As a product manager in the affiliate marketing space, I know that seamless connectivity between platforms is essential for scaling your business. One of the most powerful connections you can make is integrating your Affise dashboard with the Impact partnership ecosystem.
If you’ve been wondering how to integrate Impact as a publisher with Affise, you’re in the right place. This guide will walk you through the benefits and provide a clear, step-by-step solution to the common authentication challenge.
Integrating Affise and Impact allows you to tap into Impact.com‘s extensive network of premier publishers, influencers, and media partners directly from your Affise account. When Impact acts as your publisher, you gain access to high-quality traffic sources to drive growth for your offers.
The core of this integration is conversion tracking. For every successful conversion, your Affise platform must send a secure postback to Impact to ensure their partners are credited accurately. This is where many users face a technical hurdle.
The main challenge in setting up an Affise Impact postback is security. Impact requires postbacks to be sent using $HTTP$ Basic Authentication—a secure method that includes a username and password with the request.
While Affise is a robust tracking platform, its standard publisher postback feature does not currently have a built-in field for Basic Authentication credentials. This technical gap can make a direct integration seem impossible, but we have engineered a reliable and secure workaround.
We’ve streamlined the process into a managed service to ensure a flawless connection. Our team bridges the technical gap for you by using a secure middleware service. Here’s exactly how we get your Affise and Impact integration up and running:
Step 1: Get Your Impact Postback URL First, obtain your postback URL from Impact.com. Send this complete URL to our support team.
Step 2: We Configure the Secure Endpoint Our technical team will set up a unique, secure endpoint specifically for your account. This endpoint acts as a bridge; it’s designed to receive a simple postback from Affise and then add the required $HTTP$ Basic Authentication before forwarding the data securely to Impact.
Step 3: You Receive a New Affise-Ready Postback We will provide you with a new, simplified postback URL. This is the URL you will use. Simply navigate to the publisher settings for Impact within your Affise account and install this new postback.
Step 4: Run a Test Conversion Testing is critical for any tracking setup. You will need to fire a test conversion for the specific offer. We will monitor the process with you to verify that the conversion data is received and correctly attributed inside your Impact dashboard.
Step 5: Your Integration is Live! Once the test is confirmed, you’re all set! ✅ Your Affise to Impact conversion tracking is fully operational. All conversions will now be reported automatically, allowing you to scale your partnership efforts with confidence.
Ready to unlock the power of Impact’s network? Reach out to your account manager or our support team today to begin your integration.
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Dmitry is a product manager with an interest in technology and affiliate marketing. He is passionate about improving products through a customer-centric, data-driven approach. In his free time, he enjoys traveling and reading.
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