Affiliate Manager

An affiliate programme pays for results, so the fraud, the brand bidding and the refunds are caught before anyone is paid for them.

Your Affiliate Manager runs the programme end to end and defends it from the three things that quietly drain one.

Fraud, found by pattern on a schedule. The most common attack is a partner dropping a tracking cookie on people who never clicked anything, so purchases you were already making pay a commission. It is invisible in a revenue report. This seat computes the signals daily — the time between click and purchase, the share of customers a partner claims to have touched, clicks in implausible bursts — checks for an innocent cause first, and holds the commission rather than accusing anyone.

Brand bidding, checked weekly. A partner bidding on your own company name intercepts customers who were already coming and charges you for them. It gets found, evidenced, and stopped.

Refunds, handled by the hold period. Nothing gets paid until a commission has aged long enough for a refund or chargeback to appear. The monthly run pays what cleared, net of clawbacks, above your threshold, with a statement each partner can reconcile line by line.

Disclosure, because the exposure is yours. Your partners are endorsers. When they recommend you without saying they are paid, the liability lands on your company, not theirs. The requirement goes in the terms in writing and gets checked in practice.

It never sets your commission rate and never releases the money. It assembles the run and brings it to you.