Once you have a registered partner account with Adtraction and begin earning commission, we handle the entire payment process for you. Your earned commission is tracked as a transaction, and each transaction progresses through various statuses until it becomes available for payment.

When a someone clicks on your unique tracking link and successfully completes a desired action (a conversion) on the brand's website such as making a purchase or completing a lead form, a transaction is registered in real-time.

This means the transaction will be visible in your Adtraction reports right away, allowing you to track your performance immediately.

A transaction can have five different statuses. The status indicates exactly where the commission is in the payment pipeline. You can view the status of all your transactions by navigating to Insights and selecting Conversions at your Adtraction account.

The different statuses that a transaction/conversion can have is:

Pending confirmation

This is the first status a transaction receives as soon as it is successfully tracked.

The transaction is visible in your reports, but it remains preliminary. The brand needs time to verify the purchase or lead (e.g., waiting for the product return window to close or verifying the lead).
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Confirmed by Brand

The brand has reviewed the transaction and validated that it meets all necessary campaign criteria. Brands typically perform this approval process once a month (though sometimes more frequently).
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Invoiced to Brand

This marks the moment Adtraction begins the financial process.

Once a month, Adtraction compiles all confirmed transactions and sends an invoice to the brand for payment. The transaction status is then updated to "Invoiced to Brand."

The commission is confirmed and you will be able to make a payout first when the brand has paid the invoice.

We offer partners the flexibility to receive commission for transactions that are "Invoiced to Brand," even before the brand pays Adtraction. This is called a Pre-payment and you can read more about how pre-payments works in this article.
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Ready for Payment

This is the final status required for you to receive your commission.

This means that Adtraction has received the payment from the brand for the invoiced commission. The transaction is now fully funded and queued for the next scheduled partner payout.

While most transactions are confirmed, some may be rejected by the brand due to different reasons.

A transaction that was "Pending confirmation" may be moved to the "Rejected" status instead of "Approved".

Common Reasons:

Rejection is most often due to reasons like:

Rejected transactions are not invoiced to the brand and will not be paid out as commission to you as a partner.

Once your transactions reach the Ready for Payment status, the actual transfer of funds occurs automatically on our scheduled payment dates.

For more details on when and how funds are transferred to your bank account, please see our dedicated article: Adtraction’s payment process for partners.