Onboarding · Step 5 of 7
Payment setup
Get your Secrets AI affiliate payout method on file with your affiliate manager: wire transfer, PayPal or Bitcoin (BTC), what details each needs, thresholds, and net-15 timing.
Set up how you get paid before you have a balance waiting to go out. It takes five minutes and saves a delayed first payment. The Secrets AI affiliate program pays by wire transfer, PayPal or Bitcoin (BTC), and you give your payment details to your affiliate manager.
The basics
| What | Detail |
|---|---|
| Methods supported | Wire transfer, PayPal, Bitcoin (BTC) |
| Where details go | To your affiliate manager |
| Minimum thresholds | Vary by method and account. Your affiliate manager confirms the figure that applies to you. |
| Cadence | Monthly payouts on net-15 terms |
If your balance is below the minimum for your method in a given cycle, it rolls forward to the next one. Nothing is lost; you wait one extra cycle.
Setting your payment method
Wire transfer
Give your affiliate manager:
- Beneficiary name
- Bank name
- SWIFT/BIC code
- Account number or IBAN
- Bank address
Wires typically take a few business days to settle. Correspondent bank fees, if any apply on your route, are outside the program's control. The gross amount is sent.
PayPal
Share the PayPal email for the account that should receive the funds. The account must be verified and able to receive USD. Some country-restricted PayPal accounts cannot accept USD inbound, so check your account's limits before submitting it. PayPal's own receiving or conversion fees, if any, are between you and PayPal; the gross payout is sent.
Bitcoin (BTC)
- Copy your wallet address directly from your wallet. Never type it from memory.
- Send it to your affiliate manager by email, from the email address you used to create your affiliate account.
Wallet changes are irreversible in practice. If a BTC address is wrong, whether that is the wrong wallet, the wrong network or a typo, the funds cannot be recovered once sent. Always copy and paste.
How net-15 works
Payouts are monthly, and the published terms are net-15: a month's earnings are paid by the 15th of the following month.
- You earn commissions from October 1 to October 31.
- October closes and conversions are reviewed.
- Your October earnings are paid by November 15.
- November earnings are paid by December 15, and so on.
Only approved conversions are paid. Pending conversions are a forecast, not a result. See What counts as a conversion?. If traffic is under a quality review, payments tied to that traffic may hold until the review closes.
What slows payments down
- Submitting details after a cycle has started. If your method is not on file when a cycle runs, that balance rolls to the next one.
- A PayPal account that cannot receive USD because of country restrictions.
- A mistyped or hand-entered BTC address. Copy and paste from the wallet.
If you change your PayPal email or wallet address, the new value needs to be on file with your affiliate manager before the next cycle runs. See How do I update my payment method?.
If a payment does not show up
- Ask your affiliate manager whether the payment shows as sent, and on what date.
- Confirm your payment details are current, especially if you changed them recently.
- For BTC, check the transaction hash in a block explorer. If it shows confirmed on-chain but the funds have not landed, the address on file may not be the one you expected.
- If that does not resolve it, flag it to your affiliate manager with the expected date, amount and method.
More detail is in My payment has not arrived.
Next steps
- Find banners, landers and brand assets in Creative library, the next step.
- See the timing rules in When will I be paid?.
- Compare payout models on Commissions.
- Not approved yet? Apply to the Secrets AI affiliate program.