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You don’t have to build a commission structure field by field. Partnero gives you two shortcuts:
  • Commission presets — common structures, such as 30% lifetime recurring or tiered rates, that fill in the commission form for you.
  • Build with AI — describe the structure in your own words, and the AI assistant proposes the exact changes for you to apply.
Both work on the same settings you can edit by hand, so you can fine-tune the result afterwards. See Set up your program commission and How commission rules work together.

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Start from a commission preset

  1. Open your affiliate program and go to Settings under Program. Scroll to the Commission section.
  2. Under Commission type, click Browse commission presets. You can also open the presets from the Need inspiration? banner at the top of the commission rules window.
  3. In Quick commission setup, filter by category and select a preset:
  4. Click Apply. The preset fills in the commission form.
  5. Review the result in the Commission section and click Update to save. Until you save, nothing changes for your partners.
A preset replaces your current commission structure. It sets the commission type, default commission and commission period, replaces your dynamic and time-based rules, and removes your product and goal rules. Your currency, discount-based adjustment, multi-level commissions and other options stay as they were.
Tiered, bonus and declining presets work by adding dynamic or time-based rules. A rule’s rate replaces the default commission when the rule matches, and uses the same commission type as the default commission. Check the rules the preset added under Commission rules before you save.

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Build commissions with AI

The AI assistant can read your current commission structure and change it for you. It can set up:
  • The default commission, commission type, currency and commission period
  • Dynamic and time-based rules, including rules limited to partners with certain tags
  • Product, goal-based and multi-level commissions
  • The discount-based adjustment
  • The payout threshold, commission rounding, maximum commission, review period and claim period
To use it:
  1. Open your affiliate program and go to Settings under Program. Scroll to the Commission section.
  2. Click Build with AI. It’s next to Set up rules (or Manage rules), and in the commission rules window.
  3. The assistant opens on a new conversation, Build your commission structure. Pick a suggestion or describe what you want, for example:
    • Pay 25% recurring for the first 12 months
    • Give 40% to partners with 10 or more paying customers
    • Pay 30% on the Pro plan and 20% on everything else
    • Turn on 2-tier commissions with 5% for the inviting partner
    • Explain my current commission structure
  4. The assistant checks your current setup and asks for anything it’s missing, such as product IDs, tag names or thresholds.
  5. Review the proposal. Under Apply will:, the assistant lists every setting it will change. If something isn’t right, reply in the chat and it will revise the proposal.
  6. Click Apply changes. The changes are saved straight away — you don’t need to click Update.
  7. If the program settings page is open, reload the page before saving anything else on it. Otherwise saving the old form would overwrite the changes the assistant just made.
Nothing changes until you click Apply changes. The proposal is checked again when you click it, and if it’s no longer valid, nothing is changed and an error is shown instead.
Describe the rate you want in each case, not the difference. Dynamic and time-based rates replace the default commission rather than adding to it, so “an extra 5% for top partners” on a 20% default becomes a 25% rule. If a request is ambiguous, the assistant asks you to confirm the exact rate.
You need permission to edit program settings to apply commission changes. Each applied change is saved as a new version, so you can review or compare it later in commission history.

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Refer-a-friend and newsletter programs

The assistant can also change rewards in refer-a-friend programs and reward tiers in newsletter referral programs. In a newsletter program, click Manage via AI in the reward settings. In a refer-a-friend program, open the AI assistant and describe the change, for example Give the friend 20% off and the referrer 10 USD per sale.