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Commission Flexibility

Commission Flexibility allows you to use various parameters to create flexible commission rates by filtering the values from your tracking call. If commission flexibility is enabled for your account, when you create new commission groups, you can access the Conditions column. This column allows you to customise your commission rates based on the following parameters:

• Tracked part code
• Custom parameters
• Product data
• Customer acquisition
• Click reference
• Campaign

Note: Commission Flexibility is not enabled for all account types. For more information about this feature, contact your Awin account representative.

Matching Conditions Operators

Matching conditions operators are configurable filters that allow you to match values in your tracking call based on character strings. You can define the following conditions to return matching values:

• In list: returns values that match any string within a list of character strings.
• Starts with: returns values that have a defined character string at the start of the value.
• Contains: returns values that have a defined character string anywhere within the value.
• Ends with: returns values that have a defined character string at the end of the value.
• Not in list: returns values that do not have a defined character string within each value.

Combining Matching Condition Operators

To create more complex commission groups, you can combine multiple conditions.

For example, if you want to pay different commission amounts based on new and existing fashion items, use the following two conditions:

• For the tracked part codes, use FASHION ITEM 1, FASHION ITEM 2, and FASHION ITEM 3.
• For the custom parameters, use NEW and EXISTING.

To use flexible commission rates, each commission group must contain at least one condition. If you do not want to use a flexible commission rate, set the Tracked Part Code condition to the same value as the Commission Group Code. To map the exact values from your tracking call to your conditions, for Matching Conditions Operators, select In list. For example, if you only want to create a commission group for a list of exact matches, select In list and provide a list of specific tracked part codes.

Matching condition operators also enable you to manage future commission rate changes more easily, and help you to reduce the number of commission groups for your programme. The following examples illustrate methods for grouping products together:

• To create a group of products within the bathroom product category, set the Starts with operator to BATH. This returns the tracked part codes BATHTOWEL, BATHMAT, and BATHROBE.
• To create a group of products that contains everything except for sale items, set the Not in list operator to SALE.

Note: For Not In List conditions operators, if you include a tracked part code that contains the DEFAULT parts value, the system treats that tracked part code in the same way as any other commission group. As such, to ensure that the tracked part code is not included in the matching conditions, you must include it in the Not in list conditions operator.

The data from the Conditions that you configure correlates to the Commission Group Code. The Commission Group Performance Report shows you the report on this commission group, and transaction amends continue to work on the commission group code value. If you use commission flexibility the matching commission groups no longer come in the tracking call.

Ordering Commission Flexibility Conditions

After you configure conditions for commission flexibility, it is important to apply them in the correct order. Whenever you submit a tracking code, the system applies the conditions in sequential order, and searches for matching commission groups. When a commission group matches all the conditions, the system maps the data to that condition, and then stops the search.

If a tracked part code is present in the conditions of two different commission groups, the system maps it to the commission group that appears first in the list of conditions.

The default commission group is included automatically at the bottom of the list. If the system does not find any matching conditions for the commission group, it assigns the default commission group.

To reorder your commission groups, in the top right corner of the page, click Edit Order. Drag and drop the commission groups to rearrange them, then click Save.

Note: When you save a reordered list of commission groups, it is treated as a new commission rate.

Default Commission Group

The default commission group does not have any conditions, and is added automatically to the bottom of the commission groups list. Any tracking data that does not match to a commission group is instead mapped to the default commission group.

Note: For products that you send in your tracking code that contain the DEFAULT value, the system will check that product against the conditions you create. Therefore, take care when you use the DEFAULT value, especially for Not in list conditions.

Publisher Commission Rates

In the Commission Groups tab, you can manage conditions and configure the order for your commission groups. This is the same for Programme Standard Commission Rates and Publisher Commission Rates. To update the commission rates for individual publishers, select the Publisher Commission Rates tab and modify the commission type and commission value.

Reporting and API

Based on the commission group code values that you set for each commission group, the Commission Group Performance Report provides information about how the conditions are mapped.

The Transaction Breakdown contains an additional column for Tracked Parts, and provides the data that the advertiser sends in the tracking code. It also includes the commission group that it is mapped to.

The Commission Group Performance Report also provides information for resolved, or mapped, commission groups, but does not contain any information for Tracked Parts.

The Transaction Report export file also contains a tracked_parts column that provides the data from the tracking code.

Enabling Commission Flexibility

To enable commission flexibility for your programme, contact your account manager.