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Affiliates let other people — clippers, content creators, anyone with an audience — promote your products with a personal referral link and earn a commission on every sale they bring in. There are two sides to the feature:
  • Affiliates (seller view) — where you, the seller, invite and manage the people promoting your products.
  • My Affiliate Dashboard — where someone who is an affiliate sees the products they promote, their referral links, sales, earnings, and payouts.
Both pages live at the bottom of the dashboard sidebar.
Affiliates promote a specific seller’s products to buyers. That’s different from the Partner program, where partners bring new sellers to Pocketsflow and earn on the platform fee.

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Inviting an affiliate

1

Open Affiliates → New Affiliate

In the dashboard, go to Affiliates and click New Affiliate.
2

Enter the affiliate's email

They must already have a Pocketsflow account with a connected payout account, so commissions can actually be paid.
3

Set the commission rate

A percentage of each sale the affiliate earns (for example, 10 means 10%). It must be between 0 and 100.
4

Choose products

Pick which of your products the affiliate can promote. Scope each affiliate to what they actually promote rather than your whole catalog.
5

Save (leave Active on)

The affiliate is now live and can start sharing links.
You can edit the commission rate, product list, or active status at any time. Deactivating an affiliate stops new clicks and sales from being attributed to them, without deleting their history — so changing the rate later only affects new sales, never past ones. Every affiliate gets a personal link per product:
Use the Copy URL button on either affiliate page to copy a ready-made link — don’t build them by hand. When a visitor opens a referral link:
  • The click is recorded for the affiliate’s stats. Repeat clicks from the same visitor on the same link are deduplicated over a 24-hour window, so counts aren’t inflated by refreshes.
  • If the visitor buys, the sale is attributed to the affiliate and their commission is calculated from the sale amount at the configured rate, then stamped onto the order.

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The affiliate’s view

Affiliates see everything about their participation under My Affiliate Dashboard:
  • Your affiliated products — every seller and product they promote, the commission rate, and a Copy button for each referral link.
  • Sales per product — orders, sales volume, and commission earned for each promoted product.
The underlying API also exposes aggregated stats (lifetime earnings, total orders, active products, average commission rate), earnings grouped by day / week / month, per-link click and conversion stats, and payout history — see the API reference under the Affiliated Products tag.
All amounts in the affiliate API are in cents, consistent with order amounts elsewhere in the API.

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How commissions are funded and paid

The commission comes out of the sale itself: it’s collected from the seller’s share at charge time and forwarded to the affiliate. So as a seller you receive the sale amount minus the platform fee minus the affiliate’s commission (see Pricing & fees). Payouts are then batched and moved to the affiliate’s connected payout account: Each order’s commission can only ever be paid once — a sale is claim-stamped before its transfer, so it can’t land in two payouts. Affiliates review their payout history in the affiliate dashboard.

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Best practices

  • Agree the rate up front — changing it later only affects new sales.
  • Scope narrowly — attach each affiliate only to the products they promote.
  • Watch conversion per link — lots of clicks with few sales usually means the audience and product don’t match.
  • Confirm payouts are connected — an affiliate without a connected payout account can earn commissions but won’t be paid until they connect one.