Zero-Fee Partner Marketing.
Stop giving up 9% of your revenue to third-party affiliate platforms. Aeion Affiliates is natively integrated into your Commerce checkout, automatically tracking promo codes, managing the payout ledger, and handling refund clawbacks—without brittle webhooks.
A Native Referral Engine
Native Checkout Tracking
Stop relying on unreliable cookies. Discount-code usage is tracked deterministically right at checkout. Cookie-based attribution with a configurable attribution window covers organic traffic as a fallback. Multi-touch attribution across channels.
Automated Payout Ledger
A rigorous, immutable ledger tracks every earned commission, clearing period, and historical payout using standard double-entry accounting — nothing is ever overwritten, only appended.
Smart Refund Clawbacks
When a customer returns an order in Commerce, a reversal entry is created automatically in the affiliate's immutable ledger. Refund clawback is atomic — no manual intervention.
Tiered Commission Structures
Create multiple tiers (Bronze, Silver, Gold) with flat-fee or percentage-based payouts. Tier status recalculates automatically on every qualifying conversion.
Payout Orchestration
The moment an affiliate crosses their payout threshold, Aeion fires a payout-ready event. Stripe Connect and PayPal payouts work out of the box, or hook the event into an ACH batch export or your own billing adapter — Aeion handles batching, idempotency, and reconciliation back to the affiliate's ledger either way.
Partner Portal
Give affiliates their own branded dashboard to track performance, generate unique tracking links, and view their balance. Real-time commission updates. Payout history with downloadable CSV export.
Built for Reliability
Attribution Engine
Combines deterministic promo-code tracking with cookie-based fallback and multi-touch attribution, so every conversion gets credited to the right partner — no guessing which touchpoint actually closed the sale.
Commission Engine
Evaluates tier status, calculates payout, and applies clawback logic automatically on every conversion and every refund — commissions are always correct, never manually reconciled at month-end.
Affiliate Management
Tracks referrals, calculates commissions, and gives every partner their own dashboard — so you're running a partner program, not managing relationships out of a spreadsheet.
Designed for Every Partner Type
E-commerce Influencers
Give creators custom discount codes. They earn a percentage automatically when followers buy using their code.
B2B SaaS Referrals
Reward existing customers with a flat-fee bounty for bringing in new enterprise accounts.
Agency Networks
Build tiered programs where top-performing agency partners unlock higher revenue-share percentages.
The Advantage of Being Native
Third-party affiliate tools suffer from sync issues. When a customer uses a promo code, the third-party tool has to listen for a webhook. If an order is later refunded or partially refunded, someone usually has to manually update the affiliate tool. Aeion Affiliates shares the exact same database as Aeion Commerce. When a refund occurs, a reversal entry is created automatically in the affiliate's immutable ledger. Pure automation, zero sync errors, zero third-party fees.
Frequently Asked Questions
Server-side click attribution via signed referral tokens. The token sets a first-party cookie + writes a server-side attribution record at click time. Conversion-side matching uses customer email + transaction timestamp + token reference — first-party data only, no third-party cookies, no FLOC / Topics dependency.
Yes — per-product commission, per-category, per-affiliate-tier, per-customer-segment, time-based ramps (bonus during launch). Two-level deep MLM-style is supported if you want it (Tier 1 affiliate gets X%, sub-affiliate gets Y%); deeper levels disabled by default for compliance simplicity.
Every commission and payout is tracked in a real, auditable ledger, and a payout-ready event fires automatically once an affiliate crosses their threshold. Stripe Connect and PayPal payouts work out of the box; prefer an ACH batch export or your own billing adapter instead? Wire the event into that rail. Tax form collection (W-9 / 1099-NEC / W-8BEN) is bring-your-own — connect the ledger CSV to your accountant's flow at year-end.
A compliance AI agent scores affiliate activity after each conversion, reasoning over anomaly patterns — repeat-click / device-fingerprint clusters, unusual conversion timing, geo-IP mismatches (affiliate in one country, all conversions in another), and payment-method clustering — against the affiliate's ledger and commerce data. Suspicious accounts auto-flag ("AI Flagged") for review before payout.
Yes — each affiliate gets a tenant-scoped dashboard with clicks, conversions, commission earned (pending + paid), and creative performance. Updates within seconds of conversion events. Mobile-friendly so they can check on the go.
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Deep Agent Orchestrations & UI Polish
Autonomous Fraud Detection (Compliance Agent)
Continuously monitors the affiliate ledger and commerce data to detect fraudulent referral patterns (e.g., self-dealing or stolen cards), quarantining payouts under the **"AI Flagged"** Quick Filter.
AI Partner Matching (Recruiting Agent)
Digs through the CRM to identify high-LTV customers with significant social influence. Autonomously scores candidates, allowing managers to invite them via the **"AI Matched"** filter.
Smart Campaign Optimization (Affiliate Manager Agent)
Analyzes program performance over time. Autonomously identifies which programs need a commission boost to revive sales and which are overpaying, transparently tracked via the **"AI Optimized"** filter.