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You can now offer credits as a commission type – right alongside fixed and percentage payouts.

Perfect if you want to reward users with:

• free months of your SaaS

• store credit or upgrades

• access to premium content or in-app perks

Credits are ideal when your partners aren’t professional affiliates but existing users who love your product and want to share it.

This gives you more flexibility, lower cash flow impact, and tighter user retention – especially for early-stage SaaS and digital products.

Set it up under your program settings, define how many credits are earned per referral, and communicate what those credits are worth.

📖 Learn more about credit-based commissions

Let us know what creative use cases you come up with!

You can now manually assign leads to affiliates by email — ideal for edge cases where cookie tracking falls short.

Let’s say a user signs up on a different device, clears their cookies, or registers without clicking an affiliate link. Normally, that referral would be lost. But now, you can manually link that user’s email to the correct affiliate, ensuring future purchases are tracked properly.

Once assigned, any future payment tied to that email will automatically credit the affiliate — even across devices or browsers.

How it works:

• Go to the Affiliates tab: https://affonso.io/app/affiliate

• Click “View Details” on the relevant affiliate

• Use the "Add Lead" option to enter the user's email

Perfect for when someone signs up without a referral cookie, but you still want to give credit where it's due.

I'm excited to share that Affonso now integrates with Dodo Payments, making it even easier for fast-moving indie tools, startups, and modern checkout experiences to launch an affiliate program.

Dodo is gaining traction as a flexible and developer-friendly payment platform, and now you can combine it with Affonso's powerful referral tracking and commission system.

How To Get Started:

• Connect your Dodo account by adding your API key

• Set up the webhook to enable automated tracking

• Add our lightweight tracking script to your website

• Start tracking referrals and paying affiliates

For full instructions, check out the step-by-step integration guide here.

This is part of our broader plan to support more payment providers in 2025. Let me know which platform you’d like to see next!

You can now set your own Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and a Contact Email for your affiliate program — all visible to your affiliates at signup, login, and in their dashboard.

💡 Why I Added This

Affiliate programs often come with specific legal or support requirements. This update gives you full control over the information your affiliates see and agree to — making your program feel more trustworthy and aligned with your business.

✅ How It Works

• Go to your program settings

• Add links to your Terms and Privacy Policy

• Optionally set a dedicated contact email

• Affiliates will see this information:

  • During signup

  • Every time they log in

  • Permanently in their dashboard

It’s simple, clear, and gives your program a more professional edge.

You can now invite affiliates directly from your dashboard using just their email address. No signup link sharing, no manual follow-ups.

💡 Why I Added This

Sometimes the best affiliates are the ones you already know. Instead of waiting for them to find your signup page, you can now send a personal invite in seconds.

Plus: quite a few users asked for this. It makes onboarding hand-picked affiliates way easier — especially when you're just getting your program off the ground.

✅ How It Works

• Go to your affiliate program dashboard

• Click “Invite affiliate”

• Enter the affiliate’s email address and hit send

• They’ll instantly receive a branded invitation email with a unique link

• When they click it, they’ll go through your onboarding flow.

• Set up their personal tracking ID

• Done – they’re in and ready to promote

You can now offer WeChat and AliPay as payout options for your affiliates.

💡 Why I Added This

If you're working with affiliates in Asia, PayPal and Wise might not always be ideal. These new options make it easier to pay affiliates in China using the platforms they already trust.

✅ How It Works

Head to your program settings and enable one or both options under “Payout Methods.” Affiliates will see them in their portal right away.

I've added a highly-requested feature that gives program owners more control over their affiliate approval process. You can now create custom onboarding questionnaires for your affiliates.

What's New:

• Create a custom set of questions that new affiliates must complete after registration

• Design your own onboarding flow to gather the specific information your program needs

• Review detailed responses in each affiliate's profile

• Make better-informed decisions about which affiliates to approve

How It Works:

When a new affiliate registers and logs in for the first time, they'll be presented with your custom onboarding form before they can access their dashboard. Their responses are stored in their profile, giving you valuable insights about their marketing methods, audience, and expectations.

Why I Added This:

Many program owners have asked for better ways to screen potential affiliates and ensure they're a good fit before approving them. This feature helps you make smarter decisions about who represents your brand, while also setting clear expectations with affiliates from day one.

To set up your custom onboarding form, visit the Program Settings section in your dashboard or click here.

I've added a new feature that keeps everyone informed about their affiliate program performance. Now both program owners and affiliates receive a daily email summary of the last 24 hours of activity.

For Affiliates:

The daily email shows:

• Total commissions generated in the last 24 hours

• Number of new sales attributed to your links

For Program Owners:

Your daily summary includes:

• Total sales generated through affiliates in the last 24 hours

• Individual affiliate performance breakdown

This automated reporting keeps everyone in the loop without requiring constant dashboard checks. Affiliates stay motivated by seeing their daily results, while program owners maintain clear visibility into their program's performance.

The emails are sent automatically once per day and require no configuration - they're ready to use right away!