# Commission Factory

> The article provides an overview of the integration between Commission Factory and AnyTrack, highlighting its ability to track, measure, and optimize marketing campaigns by sending real-time conversion data to platforms like Google Ads and Facebook. This integration ensures accurate performance metrics and offers complete reporting tools for monitoring campaign progress and maximizing ROI. Key features include traffic source data collection, event tracking, real-time conversion data processing, and conversion API integration for enhanced ad platform optimization.

## 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.

<Prerequisites
  title="Before you begin"
  items={[
    { label: "You have an AnyTrack account with a paid subscription", done: true },
    { label: "You have an active Commission Factory affiliate account", done: true },
    { label: "The AnyTrack <code>Tracking Tag</code> is installed on your website", done: true },
  ]}
/>

### 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

| Reference       | Value               | Information                                                                        |
| --------------- | :------------------ | :--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Tracking Group  | `commissionfactory` | The Tracking Group reference can be used to activate <Glossary>AutoTag</Glossary>. |
| Subid Parameter | `UniqueId4`         | The Subid Parameter used to pass the AnyTrack `click_id`.                          |
| Tracking Method | `Postback URL`      | -                                                                                  |

### Standard Conversions

| Event Name      | Details                                                     | Data Source     |
| :-------------- | :---------------------------------------------------------- | :-------------- |
| `OutboundClick` | When a visitor clicks on Commission Factory offer links.    | AnyTrack JS Tag |
| `Lead`          | When a free registration is recorded in Commission Factory. | Postback URL    |
| `Purchase`      | When a user generates a commission in Commission Factory.   | Postback URL    |

### The Commission Factory Postback URL

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

```http
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](https://dashboard.anytrack.io/catalog/)**, search for Commission Factory.

2. Now click on the [Commission Factory card](https://dashboard.anytrack.io/catalog/commissionfactory)and 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](https://dashboard.commissionfactory.com)
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

<Callout icon="🔎" theme="default">
  ### Install the AnyTrack Pixel Helper Extension

  Install the [AnyTrack Pixel Helper](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/anytrack-pixel-helper/ojmhkmdpagjeopleoeihbhgejcfoijjn) 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](/docs/anytrack-chrome-extension).
</Callout>

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

<Callout icon="🔥" theme="default">
  ### 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](/docs/autotag).
</Callout>

* **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](/docs/tgid).
  * **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 from`commissionfactory`:**

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

<HTMLBlock html={"\n<a href=\"https://example.foo/goto/commissionfactory\" data-tracking-group=\"commissionfactory\">Hover on the Commission Factory Demo Link to see the AnyTrack <code>click_id</code></a>\n"} />

> 📘 **Tracking**
>
> Tracking Group refers to the integration technology. For example, Commission Factory <Glossary>Tracking Group</Glossary> tracking group is `commissionfactory` and ClickBank is `ClickBank`. <Glossary>The Tracking Group</Glossary>

### 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**

```json

{
  "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"
}

```

***

<FaqAccordion
  title="FAQ and Troubleshooting"
  icon="fa-duotone fa-circle-question"
  items={[
    {
      question: "Can I import past conversions into AnyTrack?",
      answer: "No. AnyTrack can only ingest conversions that have been triggered following a visitor session on your website."
    },
    {
      question: "Can I send conversions from Commission Factory to the Facebook <code>Conversion API</code>?",
      answer: "Yes. As soon as you integrate Commission Factory with AnyTrack, all conversions tracked in AnyTrack will be forwarded to your Facebook <code>Conversion API</code> and other Ad platforms?"
    },
    {
      question: "Can I track direct linking campaigns?",
      answer: "Yes, but this requires a custom setup. Please refer to this <a href=\"/docs/deeplink\">article</a>."
    },
    {
      question: "Can I use a different <code>subid</code> parameter than the one predefined by AnyTrack?",
      answer: "No."
    },
    {
      question: "Can I track conversions without the <code>click_id</code>?",
      answer: "No. The <code>click_id</code> passed to the Commission Factory links is required to track conversions."
    },
    {
      question: "The Conversion Event Name is not what I am expecting, how can I change it?",
      answer: "You can update the Event Mapping in the Integration page.  "
    }
  ]}
/>