The Customer Glossary
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Partner Referral
Partner Referral refers to a feature where your existing partners (affiliates, publishers) are incentivized to recruit new partners to your Everflow network. When these referred partners generate conversions on your offers, the referring partner typically earns a commission or bonus based on the performance of their referrals.
Partner Referrals Report
The Referral Report is a specific report that provides insights into the performance of your Partner Referral program. It allows you to track which of your existing partners are successfully referring new partners to your network and the subsequent performance of those referred partners.
Partner Sign Up Form
The Partner Sign Up Form is a customizable web form that prospective partners (affiliates, publishers) use to apply and register to join your affiliate network managed within the Everflow platform.
Partner Tier
Partner Tier refers to a system for categorizing and managing your partners based on their performance or other criteria. It allows you to segment your partner network and apply different settings or conditions to each tier
Payee
The partner receiving payment through Everflow Pay. They must verify their identity and banking details first.
Payer
Your company account in Everflow Pay that sends payments to partners.
Payment Batch
A group of partner payments processed together at one time.
Payment Method
The available payment options in Everflow for sending funds to your partners. Common choices include Everflow Pay (our in-house payment solution), PayPal, and various other payment providers like Paxum, Bitcoin, Direct Deposit, and Payoneer. Each payment method has its own setup requirements, processing times, and supported regions. When configuring your partner payments, you'll need to select which payment methods you want to enable for your program.
Payment Status
The current stage of a payment in the processing system, from creation to completion.
Payment Type
The method used to send funds to partners, such as ACH or wire transfer, each with different processing times and fees.
Payout
The amount you pay partners for generating successful conversions.
Penny Test
A tiny test payment sent to verify that a partner's bank account information is correct.
Percentage of Revenue (PRV)
Percentage of Revenue (PRV) refers to a payout model where a partner's commission is calculated as a specified percentage of the revenue generated from their conversions.
Pixel
A pixel (also known as a tracking pixel or conversion pixel) is a small, transparent image embedded on a web page or within an application that allows Everflow to track and attribute conversions to specific partners and their traffic. We don't recommend this tracking method due to browser restrictions making it increasingly obsolete.
Postback Tracking
Server Postback (S2S) is a simple Conversion Method that requires the Everflow Transaction ID to be sent to the server, and then a server-side call to be made from that system to Everflow.
Postback URL
A Postback URL creates a connection for recording Conversions and Events through generating a unique Transaction ID for each user's click and then returning the successful conversion data.
Probation Period
A 48-hour waiting period for new payee accounts before they can receive payments.
Products Report
The Products Report provides you with a breakdown of performance by Product SKU and the Partners generating sales for that Product SKU.
Profit
Profit is Revenue minus Payout. It is the amount of Profit you earn on that specific Conversion.
Progression Rate
The percentage of users who complete a specific event after completing an earlier event in the funnel - (Selected Event / Specific Event) * 100.
Publisher
Also referred to as an affiliate, partner, or Influencer, publishers represent any source or channel that you want to track for promoting your Offers. They will receive the Tracking Link for your Offer and send Users to that link, with the goal of driving successful Conversions.
Redirect Report
The Redirect report provides insights into your Fail Traffic, allowing you to see which Offer sent failed clicks to a subsequent Offer and how the clicks performed.
Referral Link
A Referral Link is a unique tracking URL specifically generated for your existing partners (affiliates, publishers) to use when inviting new partners to join your Everflow network. When someone clicks on this unique link and successfully signs up as a new partner, Everflow tracks that the new partner was referred by the partner who shared the link.
Refunds Report
The Refunds Report is a dedicated report that provides a detailed overview of all conversion events that have been marked as refunded by the advertiser. The Refunds Report requires an integration with WooCommerce, ClickFunnels, and/or Shopify.
Rejected Conversions
Rejected conversions refer to conversion events that were initially tracked and recorded by the platform, but were subsequently deemed invalid or ineligible due to reasons such as being a duplicate conversion, postback controls, or refunds.
Return on Ad Spend (ROAS)
Gross Sales divided by Total Revenue.
Revenue
The amount advertisers pay you for successful conversions. If you're promoting your own products, this is the value you assign to each conversion.
Revenue per Action (RPA)
Total Revenue (received from your Advertiser, or your Brand directly) for each Conversion. Conversion and Action mean the same thing in this context.
Revenue per Click (RPC)
Total Revenue divided by the number of clicks.
Revenue per Mille (RPM)
This is the earnings per 1000 impressions received.
Revenue per Sale (RPS)
Total Revenue paid to your network for a sale, or that a direct brand has decided to display as Revenue - usually from e-commerce Offers.
