Ainfluencer for Marketing Managers

Match each goal to a campaign type

A programme is rarely one campaign. The three types behave differently enough that each goal has a best fit, and they can run side by side as separate campaigns.

• Slots count live campaigns and campaigns waiting for review: Free 1, Starter 2, Pro 3, Ultimate unlimited. Drafts, rejected, expired and paused campaigns do not count.
• If you already run an affiliate program elsewhere, choose I already have an affiliate platform. It opens the paid collaboration wizard so you pay a fixed fee and share your own link.
• Store specific detail lives in Ainfluencer for Shopify Sellers and Ainfluencer for Amazon Sellers.

Set up the workspace

The brand account is owned by one login. Everything else, including colleagues, hangs off it.

• A colleague who already has a brand account is added the moment they click the link. A new one registers with the invited email.
• Influencer emails cannot join a team, and the owner cannot be removed.
• Removing a member logs them out of every session straight away. If a seat does not free up after a removal, contact support.
• Complete the brand profile: About Your Brand, logo, target platforms and creator size, budget, categories and hashtags. An empty About Us is a common reason for a campaign to be sent back.
• The brand score adds up live campaigns, closed deals, money paid, profile steps, quick answers and reviews you write. It is recalculated from your current state, so it can fall.

Control the budget

The wallet is your spending cap. Nothing is charged until you pay an offer, and every payment lands in escrow first.

• Where your money is. Payments & Billing, wallet tab: balance, top-up history, total spent with a breakdown, held in escrow, paid to creators, refunded and credits received. Each transaction opens a cost breakdown.
• Subscription. Charged to a card at Stripe, with invoices as PDFs and a Download all option in Billing history. It never comes from the wallet.
• Affiliate commission. A separate card on the Affiliate dashboard. If it fails, campaigns pause overnight and creators wait.
• There is no spending limit per colleague, so agree an internal approval rule for who pays offers.
• Cards that need extra bank verification fail inside checkout. Use Stripe, PayPal or the wallet instead.

More in How to Fund and Manage Your Wallet and How Refunds Work.

Manage the campaign portfolio

The Campaigns page lists every campaign across all three types. Learn what each action does to a live campaign before you use it.

• Statuses: Draft, Pending Approval, Approved, Disapproved by Admin with the reason on the info icon, Paused and Expired. A rejection can be fixed with Edit and resubmitted.
• Who pauses a campaign: you, an admin, the plan check after a downgrade or at approval, or a subscription pause. You can resume any of them once a slot is free, except a campaign frozen by a subscription pause.
• Expiry: paid collaborations created in today’s wizard have no end date. Affiliate and gifting campaigns expire on their end date.
• Affiliate pause and delete should be done from the affiliate campaign list, not the main Campaigns page, or creators may keep promoting.
• A paid collaboration set to Approved can be paused by the plan check immediately if you were already at the limit when it was approved.

Run the creator pipeline

Discovery, outreach and negotiation share one Inbox. Set up lists and templates once and every campaign gets faster.

• Inbox filters: campaign type, campaign status and platform. Each shows only the statuses that apply to the types you picked.
• Thread types: collaboration, affiliate and gifting, with a switcher when a creator has several.
• Message limits: ten files at a time, images up to 20 MB, videos 200 MB and PDFs 50 MB.
• Contact details are hidden before payment except on Ultimate, and a nightly check reviews unpaid offer chats.
• Archive in the offer menu closes the chat for both sides. Use it deliberately.
• Response time counts. Answering an offer within a day adds to your brand score, and unpaid offers trigger reminders after one and three days.
• If an invitation sent from search does not arrive, send it again from the creator’s profile or a saved list.

The step by step is in How to Find and Invite Creators.

Oversee affiliate and gifting programs

Affiliate and gifting campaigns need less approval work than paid deals but more watching. These are the controls a manager holds.

• An affiliate campaign goes live the moment you save its products, with no review. If you set an end date it finishes then, and partnerships made through it close the next night.
• Gifting launches go through review. Changing a live program’s products sends it back to review, and there is no pause switch, so set an end date or ask our team.
• Gifting requests are cancelled by the system if the brand or the creator is suspended, and cannot be reopened.
• The affiliate platform has its own chat, but it is not supported. Talk to creators in the Ainfluencer Inbox.
• Pause or delete affiliate campaigns from the affiliate campaign list so the affiliate platform is updated too.

