If you sell anything online — a SaaS tool, a digital course, an e-commerce product — and you want influencers and bloggers to promote it for you, you normally have to pay companies like ClickBank or PartnerStack hundreds of dollars every single month just to manage your affiliates.

AffiliateTracker Pro eliminates that cost completely.

You install this on your own server once, and you own your entire affiliate network forever.

Your affiliates get a slick, modern dashboard where they can grab their referral link, watch their clicks roll in, and request payouts when they hit the minimum threshold. You, as the Admin, get a separate hardened control panel to monitor every conversion, verify payout methods before releasing money, and detect fraudulent click activity in real time.

This was built for business owners who understand the value of owning their own tools instead of renting access to someone else's.

1. Dual-portal architecture: Completely separate Admin and Affiliate panels with independent authentication
2. 5-tier automated commission system: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond — commission rates escalate automatically as affiliates hit conversion milestones
3. Click fraud protection: IP + browser fingerprint throttling silently discards spam clicks and logs them for Admin review
4. Webhook-secured conversion tracking: HMAC-SHA256 signed webhooks prevent any fake sales being injected into the system
5. Referral Link Generator: Affiliates paste any URL and get their unique trackable link in one click
6. Payout request flow with 6-digit email confirmation code — prevents unauthorized payout requests even if account is compromised
7. Admin payout approval: Approve, complete, or reject payout requests with full audit trail
8. Affiliate status toggle: Instantly suspend or reactivate any affiliate with one click
9. Cookie-based tracking with configurable lifetime (default 30-day attribution window)
10. Clean, dark-mode SaaS UI built with pure CSS — no heavy UI frameworks
11. Fully documented installation guide written for non-technical buyers
12. Works with any main website: WordPress, Shopify, custom HTML — just paste one script tag

- PHP 8.2 or higher
- MySQL 5.7+ / MariaDB
- Apache or Nginx
- cPanel or VPS with SSH/Terminal access
- Composer (pre-installed in package, no action needed)

Full step-by-step installation guide is included in the Documentation folder.

1. Upload to a subdomain and extract the ZIP
2. Point the Document Root to the /public folder
3. Create a MySQL database and fill in the .env file
4. Open cPanel Terminal and run: php artisan migrate:fresh --seed
5. Log in at yoursubdomain.com/admin/login with the credentials you set in .env
6. Paste the tracking script into your main website's tag