Default Advanced Commission Rules: Set Once, Apply to Every Affiliate

Advanced commission rules are one of the most flexible parts of Insert Affiliate. They let you reward performance automatically: raise commission once an affiliate passes a sales threshold, pay different rates for initial purchases and renewals, or set special rates for specific in-app purchases.

Until now, those rules lived in one place: each individual affiliate's settings. That works well when you want a custom arrangement with a single partner, but most programs want the same commission ladder for everyone. If you had fifty affiliates, you set up the same rules fifty times, and fifty-one when the next affiliate joined.

That changes today. You can now set Default Advanced Commission Rules once for your whole company, and every affiliate gets them automatically.

A Quick Recap of Advanced Commission Rules

Each rule defines a commission, either a percentage of the sale or a fixed amount, plus the conditions for it to apply:

• Minimum sales: the rule activates once the affiliate reaches a sales threshold
• Period: count sales monthly, resetting each month, or across all time
• Applies to: all transactions, initial sales only, or renewals only
• Product targeting: leave blank to cover every product, or enter an in-app purchase ID to target one

Stack a few rules together and you have a performance ladder. For example: your default commission is 20%, one rule pays 25% after 5 monthly sales, and another pays 30% after 10. Affiliates climb the ladder automatically as they sell.

New: One Set of Rules for Your Whole Program

Head to Settings and you will find a new Default Advanced Commission Rules section just below your default affiliate commission. Rules you create here work exactly like the per-affiliate version, with one difference: they apply to every affiliate in your program that does not have advanced rules of their own.

That includes affiliates who join later. Recruit someone next month and they are on the same ladder from their first sale, with no extra setup.

When you edit the default rules, the change applies everywhere at once. Decide to raise the top tier from 30% to 35% and one edit updates your entire program.

How the Rules Are Applied

When a sale comes in, Insert Affiliate works out the commission in a fixed order:

1. If the affiliate has their own advanced rules, those are used
2. Otherwise, your company default advanced rules are used
3. When several rules match the same sale, the affiliate receives whichever pays the most
4. If no rule matches, the affiliate falls back to their individual rate, or your company default commission

Every transaction records which rule was applied, so you can always see in your transaction views exactly why a commission came out the way it did.

Overriding the Defaults for Individual Affiliates

Sometimes one partner deserves a different deal. Open any affiliate in the dashboard and add advanced rules to them directly, exactly as before. Rules set on an individual affiliate completely replace the company defaults for that affiliate, so you can give a top performer a steeper ladder or a flat premium rate without touching anyone else.

The affiliate panel makes the current state obvious: when the company defaults apply to an affiliate it says so, and when the affiliate has their own rules it notes that they take priority.

How to Set It Up

1. Open Settings in your Insert Affiliate dashboard
2. Find Default Advanced Commission Rules, just below the default affiliate commission
3. Select Add Your First Rule and set the commission, minimum sales, period, and what it applies to
4. Add further rules to build your ladder, then save

That is the whole process. Your existing per-affiliate rules keep working exactly as they did before, and nothing changes for affiliates who already have custom rules.

Why It Matters

Performance ladders are one of the best ways to motivate affiliates: the more they sell, the more they earn on each sale. The catch has always been the admin cost of maintaining those ladders across a growing roster. With company-wide defaults, the ladder becomes program policy instead of per-affiliate configuration. Define it once, share it with your affiliates, and let the rules do the work.

Availability

Default Advanced Commission Rules are available now on Growth and Enterprise plans, alongside per-affiliate advanced rules. Open Settings to build your first company-wide ladder in a couple of minutes.