Deeper guides: How to Run an Affiliate Program and How to Run a Gifting Campaign.

Quality control and approvals

Approval is the control point of the whole programme. It is the one step nobody can take for you, and the clock on it is real.

• Usage rights are not part of the offer record. Agree reuse, paid ads and editing in the chat before you pay.
• Content library. Contents lists delivered content with download, a link to the live post and a share link anyone can open. It is owner only.
• Translation. Dub a delivered or uploaded video into other languages at $0.99 per minute per language, with videos up to a minute billed as one.
• Insights. Request a creator’s audience screenshots once per offer.
• Reviews. Rate performance, communication and agreed terms, add a public review, and answer privately whether you would work together again. Our team approves reviews before they appear.

See How to Review and Approve Delivery.

Reporting you can show your team

Reporting is built from the posts themselves, and the numbers have known limits. State them when you present.

• On an affiliate campaign card the figure named Commission paid is the sales your creators drove, not what you were charged. Use Payouts and Payments for charges.
• The detailed Reports tabs in the seller app read Amazon data only. For Shopify use the dashboard.
• Every seller report has a Demo Data switch. Check it is off before you screenshot.
• Ainfluencer reports on the post, not on visits or purchases on your own site, apart from affiliate sales. Pair it with your own analytics and a bio link.
• Brand daily digest: a daily email of creator activity on affiliate and gifting campaigns, only on days with activity. Brands cannot switch it off on the web page.

Plan economics and plan changes

Choose the plan by the limits you actually hit. Use the fee only as a tiebreaker, because it matters at larger monthly spend.

These use monthly prices of $49, $149 and $699. Quarterly is $43, $133 and $599.67 a month, and annual is $33.25, $104.08 and $499.92 a month, which lowers every threshold above.

• Upgrade: immediate. Stripe charges the prorated difference now, then the new price at renewal.
• Downgrade: queued for the end of the paid period, and the web app does not show that it is queued.
• Cancel: you keep the plan until the end of the period. A short survey comes first, and the window offers Move to Starter as an alternative.
• When a paid plan ends or a renewal fails, campaigns above the new limit are paused, oldest first, and extra colleagues are removed, with invitations first. Nothing is deleted. A failed renewal treats you as Free within the hour and does not un-pause campaigns when the payment later succeeds.
• Pause is not self serve. Ask our team for one to three months. It takes every live campaign off the marketplace while the plan, team and data stay.
• Extra invitations, seats and campaigns cannot be bought on their own.
• New conversations and collaborations a month appear on the plan comparison but are not enforced, so they are not a planning limit.

See How Plans, Limits and Upgrades Work.

An operating calendar

Most of the platform runs on timers. Plan your week around them rather than waiting for something to happen.

Questions marketing managers ask

Can I give a colleague limited access?

Not yet. Roles are not available, so every colleague has the same access as you apart from the profile and settings pages. Only add people you would let pay an offer.

Can I cap what a colleague spends?

No. The wallet is the cap, so keep the balance at what you want to risk and top it up deliberately.

Why did my approved campaign disappear?

Either it was edited and is waiting for review again, or it was paused: by you, by our team, by the plan check or by a subscription pause. The card tells you which.

Why can I not resume a campaign?

You need a free campaign slot, and a paused subscription blocks resuming altogether. Pause or delete another campaign, or upgrade.

Can I report on website conversions?

Not from paid collaborations. Ainfluencer reports on the post. Use a link in the creator’s bio with your own analytics, or run an affiliate campaign.

What happens to my campaigns if the card fails at renewal?

You are treated as Free within the hour, campaigns above the Free limit are paused, and they stay paused after you pay until you switch them on.

Can an agency or freelancer see our content?

Use the share link on a delivered post. Giving them a seat gives them your full access, including payments.

Who do I contact when something looks wrong?

The support chat inside your account. Include the campaign, the creator and the date.