Sharing

Available via: Dashboard only

Sharing builds the links you send to a partner, ready to copy. Nothing is saved: it only puts together the partner's code and your page.

How to Access

1. Open your Inflow Dashboard.
2. Go to Affiliates → Sharing, or click ⋮ → Sharing guide next to a link on a partner's page.

Build a Partner's Links

Choose:

• Affiliate partner and their Affiliate link. Only active links are listed.
• Payment link: the payment link to send buyers to, for the direct checkout option.
• Website URL: your website.

What to send your affiliate then shows two options. Copy the one that fits:

• Website/Marketplace: buyers land on your website first, with the partner's code in the URL, for example https://northlane.example/?iflw_ref=maya-x7k2pq. Your website needs a developer setup before this link earns commission; without it, sales aren't tracked. See Track Sales from Your Website.
• Direct to Inflow checkout (no storefront): buyers go straight to your payment link's checkout, with the partner's code added. Commissions apply as soon as a payment completes through it.

How Sales Are Attributed

A partner's code, such as maya-x7k2pq, earns a commission only if it reaches Inflow's checkout with the payment:

Inflow checkout links are your payment links (/l/…), subscription links (/s/…) and the checkout sessions you create with the API (the checkoutUrl, /pay/…). All of them accept the code as affiliateRef, or as iflw_ref.

• The first code on a checkout counts. A code added later to the same checkout is ignored.
• An unknown code, a code from an archived or expired link, or another merchant's code is ignored: the buyer still pays, and no commission is created.
• Payments you create with POST /api/server/payment and collect with the SDK can't carry a partner's code. To pay commissions on those sales, send buyers to a payment link or a checkout session instead.

Track Sales from Your Website

When a partner sends buyers to your website, the code is in the address as iflw_ref, for example https://northlane.example/?iflw_ref=maya-x7k2pq. Your website has to keep it until the buyer checks out, then pass it to Inflow's checkout as affiliateRef.

1. Add the tracking script

Add this script to every page a buyer can land on, ideally in the <head> of your site's layout:

<script async src="https://js.inflowpay.com/track.js"></script>

When a page opens with iflw_ref in its address, the script:

• Saves the code in the buyer's browser for 30 days. A newer code replaces an older one.
• Removes iflw_ref from the address, so the buyer doesn't share it by mistake.
• Makes the code available to your pages with window.InflowPay.getAffiliateRef(). It returns null when there's no code, or after 30 days.

The script only remembers the code: on its own, it doesn't attribute any sale.

2. Pass the code to checkout

When you send the buyer to an Inflow checkout link, add the saved code as affiliateRef:

// The payment link, subscription link or checkout session URL you already use
const checkoutUrl = new URL('https://checkout.inflowpay.com/l/{paymentLinkId}');

const affiliateRef = window.InflowPay?.getAffiliateRef?.();
if (affiliateRef) {
  checkoutUrl.searchParams.set('affiliateRef', affiliateRef);
}

window.location.href = checkoutUrl.toString();

For a checkout session, add it to the checkoutUrl returned when you create the session. See Checkout V2.

To forget the code once the buyer has paid, for example on your thank-you page, call window.InflowPay.clearAffiliateRef().

3. Check that it works

1. Open your website with a real code from one of your partner's links, for example https://northlane.example/?iflw_ref=maya-x7k2pq. The code disappears from the address.
2. In your browser's console, run window.InflowPay.getAffiliateRef(). It returns the code.
3. Go to checkout from your website, and check that the checkout address contains affiliateRef=maya-x7k2pq.
4. Complete a payment. It shows in Affiliates → Payments, with the partner and the commission.