Payout overrides, conditional payouts & commission tiers

Three tools change what a conversion pays, applied in this order:

1. Payout overrides — a fixed deal for one partner (offer Overrides tab).
2. Custom payout rules — conditional payout or revenue by country, device, OS, sub ID, weekday, hour or date (offer Custom payout rules tab).
3. Commission tiers — a better rate once a partner's volume passes a threshold (same tab).

Explicit payout= / revenue= values on a postback are never changed by rules or tiers.

Payout overrides#

1. Open the offer, tab Overrides, click Add override (sheet Add payout override).
2. Fill in:

3. Save. New conversions use it; existing conversions keep their amounts.

Type and amount inherit separately: an override can change only the amount and keep the event's type. Overrides cannot change the payout of a CPC offer or the revenue of an RPC offer.

The calculator at the top of the tab shows what a conversion pays "resolved exactly like the tracker: affiliate override for the event → affiliate override for all events → event". Pick an affiliate (or Any affiliate (no override)) and an event.

Custom payout rules#

A rule sets payout and/or revenue when its conditions match the click.

Create a rule#

1. Open the offer, tab Custom payout rules, click Add rule (sheet Add payout rule).
2. Fill in:

3. Save.

Conditions#

• Countries: ISO codes of the click's country. Devices: desktop, mobile, tablet. Operating systems: as detected from the user agent.
• Sub IDs / source: tests on sub1…sub5 or source_id with is, is not, contains, does not contain, begins with. Values are case-insensitive. "is", "contains" and "begins with" never match an empty value; "is not" and "does not contain" do.
• Day-parting: weekdays (Mon–Sun) and hours (0–23) of the conversion time in the rule's time zone (default: workspace time zone). The rule's Starts / Ends window is also checked against the conversion time.

Every configured condition must hold. Country, device, OS and sub IDs come from the click, so conversions without a click (coupon or e-mail attribution) only match rules without those conditions.

Which rule wins#

1. Highest Priority.
2. Most specific: number of conditions (each list counts once, each sub-ID test counts once), plus one for an event and one for an offer scope.
3. A rule limited to partners beats one for every partner.
4. The newest rule.

The winning rule's ID is stored on the conversion (payout_rule_id). Use Conflict test on the tab — choose Partner, Event, Country, Device, OS and Conversion time — to see which rule wins and which others also match.

Commission tiers#

Tiers reward volume: e.g. "+1.00 per lead after 50 approved leads this month".

Create tiers#

1. Offer tab Custom payout rules, section Commission tiers, click Add tiers (sheet Add commission tiers). Use Add tier for each threshold row.
2. Fill in:

How tiers are applied#

• At each conversion the partner's KPI for the current period is read; the highest tier whose From is reached applies. The KPI counts approved conversions already recorded in the period (the conversion being priced is not included).
• Only the first applicable tier set (lowest ID) prices a conversion.
• The conversion records commission_tier_id.
• Tiers do not apply to conversions without a partner or with an explicit payout=.

Example: tiers From 0 → Payout = 10.00, From 50 → Payout = 12.00, From 200 → Payout = 15.00, KPI approved conversions, period month. The partner's 51st approved lead of the month (50 already counted) pays 12.00.

Related#

• Base terms: Revenue & payout types.
• Change payouts on a date: Reporting → Automation → Scheduled changes ("Payout / revenue").