided when the buyer’s checkout is created, from the affiliate’s paid, non-refunded sales in the period before this sale. The 11th sale of the month has 10 sales before it, so with the ladder above it earns 25%. The rate used is saved on the order: a later tier change, a new period or a refund never re-prices a recorded commission.
  • Sales in test mode only count towards test-mode tiers.
  • An affiliate with their own commission tiers (set on the affiliate) keeps them; your program ladder is for everyone else.
  • If you move below Pro, tiers and new milestones stop applying (the affiliate’s own rate applies again). Bonuses already earned are still paid.

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How bonuses are paid

A bonus is paid like commission, through your regular affiliate payouts — nothing else changes in how affiliates get paid:
  1. It is collected from the sale that reaches the milestone, out of your share of that sale (after the platform fee and the commission).
  2. If one sale can’t cover the whole bonus, the rest comes from the affiliate’s next sales, one sale at a time, until it’s all collected.
  3. Each part is paid out with the sale that carried it, after the usual hold.
One checkout at a time can carry a bonus, so a bonus is never collected twice. Payment plans don’t carry bonuses (every payment would collect it again).

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Refunds

Refunds work as they always have: a refunded sale’s commission is never paid.
  • The part of a bonus a refunded sale carried goes back to the buyer with the refund, and is collected again from a later sale.
  • If the refunded sale is the one that reached the milestone, the bonus is no longer earned. The next sale that reaches the milestone earns it again.
  • A sale that was already paid out is never clawed back.

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What affiliates see

In My Affiliate Dashboard, each creator running tiers shows the rate the affiliate’s next sale earns, the ladder, how many sales to the next tier and to the next bonus, when the period resets, and the bonuses they earned.

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Automate it

  • API: GET/PUT /affiliate-program, GET /affiliate-program/affiliates, GET /affiliate-program/affiliates/{id}, GET /affiliate-program/bonuses, GET /affiliate-program/mine — see the endpoint reference.
  • MCP: get_affiliate_tiers, update_affiliate_tiers, list_affiliate_tier_progress, get_affiliate_tier_progress, list_affiliate_bonuses, get_my_affiliate_progress.
  • Webhook: affiliate.tier_changed.