Commissions & Affiliate Payouts
Set commission rates, calculate them correctly, and pay affiliates automatically.
From My Products on the seller dashboard, click the edit icon on any product. Set custom, tiered, or bonus-based commissions per product or per affiliate. Free-plan brands are locked at 25% minimum; paid plans unlock any rate from 1% up.
The 25% minimum on Free plans keeps offers attractive to creators (a 5% commission rarely gets uptake from quality affiliates). Upgrade to Starter, Pro, or Ultimate to set any rate. See Plans, Limits & Upgrading for current pricing.
Commission is calculated on the product base price only, not shipping, not tax, not platform fees, and after any discount codes. Example: a $100 product with a 10% discount and a 20% commission earns the affiliate $18 (20% of $90), not $20.
Yes, in two ways, and it is worth knowing which is which:
| Approach | How it works | Typical range in use today |
|---|---|---|
| Per product | Set a rate on each product from My Products. This is the default every affiliate gets | 5% to 50% |
| Per affiliate | Agree a custom rate with an individual affiliate in their partnership. It overrides the product rate for them | 10% to 60% |
What is not available is an automatic bonus tier that fires on sales volume, for example a rate that lifts itself once an affiliate passes a monthly total. If you want to reward a strong performer, you raise their custom rate by hand.
In practice that manual step is an advantage for retention. A message saying you have raised someone’s rate because of their results lands much better than a threshold they crossed without noticing. Review your top affiliates monthly and do it deliberately.
Cancellations and returns reverse the commission. The affiliate’s pending balance is reduced and (if already paid out) gets clawed back from their next payout. The reversal logic syncs automatically from Shopify and Amazon, you don’t manually manage it.
Ainfluencer pays affiliates automatically once their balance clears the hold period. The timeline is longer than most people expect, so it is worth setting expectations with your affiliates up front. A sale must be at least 35 days old before its commission can be billed. After that it is picked up by the nightly billing run, your card is charged, and the affiliate’s share goes to their connected Stripe account. Stripe then pays out to their bank on their own schedule. In practice an affiliate sees the money roughly five to seven weeks after the sale.
Affiliates receive commission through Stripe Connect, which they set up once. You never write a cheque or run an accounting cycle, but you do need a working card on file: if the charge fails, every affiliate on your programme waits.
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