I’m Affiliate
Summary: If you need to activate an affiliate funnel.
Checklist đź‘“
1. Add a custom tracking domain
1. Add a CNAME record pointing to your RedTrack default domain in your domain registrar.
2. On the left menu, go to Tools, then Domains, add New.
3. Add the integrated domain to your RedTrack account and activate the Free SSL option.
2. Add the offer source and the affiliate offer
1. Go to the offer source section to proceed with adding the offer source.
1. New from template → find the affiliate network you work with → Add → Save.
2. All the info you need is already in place, copy the postback URL to add on the affiliate network side.
1. New from scratch → set the name → add the clickid and sum (payout) macros supported by your partner → Save.
2. Copy the generated postback URL to add on the affiliate network side.
2. Go to Offers → New → add the name, choose the offer source, add the offer URL → Save the changes.
3. Add the postback on the affiliate network side
1. Go to your affiliate network → add the URL (copied within step 2) to the postback settings
2. If there are several conversion types available, use this format of the postback URLs:
https://docs.trk.agency/postback?clickid=replace&sum=replace&type=conversion_type.
replace: your affiliate network macro
conversion_type: the name of the conversion type you apply the postback for.
4. Add custom conversion events (if you can track them with your affiliate network)
If your affiliate network supports tracking of various conversion events, you can see them in RedTrack as well.
1. Go to Tools → Conversion Tracking → Conversion types.
2. Add the conversion types you need. Names should match the names your affiliate network will send to you.
3. Set the duplicate postback mode for each of the events according to your business needs.
5. Add traffic channels and integrate them with RedTrack
Go to RedTrack → Traffic channels → New from template (used if RT has a preset template for your channel) / New from scratch (if RT doesn’t have a preset template for your channel).
Remember that traffic channels are integrated with RT in different ways. To make the proper setup follow the steps in our RT KB guides precisely:
1. Find Meta → Add → Save.
2. Press the “Connect Meta” button → follow the steps suggested.
3. Verify your tracking domain on the Meta side.
1. Find Google Ads (No-redirect tracking) → Add → Save.
2. Scroll down to the Google API integration.
3. Connect to your Google Ads account by pressing a “Sign in with Google” button.
4. Once done, you can add your Google ID and save the changes.
5. Adjust the conversion mapping as per your needs.
1. Find TikTok → Add → Save.
2. Press the “Connect TikTok” button → follow the steps suggested.
3. Add your pixel id and access token from TikTok.
You cannot find the traffic channel you work with in the list of preset templates.
1. Go to New from scratch → add the name of your channel → fill in the dynamic parameters you’re gonna use for your traffic analysis and which your traffic channel supports.
2. Add the postback URL (S2S Postback URL) if any → Save the changes.
– channel_macro={ref_id} in the postback link,
– ref_id={channel_macro} in the campaign link.
6. Add the landing page (optional)
1. Go to Landers → New → Add the name and the URL of your landing page and choose the tracking that you are going to use for this lander.
All other settings are done on your side.
2. Scroll down the lander settings and find Click URL → copy it and paste t instead of the offer URL on your landing page.
3. Add one of the tracking scripts to the page code: the head or the body section.
7. Create a tracking campaign
Go to Campaigns → New → Fill in the info in all the sections and tabs:
- General:Â Give it the name, and choose the traffic channel, tracking domain, and cost-tracking method.
- Funnels:Â Choose the type of funnel you are using and add the elements from the drop-downs.
- S2S postback:Â This field will be filled in automatically based on the data you have added to your traffic channel settings.
- Auto update costs:Â Remember to turn the toggle on if you are working with the API-integrated traffic channel.
8. Start running traffic
1. Create the campaigns in your traffic channel and add RedTrack links to start receiving the traffic data.
Use the redirect campaign link (Tracking links and parameters → Redirect) only for the traffic channels that accept redirects.
Use the landing page URL + the tracking parameters (Tracking links and parameters → Universal script or No-redirect) for the other cases.
1. Go to Ads Manager → Create Ad → Create New Campaign or Use existing Campaign → add your URL.
2. Add additional tracking parameters from your RedTrack account to your URL in the “URL parameters” section.
1. Regular campaigns:
Settings → Account settings → Tracking → Tracking template.
2. Merchant Center campaigns:
Settings → Account settings → Tracking → Final URL suffix remove the {lpurl}? from the parameters string.
3. YouTube Tracking parameters for YouTube are added only on the Ad level.
– check out Google Ads guide → Setting up the tracking in Google Ads.
– follow this video for tips on how to add tracking parameters to Google Ads campaigns.
Insert your URL + the tracking parameters under Ad → Ad details → URL.
Most other traffic channels accept the redirect URL, so simply copy it and add it to the traffic campaign.
In case you want to use the no-redirect tracking or your traffic channel asks to use this method only, instead of the tracking URL add the landing page URL and the tracking parameters where needed.
9. Start receiving conversion and revenue data (+ad spend for API integrations)
You will start receiving the cost data from the integrated traffic channel automatically with the frequency available for your subscription.
Here is the accuracy we can guarantee:
– API integrated traffic channel is sending us the cost data, there are no errors in the logs,
– For the non-API traffic channel: the costs are set and working (set on a campaign level, received via the macro, updated manually).
The visitor makes the purchase/desired action, and the affiliate network sends the purchase or other conversion information back to RedTrack.
We guarantee a close to 0 discrepancy for the conversion data between your affiliate network and RedTrack.
For the cases when you use the universal tracking script, the conversion distribution between the paid and organic campaigns may vary since RedTrack normally attaches the conversion to the specific touch points tracked.
