Payouts & reconciliation
What a program reported vs. what actually landed — compared, never assumed to match.
How it works
The Payouts tab (Pro and above) is a reconciliation ledger, one row per pay period per program. It keeps three kinds of numbers distinct on purpose: what you measured yourself (clicks on your own links), what the merchant reported back (their clicks, conversions, and amount — “not reported yet” is shown as “—”, never as a false 0), and what was actually settled (the amount that landed, which is never null: money either arrived or it didn’t).
When your measured clicks run well ahead of what a merchant reported — at least a quarter of your traffic and at least 50 clicks — a discrepancy flag appears. It’s framed as a question worth asking the merchant, not an accusation: tracking gaps have several ordinary causes (ad blockers, a tag that fired late, mismatched reporting periods).
Merchant statement CSVs can be imported directly (Max) — the importer previews the parsed rows and auto-detected columns before anything is committed, so a misread column never silently corrupts your ledger.
Earnings-per-click and conversion rate are only ever shown when they can be honestly computed from real numbers on both sides — never presented as 0 just because one side is missing.
Set it up
- 1
Open the Payouts tab
Requires Pro or Max — on Basic this tab shows what upgrading unlocks instead.
- 2
Log a period
Record what the merchant reported for that period (if they told you) and what was actually paid.
- 3
Or import a statement
On Max, upload a merchant CSV, review the preview, and commit it in one pass.
- 4
Review any discrepancy flag
A flagged gap is worth a message to the merchant — not proof of anything on its own.
Tips to get the most out of it
- Log the amount actually paid even when you skip the merchant’s reported figures — a payout only needs one full pair of numbers to move its own status forward automatically.
- Treat a discrepancy flag as a conversation starter with the merchant, not a dispute — the threshold is deliberately conservative so it only fires on gaps worth asking about.