Friendbuy in Polar: partner revenue, net of the commission.
Friendbuy 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.
/Setup Guide
How to Connect Friendbuy to Polar.
A Polar account with Shopify connected, admin on your Friendbuy 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. Friendbuy data only means something read against the orders behind it.
Connect your data →Your Friendbuy account
Admin access to Friendbuy, with the partner, click and commission reporting for your programme.
Open Friendbuy →Polar's AI Data Engineer
No native Friendbuy connector yet? Describe what you need in plain language and the AI Data Engineer reads the Friendbuy API, writes the connector and pipes it into your warehouse, in minutes.
02 · Bring Friendbuy into Polar
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Ask for the connector ~ minutes
Plain language, no code.
Tell Polar's AI Data Engineer what you want from Friendbuy 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 Friendbuy API exposes a field, you can have it, down to a single hidden one the standard connector never pulled.
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Re-attributed and netted automatic
Counted once, after commission.
Polar matches Friendbuy 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.
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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
Friendbuy reports partners. Polar reports partner profit.
Commission and conversions live in Friendbuy, on Friendbuy'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.
Friendbuy on its ownon its own
+Friendbuy 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.
The Gap
The connector is only half of it.
Once Friendbuy is modelled against your real orders inside Polar, you can use the result wherever you already work. Ask Polar in plain language, pull it live through the Polar MCP, or schedule it into the report your team reads every morning.
Friendbuy
partners, clicks, commission
Polar
deduped, attributed revenue