If you operate as an affiliate network, you often need to control how much of your revenue economics are exposed to your affiliates.
Trackdesk gives Network tenants two related controls on the same page: what affiliates can see (visibility) and how payouts are displayed (calculation basis).
Both settings live in Settings → Affiliates → Data visibility.
This article covers the network-operator perspective. For the full reference on every data visibility option, see Data Visibility for Affiliates.
Note: These settings are available only for Network tenants.
Sales amount and revenue visibility
You can independently control visibility for Sales amount (the total purchase value of an order) and Revenue (your margin on the order). Each has three options:
Off - Hidden for all affiliates.
On for all, with exceptions - Visible to all affiliates except a list of specific affiliates you exclude.
On for selected affiliates only - Visible only to a list of specific affiliates you choose.
This lets you, for example, share full revenue transparency with strategic top-tier partners while keeping it hidden from the rest of your network.
What "hidden" means in practice
When a metric is hidden for an affiliate, it is hidden across every surface they interact with:
The affiliate dashboard
All reports
Postbacks — even if the affiliate has included the revenue or sales-amount variable in their postback URL, Trackdesk will not deliver the value
Sales amount visibility
Display sales amount data
You can enable or disable sales amount data display on the affiliate’s dashboard, reports, and postbacks.
It can set to global, individual, or completely off for all affiliates.
Revenue visibility
Display revenue data
You can enable or disable revenue data display on the affiliate’s dashboard, reports, and postbacks.
You have the option of turning on global or individual, or completely turn it off for all affiliates.
If you choose global, you can exclude certain affiliates. If you choose individual, you can include affiliates.
Rrevenue and sales amount values are hidden in the affiliate's dashboard, all reports, AND postbacks. Even if an affiliate uses the revenue variable in their postback URL, the system will not deliver the value when visibility is off.
Choosing the right combination
A common pattern for networks:
Hide Revenue from all affiliates by default to protect your margin
Keep Sales amount visible so affiliates can see transaction context
Use Sales amount based payout display so affiliates see their commission as a clean percentage of the deal they brought in
Adjust based on your contractual transparency with each partner.