We run a referral programme alongside a separate volume-rebate scheme for high-value partners, and previously those lived in different places with different numbers. Now they sit under one structure. Commission scales with traded volume, rebates automatically recalculate as partners cross thresholds, and the API gives us everything we need for our own dashboards. The MCP integration is the sleeper feature: our analysts can query partner performance through Claude directly, and it’s removed a whole category of ad hoc data requests from my team’s week.

Our issue isn’t generic click fraud; it’s people referring themselves (and their friends) to farm the affiliate payout on challenge purchases. The fraud rules are configurable enough that we can describe our real pattern—same payment fingerprint, the same IP cluster, and sign-up chains under 24 hours—and have the system flag those cases instead of paying them out. That capability alone paid for the platform. On top of that, tiered commissions on challenge purchases work well for us, and payout-on-funded-account milestones also do what we need. The AI assistant is also genuinely helpful: it can answer questions like, “Why did this affiliate’s approval rate drop?” without me having to build a separate report.

I come from a media-buying background, so I judge any platform by one simple thing: whether it drops my sub-IDs. This one doesn’t. The Smartlink routing by geo and device is solid, sub-ID passing survives the entire chain, and the postback macros line up with what the traffic sources actually send. Spinning up a new offer takes minutes, and I don’t have to open a ticket just to get it set up. The automation rules are the part I underestimated most—I’ve got conversions auto-approving above a confidence threshold, with everything else queued for review, and that’s given me back roughly two hours a week.