Sales Manager
This is the point of contact that is visible in the Advertiser's dashboard.
Saved & Scheduled Reports
Saved reports allow you to preserve the specific configurations (date ranges, filters, metrics, columns, etc.) of reports that you frequently need to access. This eliminates the need to manually set up the same report each time you want to view the data. Scheduled reports automate the process of generating and delivering reports to specified email recipients (including yourself, colleagues, or clients) on a recurring basis (daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly).
Session IP
The Session IP refers to the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the user at the moment they clicked on an Everflow partner tracking link.
Shopping Cart
In Everflow, "shopping cart" relates to integrations with external e-commerce platforms that have shopping cart functionality.
Smart Link Report
The Smartlink Report allows you to analyze how your Smartlinks are performing overall and how different factors are influencing their effectiveness.
Smart Links
Smart Links allow you to create a bundled group of Offers that are reached through a single tracking link. Each user’s click will be matched up with an Offer through a prioritized list (Priority), in a random rotation (Weight), or through a KPI Optimized Smart Link.
SmartSwitch
SmartSwitch allows you to set rules about unacceptable traffic and have the system automatically block, send to fail traffic, or notify placements accordingly. SmartSwitch is a powerful tool for automatic optimization that pauses/forwards traffic based on your target KPI goals, defined by your chosen rules and metrics.
Source ID
Source ID is a parameter that can be appended to your partner's tracking links to provide an additional layer of granularity in tracking and reporting the origin of traffic and conversions. It allows your partners to further categorize and identify the specific source or sub-source of the traffic they are sending.
Spoofing
Spoofing refers to the act of disguising or falsifying information related to traffic or conversions in an attempt to generate illegitimate clicks, leads, or sales and thereby fraudulently earn payouts.
Sub1 - Sub5
Sub1 - Sub5 are optional parameters that can be appended to your partner tracking links to pass additional levels of granular tracking information about the traffic source.
Targeting
Targeting allows you to make your offers available only to users that fit certain criteria. You can define targeting rules such as device characteristics, geolocation, and ip ranges.
Thread Bank Account
Your FDIC-insured bank account used with Everflow Pay to manage partner payments.
Time Delta
The average time between a specific event and the initial event. Helps understand how long users take between steps - Average (Specific Event Time - Source Event Time).
Total CV
The combined total of standard conversions and view-through conversions.
Total Clicks
All valid clicks, including both Unique and Duplicate clicks (but not invalid clicks).
Total Funnel Cost
The combined cost of all events in a conversion funnel, including partner payouts and advertising costs - SUM(Payout of every \Event) + SUM(Media Buying Cost of every Event).
Total Funnel Revenue
The total revenue generated from all events in a conversion funnel - SUM(Revenue of every Event).
Tracking Domain
The domain used in the partner tracking link to track the clicks coming to your Offers, such as "track.yourcompany.com".
Tracking Link
A tracking link is a unique, specially generated URL provided to your partners (affiliates or publishers) that they use to promote your offers (products, services, or apps).
Traffic
Traffic refers to the flow of users or clicks that are directed towards an advertiser's offer through a partner's (affiliate or publisher) tracking link.
Traffic Source
A traffic source designates the origin of user clicks or conversions, identifying where the traffic is coming from, such as a specific website, ad campaign, or partner.
Transaction ID
A Transaction ID serves as a unique identifier for a specific click or conversion. When a user clicks on an Everflow tracking link, the system generates a unique transaction ID.  This ID is then passed along to the advertiser's system. When the user completes a conversion, the advertiser's system sends the transaction ID back to Everflow via a postback, allowing Everflow to match the conversion to the original click.
Unique Click
A click defined as unique based on the Unique Session Identifier setting within the Offer.
User
A User is a person who is taking an action on your Tracking Link. Or we can refer to users as someone who is using Everflow a.ka. a team member.
VTA
Otherwise known as View-Through Attribution, VTA enables tracking of Users who convert after viewing ads without clicking. Partners receive credit for these conversions when enabled.
VTC/VT CV
The number of Conversions attributed through View-Through Attribution.
Variance Report
The Variance report allows you to easily compare the performance between two time periods, based on data points such as Offer, Partner, Account Manager, and Advertiser.
View-Through Attribution
Enables tracking of Users who convert after viewing ads without clicking. Partners receive credit for these conversions when enabled.
View-Through Conversions
The number of Conversions attributed through View-Through Attribution.
Whitelist
Whitelisting IPs or domains essentially blocks conversions from any other IPs or domains.
Wire Transfer
An international payment method that delivers funds quickly (same day or next day) but with higher fees than ACH.
iFrame
An iframe is an HTML element that lets you embed another webpage or external content within your current webpage.