Recruiting and paying affiliates

Getting affiliates

Two ways, both on your program's Affiliates tab.

• Your invite link. One per program, short enough to type: klibon.com/join/<your-program>. Anyone who follows it joins on your program's usual terms — automatically if your program approves automatically, otherwise into your queue.
• An email invitation. Inviting an address is approving it: the person who accepts is approved on arrival, whatever your approval mode says, because you typed their address yourself. Invitations expire after 30 days.

A pending affiliate's link already redirects and already records clicks. It earns nothing until you approve them, and a sale that happens while they wait is not attributed retroactively — so approve people before you expect them to sell.

Removing someone

Removing an affiliate stops future earnings. Their links keep redirecting, so nobody's audience hits a dead end, and everything they already earned is still owed and still appears on a statement. Someone you removed or declined can be let back in at any time.

The monthly statement

On the first of each month, Klibon closes the month before it. Every commission that is approved — cleared its refund window and not flagged — and is not already on a statement becomes a line on one.

Statements are per program, per affiliate, per currency. A commission is computed in the currency the customer paid in and never converted, so an affiliate earning in dollars and euros gets two statements rather than one meaningless total.

If the total is below your program's minimum payout — $50.00 or more, your choice above that — no statement is issued: the commissions stay unattached and join next month's, and keep doing that until the total clears the minimum. Both of you see the running balance — yours under "Carried to next month", theirs under "Building up".

Paying them yourself (every plan)

Each statement carries the payout details that affiliate wrote on their profile: free text, because it might be a PayPal address, an IBAN or something else entirely. Download the month as a CSV if you pay in a batch.

Once the money has left, click Mark as paid. That marks the commissions paid and emails the affiliate to say so, with your note if you left one. You paid outside Klibon, so this is your word — which is exactly why the affiliate is told.

Letting Klibon pay them (Growth and Scale)

Switch on Managed payouts on the Payouts tab and save a card. From then on Klibon charges that card on the 5th of each month and pays every eligible affiliate through Stripe, for the commissions plus a 3% processing fee. Anyone Klibon cannot reach stays on the manual path above, in the same tab. How managed payouts work.

A refund after the fact

Where the refund lands decides what happens.

• Before the statement. The commission is reduced, or reversed outright, and simply never reaches a statement.
• After the statement, before you pay. The commission and the statement's total both come down. What you pay is what the statement says when you pay it.
• After you have paid , or once Klibon has started charging you for it . The settled statement is history and is never rewritten. A negative line appears on the affiliate's next statement instead, netted against what they earn then. If it leaves them at zero or below, no statement is issued and the balance carries — Klibon never sends an affiliate a bill.

What affiliates see

Their own dashboard, across every program they promote: clicks, conversions, what is waiting on a refund window, what is approved, and every statement. They get an email when commissions clear and when you mark a statement paid. They never see your other affiliates.