The Affiliate Program Playbook

Referral tracking, commission ledger, payouts — the standalone pattern.

AFFILIATE-PROGRAM-PLAYBOOK.md · 13 sections · 2,118 words · 17 KB · markdown

A self-hosted affiliate system modeled on what Rewardful, PartnerStack, and FirstPromoter actually do. Click attribution, a commission ledger, an affiliate dashboard, payout thresholds, and the deliberate choice to keep each app's program standalone rather than federated.

What's inside

//Click attribution with a cookie + server-side fallback
//A commission ledger with pending / payable / paid states
//An affiliate-facing dashboard: clicks, signups, attributed MRR
//Payout threshold logic and the payout run
//Fraud guards (self-referral, refund clawback)

When to use it

Post-launch. You need users before you need affiliates.

Build these first

Stripe Billing, Customer Analytics

Straight from the file

Canonical pattern drawn from Rewardful / PartnerStack / Tolt / FirstPromoter. BKE itself does not implement a full affiliate system yet; this playbook is the reference for any new app in the operator's portfolio (Kompozy, Cold Email Engine, Cold SMS, Cold DM, Cold WA/Telegram, Giveaway, Lead Scraper, AI Cold Caller) that adds one.

Table of contents

0. Use this spec
1. Architecture
2. Schema
3. Code generation
4. Click capture
5. Attribution
6. Commission calculation
7. Payouts
8. Affiliate dashboard
9. Creative asset library
10. Fraud detection
11. Common pitfalls
12. Kickoff prompt

How to run it

Drop AFFILIATE-PROGRAM-PLAYBOOK.md into your repo, then tell Claude Code: “Read AFFILIATE-PROGRAM-PLAYBOOK.md and implement it in this codebase.” It's written for an agent to execute end to end. Search the file for angle-bracket placeholders and swap in your own project names, domains, and keys before the first run.

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