Updates — 26 May 2026
Save Time with Affiliate Domains Auto Setup
Affise enables advertisers and affiliate managers to set up tracking domains directly within their Affise account. It speeds up the tracking domains setup significantly since all the actions are made by our system on the backend in a matter of minutes. It can be crucial in cases when the certificate is about to expire, and you don’t want to lose traffic due to the domain not being updated on time.
Affiliate tracking domains auto setup is another long-awaited feature we are happy to introduce to our customers. It expands the admin domain setup functionality and allows your affiliates to add their own tracking domains.
Affiliate domains auto setup enables affiliates to add their own tracking domains without your assistance. All that is needed from your side is to approve or deny the request for the domain. The rest of the setup is done on the Affise backend automatically.
Affiliate domains auto setup feature was requested by our customers, as it can benefit the campaigns in many ways:
Your affiliates can start using the feature today since it is already included in all Affise plans. All you need to do is to notify your affiliates that they can set up their tracking domains and provide them with the instructions.
The process goes like this:
2. The affiliate fills in the details and uploads the certificate (if required):
3. You will get the notification when the affiliate adds the domain and could approve or deny the requests:
4. After the domain is approved or rejected, it will be moved to the “Affiliates domains” tab:
5. The affiliate will get a notification when the status of the domain changes to approved or rejected by the manager. At this stage, your affiliate can edit the submitted domain if needed.
Affiliate domains setup is a free feature available on every Affise plan. Please, note that each approved affiliate tracking domain will be counted towards your domain limit.
If you want to increase your domain limit, feel free to reach your dedicated customer success manager to purchase additional tracking domain bundles.
Affiliate domain auto setup is a necessary feature that multiple customers requested. It allows you to save time both for you and your partners on domain setup and makes custom tracking domains setup very flexible.
Yes. Once an affiliate submits a domain and it is approved, that domain becomes exclusively theirs within your Affise account. No other affiliate or campaign can use it. Custom tracking domains are an important piece of a well-structured affiliate program, as they work hand-in-hand with accurate attribution: to understand how tracking data flows from a click all the way to a recorded conversion, check out Affise’s deep-dive on postback tracking and why it powers the entire affiliate marketing engine.
If an SSL certificate is about to expire, traffic through that domain can be disrupted. That’s actually one of the key reasons the self-service domain setup feature was built: it gives affiliates direct control to update their certificate promptly without waiting on a manager to act. Staying on top of domain health is part of broader campaign hygiene — and if you want to spot performance issues before they snowball, Affise’s new visual Affiliate Performance Report makes it easy to detect traffic drops across all your partners in seconds.
Advertisers retain full approval authority: every domain submitted by an affiliate goes through a review step where the advertiser can approve or reject the request before it becomes active. This keeps oversight in place while removing the manual setup burden. For advertisers who want even finer control over how approved traffic flows through their campaigns, Affise’s advanced targeting capabilities allow granular filtering by referrer, device, ISP, and more — a natural complement to managing custom affiliate domains.
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Affise Academy
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