One flat rate treats your best earners like your newest.
Your top affiliate might drive ten times the sales of an average one, but a single flat commission pays them the same anyway — and rewarding them properly usually means standing up a whole second program: a new signup link, a new roster, a new login for the affiliate to remember. Here's the difference tagging makes:
A whole second program
Reward a top earner more and typical tools want you to spin up a second campaign with its own signup — a new roster, a new invite link, a new login for the affiliate to keep track of.
Qanary
Tag the affiliate, grant the tag access to a private campaign, done — same roster, same login, the VIP rate just shows up as one more card.
From tag to VIP rate. Three steps.
1. Tag the affiliate — add a tag to anyone already in your roster, no separate signup or new invite link.
2. Grant the tag access to a private campaign — a private campaign with its own rate, granted to the whole tag at once.
3. It shows up as one more card — same login, same coupon codes; only its conversions accrue at the VIP rate.
Segment once. Reward at scale.
Segment with tags
Add tags to any affiliate in your roster — your top earners, a region, a partner type — however you want to group them, with no spreadsheet to keep in sync.
Grant tagged access
Grant a tag access to a private, invite-only campaign with its own reward rules — only affiliates carrying that tag can see or join it.
One login, one dashboard
The VIP campaign doesn't get a separate portal — it shows up as one more card on the dashboard the affiliate already signs into.
Four ways teams put tags to work.
Your top 1% of affiliates
Tag the handful driving most of your volume and grant them a VIP rate — no second program to stand up for a handful of people.
Regional segmentation
Tag affiliates by market and run a region-specific campaign off the same roster, instead of standing up a separate program per geography.
An agency or partner tier
Tag a whole partner type for a dedicated rate — everyone carrying that tag gets the same terms, same login, no individual negotiation to track.
Testing a new commission structure
Trial a higher rate on a small tagged group before deciding whether to roll it out to the whole roster.
See it side by side.
| Capability | Typical tools | Qanary |
|---|---|---|
| Reward top earners without a second program | No | Yes, via tags |
| Same login across every campaign | No | Yes |
| VIP rate applies only to VIP conversions | Varies by vendor | Yes |
| Segment affiliates by tag | No | Yes |
| Private, invite-only campaign container included | Varies by vendor | Yes, built in |
| One roster, one payout across all campaigns | No | Yes |
| Price tied to your affiliate-driven revenue | Often, past a tier | Never — flat, event-based |
"Typical tools" describes affiliate platforms without a tagging layer, where paying a subset of affiliates a different rate means standing up a separate program with its own signup link — the common workaround unless segmentation is built in. See the full pricing for how Qanary's usage-based plans compare.
Because your VIP tier isn't a second program.
- No duplicate roster. Tag affiliates already in your roster instead of re-recruiting them into a separate program with its own signup link.
- Same login, every time. Affiliates sign in once; the VIP campaign just appears as another card on the dashboard they already use.
- Isolated reward rules. The VIP campaign has its own rate, and only its conversions accrue at that rate — nothing touches your other campaigns' math.
- Built on private campaigns. The same invite-only container that keeps a program invisible to anyone without an invite — tags just grant access to a whole group at once instead of one link at a time.
- Free plan, no card required. Tagging and private campaigns ship on every plan, including Free — no add-on module to unlock.
Segmentation is only half the story — Qanary also runs fraud checks before a commission is owed, not after it's paid. See every feature on the features hub, or the full mechanics in the REST API reference.
Fair questions.
Can I pay my best affiliates a higher rate?
Yes — the honest way. Tag your top earners, create a private, invite-only campaign with its own reward rules, and grant the tag access. They keep the same login and the same coupon codes; the VIP campaign just appears as one more card on their dashboard, and only its conversions accrue at the VIP rate.
Does tagging require moving affiliates to a new program?
No. Tags apply to affiliates already in your roster. Grant a tag access to a private campaign and the higher rate becomes available to that whole group without re-recruiting anyone or issuing a new signup link.
Does my top earner need a new login to see their VIP rate?
No. They keep the same login and the same coupon codes; the VIP campaign just appears as one more card on the dashboard they already use, alongside any other campaign they're part of.
How is a tagged VIP campaign different from Private campaigns?
Private campaigns is the container — an invite-only program whose join page simply doesn't exist to anyone without a link. Tags & VIP rates layers segmentation on top: grant a tag access instead of sending individual invite links, so the campaign scales to a whole group of affiliates in one action.
Everything you need to tag your first VIP.
Stop paying your best affiliates the same as your newest.
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