How do affiliates join my program?

There are six ways in, and you can mix them freely. Most start on the Affiliates page in your dashboard.

Invite one person by email

Click Invite Affiliate, stay on the Specific Affiliate tab, leave Affiliate Type on New Affiliate, pick the campaign and enter their email address. Name is optional. Send Invitation emails them a personal link.

• It expires 30 days after it is sent. While it is unanswered they show up under the Invited stage, where Remind resends it and restarts the 30 days, up to five times, and Cancel invitation withdraws it.
• It only works for the address you sent it to, so if they signed up with a different one, invite that address instead.
• Accepting adds them to the campaign as approved, whatever the campaign's approval setting says.

To add an affiliate you already have to another campaign, switch Affiliate Type to Existing Affiliate and pick them.

Share a signup link

Same dialog, Signup Link tab. Pick the campaign and click Generate Invitation Link. That is one reusable link for that campaign that anyone can follow, so it suits a newsletter or a partners page.

A signup link cannot be switched off once it exists. Treat it as permanent and public, and use personal invitations for anyone you want to keep control over.

Invite a list of addresses at once

Affiliates page, Find affiliates tab. Choose the campaign under Invite them to, then paste or upload up to 100 email addresses. Everyone gets the same personal invitation as the single flow. Addresses already invited to that campaign, already on it, or rejected from it before are skipped automatically, and the result lists what was skipped.

Let affiliates find you in Discovery

On the Professional plan and above, your active campaigns are listed in the Discovery marketplace by default and affiliates browsing LinkJolt can apply. Visibility is set under Advanced settings on the campaign, or on the Discover page afterwards. See "How does the Discovery marketplace help me find affiliates?".

Import a roster you already have

Affiliates page, Import affiliates. Four steps:

1. Pick Tolt, Rewardful, FirstPromoter, Affonso, or upload a CSV instead.
2. Connect. Your API key for that platform is used for the pull and never stored. A CSV only needs a column headed "email", up to 1 MB and 2,000 affiliates.
3. Pick the campaign they join.
4. Review, then run it. Nothing is written until you approve the review, and re-running is safe.

Nobody is emailed by an import, and the affiliates it creates have no login. An address that already belongs to another LinkJolt affiliate account is not imported: invite that person instead. If your old platform's link handles are in the file, links your affiliates already shared keep working once your site runs the LinkJolt tracking script.

Create them with the Developer API

On Ultimate and Scale, creating an affiliate through the API returns a ready-to-share tracking link with no login involved.

After they join

Signup-link and Discovery joins follow the campaign's approval setting, under Advanced settings, which reads either Auto-Approve Enabled or Manual Approval Required. Manual is the default, so they sit pending until you approve them on the Affiliates page. That setting governs membership only, never commissions, which you always approve yourself.

Rejecting someone is permanent for that campaign. No invitation, signup link or Discovery application can bring them back. If you might change your mind, approve them and suspend them later instead: a suspension can be reversed.

The Starter plan is capped at 10 affiliates. Professional and above are unlimited.

Related: "Can affiliates start promoting before I approve them?" and "How do affiliates get their tracking links?"