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How do I get affiliates into my program?

Five ways: email an invitation to one person or a pasted list, share your campaign's signup link, get listed on the Discovery marketplace (Professional and up), import your existing roster from another platform or a CSV, or create affiliates with the Developer API (Ultimate and Scale).

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Updated Sep 5, 2026

You can recruit affiliates several ways, and you can mix them.

The options

  • Email invitation: on the Affiliates page, Invite Affiliate sends a specific person their own invitation email. Accepting adds them to the campaign as approved, whatever the campaign's approval setting says. To invite many at once, use the Find affiliates tab on the same page: paste or upload up to 100 addresses and everyone on the list gets the same invitation.
  • Shareable signup link: the Signup Link tab of that dialog generates one reusable link for a campaign that anyone can follow. Once it exists it also appears in the campaign's details, under Tracking Links, as "Affiliate invite link". People who join through it follow the campaign's approval setting, so they arrive either approved or waiting for your review.
  • Discovery marketplace (Professional and up): your active campaigns are listed for affiliates browsing LinkJolt to find and apply to, unless you switch that campaign's visibility off. Applications follow the same approval setting, so turn auto-approve on to accept them instantly.
  • Import an existing roster: Import affiliates on the Affiliates page pulls your partners from Tolt, Rewardful, FirstPromoter or Affonso using your own API key, or from a CSV you upload. The key is used for the pull and never stored, and nothing is written until you approve the review. Available on every plan, up to your plan's affiliate limit.
  • Developer API (Ultimate and Scale): create affiliate records programmatically for partners you manage and pay directly.

Affiliates who arrive by invitation, your signup link or Discovery get their own portal login, so their tracking link and any coupon code registered for them show up there with nothing to send by hand. Imported affiliates and affiliates created through the Developer API work differently: they have no login and no portal, and nobody emails them. Passing their tracking link on is your job, from the campaign's details for an import, or from the create call's response for the API.

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