Commissions paid on cancelled, returned or fraud orders
Affiliate apps pay commissions on orders that were cancelled, returned, unpaid or fraudulent, and merchants only learn of it after the money has gone out.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 3 December 2018 · last reported 16 December 2025
What's going wrong
Merchants using different affiliate apps report that commissions are paid on orders that should never earn them.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.