Sprout AffiliateHow Sprout Affiliate works
How each part works, in the order you will meet it. Everything here describes the app as it ships today.
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Setting upInstalling, permissions, your first program, and confirming tracking is actually live.
Moving from another appPrograms, affiliates, coupons, and past earnings brought across, keeping both apps from paying for one sale, and Link replacer, which finds where affiliates posted their old links.
Programs and commissionPercent or flat, tiers, cookie windows, customer discounts, and product scope.
Getting affiliatesYour signup page and its templates, invites, the Sprout network, marketplace applicants.
Running your program
Links and discount codesThe plain referral link, the link builder with source tags, personal link endings, short links, and codes.
How referrals are trackedHow a click becomes a credited sale, the cookie window, code versus link attribution, and what cannot be tracked.
Referral ordersPending, approved, rejected, and paid. Auto-approve and the optional wait before it, plus refunds, cancellations, and locked rates.
Fraud protectionSelf-referrals, risky orders, chargebacks, new affiliates, order bursts, IP address rules, and anti-leak. Suspicious orders wait for you.
PayoutsMethods, minimums, the schedule, the payment memo, tax, and exactly what happens when a payout fails.
Messages and emailsIn-app chat, every automated email and what triggers it, bulk email limits, white labelling, sending from your own address.
Email marketing integrationsMailchimp, Klaviyo, Omnisend, Kit, MailerLite, and HubSpot: where each API key is, how to connect, and the fields and tags affiliates get.
Reporting
AnalyticsEvery metric defined precisely, including why a one-page visit has no measurable time on store.
Tracked clicks and page journeysOne row per visit, the page-by-page trail with timestamps, and where the click came from.
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The marketplaceListing your store, who can browse it, and where applications arrive.
The iPhone appTwo different apps: the affiliate companion app and the merchant app.
Plans and billingPlans, prices, the usage fee, and its cap, the free plan's limits, and the trial.
The merchant APIRead your affiliates, programs, orders, and analytics from your own code, and approve, reject, or grant a bonus.
The MCP serverConnect Claude, Cursor, or VS Code to your program and ask about affiliates, orders, and commission in plain language.