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Affiliate Manager

The Affiliate Manager is where you run your partner program inside the CRM: build campaigns, add partners, decide what they earn, and approve their payouts.
“Affiliate” means partner. Partners are stored as affiliates here, and Funding Machine’s Partners workspace reads the same records and joins them to your funding results. Affiliate Manager is the source of record; these guides keep its literal Affiliate labels in steps and screenshots.
New to it? Read How it works, then Set up a campaign.

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How it works

The three sections — Campaign, Affiliate, and Payout — and how they fit together.

Dashboard

Core metrics, conversion trend, leaderboard, pending actions, latest commissions.

Campaigns

Campaigns list

Campaign metrics, and the table to edit, publish, clone, or delete campaigns.

Set up a campaign

The full build: details, source, products, commissions, partners, and settings.

Clone a campaign

Duplicate an existing campaign’s configuration.

Import campaigns

Bring campaigns over from FirstPromoter.

Lead tracking

Track partner leads using forms, surveys, or calendars as the source.

Partner records

In the CRM these sit under Affiliate Manager → Affiliate.

Affiliates list

Search, filter, export, and the per-partner actions menu.

Add a partner

One at a time, in bulk, or imported from contacts.

Partner highlights

One partner’s stats, links, commissions, leads, customers, and payouts.

Quick campaign actions

Add, remove, or move partners between campaigns from the list.

Delete partners

Permanently remove a partner — and what to check first.

Magic links

Let a partner reach their portal without credentials.

Partner coupon codes

Give a partner’s referrals an exclusive discount.

Customers under partners

Disable, move, or remove an attributed customer; delete a denied commission.

Sub-affiliates and tiers

Multi-tier commissions

Pay partners on their own sales and their sub-affiliates’ sales.

Add a sub-affiliate

Attach a partner under a parent from the Sub-Affiliate tab.

Sub-affiliate sign-ups

Let partners recruit their own sub-affiliates.

Commissions

Per-partner commissions

Override a campaign’s rate for one partner.

Commission length

Cap recurring commissions and vary the rate by charge count.

Pay-per-lead

Pay a fixed amount for every referred lead.

Pay-per-sale

Pay when a referral completes a qualifying purchase.

Add sales manually

Record a sale that happened outside the tracked link.

Payouts

Payouts

The payout queue: pending, approved, paid, denied.

Paying partners

Automatic PayPal payouts vs. manual bank transfers.

Automate payouts with PayPal

Pay approved commissions without exporting.

Portal, media, and settings

Affiliate portal

Turn on the portal and choose what partners see.

Media library

Share creative, scoped to specific campaigns.

Settings

Global defaults: notifications, cookie life, payout terms, sub-affiliates, portal.

Customize labels

Rename Affiliate Manager labels to match your brand.