Commission Factory

Commission Factory Integration Overview

Commission Factory and AnyTrack integrate for online marketers to track, measure and optimize their campaigns. With this integration, conversion data is sent from Commission Factory directly to AnyTrack, which then forwards it to platforms like Google Ads, Facebook Conversion API and TikTok API in real-time. This ensures that performance metrics are accurate, giving you the insights needed to make informed decisions about your marketing efforts.

How does the Commission Factory AnyTrack integration work:

1. Traffic: When visitors land on your website, AnyTrack collects traffic source data and First Party data.
2. Engagements: When visitors click on your Commission Factory affiliate links, AnyTrack does a few things:
   1. Collects granular data tied to the OutboundClick.
   2. Triggers Event Tracking API requests to your Tracking Tags and analytics.
3. Conversions: When visitors convert on the merchant's website, AnyTrack receives real time conversion data through Postback URL.
4. Attribution: AnyTrack processes the conversion data and reports it across various reporting sections of the AnyTrack Dashboard.
5. Conversion API: AnyTrack then sends your conversions to your Ad Platforms' Conversion API so you can feed your ad platform's Machine Learning, AI and automatic optimization according to 100% of your conversion data.

Technical details

Standard Conversions

The Commission Factory Postback URL

The Postback URL is fully pre-defined and ready to be implemented with your Commission Factory account.

https://t1.anytrack.io/hBtoE3hN/collect/commissionfactory?AdvertiserId=[AdvertiserId]&Commission=[Commission]&CreativeId=[CreativeId]&CreativeName=[CreativeName]&CreativeType=[CreativeType]&OrderId=[OrderId]&ReportedCurrencyCode=[ReportedCurrencyCode]&ReportedCurrencyName=[ReportedCurrencyName]&ReportedSaleValue=[ReportedSaleValue]&SaleValue=[SaleValue]&TransactionId=[TransactionId]&UniqueId=[UniqueId]&UniqueId2=[UniqueId2]&UniqueId3=[UniqueId3]&UniqueId4=[UniqueId4]

Setup Guide

Step #1: Add Commission Factory to your AnyTrack Account

1. Go to the Integration Catalog, search for Commission Factory.

2. Now click on the Commission Factory cardand then Click on Install.

Step #2: Connect your Commission Factory account

1. Copy the pre-configured postback URL in your clipboard (ctrl+c).
2. Navigate to your Commission Factory dashboard
3. Open the Settings > Third Party Tracking
4. Paste (ctrl+v) the Postback URL into the Default Server-Side Notification URL field.
5. Save Changes.

Step #3: Adjust the Conversion Event Mapping

The Event Mapping allows you to define which events to track and map them to Conversion Events you will forward to your Ads Integrations (e.g., Facebook Conversion API)

Validate your integration

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Install the AnyTrack Pixel Helper Extension

Install the AnyTrack Pixel Helper Chrome extension to verify the AnyTrack Tag is installed on your website. It also shows connected ad platforms and browser-side events. View the Pixel Helper guide.

This section will enable you to validate the main aspects of your setup.

Link tracking

Since Tracking starts when visitors clicks on offer links, you verify that your links are tracked and AutoTagged.

AutoTag Methods

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Reminder about AutoTag:

AutoTag is a function that is enabled by default through the AnyTrack Tracking Tag, and that appends UniqueId4 & click_id data to affiliate links. Learn more about AutoTag.

• Default: By default, AnyTrack automatically identifies and AutoTags Commission Factory links found on your website.
• AutoScan: AnyTrack scans links that are embedded in redirects plugins and AutoTags them accordingly.
• Manual:
  • Tracking Group Attribute: You add the tracking group attribute to links according to their tracking requirements. For example: data-tracking-group="commissionfactory" or rel="commissionfactory". More about Tracking Group.
  • Click ID Token: You Manually append the subid: &UniqueId4=--CLICK-ID-- to the offer link.

Once the links are set up, you can check in your Commission Factory account reports and see whether the UniqueId4 parameters are passed to the offer links.

Here is an example of how you would manually update links fromcommissionfactory:

<a href="https://example.foo/goto/commissionfactory" data-tracking-group="commissionfactory">Hover on theCommission Factory Demo   
Link to see the AnyTrack `click_id`</a>

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Tracking

Tracking Group refers to the integration technology. For example, Commission Factory Tracking Group tracking group is commissionfactory and ClickBank is ClickBank. The Tracking Group

Conversion Tracking

To validate your setup, you wait for a conversion or trigger a test conversion yourself and inspect the conversion logs.

Commission Factory conversion payload example

{
  "AnyTrack": "1100l35864",
  "customer_type": "existing",
  "country": "US",
  "referer": "https://www.chewy.com/",
  "search_keyword": null,
  "search_engine_id": null,
  "conversion_time": "1684692689",
  "`conversion_id`": "1011l2002827904",
  "publisher_reference":"mz7yYainzaN6hkc52QVBg",
  "publisher_commission": "10.57",
  "creative_id": "0",
  "source_referer": null,
  "advertiser_reference": null,
  "conversion_type": "1",
  "creative_type": "0",
  "conversion_reference": "1354998698",
  "metadata_query_string": null,
  "currency": "USD",
  "tracking_method": "clickref",
  "value": "52.85",
  "items": [
    {
      "item_code": null,
      "item_id": "1011l860699483",
      "item_sku": "332503",
      "item_commission": "3.5720",
      "item_type": "S",
      "item_gp": null,
      "item_publisher_commission": "3.5720",
      "item_meta": null,
      "item_status": "1",
      "item_value": "17.8600",
      "item_category": "11130",
      "item_vertical": null
    },
    {
      "item_code": null,
      "item_id": "1011l860699484",
      "item_sku": null,
      "item_commission": "0.0000",
      "item_type": "S",
      "item_gp": null,
      "item_publisher_commission": "0.0000",
      "item_meta": null,
      "item_status": "1",
      "item_value": "0.0000",
      "item_category": "COMMISSION",
      "item_vertical": null
    },
    {
      "item_code": null,
      "item_id": "1101l859617416",
      "item_sku": "677350",
      "item_commission": "6.9980",
      "item_type": "S",
      "item_gp": null,
      "item_publisher_commission": "6.9980",
      "item_meta": null,
      "item_status": "1",
      "item_value": "34.9900",
      "item_category": "2802",
      "item_vertical": null
    }
  ],
  "campaign_id": "1100l517",
  "query_string": null,
  "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_4_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.4 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1"
}