This section takes you from an empty workspace to one with working tracking and real numbers in it. Nothing here needs to be finished in one sitting. PalDock ships with defaults for almost everything, so the usual route is to build the whole chain quickly, test it, and fill in the detail afterwards.
It works the same whether you are a network, an advertiser running your own program, or an affiliate with a workspace of your own. What differs is which numbers you care about.
Understand the ground rules
- Basic visual cues: the layout, the workspace picker, and why the background is sometimes green.
- One Account, Multiple Workspaces: what belongs to a person’s PalDock account and what belongs to your workspace. This is the one that explains why you cannot change a partner’s email.
- Conversion, Commission, Transaction: three words used constantly in PalDock. Read this before the setup pages.
Set it up
- First steps to get started: currency, the first offer, commissions, and tracking. The main setup page.
- Prospect + Sale vs Pending Sale: whether to pay for one step or two. Decide it per offer, before the commissions are built.
- Tracking guide: which tracking method to use, which identifier the advertiser must send back, and what to hand them.
Check that it works
- Test the Offers: click your own link, submit your own lead, and watch the transaction move through its results.
- See first results: which four numbers everything else is built from, and why a report can look empty on day one when nothing is wrong.
Keep it tidy
- Dashboard: the daily view, and where partners are approved and payouts handled.
- Categorization: countries, categories, and tags. They look cosmetic and they are what you filter and group reports by later, so set them as you go.
Where to go next
Once traffic is flowing, the rest of the knowledge base covers it in depth: Offers, Commissions, Tracking, and Reports and Logs.
When something does not appear where you expect it, the answer is almost always in the logs. They record every click, lead, conversion, and request, with the reason attached.
