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 clients two related controls on the same page: what affiliates can see (visibility) and how payouts are displayed (calculation basis, see Affiliate Payout Display).
Both settings live in Settings → Affiliates → Data visibility, in the Financial data block.
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 clients.
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.
Global: Visible to all affiliates except a list of specific affiliates you exclude.
Individual: Visible only to a list of specific affiliates you choose.
This lets you, for example, share full revenue transparency with strategic top-tier affiliates 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 data
You can enable or disable sales amount data display on the affiliate’s dashboard, reports, and postbacks.
It can be set to Global, Individual, or Off (hidden for all affiliates).
Revenue visibility
Display revenue data
You can enable or disable revenue data display on the affiliate’s dashboard, reports, and postbacks.
It can be set to Global, Individual, or Off (hidden for all affiliates).
If you choose Global, you can exclude certain affiliates. If you choose Individual, only the affiliates you select can see it.
Revenue 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 it is hidden from that affiliate.
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 based payout display so affiliates see their commission as a clean percentage of the deal they brought in (see Affiliate Payout Display)
Adjust based on your contractual transparency with each affiliate.