# Affiliates

Marketing and promotions

An **affiliate** is a partner who sends customers to your store - a blogger, a comparison site, a club. GrandNode remembers which affiliate a visitor came from and attributes their registration and orders to that affiliate, so you can pay a commission.

### Create an affiliate

1. Open **Marketing → Affiliates** and click **Add new**.
2. Enter the partner's name, e-mail and address, tick **Active**, and optionally a **Friendly URL name** such as `maya`.
3. Save. The page shows the affiliate's **URL** to give to the partner.

![The Affiliates list with maya.bennett@affiliatepartner.example, first and last name and active flag](https://grandnode.com/Plugins/Theme.GrandNodeCom/Content/kb/marketing/affiliates.webp)

Marketing → Affiliates.

### Affiliate links

Any store address works as an affiliate link with one of these parameters added:

- `?affiliateid=<id>` - the affiliate's id;
- `?affiliate=<friendly name>` - the friendly URL name, e.g. `https://yourstore.com/headphones?affiliate=maya`.

The first affiliate a visitor arrives with is stored on their customer record; orders they place are marked with it.

### Customers and orders of an affiliate

Open an affiliate to see the **Customers** and **Orders** tabs: everyone who came through them and what they bought, with filters by date and status - the basis for paying commission.

### Related

- [The order list](https://grandnode.com/sales-orders-list)

- [Web page](https://grandnode.com/marketing-affiliates)