Linkwise

What you need

Field	Where to find it
API Username	Your Linkwise API credentials — not necessarily your login name
API Password	The same place. Treat it as a password.
Affiliate ID	Your affiliate account number in Linkwise

All three are required. The API username and password are issued separately from the ones you sign in with, so check you are using the API pair.

Setting it up

1. Cashback Tracker → Networks. Linkwise is already in the list — press Configure on its row.

2. Paste the API Username, API Password and Affiliate ID.

3. Tick Enable network.

4. Set Default cashback.

5. Save, then press Refresh shops on the row.

What it imports

• Shops — programmes you are accepted into

• Coupons — offers and voucher codes

• Orders — transactions, on the schedule you set

Linkwise logos are small — typically 120 pixels wide, which looks soft on a modern screen. Use Cashback Tracker → Shop catalog → Bulk tools → Logos → Replace all to fetch sharper ones by domain. See Shop logos.

Linkwise-specific settings

Pending validated — Linkwise has a state between reported and confirmed: the sale has been validated but is not finally settled. You choose whether that counts as pending, approved or declined on your site.

Pending is the safe reading. Validated is not the same as paid, and a transaction can still change afterwards.

The sub ID

Linkwise calls it subid1. Cashback Tracker sends cbtrkr-<member id>.

Getting orders sooner

Do not set up a postback for Linkwise. It has a built-in module, and the plugin polls it over an authenticated API.

Adding a postback would mean creating a second, custom network — and the same purchase would then arrive twice, once from each. Both copies are stored, and the member is credited twice, at two different cashback rates.

To have sales show up faster, lower Download new orders in Settings → General. It goes down to every 15 minutes, and a short interval is cheap because it only asks for the last couple of days.

See Importing orders.

When nothing imports

Authentication failures. The most common cause is using the account login rather than the API credentials. They are different pairs.

Shops import, orders do not. Check the Affiliate ID — transactions are reported against it, and shops import fine without it being right.

Orders arrive with no member. The subid1 did not come back. Check the member was logged in and used a Go to shop link.

Cashback Tracker → Logs carries Linkwise's own response.