Adding a network

Cashback Tracker → Networks

What the screen shows

Every network is already listed — the ten built-in ones are there from the start, whether you use them or not, alongside any custom networks you have created.

Column	What it tells you
Network	Its name, with a badge: Active, Not in use, Custom, or No longer supported
Shops	How many shops you hold from it, and when they were last refreshed
Orders	How many orders, and when it was last checked
Cashback	The default rate members get from this network

A network reading Not in use is simply switched off. Nothing is wrong with it.

The Networks screen, with shop counts and last refresh times

Switching on a built-in network

1. Find it in the list and press Configure.

2. Paste the credentials it asks for. Each network wants something different — see Supported networks for exactly which fields, and where to find them.

3. Tick Enable network.

4. Set Default cashback — the share of the commission your members get. It starts at 50%.

5. Save.

Then press Refresh shops on the row to pull in the shops you are approved for.

You are not "adding" these networks — they are always present. The Add custom network button at the top is for something else entirely, covered below.

One network's settings, with its credentials filled in

Checking it worked

The row itself is the test. After a refresh:

• Shops shows a count and a time. A count of 0 with a recent time usually means you are not approved for any advertisers yet.

• If the network could not be reached, the row says so, with the reason underneath.

For anything more detailed, press Log on the row — that shows what this network actually said, in its own words. It is far more useful than guessing.

Press Details to see everything the plugin holds about the connection.

Common mistakes

Whitespace. A key copied from an email often brings a trailing space. It looks identical and fails completely.

Mixing halves of two credentials. Several networks issue paired values — Admitad's Client ID and Secret, Impact's Account SID and Auth Token. Both halves must come from the same key. Mixing them fails in a way that reads like a typo.

The wrong website ID. Awin, Admitad, CJ, Pepperjam and Linkwise all identify which of your sites separately from who you are. Get it wrong and shops import perfectly while orders never arrive at all — which sends people looking in entirely the wrong place.

Login credentials instead of API credentials. Linkwise in particular issues an API username and password separate from the ones you sign in with.

A network cannot be switched on while a credential it needs is empty

Turning a network off

Untick Enable network. Its shops and orders stay exactly where they are; nothing new is imported.

That is the right way to pause a network you are having trouble with, or one you have left. Do not delete anything to achieve it.

Custom networks

Add custom network is for a network with no built-in module — a smaller network, or a direct arrangement with one merchant.

You add its shops by hand, and it sends you sales by postback rather than being polled. See Building a custom network.

Never create a custom network for one that already has a module. Both would import the same sales, and members would be credited twice, at two different rates.

Networks marked "No longer supported"

A network shown as deprecated still works with the data you already have, but it is no longer maintained and will be removed in a future version. Do not build anything new on it.