Affiliate terms, no jargon.

A window after a conversion where the commission can't be paid yet. Holds exist because refunds and chargebacks arrive late; paying before the window closes means paying twice.

The share of commissions that get undone, by refund, chargeback or fraud verdict. A rising reversal rate is the earliest signal a partner sends bad traffic.

Earnings per click. Total commission divided by clicks sent. The fairest single number for comparing partners: it normalizes away volume and rewards traffic that converts.

The batch that sweeps approved commissions into payments. A good run nets out refunds, checks tax forms and excludes anything under review before money moves.

Subtracting what a customer refunded from what their referrer earned, inside the same payout. Without netting you claw money back after the fact, which partners hate.

Accounting-style record where every commission posts as two balanced rows. Nothing can be edited, only reversed, so the books always balance and every cent is traceable.

How long after a click a purchase still credits the partner. Common windows are 30 to 90 days; longer windows credit partners more, and cost more.

The partner's identifier in a link, like MARC20. Codes are how a program tells partners apart; keeping codes stable across a migration keeps old links working.

A call your tracker makes to another system when a conversion happens. Partners use postbacks to run their own dashboards; media buyers require them.

A conversion where the buyer is the partner themselves, matched by email, card or device. The most common affiliate fraud and the cheapest rule to stop.

Where conversions land when a rule flags them. The queue shows the evidence for each verdict; you release or uphold, and upheld holds reverse the commission.

The page where partners log in to see their links, clicks and earnings. A good portal answers questions before they hit your inbox.

Commissions on the earnings of partners someone recruited. Powerful for networks, usually overkill for a SaaS with 30 partners.

Moving a running program between trackers. Done well: partners imported, codes kept, old links redirected, one parallel payout cycle. Done badly: partners lost.