In House Accounts

Article Topics: Affiliates

In-house accounts are a feature in NATS that allow you to designate that a particular affiliate works for you. Designating an employee as an in-house affiliate account is useful, as you can prevent affiliate payouts from being built for that particular account, thus preventing unwanted payouts.

In-House Account Tracking

These accounts work a bit differently than normal accounts when tracking takes place in NATS. Typically when a surfer goes through a track link, we normally check to see if the surfer already has a NATS Code via cookie or IP-- if they already have a NATS Code, we simply use that.

If a surfer has an in-house tracking code associated with them, a normal affiliate's NATS Code will take precedence. For example, if a surfer is associated with an in-house affiliate in NATS and clicks on a regular affiliate's link code, the surfer will then become associated with the regular affiliate. This feature ensures that affiliates get the opportunity to get credit for a referral over an in-house account.

Setting Up An In-House Account

NATS does not allow you to create new in-house accounts. Instead, you must edit an already existing affiliate account to be designated as "in-house". If you would like to create a new in-house account, you (or an admin) must first create a new affiliate account, then change the account's permissions to make it an in-house account.

To change an already existing affiliate account to an in-house account, go to the Affiliates Admin and change the "No" option for In-House to "Yes."

Disabling Payouts

If you wish to disable payouts for an in-house account, you will need to add a "Disable Payout" payout change for each program. To do so, go to the Programs Admin, select a program and navigate to the "Payouts" tab. Click the "Add New" button under the Payout Changes section to create a new Payout Change.

You will then be prompted to configure your new payout change. In the "Affiliate" field, enter the username of your new in-house affiliate account. Next, choose "Disable Payout" from the "Change Type" drop-down menu and click Save Payout Change. Simply repeat this step for any active program that your in-house affiliate account is associated with in order to fully disable payouts for your in-house account.

In-House Tracking

Although in-house accounts can get credit for surfer hits, joins, etc., the lack of an affiliate payout for these referrals can throw off your Profit & Loss Reports.

As a result, NATS offers the feature of removing your in-house affiliates' statistics from the Profit & Loss Report. To remove your in-house account's statistics, go to the Reporting Admin. On the Profit & Loss Report, using the Advance Search Bar by clicking the bar and selecting "No-InHouse" will provide any report while excluding any In-House related traffic.