Getting started

Here is the fastest path to running an attributed affiliate program on Attribloom.

Step 1: Create your account and business

Sign up with a display name, email and password, verify your email and create a business. The same account can also participate as an affiliate. Connect the app or store you want to measure.

Step 2: Configure a campaign

A campaign defines the commission rate, destination link, and approved domains for your program. You need at least one campaign before affiliates can generate tracking links. See the Campaigns article for a full description of each field.

Step 3: Add affiliates

Add or import affiliates with their email and display name. A prepared program can supply promotional links before an affiliate claims access to their private portal. Affiliates sign up or log in with the shared account system, verify their email and claim matching invitations. They can have a free account before joining any program.

Step 4: Affiliates share their tracking links

Every affiliate has a unique tracking link tied to the campaign. Clicks on that link are recorded and the visitor is forwarded to the destination you configured.

Step 5: Verify your conversions

For sales to attribute, you need to report them to Attribloom:

• Web / store: have your server POST each completed sale to your Postback URL, signed with your Postback secret. The details are under Integrations.
• iOS App Store: connect your app under iOS Apps. Keep App Store Connect pointed at your own ASSN v2 server, then relay each unchanged Apple `signedPayload` to the Attribloom Forwarding URL with the forwarding-secret HMAC.

Step 6: Review commissions and choose how to pay

Once a verified conversion appears, inspect its affiliate, currency and commission. iOS proceeds and commissions remain estimated until defensible reconciliation finalizes them; becoming payable does not finalize an estimate. Choose Pay affiliates yourself to record external payments, including partial settlements and corrections, or Pay affiliates with Attribloom when the managed prerequisites are satisfied. Managed payments remain unavailable until activation; do not promise automatic dispatch or bank delivery. Earned commission is a merchant obligation, not proof that Attribloom holds cash.

The ten-minute setup target applies to a prepared integration. Waiting for an app release, store approval or another external prerequisite is separate and must not be presented as part of that promise.

iOS App Store setup checklist

1. If you have not created a campaign on this app's attribution surface, open the app detail page and create one.

2. If the campaign has no affiliates yet, add the affiliates who will share its signed links.

3. If the app is not connected, connect it under iOS Apps with the matching bundle ID and environment.

4. If the app does not show Active, verify ownership so Apple's signed test notification reaches Attribloom.

5. If the app does not bind referrals yet, offer explicit referral-code entry or user-initiated paste/link recovery after applicable permission, save the binding for the current app account, and attach only its cached token when permitted. Attribution failure must not block purchase or restore.

6. If you have not confirmed the full chain, open an affiliate link and make a Sandbox purchase against a Sandbox app.

Shopify setup checklist

1. If no store is connected, enter its Store domain and complete the Shopify connection.

2. If you have no campaign for the store, create one with the terms you want to use.

3. If the campaign has no affiliates yet, add them so each affiliate has an attribution path.

4. If tracking links are not preserved through checkout, configure the storefront to write the `ref` cart attribute.

5. If you have not confirmed attribution, place a test order and check that it appears under Conversions for the expected affiliate.