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What we learned building an affiliate platform: tracking blocked, a commission attributed to the wrong person, a missing invoice, a transfer that comes back. Long articles, on narrow subjects.

Refunds

Refund after a commission is paid: what a platform can do

A paid commission does not come back. What you set up before the payout, and before the first debt, matters more than anything you can attempt afterwards.

18 October 2026 · 6 min read
Payouts

Paying affiliates with Wise: the three requirements and how they fail

Each missing requirement fails at a specific moment: at connection, at funding or on the first real payout. Better to know which one before the day your affiliates are waiting for their money.

16 October 2026 · 6 min read
Tracking

Ad blockers and affiliate tracking: what is actually true

How a block list really works, what it targets, why affiliate platforms are on it — and what a link served by your own domain actually changes.

19 August 2026 · 8 min read
Pricing

Why an affiliate platform should not take a percentage

The arithmetic, with the numbers: what a percentage really costs once the program starts working, and what incentive that model creates for whoever counts your sales.

5 August 2026 · 7 min read
Accounting

Who writes an affiliate's invoice, and how self-billing works

Self-billing, receipts, credit notes, gapless numbering, VAT, electronic formats: what each side has to be able to show, and why you never delete an invoice.

22 July 2026 · 9 min read
Payouts

An accepted transfer is not a transfer that arrived

PayPal answers "accepted" in two seconds and decides thirty days later. What has to happen in between, and the five things to undo when the funds come back.

8 July 2026 · 7 min read
Attribution

The attribution window, the cookie, and what actually lasts a year

Sixty days, ninety days: that setting is a commercial decision. What really decides the fate of a recurring commission is somewhere else.

24 June 2026 · 8 min read
Migration

Switching affiliate platform without breaking links already published

Your affiliates' links live in videos, articles and bios they will never touch again. What has to be carried over so they keep attributing.

10 June 2026 · 8 min read