If your company runs on the Short Code Only platform option, your affiliates have always shared one thing: their code. It works everywhere — spoken on a podcast, printed on a flyer, dropped into a caption — but there was never anything for followers to actually tap. Starting today, that changes. Every affiliate can now get a shareable short code link: a single URL that opens a clean landing page displaying their code.
What Are Shareable Short Code Links?
Each affiliate receives a link in the format insertaffiliate.link/yourCompanyId/theirShortCode. If you have configured a custom domain for your links in Insert Affiliate, the link uses your domain instead, so everything stays on-brand.
When someone opens the link, they land on a simple page that displays the affiliate's short code in a large, easy-to-read code tile. No confusing redirects and nothing to install just to see it — the code is presented clearly, ready to be entered at purchase.
Why Your Affiliates Will Love This
A raw code is flexible, but it relies on someone remembering it at exactly the right moment. A link, on the other hand, fits everywhere modern creators already work:
- Bio links. Affiliates can drop their link into an Instagram or TikTok bio, where a plain code would look out of place.
- Video descriptions and pinned comments. Viewers can open the link whenever they are ready to buy, instead of scrubbing back through a video to find the code.
- Newsletters, blogs and group chats. Anywhere a URL can go, the affiliate's code can now follow.
One thing worth being clear about: the landing page displays the code — it does not apply it automatically inside your app. Your customer still enters the short code in your app exactly as before. What the link removes is the "wait, what was that code again?" moment between seeing a recommendation and acting on it.
Clicks Feed Your Existing Analytics
Every visit to a shareable short code link is tracked just like your other deep link clicks. Link visits flow straight into the click analytics you already use, and they count toward install payments where you have those configured. That gives you a much fuller picture of which affiliates are driving attention, even before a purchase happens.
Opt-In by Design: How to Enable It
Shareable short code links are switched off by default, so nothing changes for your company until you decide it should. To turn them on:
- Open Settings in your Insert Affiliate dashboard.
- Find the Short Code Only platform option.
- Tick the new short code links checkbox and save.
Once enabled, each affiliate sees their personal link on their affiliate dashboard, right alongside their short code. You will also see every affiliate's link in your admin affiliates list, so you can copy a link on an affiliate's behalf whenever you need to.
Already-Shared Links Never Break
We know affiliates publish links in places they cannot easily edit later — old video descriptions, printed materials, past newsletters. So if you ever turn the setting off again, any links your affiliates have already shared keep working and continue to display the code. They simply stop appearing in dashboards, so no new links are handed out. Published links stay safe.
Attribution Works Exactly As Before
Nothing changes about how sales are matched to affiliates. On the Short Code Only platform option, your app passes the affiliate's short code together with your company ID as metadata on the purchase, and Insert Affiliate matches the sale to the right affiliate and calculates their commission. When it is time to pay, payouts remain one click from your dashboard.
The shareable link is purely a distribution upgrade: same codes, same attribution, same payouts — just a far easier way for affiliates to spread the word.
Getting Started Today
- Head to Settings and enable short code links under the Short Code Only platform option.
- Let your affiliates know their new link is waiting on their dashboard.
- Encourage them to add it to their bios, descriptions and posts.
- Watch the clicks arrive in your analytics.
If you already run on Short Code Only, this is a two-minute upgrade that makes every affiliate easier to follow. And if you are still choosing a platform option for your app's affiliate program, Short Code Only just became an even stronger, simpler place to start.