How affiliate tracking and payouts work
Influencemart connects people who can promote products with the online stores that sell them — and pays out only on verified sales. Here is the full journey for both sides, from a shared link to money in your account, explained step by step.
The end-to-end flow
Two sides, one tracked transaction
Affiliates promote and earn. Merchants receive tracked traffic and pay for results. The same click_id ties both journeys together so the right affiliate is credited for the right order.
For affiliates
10 stepsFrom signing up to requesting your first payout.
Register as an affiliate
Create a free account in minutes. No upfront cost, no inventory, and no audience size minimum to get started.
Complete your profile and payout details
Tell us how you promote and add your preferred payout method — bank, eSewa, Khalti, IME Pay or ConnectIPS — so earnings can reach you.
Choose a campaign or product
Browse approved merchants by category and pick offers that fit your audience. Each one shows its commission rate and terms upfront.
Generate your affiliate link
With one click you get a short, trackable link that carries your unique attribution to the merchant’s store.
Share your link on social media, your website, WhatsApp, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube or a blog
Post it wherever your audience already is. The same link works across every channel and on every device.
A buyer clicks your link
We record the click, attach a click_id, run a quick fraud check, then redirect the buyer to the merchant’s product page.
The buyer purchases on the merchant’s ecommerce website
Checkout happens entirely on the merchant’s own store. The click_id travels with the order so it can be matched back to you.
The order is verified
The merchant reports the conversion and its status. Cancelled, returned or refunded orders are filtered out before anything is owed.
The commission becomes payable
After the hold window that covers returns, the verified commission moves from pending to payable in your wallet.
You request a payout
Withdraw your payable balance to your chosen method once you reach the minimum threshold. Every withdrawal is reviewed for safety.
For ecommerce partners
9 stepsFrom onboarding your store to paying only for verified sales.
Register your business
Sign up your online store and create your organisation account. You stay in full control of your products, prices and offers.
Complete your merchant profile
Add your store details, website and contact information so affiliates and our team know who they are working with.
Get admin approval
We review every store before it can go live, which keeps the network trustworthy for affiliates and buyers alike.
Generate a test API key
Grab an HMAC-signed key and validate the full flow in a safe sandbox before you ever touch real orders.
Import products or campaigns
Sync your catalogue and campaigns through the API, or upload a CSV if you would rather not write code.
Receive tracked affiliate traffic
Affiliates share links that send buyers to your store carrying a click_id you can read on landing and at checkout.
Send conversions / order updates
Report each order back with its click_id, plus status changes, so attribution and commission stay accurate end to end.
Review sales and commission reports
See clicks, conversions, top affiliates and commission owed in clear dashboards — reconciled against your own records.
Pay only for verified performance
You are billed solely for confirmed, kept orders. Returns and refunds automatically reverse the related commission.
In plain language
What is a click_id?
The single idea that makes everything above work — without it, nobody could tell whose link led to a sale.
A click_id is just a unique label we attach to a single click on an affiliate link — a bit like a parcel tracking number, but for a visit. When someone taps your link, we create that label, redirect the buyer to the merchant’s store with it attached, and remember which affiliate it belongs to.
If that buyer later places an order, the merchant simply hands the same click_id back to us when reporting the sale. We match it to the original click, credit the correct affiliate, and apply the right commission rate. No guessing, no shared cookies between sites — one label, followed honestly from click to conversion.
On the platform you will see this value as the affiliate_click_id query parameter on the merchant’s destination URL, and as a click_id field when conversions are sent back to us.
Created on the click
Carried to the store
Returned with the order
Matched to one affiliate
Verified, not just clicked
Why a click alone never triggers a payout
Performance marketing only works when everyone trusts the numbers. Several checks sit between a click and a payable commission.
Before commission is owed, an order must
- Carry a valid click_id that maps to a real, recorded affiliate click
- Pass automated fraud and quality checks on the click and the conversion
- Be confirmed by the merchant as a genuine, completed purchase
- Survive the hold window without being cancelled, returned or refunded
How that protects each side
Affiliates get a transparent, predictable path from effort to earnings — and can always see whether a commission is pending, payable or paid. Merchants pay strictly for sales that stuck, with returns and refunds automatically reversing the related commission. Buyers are never the product: their checkout stays entirely on the merchant’s own store.
Keep exploring
Pick your next step
Ready to put the flow to work?
Join Influencemart as an affiliate to start earning on verified sales, or as an ecommerce partner to grow with performance marketing — and pay only for results.