Commission groups let you pay different affiliates different amounts for the same offer, without creating a separate offer or a separate commission for each of them.
Groups apply to partner commissions only. A workspace commission always exists once per offer and conversion type, because there is nothing to segment on your own side.
- A group can contain one or many affiliates.
- An affiliate can belong to only one group.
- Affiliates you have not put anywhere belong to the Default group.
What gets created
You never create partner commissions by hand. PalDock keeps them in sync for you.
- When you create a workspace commission, PalDock creates one partner commission under it for the Default group and for every other group.
- When you create a new group, PalDock creates a partner commission for that group under every existing workspace commission.
- All of them start as inactive, so nothing is paid out before you set the amounts.
What the partner commissions inherit
Each partner commission copies the conditions of the workspace commission above it: offer, conversion type, source, channel, active period, transaction type, and auto-approve. Those fields cannot be changed on the partner commission, and any later change to the workspace commission is passed down automatically.
What you set per group is the part that differs:
- The amount
- The display amount and detail
- Whether the commission is active for that group
Which one applies
An affiliate is always paid by the commission for their own group. There is no fallback.
- If the commission for that group is inactive, the affiliate gets no transaction. The commission of another group is never used instead.
- Activate the commission in every group that should be earning on the offer, not just in the Default group.
See How PalDock picks a commission.
Working with groups
- Start with the Default group and add more only when you actually need to pay someone differently.
- Deleting a group moves its affiliates to the Default group, so they are paid by the Default group commission from then on.
- Moving an affiliate between groups changes what they earn on future transactions. Transactions already created keep their amount.
- Groups are workspace-wide, not per offer, so one group covers all your offers at once.
