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# Networks: set up your network and bring your publishers

Getting started · For networks · Updated 30 October 2026
Web version: https://www.affiliateos.ai/help/getting-started/network-first-publishers

Once our team has set up your network, sign in, connect your server in **Workspace settings**, then create each publisher, choose the offers they can run and send them their invite link. Each publisher activates their own login and works in their own dashboard.

## Before you start

- A network account. Networks join after a short demo call: [book a demo](https://www.affiliateos.ai/demo). Plans start at $500 a month; the [pricing page](https://www.affiliateos.ai/pricing) has the details.
- A public HTTPS URL on your server that can read query parameters, to receive [postbacks](https://www.affiliateos.ai/glossary#postback).

## Set up your network

### Sign in with the link from our team

When your network is ready, our team sends you a private sign-in link. Sign in with your email and password, or with Google, and bookmark the link. Lost it? [Ask us](https://www.affiliateos.ai/contact?topic=support) to send it again.

### Workspace settings, then Postback Configuration

Paste your URL into **Postback URL** and choose **Save Changes**. This is your global postback URL: conversions on marketplace offers and on your own offers post back to it.

Then choose **Generate Webhook Secret** and copy the secret. Every postback carries a [signature](https://www.affiliateos.ai/glossary#signature) made with it, so your server can check the request came from us. **Test Postback** sends a sample to your URL.

> **The webhook secret is shown once.** Store it on your server before you close the page. If you lose it, choose **Revoke**, generate a new one and update your server: the old secret stops verifying.

### Workspace settings, then API Keys

Choose **Generate Key** and copy the key. It starts with `ak_` and is shown once. Your server sends it in the `x-api-key` header to the Network API, which returns every offer your network can run:

```bash
curl -G "https://affiliateos.xyz/network-api/offers" \
  -d country=US \
  -H "x-api-key: $NORTHFOLD_NETWORK_KEY"
```

Example for Northfold Media. The **Expires** column shows when each key stops working, 90 days after you generate it by default. Replace it before that date. The line above the list, such as "Used 1 / 1 keys", shows how many keys you can hold: at your limit, choose **Remove** on the old key before **Generate Key** works, or [ask us](https://www.affiliateos.ai/contact?topic=support) for room for a second key. The full reference is in the [Network API docs](https://www.affiliateos.ai/help/developers#network-api).

## Bring your publishers

### Publishers, then Create Publisher

Four short steps, then **Finish**:

| Step | What you set |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Their name, and the email they will sign in with |
| Economics | What this publisher earns on your offers |
| Rules | Advertisers and categories to block, and the offer types they can run |
| Offers | The first set of offers they can run |

Example: Northfold Media adds Pebble Rewards as a publisher, with Harbor Blocks in its first offer set.

### Send Invite, then Copy Invite

**Send Invite** creates the publisher's invite link. **Copy Invite** shows a short message that carries it: choose **Copy invite** for the whole message or **Copy link** for the link alone. We don't email the link for you: send it yourself.

The link works for 14 days. If it runs out before they use it, open the publisher and choose **Resend Invite** for a fresh one.

### The publisher sets a password

They open the link, choose a password of 8 characters or more and choose **Activate Publisher Account**. From then on they sign in at the [publisher log in](https://app.affiliateos.xyz/login?type=partner) with their email and that password.

### Check it worked

Open the publisher under **Publishers**. **Publisher Access** shows when you sent the invite and when it was **Accepted**. Once they send traffic, **Reporting**, then **Flight Recorder** shows each conversion's timeline, from the click to your postback delivery.

## Next

- Give teammates their own logins: [Invite teammates and choose their roles](https://www.affiliateos.ai/help/account/invite-teammates-roles).
- Replace keys before they expire: [Create, rotate and revoke API keys](https://www.affiliateos.ai/help/account/create-rotate-revoke-api-keys).
- How the money moves between advertiser, network, publisher and player: [How money moves](https://www.affiliateos.ai/help/getting-started/how-money-moves).