Overview/Reference & help
Referral glossary
A shared vocabulary for participants, businesses and support.
Reviewed 27 October 2026
Use your current program terms for rates, eligibility and payment rules.
Traffic and attribution
- Program
- The business’s referral setup, portal and reward rules.
- Affiliate / participant
- A person or partner promoting a program.
- Referral link
- A destination URL carrying the participant’s tracking identifier.
- Click
- A recorded visit through a tracked link.
- Referral / customer
- A customer record attributed to a participant.
- Attribution window
- The program’s period for connecting qualifying events to referral activity.
- Promo code
- An assigned checkout code that may also identify the participant.
Rewards and payments
- Conversion / sale
- A recorded event, such as an eligible purchase, used by the program.
- Commission plan
- The rules calculating the participant’s reward.
- Reward
- An individual cash or enabled non-cash earning.
- Holding period
- The configured age requirement before an approved earning becomes eligible for batching.
- Payout
- A settlement containing eligible rewards for a recipient.
- Payout batch
- A group of payouts prepared for review or processing.