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Affiliate Links & Commissions

Turn any short link into a measurable revenue engine. GoByte tracks the full journey — click → sale → commission earned — so you always know what a link and each partner is worth.

This is what sets GoByte apart: most link shorteners stop at the click. GoByte follows the performance all the way to the sale. GoByte is a tracking and reporting tool — it measures what your links drive; it does not process payments or move money.

Two ways to earn

  • Promote your own links

    Create a branded short link to any product you're an affiliate for. Your audience sees a clean gbyt.me link — never a long, ugly affiliate URL — and you get credited for every sale it drives.

  • Join a merchant's Offer

    A merchant shares a join code. You join and are instantly given your own tracked link — no link-building, no setup. Every sale you refer earns the offer's commission rate.

  1. Create a link to the product you're promoting — from the dashboard (New Link) or the API.
  2. Share it. Post the branded short link anywhere: bio, video description, email, social.
  3. Watch it earn. Open Growth in your dashboard to see revenue, pending commission, conversion rate, and EPC (earnings per click) for every link.

Rich social previews

Give your link a custom title and image so it posts as a polished card — not a bare URL — on every platform. Set it when you create or edit the link.

Track a partner program (merchant)

Have a product and partners promoting it? Create an Offer, share one code, and let GoByte handle attribution and reporting — so you always know which partner drove which sale, and what each one has earned. GoByte tracks the performance; you handle payment your own way, off-platform.

  1. Create an Offer — your product URL and the commission % to track.
  2. Share the join code (or app.gobyte.io/join/{code}). Each partner who joins gets their own tracked link automatically.

  3. Report your sales back so each sale is attributed to the right partner. Add a conversion postback to your store's order-confirmation step:

    POST https://api.gobyte.io/api/v1/convert?click={click_ref}&value={amount_cents}&order={order_id}
    • click_ref — the reference captured when the shopper landed from a GoByte link
    • amount_cents — the sale total in cents (e.g. 4999 for $49.99)
    • order_id — your store's order reference (keeps commissions idempotent)

    Shopify & other stores

    On Shopify, a custom order webhook that forwards the captured click_ref is all you need. The same pattern works for any platform that lets you fire a request on a completed order.

  4. See what each partner earned in a clear per-partner report as sales settle. You decide when and how to pay them — GoByte tracks and reports; it never holds or moves money.

What you can measure

Every affiliate link reports, in real time:

Metric What it tells you
Revenue driven Total sales value attributed to the link
Commission What's owed (pending) and paid
Conversion rate Clicks that turned into sales
EPC Earnings per click — your fastest signal of what's working

Group links into campaigns to compare channels, creatives, or partners side by side.

Where to go next

  • Use Cases — see how creators, marketers, and merchants put this to work
  • Quickstart — create your first link via the API
  • API Reference — automate links, offers, and reporting