Commission Junction in Polar: partner revenue, net of the commission.

Commission Junction reports what its partners drove, on its own attribution, with no view of the cost of goods behind the order. So affiliate looks like pure upside until the commission and the margin are taken out. Bring partners, clicks and commission into Polar and the channel is measured like every other one.

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Partner revenue, net of the commission.

Partners, clicks and payouts from Commission Junction, re-attributed against your real orders and netted of commission, so every partner has a contribution margin instead of a gross sales figure.

Affiliate revenue

"What did partners really drive?"

Partner revenue re-attributed against your orders, counted once.

attributed

Commission cost

"Commission isn't in my margin."

Payouts netted out, so partner contribution reflects what you keep.

netted out

Partner-level margin

"Which partners earn?"

Contribution margin per partner and per creator, after cost of goods.

per partner

New vs returning

"Are they bringing new people?"

Whether a partner acquires customers or harvests existing ones.

new customer share

Product mix

"What are they selling?"

What each partner sells, and whether it is your profitable range.

mix, priced

One P&L

"Affiliate sits in a silo."

Partner revenue next to paid, organic and email on one statement.

in the P&L

Setup Guide

How to Connect Commission Junction to Polar.

A Polar account with Shopify connected, admin on your Commission Junction account, and Polar's AI Data Engineer, which builds the connector from a plain-language request.

01 · What you need

A Polar account with Shopify

A Polar account with Shopify connected. Commission Junction data only means something read against the orders behind it.

Connect your data →

Your Commission Junction account

Admin access to Commission Junction, with the partner, click and commission reporting for your programme.

Open Commission Junction →

Polar's AI Data Engineer

No native Commission Junction connector yet? Describe what you need in plain language and the AI Data Engineer reads the Commission Junction API, writes the connector and pipes it into your warehouse, in minutes.

02 · Bring Commission Junction into Polar

Ask for the connector ~ minutes

Plain language, no code.

Tell Polar's AI Data Engineer what you want from Commission Junction in plain language. It reads the source documentation, lays out everything the API offers by category, then writes the connector and pipes the data into your warehouse as governed data. No code, and it ships in minutes.

Worth knowing: this also works on connectors you already have. If the Commission Junction API exposes a field, you can have it, down to a single hidden one the standard connector never pulled.

Re-attributed and netted automatic

Counted once, after commission.

Polar matches Commission Junction partner activity to your Shopify orders, re-attributes the revenue on its own model and nets the commission out, so the channel is not credited with orders paid and organic also claim.

Partner-level margin the payoff

Who actually earns.

Every partner and creator gets a contribution margin, after commission and cost of goods, so the programme is managed on profit rather than on gross sales.

Side by side

Commission Junction reports partners. Polar reports partner profit.

Commission and conversions live in Commission Junction, on Commission Junction's own attribution, with no view of the cost of goods behind the order. Polar re-attributes affiliate revenue against your orders and nets the commission out.

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Commission Junction with Polarblended

Revenue is the network's attribution, overlapping other channels.

Affiliate revenue re-attributed and counted once.

Commission is a cost with no margin attached to it.

Commission netted out, so partner contribution margin is real.

No view of which partners actually bring new customers.

New versus returning revenue, by partner and by creator.

Exports and uploads to compare affiliate against paid.

Affiliate sat next to paid and organic on one P&L.

Featured Use Case

Which partners actually earn.

Gross partner revenue rewards volume. After commission and cost of goods, the ranking usually changes, and so does where the programme should invest.

C Partner profit Illustrative

Metric

This week

WoW

Net revenue

$482,100

+6%

Orders

3,240

+4%

Blended CAC

$38

-9%

New vs repeat

42 / 58

-3pts

Email revenue

$71,400

+12%

Gross partner revenue, commission and cost out, contribution at the bottom. Illustrative figures.

After commission

Net

A partner driving high revenue on a twenty percent commission and your lowest margin range can be worth less than a smaller one selling the right products.

Acquiring or harvesting

No SQL

Some partners bring new customers and some collect a commission on people who were buying anyway. The new customer share separates them.

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