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Manual payouts

If your payout method isn’t PayPal or bank transfer, Asteris Affiliates can still track everything and let you mark commissions paid manually after you’ve sent funds via your channel of choice.

When to use manual

  • Wise / Revolut — until v1.2 Wise integration ships
  • Stripe Connect direct — until v1.3 ships
  • Crypto — USDC/BTC etc.
  • Gift cards / store credit — pay affiliates in shop credit
  • Cheque — if you must

Flow

  1. Affiliate chooses Manual / external as their payout method
  2. They provide a free-text “Payout instructions” field (e.g. “Wise GBP — see profile for details”)
  3. When you owe them, you pay via your channel
  4. Payouts → New batch → Method: Manual → tick affiliates → Mark paid
  5. Each affiliate gets the standard “Payout sent” email

Bulk mark-paid via CSV

For large batches, export pending payouts to CSV, pay them all externally, then re-import the CSV with a paid column marked:

Terminal window
wp asteris-aff payouts export --status=pending > pending.csv
# pay everyone in pending.csv via your channel
wp asteris-aff payouts mark-paid --csv=pending.csv

Per-affiliate payout notes

Each manual payout can include a reference (transaction ID, cheque number, crypto tx hash). This appears in the affiliate’s portal payout history for their records.

Tax / 1099 / W-9

If you’re in the US, you need to issue 1099-NEC forms to affiliates paid $600+ in a calendar year. Asteris Affiliates doesn’t generate 1099s (yet — queued for v1.3). The CSV export gives you the data; feed it into your accounting software.

Audit trail

Every manual mark-paid logs the admin user, timestamp, reference, and amount. View at Affiliates → Audit log → Payout events.