Introduction - Meridian

Affiliates turn your best users into a sales channel. Give influencers, agencies and partners a tracked link; when a merchant installs your app through it, the affiliate earns a commission on the revenue you make, calculated automatically, every night. Affiliates are available for public apps.

How the money moves

Step	What happens
Referrals	A merchant installs through an affiliate’s tracked link, and the install is attributed
Commissions	A nightly sweep mints what each referral has earned, under the rules that apply
Payouts	Outstanding commissions aggregate into payouts, one per affiliate per currency
Outstanding	What’s earned but not yet paid, awaiting your disbursement

The pieces

Page	What it covers
Program	The one program per app: its identity, its tracked link, and its default commission rules
Members	Who’s enrolled, their links, and which rules apply to each
Groups	Named tiers that override the program rules field by field
Commissions	The ledger, and how each amount was arrived at
Payouts	Aggregation, the minimum, and marking one paid
Affiliate profiles	The org-level roster: shared identity, payout details, holds
Activity	The lifecycle log of joins, referrals and payouts

Where to start

Create the program, set its tracked link and its default rule, then enroll your first affiliate. Everything else (groups, per-member overrides, payouts) only matters once commissions start arriving.

Disbursement is manual in v1. Meridian calculates and tracks what’s owed to the cent; you pay it through your own rail and mark the payout as paid.

Last modified on August 21, 2026