Payouts

Referralmeter never holds or sends your money. It works out who is owed what; you pay from your own PayPal or Wise account.

1. A commission is pending during your hold period, then approved (payable).
2. In Payouts, approved commissions are grouped per affiliate. Affiliates under your minimum payout wait until they reach it.
3. Create a payout batch, export it for PayPal Payouts or a Wise batch transfer, and pay it from your account.
4. Click Mark paid. Only a signed-in owner can do this; no API key, MCP tool or agent can.

To see what is due from code: GET https://referralmeter.com/api/v1/payouts/due (read-only).

Affiliates give their payout details and tax form (W-9 or W-8) in their portal. Both are encrypted at rest. Payout details are shown only to your team, on the affiliate's page. Tax forms open only for the program owner: View form on the affiliate's page shows the form with the TIN masked, Reveal TIN shows it in full, and Payouts → Export tax forms (CSV) gives you every form on file, full TINs included, for your 1099-NEC / 1042-S filing. Every view and export is written to your audit log; the TIN itself never is.