How do I pay my affiliates?

You pay affiliates from your own account, either automatically through Stripe or by downloading a file and sending the payments yourself. LinkJolt never holds your money, so there is no LinkJolt balance to top up and nothing to withdraw.

Every payout starts the same way: a commission must be approved before it can be paid.

1. Approve the commission

Open Commissions. Click a pending row and use Approve to do one, or tick several rows and use Approve (n) in the selection bar.

A refunded commission is closed for good and can never be approved or paid. A rejected one is not payable while it is rejected, though you can open it and choose Approve anyway if you are confident the sale was genuine.

2. Choose how the money gets there

Open Payouts in the sidebar and click Pay affiliates on the Ready to pay tab. The same button also sits at the top of the Commissions page. LinkJolt groups every approved commission under How they get paid, based on how each affiliate can actually receive money, and each group has its own action.

Automatic, via Stripe

For affiliates who have connected a Stripe payout account, LinkJolt charges your saved card and sends each affiliate their share out of that charge. You do not connect Stripe yourself, your card is the funding source.

1. The account owner, or a team member with payout permission, accepts the payout terms once on the Settings tab of the Payouts page.
2. Pick the group and press Pay [n] affiliates, then review the breakdown before confirming.

One charge is created per affiliate per currency, so one affiliate's failure cannot block the rest. Each charge carries Stripe's processing fee of 2.9% plus 0.30 in the charge currency, passed through at cost. LinkJolt takes nothing.

This route reaches affiliates registered in the UK, the US, Canada, Switzerland and the EEA, for commissions in pounds, US dollars or euros. Anything outside that is stopped before any charge is created, so you are never billed for a transfer that cannot land. Transfers arrive in 1 to 3 business days and cannot be reversed once sent.

By file, for everyone else

Affiliates who saved a PayPal email or a Wise email sit in a group for each. Download that group's file, pay them yourself from your own PayPal, Wise or bank account, then come back and confirm. Nothing is marked paid until you do.

"Mark as Paid" on a single commission is not always a records-only step. If that affiliate has a connected payout account and you have accepted the payout terms, it sends a real transfer and charges your card. Check the confirmation before you confirm it: "Send payment now?" means money moves, "Mark commission as paid?" means records only.

Paying without clicking every time

Accept the payout terms on the Settings tab of the Payouts page, then turn on Auto-Payouts on that same tab, or from the toolbar of the Commissions page. It is available on the Professional, Ultimate and Scale plans, and the switch stays disabled until the terms are accepted.

Approving a commission then queues the payment. Your card is charged on the next daily payout run, at least 24 hours after you approve. A refund inside that window cancels the queued payment, or reduces it if the refund was partial.

Queued and completed payouts are listed on the Activity tab of the Payouts page.

When an affiliate cannot be paid yet

Affiliates with no usable payout details are grouped under Cannot be paid yet. Only they can fix that, so the action there is a reminder. Their commissions stay approved and unpaid until they act.

For more, see "Does LinkJolt hold my money or process my payments?" and "What happens to an affiliate's commission when a sale is refunded?".