Latest Publications
What to Do When a Broker Stops Paying: Escalation, Recovery, and Exit
A step-by-step playbook for IBs facing a non-paying broker: how to confirm the problem, build evidence, escalate internally and externally, and decide when to exit.
How to Vet a Broker's Payment Reliability Before You Send a Single Lead
A practical, evidence-based process for checking whether a broker will actually pay you on time — before you commit any leads.
Payment Thresholds and Payout Schedules: Reading the Fine Print
A practical guide to reading broker payout terms — minimum thresholds, payout frequency, and hold periods — so you can judge real cash flow, not just headline commission rates.
IB Payout Methods Compared: Bank Wire, Crypto, e-Wallets, and Their Fees
A practical comparison of the four ways an Introducing Broker gets paid — bank wire, crypto, e-wallets, and local providers — on fees, speed, thresholds, and currency risk.
Holding Periods and Reserves: Why Your First Payout Is Always Late
Holding periods and reserves delay almost every IB's first commission payout on purpose. Here's what's normal, what's a red flag, and how to read the terms before you send a single lead.
Cross-Border Payouts: Currency, FX Fees, and Getting Paid Internationally
A breakdown of where cross-border IB payouts lose value — sending fees, correspondent-bank deductions, FX markup, and receiving fees — and how to evaluate wire, local provider, crypto, and e-wallet rails before your next payout.
Sub-ID Tracking: Knowing Exactly Which Video, Campaign, or Channel Converts
Sub-ID tracking attaches a custom identifier to every affiliate link so you can see exactly which channel, campaign, or piece of content drove each conversion.
Postbacks and S2S Tracking: Getting Conversion Data You Can Rely On
A practical guide to how postback URLs and server-to-server tracking report conversions reliably, the parameters that must match for them to fire, and how to test a broker's setup before trusting it.
Managing Attribution Across Multiple Broker Partners at Once
How to build one consistent tracking taxonomy, centralize reporting, and reconcile conversions across several broker, exchange, or prop-firm partnerships at once.
Link Cloaking and Deep Linking: Protecting Traffic From Bans and Leaks
How IBs use link cloaking to protect ad accounts and broker relationships, and deep linking to send traffic to the exact page that converts.
How IB Tracking Actually Works: Cookies, Sub-IDs, and Server-to-Server
A plain-English walk through the plumbing between a click and your commission — cookies, click IDs, sub-IDs, and server-to-server postbacks — and every place your money can leak.
Cookie Windows and Attribution: Why You Lose Commissions You Truly Earned
A client you referred deposits three months later, and someone else gets paid. Here is how cookie windows and attribution models decide who earns the commission, and how to stop losing it.