How Decolinker's Six Percent Fee Works
This is the single most common question merchants ask before joining, so here is the exact mechanics.
The short version
A merchant sets a commission rate between 15% and 90% on a product. Decolinker takes 6% of the sale out of that rate. The affiliate keeps the rest. The rate the merchant set is the total cost of the sale, nothing is added to it.
A worked example
A merchant sells a $100 product at a 35% commission rate.
- Merchant pays a total of $35 on the sale, exactly what they set the rate at.
- The affiliate who sent the sale earns $29 (29% of the sale).
- Decolinker keeps $6 (6% of the sale).
The merchant never pays more than the rate they chose. The 6% is not a separate line item billed on top, it is carved out of the rate before the affiliate is paid.
Why it works this way
Some networks add their fee on top of the commission, so a merchant offering a 30% rate might actually pay 36% once the network's cut is included. Decolinker's fee is baked into the rate the merchant already set, so the number a merchant enters is the number they pay, with no surprise addition at billing time.
When you get billed
Decolinker never touches your customer's payment directly, you collect that through your own store as normal. Decolinker bills you separately, on a recurring cycle, for the combined platform fee and affiliate commissions your sales generated in that period.