You can set a commission to create a transaction with specified amounts for yourself and your partners. PalDock supports three commission amount types:
1. Fixed amount: Enter a fixed value that will always be used as the payout amount.
2. Percentage:
- For advertiser commissions, the percentage is calculated from the value received in the postback. You can enter either a number (e.g., 10) or a number with a percentage sign (e.g., 10%). For example, if the value is 100 and the commission is set to 10%, the resulting amount will be 10.
- For partner commissions, the percentage is calculated from the advertiser’s commission amount. You can again enter a number or a percentage. For example, if the advertiser’s commission is 10 and the partner commission is set to 50%, the payout to the partner will be 5.
3. Calculation: Use any system field and any field from the postback in a custom formula to calculate the commission amount.
- To avoid displaying a complex formula, you can use the Display amount function to show a cleaner label instead.
- This is also useful if you want to base partner commissions on a different value than the advertiser’s commission. For example, if you receive 10% of the value from the advertiser and want to pay partners 5% of that value, you can set the formula to 0.05 * {value} and set the Display amount to simply “5%.”
Examples:
- If you’re a network, your profit is the difference between the partner payout and what you receive from the advertiser.
- If you’re an advertiser, this defines your maximum CPA used to calculate profit per partner.
- If you’re an affiliate using a dedicated workspace, you can set both values the same. This applies only to you (or your future sub-affiliates).
You can configure commission amounts in the Commission section to edit multiple offers at once, or in the Offer settings if you only need to adjust a single offer.
PalDock automatically calculates reporting metrics, such as ROI, based on the difference between your amount and the partner payout.
You might also want to check out the Commission groups feature for organizing and managing commissions across affiliates.
