Testing your affiliate program

Before pointing real partners at your program, run through it yourself end to end. It takes a few minutes and catches misconfigured rates, terms, and tracking before they cost you.

Invite yourself as an affiliate

Add yourself (a personal email works) as an affiliate in your own program. Check that:

• The enrollment reflects the settings you intended: approval step if required, terms acceptance if required.
• You receive a handle and can sign in to the affiliate portal with the email one-time code.
• Your tracked link is correct and lands where it should, with mref= on it.

Test attribution and commissions

Attribute a test customer to yourself to confirm the money math:

1. Open a customer in your workspace and manually attribute them to your test affiliate.
2. Backdate the effective date so their existing transactions fall inside the commission window.
3. Run a commission sweep (or wait for the scheduled one) and check the commissions created match your program’s rate, duration, and revenue components.
4. Sign in to the portal as the affiliate and confirm the referral and commissions show up correctly there too.

Test the tracking script

Visit your marketing site through your own tracked link, confirm window.affiliateTrack.referralCode holds your handle in the browser console, then verify the code survives navigating to another page.

When you’re done, cancel the test commissions and remove the test attribution so they never reach a payout.