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Users are blocked or rejected

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Blocked means our traffic checks refused a tap: the user saw “This offer isn’t available for your account” and never reached the store. Rejected means our checks put a user on your reject list: their conversions are recorded at $0 with no postback, and Traffic Quality says why.

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What you see

What you seeWhat it meansWhat to do
The user saw “This offer isn’t available for your account”Our checks refused that tap. The offer is still liveDon’t coach around it (first check)
The user saw “This offer isn’t available in your state”The offer doesn’t take players from that US stateSend the player’s state
Rows in Conversions read rejectedThe user is on your reject listOpen Traffic Quality
A reversed row with a reason such as Duplicate accounts detectedOur checks found the user later and took back recent conversionsDeduct as usual

Checks, most likely first

  1. Our checks refused the tap

    How to confirm: The user’s screenshot shows “This offer isn’t available for your account”. The offer stays live for everyone else, and the advertiser never saw the tap, so nobody pays for it.

    Fix: Don’t tell users how to get around it, such as switching a VPN or making another account: both are things our checks look for. If you think real users are being refused, send us their IDs, the offer ID and the times they tapped.

  2. The user is on your reject list

    How to confirm: In Reporting, then Traffic Quality, the user’s User (sub id) is listed with the offer (or Every offer), the Reason, when they were Rejected and when it Expires. In Conversions, their rows read rejected, with a link to Traffic quality.

    Fix: While the rejection lasts, the user’s taps are refused, and any conversion pays $0 and sends no postback. On the Hosted Offerwall it applies to the uid you launched with: that user can’t start another wall offer. A rejection expires 30 days after it was set. If we clear a user sooner, a rejected conversion can still be paid: it turns completed under the same action_id and sends its normal postback then.

    Traffic Quality shows the reason for each user in plain words.

  3. Our checks took back recent conversions

    How to confirm: In Conversions or Flight Recorder, rows read reversed with the reason (under the status in Conversions, as Reversed because in Flight Recorder): Emulated devices, Duplicate accounts detected or IP mismatch / VPN or proxy detected. Each came to your server as a status=reversed postback with the same action_id and a reason.

    Fix: Deduct them as usual. When our checks find several accounts on one device, those users are rejected and their conversions from the 7 days before may be reversed. For an emulated device, duplicate accounts, or a VPN or proxy mismatch, it’s the 30 days before.

  4. The offer doesn’t take that state

    How to confirm: The user saw “This offer isn’t available in your state”. The tap never reached the advertiser.

    Fix: On the Offer API, send a US player’s state as state=TX, and offers that exclude it are left out of their list. More: filter offers by country, platform and category.

  5. One source sends most of them

    How to confirm: The rejected users on Traffic Quality came from the same placement, campaign or partner of yours. Tag your links with subsource_id, or sub1 to sub10, to tell sources apart.

    Fix: Pause that source until you know why. Keep one account per person, each with their own sub_id.

Send us this

  • The email you sign in with.
  • The user’s ID (sub_id, or the wall’s uid) and the offer ID.
  • When they tapped, with your time zone, and what they saw.
  • The reason Traffic Quality shows, if they’re listed.
  • Why you think they’re a real, single person.

Support

Still stuck? Write to us.

One address for every question: hello@affiliateos.ai. Put the details from this list in your first message so we can find the click or conversion without asking you for them again.

Put these in your message

  1. 01The email you sign in with
  2. 02Your role: publisher, advertiser or network
  3. 03The offer ID
  4. 04The click ID or action_id
  5. 05The time it happened, with your time zone
  6. 06What you expected to happen

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