How Recruitment Works
- Describe the need — create a recruitment brief (about three minutes).
- Review matches — a ranked list of affiliates, each with the reasons they fit.
- Invite and sign — invite the best fits, send terms and move them to live.
Everything lives under Partners → Recruitment Briefs and Partners → Partnerships. It builds on the Affclix Network: affiliates who accept are provisioned through your normal Applications inbox and get tracking links on the campaign.
Writing a Brief
Click New Brief and fill in:
- Basics — a title such as "Q4 cashback affiliates for UK & IE", the objective and how many affiliates you need. The vertical, markets and traffic drive the ranking.
- Markets — affiliates are scored on how much of these markets they cover. Leave empty if geography does not matter.
- Affiliate types and traffic — the partner types you want, plus traffic sources you ban. Bans are absolute: an affiliate who runs a banned source is removed from your results, not ranked lower — use them for merchant-agreement and legal constraints.
- Required commitments — an affiliate who has not declared every one is excluded.
- Quality bar — minimum EPC (a hard floor) and what you pay, compared against each affiliate's published rate floor.
- Campaign & publish — attach a network listing so invited affiliates can apply straight to the campaign, and optionally switch on Auto-invite strong matches.
Click Publish & match. You can edit requirements and Re-match at any time.
How Affiliates Are Matched
- Ranking uses earned data — EPC and conversion rate from clicks and conversions Affclix actually tracked, compared with the category benchmark.
- Self-declared audience size only feeds a low-weight capacity score, and capacity rewards fit: an affiliate with 1.5× the volume you need ranks above one with 8×.
- Bans, missing required commitments, the wrong partner type and missing KYC exclude an affiliate outright. Everything else only changes the ranking.
- Re-matching refreshes scores but never undoes a decision you made — shortlisted or dismissed affiliates stay that way.
No matches? Widen the markets, relax a hard floor or remove a traffic ban — bans in particular exclude affiliates entirely.
Shortlisting & Inviting
Each match shows its score and the top reasons it fits. Shortlist or dismiss affiliates, then send invitations one by one with a personal note, or invite the whole shortlist at once. The invitation carries the reasons the affiliate was picked; affiliates invited recently are skipped so nobody is spammed.
Prefer help? Request a managed shortlist and an Affclix partnerships manager works the brief with you.
Partnership Pipeline
A partnership appears as soon as you invite an affiliate from a brief or an affiliate applies to one. Track it on the board or the list view through these stages:
| Stage | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Discovered | Matched or added, not yet contacted. |
| Contacted | Invitation or message sent. |
| Negotiating | Terms are being discussed. |
| Contracted | Terms accepted. |
| Active | Approved on the campaign and sending traffic. |
| Paused / Ended | Relationship on hold or finished. |
Each partnership shows its source (engine match, affiliate applied, added by you, curated or imported), health, conversions, earnings and last activity. Going cold flags relationships with no recent activity, and Recruitment channels shows where your current affiliates came from.
Terms & Going Live
Talk in the conversation thread
Messages, stage changes and contract events share one timeline. Affiliates reply far more often to a specific question than to a generic invitation. Internal notes are never visible to the affiliate.
Draft and send terms
Payout, currency, cookie window, any flat or placement fee, start and end dates, and deliverables or restrictions. The affiliate accepts in one click; you can draft a new version later.
Approve them in Applications
Approving issues their tracking links. From then on they are paid automatically from tracked activity, and delivery and earnings on the partnership update nightly.
Privacy & Permissions
- Your briefs are private to your network — other networks never see what you are recruiting for or what you pay.
- Viewing the marketplace and managing briefs are separate team permissions; see Team & Permissions.