⚠️ A commission is simply a rule that defines when and how a transaction should be created from a conversion.
Conversions are performance metrics on their own. They carry no money. A commission is the rule that turns a conversion into a transaction with a payout and a result.
Every commission exists twice: once for your workspace, meaning what you receive from the advertiser, and once for your partners, meaning what you pay them. The two are linked, so both transactions are always created together.
What you can control
- When a transaction is created, using conditions such as offer, advertiser, conversion type, source, and channel.
- How much it is worth, as a fixed value, a percentage, or a calculation using system fields and values from tracking.
- What type of transaction it is, and what result it gets when it is created.
- How duplicates and repeats are handled, using recurrence limits and deduplication on the advertiser’s external ID.
- Who it applies to, using commission groups.
Start here
- Commission conditions to create Transactions sets which conversions a commission applies to.
- Commission amount sets what the transaction is worth.
- Commission status controls whether a commission applies at all.
When several commissions apply
- How PalDock picks a commission explains which commission runs and how many of them run.
- Multiple Commissions for the Same Conversion Type
- Commission order
- Commission ID lets the advertiser name the exact commission in a tracking request.
Controlling the transaction
Avoiding duplicates
- Recurrence type limits how many times one commission can be applied to the same conversion.
- Deduplication based on advertiser’s ID keeps one transaction per external ID.
Organizing and presenting
- Commission group targets commissions at selected affiliates. An affiliate can belong to only one group.
- Commission schedule changes amounts over time.
- Display amount shows a clean label instead of a formula.
- Commission detail adds a short note to the commission table.
PalDock calculates reporting metrics such as ROI from the difference between your amount and the partner payout. See Performance reports.
