⚠️ A commission is simply a rule that defines when and how a transaction should be created from a conversion. The settings below are only available for workspace commissions from advertisers, because partner commissions reflect those values.
Conversions on their own are only performance metrics without a payout. Conditions decide which conversions a commission applies to, and therefore when a transaction is created.
Conversions reach PalDock in two ways:
- Created by PalDock, such as clicks, leads, and sends.
- Received through tracking, such as prospects and sales, via pixel, postback, Tracking API, or manual import.
Available conditions
- Offer: choose one or more offers (required).
- Advertiser: choose one or more advertisers.
- Conversion type: the type of conversion that triggers the commission, such as click, lead, send, prospect, sale, or a custom type.
- Source: all sources, or only one, such as affiliate link, iFrame, or API.
- Channel: when the offer uses Pingtree, you can name each channel and reference that name here.
How the conditions are evaluated
- A commission applies when every condition either matches the conversion or is left empty. Empty means “any”.
- Source is read from the original click or lead, not from the conversion that arrived last. A sale sent by postback still counts as coming from the affiliate link that started it.
- When several commissions match the same conversion, see How PalDock picks a commission.
Conditions are not the only check
Even a matching commission creates no transaction if:
- It is inactive or outside its active period. See Commission status.
- Its recurrence limit has been reached.
- The conversion was deduplicated on the advertiser’s external ID.
What the transaction looks like
The conditions decide whether a transaction is created. What it looks like is set elsewhere:
- Commission amount sets the value.
- Transaction type sets the type. Without it, a prospect conversion creates a prospect transaction and everything else creates a sale. See Prospect + Sale vs Pending Sale.
