Per-offer links and S2S postbacks for your tracker.
Approval per offer. Your tracker's click ID rides on every link and comes back on the postback for each conversion.
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| Campaign (sub1) | Source | Conv. | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|
| spring_native | native | 9 | $37.80 |
| search_generic | search | 5 | $21.00 |
| native_retarget | native | 2 | $8.40 |
Last postback 2:06 PM · signed
Who it's for
For buyers who run paid traffic to offers.
- You buy search, social or native Paid traffic you send straight to an offer's link.
- You run a tracker It takes a postback URL and matches your click ID.
- You work offer by offer Each one has its own sources, caps and rules.
Not you? Rewarding users for completing offers? Rewarded apps fits better
How it works
Ask, get approved, send traffic.
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Ask for an offer
Tell us the offer, your sources and your countries. We check them against the offer's rules and approve it, or tell you why not.
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YouYou
Can we run Harbor Blocks on search and native, US?
AOAffiliateOS team
Native is approved. Search is approved without brand terms: no bidding on Harbor Blocks or Tidewater Games.
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Build the link
Your tracker's click ID in
sub_id, then campaign, ad set and ad insub1tosub3. Up to ten of your own values per link.Link with tracker macros/click ?off_id=aff_hb40 &pub_id=pub_afos &partner_id=pt_8f2c41 &sub_id={clickid} &sub1={campaign} &sub2={adset} &sub3={ad}IDs and amounts are examples from our fictional world. -
Get the signed postback
Each conversion and reversal posts to your tracker with your values and a verifier. Use our macros to fill its parameters.
Your postback URLhttps://trk.yourtracker.example/postback ?cid={sub_id} &camp={sub1} &adset={sub2} &payout={payout} &status={status}IDs and amounts are examples from our fictional world.
Today
You
Can we run Harbor Blocks on search and native, US?
AffiliateOS team
Native is approved. Search is approved without brand terms: no bidding on Harbor Blocks or Tidewater Games.
/click
?off_id=aff_hb40
&pub_id=pub_afos
&partner_id=pt_8f2c41
&sub_id={clickid}
&sub1={campaign}
&sub2={adset}
&sub3={ad}https://trk.yourtracker.example/postback
?cid={sub_id}
&camp={sub1}
&adset={sub2}
&payout={payout}
&status={status}What your tracker gets
Your values out, the same values back.
Type your own values. The link and the postback fill in together, matched by color.
1You send the click
2Your tracker gets the postback
sub1 to sub10 are never sent to the advertiser. A reversal comes back the same way, with status=reversed.
Money
What you get paid for.
Every offer on your list comes with how it pays and what it pays you, in dollars. No rewards for users.
Pay shapes that fit
- Pay per install (CPI)
- A user installs the app from your ad.
- per install
- Pay per sign-up
- A user creates an account. One payout.
- per action
- Pay per event
- Offers with priced steps list each step's payout and goal ID.
- per step
An example shortlist
- Harbor Blocks $4.20 per install
- Tidewater Putt $6.10 over 3 events
- Copper Kitchen $3.10 per sign-up
Tracking and money
Tracking and money work the same everywhere.
One conversion, in order: your user's tap, our click record, the advertiser's confirmation, then a signed postback to your server.
- Tap u_48213
- Click clk_7Q2f81
- Conversion advertiser confirms
- Postback signed
- Your server 200 OK
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Click Tracking
Every tap is recorded with your user's ID and up to ten of your own values, sub1 to sub10.
How clicks are tracked -
Signed postbacks
Each one carries an HMAC-SHA256 verifier made with your secret. Without a secret, we don't send.
How postbacks work -
Fraud Defense
Suspect installs are held, unpaid, until reviewed. Traffic Quality lists the users we reject, with the reason.
How fraud checks work -
Reporting
Trace any conversion from tap to your server, or download every conversion as a CSV.
How reporting works
Before you start
Rules for paid traffic.
What's allowed, what's yours to handle and where we say no.
- Approval
Approval per offer, before you send a click.
- Required
Each offer's allowed sources and brand-bidding rules. Bidding on an advertiser's brand is allowed only where the offer says so.
- Not allowed
Rewarding users for the click or the action.
- Default
Fraud checks apply to your clicks. Suspect installs are held, unpaid, until reviewed.
Questions
What media buyers ask.
Something else? Write to hello@affiliateos.ai and we reply by email.
What if an offer stops while my ads are running?
Get an email when an offer you run changes its payout or stops running. Each person on your team sets up their own under Email alerts in the portal. New clicks on a stopped offer don't pay, so pause the ads and ask in your channel for a swap.
How many of my own values can I pass?
Ten, sub1 to sub10, up to 128 characters each. They come back on every postback for that conversion for 90 days and are never sent to the advertiser. Your click ID goes in sub_id and comes back on every postback too.
What if a conversion is reversed?
Your tracker gets a second postback with the same action_id and status=reversed, with the reason when we have one. Map {status} into your tracker so it can tell the two apart.
Which trackers work?
Any tracker that accepts a postback URL. Use our macros, such as {sub1} and {payout}, to fill its parameters.
Does my tracker need to check the signature?
If it can. Each postback carries a verifier: an HMAC-SHA256 of the full URL, made with your secret. If your tracker can't check it, a small endpoint in front of it can, then forward the postback.
Get every click ID back, signed.
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