Pay partners for the customers they bring you.
Commission is worked out against the money that actually arrived, not the order that was placed. Referrers and affiliates run side by side, with an application queue in front of both and one payout run behind them.
The Referral App for Partners
Partner records, a referral pipeline, per-partner commissions, tracking links and one performance view across both programmes.
Partners
Who refers for you, and the terms each one signed up to.
Pipeline
Every referral traced from the click to the order.
Commissions
Paid on money that actually arrived, not on orders placed.
Distribution
The links, pages and share buttons a partner puts in front of people.
Performance
Which partners return anything, and how much.
Who sends you business, and what it has been worth.
Every partner with their tier, their conversion rate and their earnings. Inactive and suspended are on the same board rather than quietly dropped.
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manual commission calculations
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pipeline stages from referral to Ledger entry
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reconciliation spreadsheets
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programme types in one payout run
Two programmes, and a queue in front of both.
Everyone asking to join waits for your approval, so nobody enrols themselves by finding a link. Approve them into either programme and their terms come with them.
Referrers
People who send you business they know. One link each, on the terms your referral programme sets.
Affiliates
Partners who run your links commercially, on their own commission structure and their own tracking.
Applications
3 pendingLena Novak
David Kim
Priya Sharma
Watch a referral turn into money somebody is owed.
The click, the lead it became, the order it produced, and the commission that follows it into your books.
See which referrals are real before you pay for them.
A lead lands in Pending, moves to Qualified as it firms up, and earns its partner a commission when it converts. Each one also opens as a deal on your pipeline in Deals, carrying the partner who sent it.
Bright Studio Co.
Oakwood Dental
Metro Fitness
Redline Auto
Peak Consulting
Bloom Café
Nova Design
Tidewater Inn
Commission is worked out against the money that actually arrived.
An order placed is not an order paid. A partner earns when the payment lands, and a refund or a chargeback unwinds the commission the same way it unwinds the revenue. Partners request payment; nothing leaves until you approve it.
Give each partner a link and see what it did.
A unique tracking link per partner, a branded landing page on your own domain, and share buttons for the five platforms they post to. Your tracking tags are appended at share time, so attribution never depends on a partner pasting a link correctly. Because the order is in the same account, credit follows the sale rather than a pixel.
Referral Links
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Clicks
34
Conversions
9.9%
Rate
Referred by Sarah Chen
Your Brand
Exclusive offer for referred customers
Get StartedWhich partners return anything, and how much.
Both programmes read side by side on one dashboard, over an activity feed tagged with the programme each event came from.
Referral Program
Last 30 days312
Total Referrals
184
Qualified
96
Converted
Affiliate Program
Last 30 days48
Total Affiliates
31
Active
7
Pending
What Circle customers add next.
3 of these 6 connections are in your plan today. The rest stay visible so you know the instrument is there before you need it.
Deals
A referral arrives as a record on the pipeline, attributed to the partner who made it.
Payments
A commission is paid through the account’s own payment connectors, on the same rails as everything else.
Ledger
What a program costs posts as an expense where the rest of your spend is recorded.
Bookings
A referred reservation is credited to the partner without anybody matching names by hand.
Campaigns
An invitation and a welcome sequence are campaigns, sent to the contact record the referral created.
Purview
The selected purview scopes partners, payouts and every figure on the page.
No setup cost. Pay when you start using.
Referrals and affiliates for growing accounts.
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Reservations, inventory, contacts, tickets, and scheduling
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Calisto Purview
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Account configuration and data rules.
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- Referrers: the people who send you business they know, on your referral terms.
- Affiliates: partners who run your links commercially, with their own commission structure and their own tracking, separate from the referrer programme.
- A detail view per partner carrying their links, their referrals, their earnings and their status.
- Active, inactive and suspended partners stay on the same board rather than being quietly dropped.
- A queue for everybody asking to become a partner, in either programme.
- Approve or reject before anyone is enrolled, so nobody starts earning by finding a link.
- Every referred lead on a board, from pending through qualified to converted.
- Filter by partner or by stage, so you can see which partners send business that is real.
- Per-partner commission terms rather than one flat rate across the programme.
- Commission worked out against the payment that actually arrived, not against the order that was placed.
- Worked out in the currency the order was priced in. Nothing is converted.
- A cancelled or refunded order reverses the liability the same way it reverses the revenue.
- One payout run across both programmes, each partner on their own terms.
- Partners request; you approve. Nothing leaves on its own.
- Approved payouts post to your books as expenses as they happen.
- A unique tracking link per partner, with its own name and destination.
- Clicks, conversions and conversion rate per link, traced back to the partner who owns it.
- A hosted landing page carrying your brand and your offer, on your own domain, showing who referred the visitor.
- Affiliate links issued separately from referrer links, with their own terms and their own tracking.
- Five share destinations: Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram, WhatsApp and LinkedIn, each switched on or off on its own.
- A default share message for the programme, overridable per platform.
- Tracking source, medium and campaign configured once and appended automatically at share time, so nothing depends on a partner pasting a tagged link correctly.
- Choose the placements: on referral links, on the landing page, and in the emails you send.
- Shares, clicks and conversions counted per platform.
- One dashboard across both programmes.
- Referral programme: total referrals, qualified, converted and earnings.
- Affiliate programme: total affiliates, active, pending applications and commission paid.
- A recent-activity feed tagged by the programme each event came from.
- One cross-programme inbox for everything waiting on your decision.
- Applications and payout requests in the same queue, each tagged referral or affiliate.
- Referral Performance: active referrers, total referrals, referrals in the last thirty days, conversion rate, pending against paid payouts.
- Affiliate ROI: total, active and pending affiliates against links, clicks and conversions.
- Payout Summary: pending count and amount against paid count and amount.
- Conversion Funnel: links to clicks to conversions.
- Programme configuration for the referral and affiliate programmes, each with its own terms.
- Integrations with Deals and Ledger, so referrals open as deals and commissions post as expenses.
- Notification preferences for applications, payout requests and programme activity.
- A getting-started checklist that walks a new programme to its first live link.
Questions about Calisto Circle
Against money you actually received, not against orders placed. A refunded or charged-back sale does not pay a commission, which is the difference between a referral programme that costs what you expected and one that does not.
Each partner gets their own link, and attribution follows through to the booking or order it produced. Because commerce is in the same account, there is no pixel to trust.
Unified payouts across both programmes, posted to Ledger as they happen, so partner cost lands in the books with the rest of your expenses.
Partners, their links and their commission terms import. Historic attribution generally does not travel, so most operators run the old programme to the end of its cycle and start new attribution here.
A referrer sends you people they know. An affiliate runs your links commercially, on their own terms and their own commission structure. They are separate programmes with separate links and separate tracking.
The liability reverses the same way the revenue does. A partner is paid on money you kept, so a refund or a chargeback unwinds the commission rather than leaving you to claw it back.
A hosted branded page, your own pages and app, or straight out to social in one tap. Tracking tags are configured once and applied at share time, so nothing depends on the partner pasting them correctly.
One dashboard covers both programmes with active partners, leads and commissions, and four reports break it down: referral performance, affiliate return, the payout summary and the conversion funnel.