Affonso evaluates the commission rate at the moment each commission is generated (i.e. at each payment event), not at the time the referral was first made. There is no per-referral rate locking.
What that means in practice
- Editing a group's incentive from 40% to 30% — every future commission for every affiliate in that group is generated at 30%, including renewals for customers referred while the rate was 40%.
- Moving an affiliate from one group to another — all future commissions for that affiliate use the new group's rate, including renewals for previously-referred customers.
- Commissions already generated keep the rate they were generated with. The hold period does not re-evaluate the rate.
Grandfathering old cohorts
Today, the workaround is cohort-based groups: keep one group per cohort and don't edit it.
- Group A: Early Bird affiliates, 40%, do not edit.
- Group B: Default, 30%, for new affiliates.
Per-referral rate locking is on the roadmap.
Where to configure rates
Groups & Rewards → group → Incentives tab.
