How AFFILIFY Payouts Work: Pending, Available, Paid

Earnings accrue as pending and clear to available on the 15th of each month — unless an investigation is still open on them, which can push clearing past the 15th. KYC must be complete before any payout is released. Every commission is traceable to its conversion, and payouts are idempotent, so double-credits cannot happen.

Affiliate marketing runs on trust in one direction: you send the traffic now, the money arrives later. So instead of promises, this post walks the actual pipeline your money moves through — including the two states nobody likes (held and under review) and precisely what they mean.

Stage 1 — A conversion becomes a commission

A player you referred registers and deposits. The operator's platform reports it server-to-server, the event is matched to your click, and commission is calculated by your deal — CPA, RevShare or hybrid — at your current level's rate. From this second the money exists in your wallet as a line item you can open: which brand, which conversion, which click. No black-box totals.

Stage 2 — Pending, then available on the 15th

New earnings sit as pending first. On the 15th of each month cleared pending earnings roll over to available. The waiting period is not bureaucracy — it is the window in which deposits are verified as real and operator reporting is reconciled, which is exactly what protects your clean traffic from being diluted by someone else's fraud.

One honest caveat: the 15th applies to cleared earnings. If a deposit is part of an ongoing investigation on that date, its clearing can run past the 15th — the amount stays visible in your wallet as under review and rolls to available once the investigation resolves, on the next cycle. The date is a schedule, not a guarantee that overrides an open security check.

Stage 3 — Before the first payout: KYC

Identity verification is required once, before your first payout is released. It exists for the same reason banks do it — payouts are real money movements with anti-money-laundering obligations attached. It is a one-time step, so the practical advice is blunt: complete it the day you sign up and it will never delay a cent.

When money is held — and why that is a feature

Deposits flagged by security review are held until cleared. Every click on the platform is scored for proxies, VPNs and velocity; devices are correlated across accounts. When something fails those checks, the associated earnings wait instead of paying out. Uncomfortable in the moment — but it is the mechanism that keeps commission budgets honest, which is what keeps operators funding deals for everyone else. If your traffic is clean, holds are rare and temporary.

Why double-credits cannot happen

Payout tracking is idempotent: the same conversion can never credit twice, and every wallet movement carries its full history. In practice this cuts both ways, in your favour — nothing gets added twice, and nothing vanishes without a line item saying what happened and why. Your wallet, statistics and payout history live in the dashboard and in the mobile app, with push notifications when state changes.

Next: what sets your rate and how RevShare is computed.