Affiliate Tracking for Polar

No. Polar is your merchant of record and billing platform: checkout, subscriptions, tax, invoicing, and a webhook event for every order. Partner accounts, tracking links, commission rules, refund handling and payouts are not part of it. LinkJolt adds that layer on top, using the order.paid event as the record of what was sold and order.refunded as the record of what was given back.

With one approval on Polar's site. You pick the organization, Polar asks you to allow LinkJolt to read your organization, manage webhooks and discounts and read orders, and that is the whole setup. LinkJolt creates its webhook endpoint in your organization itself, with Polar handing back the signing secret, so there is no webhook to configure and no secret to copy. You can revoke the access in Polar's settings at any time, and the Polar tab in LinkJolt has a Disconnect button that removes the endpoint again.

Usually not. If your site links to Polar checkout links, the LinkJolt tracking script adds the affiliate reference to every Polar checkout link and embedded checkout on the page, and Polar carries it through to the order as metadata. If your own code creates the checkout with Polar's API or SDK, pass the reference the script exposes as metadata.reference_id: one line. If you cannot change anything, coupon codes work on their own: a code registered against an affiliate credits them on any order that uses it.

order.paid is the sale: a one-time purchase, the first payment of a subscription, a trial starting, and every renewal arrive as paid orders. order.refunded reverses commission. LinkJolt subscribes to these for you when it creates the endpoint, along with the refund, subscription and organization events it logs, and pins the endpoint to one API version so a payload change on Polar's side cannot silently alter what is recorded.

The commission is reversed. Polar's order carries the total refunded so far, so a partial refund reduces the commission in proportion and a full refund removes it and cancels any payout still queued for it. Because the figure is cumulative, a redelivered event changes nothing twice. Your affiliate sees the change in their portal.

Yes, on the Professional plan and above. Polar copies the affiliate reference onto the subscription and onto every renewal order it creates, so each renewal pays the affiliate who referred the customer at the recurring rate you set, with a cap by number of months or number of payments if you want one. A free trial is recorded when it starts and becomes a commission when the first real payment arrives.

Yes. Add a code for an affiliate in LinkJolt and it is created as a discount in your Polar organization with the percentage or fixed amount and duration you chose, and a campaign can give every approved affiliate their own code automatically, named after them. Codes you created in Polar yourself can be registered instead. A sale that uses the code is credited to that affiliate, by the discount's id or its code.

LinkJolt checks every connected Polar organization once a day. If Polar switched the webhook off after failed deliveries, LinkJolt switches it back on. If the webhook was deleted, switched off again, or the access was revoked, the Polar tab shows what is wrong and you get one email and one notification that name the fix: Reconnect. No silent stop.

Polar does not pay affiliates, so payouts run separately. Automated payouts use Stripe Connect: your saved card funds the payout and Stripe transfers each affiliate their share, reaching the US, UK, EEA, Canada and Switzerland. For affiliates elsewhere, export a mass-payout CSV for PayPal or Wise. Every conversion waits as pending until you approve it, so nothing is paid on a sale you have not reviewed.

Plans start at $19.99 a month with 0% transaction fees on affiliate revenue, and there is a 7-day free trial with a card required. Polar tracking is included on every plan; LinkJolt charges nothing on top of Polar's own fees.