Refersion in Polar: affiliate and creator revenue, in blended CAC.
Connect Refersion through the AI Data Engineer and your affiliate commissions, payouts and referral revenue flow into Polar, blended with every other channel. Affiliate stops being a cost you upload by hand and becomes a real, attributed channel in your blended CAC, MER and contribution margin.
/Setup Guide
How to Connect Refersion to Polar.
01 · What you need
A Polar account with Shopify
A Polar account with Shopify connected. This connector plugs in right next to your stack.
Connect your data →A Refersion account
API access to your commissions, payouts and referral orders so the AI Data Engineer can build the connector.
Open Refersion →Polar's AI Data Engineer
Refersion is ingested via the connector, so affiliate spend and revenue stop being a manual cost upload.
02 · Bring Refersion into Polar
1
Ask the AI Data Engineer for Refersion ~ minutes
Plain language, no code.
Describe what you need from Refersion in plain language. Polar's AI Data Engineer reads the Refersion API, writes the connector and pipes the data into your warehouse as governed data, in minutes. No code.
2
Blend into CAC automatic
A real channel.
Affiliate spend and revenue fold into blended CAC, MER and contribution margin, next to paid and organic, no more manual cost uploads.
3
See what pays the payoff
Creators and partners ranked.
See which affiliates and partners actually drive incremental revenue against their commission cost, not just clicks.
Side by side
Refersion tracks affiliates. Polar makes it a channel.
Refersion knows who referred what, but its numbers live apart from your blended reporting, so affiliate is usually a cost you paste into a spreadsheet once a month. Polar folds it in as a real, attributed channel.
Refersion on its ownon its own
+Refersion with Polarblended
Referral revenue and commissions live in the affiliate tool.
Referral revenue attributed and blended with every channel.
Commission cost uploaded to reporting by hand.
Commissions folded into blended CAC and MER automatically.
No blend with paid, organic or margin.
Affiliate revenue in contribution margin, net of cost.
Over-claiming vs other channels goes unchecked.
Referral orders de-duplicated against paid and organic.
The Gap
The Refersion connector is only half of it.
Once your Refersion affiliate data are clean and attributed inside Polar, you can use them wherever you already work. Ask Polar in plain language, pull them live through the Polar MCP, or schedule a snapshot into the report your team reads every morning.
Refersion
affiliate commissions, payouts and referral revenue
Polar
attributed, blended into CAC