What's earned gets paid
Tracking runs on your own domain, so it survives blockers. Payouts leave your own PayPal or Wise account, with the paperwork attached. And when a transfer comes back, you hear it from us rather than from the affiliate.
Flat price. $0, $49 or $99 a month. Never a percentage of your revenue, your commissions, or the transfers you send.
The link
Public blocklists name the domains of affiliate platforms. A link that travels through a known platform's domain is a link a browser may refuse to follow. A link that travels through yours has nothing in particular to block. That is the whole difference, and it is the first thing Meritt asks you to set.
Mode A · recommended
One reverse-proxy rule on your side, written once. Nginx, Apache, Cloudflare, Vercel, Shopify, WordPress — the install guide covers twenty-five platforms with the exact configuration to paste.
The prefix is derived from your workspace: no generic filter rule can target
every one of our customers at once, and we never use a catalogued word such as
track or pixel.
Mode B
One CNAME in your DNS, and we issue the certificate. Nothing to install on your servers. The subdomain stays yours, which is what the browser sees.
Forbidden labels — track, analytics,
pixel, tag, stats — are refused as you
type: those are the blocklist keywords.
Mode C
Nothing to do, and that is its only advantage. We label it degraded and never pick it by default: it is exactly the case modes A and B exist to avoid.
Useful for an hour, while you check everything works before pointing your own domain at it.
Attribution
The click sets a first-party cookie on your domain. Your server can then bind a customer id to that click — the level that matters, the one that survives a change of device. And your payment system attaches the sale to that customer.
Each step is optional. Each one makes attribution firmer than the last.
Sixty days by default, set per programme and per affiliate. A sale arriving after the window is not attributed, and the screen says so rather than attributing it anyway.
An affiliate reloading their own page ten times has not made ten clicks. Earnings per click are computed on unique visitors, because the comfortable version of that number means nothing.
Self-referral is refused at attribution: it never reaches a payout.
Stripe guarantees neither ordering nor at-most-once delivery. A system driven by webhooks alone drifts: a ten-minute outage, a deployment, and sales go missing without anybody noticing.
Every night the period is walked again from the API and what is missing is recovered.
The programme
A percentage or a fixed amount, on the gross or the net. Recurring for life, capped at N months, or once. Approval automatic or by hand.
Terms are dated: changing a rate does not rewrite what you owed yesterday.
Created in Stripe by us — a coupon and a promotion code behind one form — and attached to a person. A plan can mint one on joining; moving somebody to another plan revokes the one the plan produced and leaves a hand-assigned code alone.
One code each, or the same sale arrives twice under two names.
Their link, their code, their clicks, their sales, their balance, their documents. They say where to be paid, and they open a ticket when something is wrong — you answer from the dashboard with their page beside it.
They also decide which emails they receive. Setting somebody else's inbox is not your job.
Every commission is an entry, and a correction is another entry. Nothing is edited, nothing is deleted: a refund, a refusal, a payout that came back — all of it reads in the order it happened.
That is what lets you answer "why this amount" a year later.
Payouts
The PayPal and Wise accounts are yours. We hold a credential that acts on your behalf and we orchestrate; the funds never pass through us. That is what keeps this product out of money-transmitter territory — and it is also why your money never sits with a third party.
Three separate actions, because the middle one is a person deciding to move real money. A single "pay everyone" button would make that decision invisible.
A safety cap stops an over-large batch and asks for approval.
An affiliate who has not said where to be paid, or who chose a method you do not accept, appears under "cannot be paid" with the reason. They are emailed once, at the moment you decide to pay.
PayPal answers "accepted" immediately and decides afterwards. An address with no confirmed account leaves the transfer unclaimed for thirty days, and then the money comes back.
Meritt asks the provider hourly until the answer cannot change. Came back: the line is marked, the affiliate's balance is restored, the sales are payable again, and a credit note cancels the invoice. Both sides are told.
The day is read in your own timezone. Above your cap, the batch is built and waits for you rather than leaving on its own.
A minimum threshold avoids sending three euros to fifteen people.
Paperwork
You book an expense, the affiliate declares income, and neither can prove it from a row in somebody else's database. So every payout writes its document, in the same transaction as the ledger entry.
What you look at on Monday morning
What the programme brought in, minus what the affiliates earned. It is the subtraction you do in your head today.
The currency of this industry: how an affiliate is judged, and how one programme compares to another. On unique visitors.
The affiliate ranking, the latest sales, and a map of the countries your buyers come from.
Owner, admin, affiliate manager, viewer — or a role you write yourself. Everything touching money leaves a line in the audit log.
Pricing
Most platforms take a percentage: of your revenue, of your commissions, sometimes both. Your bill therefore grows exactly when your programme succeeds, for a service that has not changed. We charge for what we cost.
$0 / month
Until your first commission. Long enough to connect, to check, and to recruit the first few.
$49 / month
A programme that runs and that pays.
$99 / month
Several brands, a team, and your name on everything.
Never a percentage. Not of your revenue, not of your affiliates' commissions, not of the transfers you send them. Tracking is free, your own domain included, because it costs us almost nothing. What is paid for is payouts and migration — the work that has a real cost on our side.
Coming from somewhere else
The real risk of a move is not the import: it is that the links your affiliates put in their videos, their articles and their descriptions stop working overnight. You cannot ask all of them to republish.
Meritt?via=,
?fpr=, ?ref=, ?rfsn= — so a link published
two years ago keeps attributing.Questions
Public blocklists name domains. They name the domains of known affiliate
platforms, and keywords such as track or pixel in
hostnames. A link served from your own domain, on a path that uses none of
those words, matches no rule.
We will not give you a percentage of conversions "recovered": no independent source measures it seriously, and the one study you could lean on says the opposite of what this industry's marketing repeats. What we claim is checkable: the blocking rule exists, and your domain is not in it.
No. The PayPal and Wise accounts are yours. We hold a credential that triggers a transfer from your balance to your affiliate's, and we never enter the path the money takes. That is an architectural decision as much as a legal one: holding other people's funds is a regulated business, and it is not ours.
For mode B, no: one CNAME record in your DNS, and we handle the certificate. For mode A you add a reverse-proxy rule — the guide gives the exact configuration for twenty-five platforms, and on many of them it is a form rather than code.
Mode C needs nothing at all and works immediately. It is worse, we say so, and it lets you start today.
You hear it from us. The provider is asked hourly until an answer that cannot change. When the money comes back, the line is marked, the affiliate's balance is restored, the sales it covered are payable again, and a credit note cancels the invoice. The affiliate gets a message correcting the one that told them they had been paid.
Yes. A payout batch is one currency — money leaves in the currency it was earned in, nothing is converted on your behalf — and the screen shows every currency owed, one card each. Zero-decimal currencies such as the yen are handled correctly end to end.
Your data comes out: affiliates, clicks, sales, ledger entries, documents. What is owed stays owed and stays visible. We never cut tracking over an unpaid invoice — that would break the links your affiliates published and punish the affiliate for a dispute that is none of their business. What stops is money going out.
Free until your first commission. No card to start, and nothing to uninstall if you change your mind.