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Introducing Affiliates

Updated over a month ago

One of the most common questions business owners ask is:
“What’s actually driving my sales?”

If you promote your store across Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitter, ads, or through other people, it’s usually hard to tell which one is working. That changes today.

What’s New

We’ve launched Affiliate Links on Catlog — a simple way to track where your orders and customers are coming from.

Affiliates can be:

  • A person (influencer, team member, partner)

  • A platform or campaign (Instagram bio, WhatsApp broadcast, ads, email, etc.)

Each affiliate gets a unique link that leads to your Catlog store. When customers place orders through that link, Catlog tracks it automatically.

What You Can Track

With affiliate links, you can now:

  • See how many orders each source brings

  • Track new customers per affiliate

  • Identify your top-performing channels at a glance

  • Understand which promotions are worth repeating

If you want to reward affiliates with commissions or bonuses, that’s entirely up to you.

How Affiliates Work

Step 1: Open Affiliates

  • On web: Go to your dashboard and click Affiliates

  • On mobile: Open the side navigation and tap Affiliates

Step 2: Create an affiliate link
Choose whether the affiliate is:

  • A person

  • Or a platform / campaign

Give it a name so you can easily recognise it later.

Step 3: Share the link
Copy the generated link and share it anywhere:

  • WhatsApp

  • Instagram bio or stories

  • Ads

  • With collaborators or influencers

Each link leads directly to your Catlog store.

Step 4: Track performance
In your dashboard, you’ll see:

  • Orders per affiliate

  • New customers per affiliate

  • Your top-performing affiliate

  • Total orders generated from affiliates

Example

Nneka runs an online bag store.

She promotes her Catlog store through:

  • WhatsApp broadcasts

  • Her Instagram bio

  • A promo post from her cousin (an influencer)

With affiliate links, she creates:

  • One link for WhatsApp

  • One for Instagram

  • One for her cousin

After a week, she checks her dashboard and sees:

  • WhatsApp brought in 4 orders

  • Instagram brought 1 order

  • Her cousin’s post brought 13 orders and 9 new customers

Now she knows exactly what worked, who to thank, and what to repeat next time.

Start Selling Smarter

Affiliate Links are available now for all Catlog users.

Create your first affiliate link and start seeing exactly where your sales are coming from.

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