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# Affiliate profiles

An affiliate is a person, not a membership. The roster is the **organization-level** view: everyone who earns commission across all your programs, with the identity and payout details they share between them.

## Why this exists separately

The same partner can promote two of your apps. Their [membership](/affiliate-members) in each program is separate, with its own link, its own rules and its own commissions, but who they are and where they get paid is one record. Editing a bank detail or a display name in one place is the point.

## The list

Each affiliate with their display name, how many **programs** they're in, and what they've earned all-time. Above it: how many affiliates you have across all programs, total earned, and how many are **on payout hold**.

Search by name or email.

## A profile

* **Display name**: what you call them, independent of the email that identifies them.
* **Payout details**: where their money goes.
* **Notes**: your own context on the relationship.
* **Memberships**: every program they're in, with a way into each.

## Payout hold

A hold **excludes the affiliate from payout generation** entirely. Commissions keep accruing and stay outstanding; nothing is aggregated for them until the hold is lifted.

Use it while a payout detail is being confirmed, or while a relationship is under review. It stops money moving without stopping the tracking, and without deleting anything.


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