# Change Affiliate Status

*Article Topics:* [*Affiliates*](/getting-started/common-topics/affiliates.md)

NATS allows you to change affiliate statuses from Active to either "Disabled" or "Banned." This can be useful for preventing disgruntled affiliates from accessing your NATS system.

## Affiliate Statuses

A "Banned" affiliate will not be able to login to your NATS system, and all of their traffic will be redirected to the */spam.html* page on your linkdomain. Once an affiliate is banned, they are also automatically removed from the [Payments Admin](/nats-admin/payments.md) to prevent them from receiving payouts.

A disabled affiliate, on the other hand, will also be restricted from logging in and removed from the [Payments Admin](/nats-admin/payments.md), but their traffic will still be tracked by NATS.

## Changing an Affiliate's Status

To change an affiliate's status in NATS, go to the [Affiliates Admin](/nats-admin/affiliates.md), select the affiliate you want to affect, and click the "Update" button beside the Status of the Affiliate.

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Below the available list of information, you will find three fields that can be configured to affect your affiliate's status. These fields are:

* Status - Choose between Active, Disabled, and Banned.
* Public Reason - Displays the text in this field to the affiliate as a reason for their status change.
* Internal Reason - Displays the text in this fields to admins only as a reason for an affiliate's status change.

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Once you have filled in the available fields, click the "Save" button to set your affiliate status change in effect.


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