NATS Code

Article Topics: NATS Admin

The NATS Code is the part of a NATS tracking URL that is used to credit an Affiliate and record statistics. NATS Codes are different for each Affiliate, Program, Site, and Ad Tool.

The following tracking information is stored in the NATSCode:

• Affiliate Username - The username of the affiliate who referred this surfer.

• Program ID - The numeric ID of the program that the surfer's transaction will be paid out under.

• Site ID - The numeric ID of the NATS site the tracked surfer is trying to visit.

• Tour ID - The numeric ID of the tour that the tracked surfer will be redirected to.

• Affiliate Campaign ID - The numeric ID of the campaign associated with the affiliate.

• Adtool ID - If the surfer followed a linkcode associated with an ad tool, this will represent the numeric ID of the Ad Tool the surfer saw.

• Sub ID 1 & Sub ID 2 - Sub ID 1 is used for extra tracking needed by some special Ad Tool types, such as gallery builder. Sub ID 2 is available for any custom use you would like to use it for.

Getting NATS Code

To get the NATSCode from an encoded linkcode, start with an affiliate's linkcode. For example:

https://example.com/track/MS4yLjEuNS4wLjAuMC4w

In this example, the NATS Code is the arbitrary string that follows track/ -- MS4yLjEuNS4wLjAuMC4w. However, the NATS Code also does not always follow track/. For example:

https://example.com/signup/signup.php?nats=MS4yLjEuNS4wLjAuMC4w

The NATS Code will not always be at the end of a URL. For example:

https://example.com/track/MS4yLjEuNS4wLjAuMC4w/join

The NATS Code does not include /join. The NATS Code is easy to identify in most NATS URLs because it is the only word that does not resemble English. In an unencoded linkcode, the tracking information is stored as period-separated values instead of encoded as a series of numbers and letters.

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