Q: How to route or split payments?
My question is mainly about accounting. Let’s say an affiliate sells my product for $100. The full payment is made to me first, and I later pay the affiliate their 30% commission. Since my company type doesn’t allow me to deduct affiliate payouts as expenses, I’m required to pay taxes on the full $100.
Is there a way to split the payment at the time of purchase, so the affiliate automatically receives their 30% commission and I receive the remaining 70%, instead of the full amount going to me first?
Ayo_PushLapGrowth
Jun 8, 2025A: That's not possible, unless the affiliate is the merchant and then they pay you 70% after the transaction.
This is how most standard affiliate softwares work, you handle payment from customers since you're the merchant and you pay your affiliates later on.
excelPLUSThanks for the quick response. Stripe has a split payment option though. so it should work if the affiliate has stripe also
Yes, so if the affiliate has stripe and your account has stripe connect. But we don't have such payout integration built. I can suggest a way for your developers to build one from scratch using our Webhooks functionality. They can listen to the webhooks, and then when there's a new sale, the notification gets sent to your servers with the details of the sale..
then your developers will write code on your server that interacts with stripe and splits the payment to affiliate on stripe based on their email address.
Johnz@excel, thanks for asking this! Very important point.