Commission
What kind of purchase are eligible for commissions?

As an affiliate partner, you will receive a commission (excludes any insurance fees, delivery fees or other relevant fees and expenses) for every qualified order you bring to alibaba.com. The commission rate will increase based on performance for those publishers who are able to deliver large volumes of quality traffic.


We offer commissions for the Qualifying Purchases. “Qualifying Purchases” means purchases completed by the Buyer on the Alibaba.com Site via the Participant’s advertisement of Alibaba.com Content. A purchase shall only be deemed to be “completed” by a Buyer if the Buyer has taken the requisite steps required by the Alibaba.com Site for acknowledging transaction completion. For the avoidance of doubt, transactions on the Alibaba.com Site that are refunded by Buyer shall not be deemed as a Qualifying Purchase.

Why the amount of money I received in the account is less than the sum of commission fee in the S2S report during the same period?

We offer commissions (the amount of money in your account ) for the completed purchases, "completed purchase" means the items have been delivered to the buyers successfully. But the commission fee in the S2S report is the estimated fee for all paid orders, some orders are only paid in this month and would be completed in next month. We will pay the commission when the status of the orders is "completed".Please check the order status in the order detail report.

New billing process
The following instructions are applicable to App Promotion only.
CPI settlement policy update
CPS Commission Settlement Rules

Alibaba.com CPS Affiliate Program - Commission Structure:

*This is not a permanent commission rule. If you need any clarification on the updated commission rules, please feel free to email ads.alibaba@service.alibaba.com


Qualified Order Status:

Order Status must be "Trade Completed". It means we will only process the commission to our affiliate partner once the order status changes to "TradeCompleted". This indicates that the buyer has acknowledged receipt of the products and there have been no alterations or reimbursement logistics.

Spam status is "N".

● The number of days between the Order Completed Date and the Order Paid Date must be less than 180 days. Once an order has a c。 ompleted date, the commission payout will be processed for the corresponding month. This order will be settled in the Monthly Bill report.

Order prices do not include any shipping costs, taxes, or marketing discounts; the Est. Commission in the CPS report is a preliminary commission calculated according to the commission rules and is not the final settlement commission. The final settlement commission will be based on the Monthly Bill.


Restrictions & Unqualified Orders:

1. Do not bid on Alibaba.com branded keywords and any variations of this in Search Ads on platforms like Google/Bing/Yandex, as this may lead to bidding against our own advertisements.

2. We do not allow traffic originating from the following sites, promotional activities or behavior:

● Popup window traffic

● Cookie hijacking

3. Country Restrictions:

● We do NOT accept traffic from Mainland China, India, Russia, Nigeria, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria and Ukraine, and orders from these countries are not eligible for commissions.

● Additionally, it is suggested not to promote in other OFAC Sanctioned Countries.

4. If the Spam Status is "Yes", there are 3 main reasons why the orders are not settled:

● PRODUCT_FORBIDDEN: virtual goods; products forbidden by Prohibition and Restriction Rules Please refer to rules center: https://rulechannel.alibaba.com/icbu#/rules?cId%20=1396

● HIJACK_ABNORMAL_CLICK: If a user navigates to the product page and completes an order in a very short period of time, such behavior will be classified as an abnormal order due to the excessively brief duration of page engagement. If a user visits a product page via a promotional link but its cookie is not tracked, this will be deemed indicative of an inauthentic user.

● ORDER_SPAM: order cancel/refund/dispute; our risk control team determines that it is a high-risk order

5. Not Affiliates Order: User journey requirement: click on an ad or tracking link -> visit Alibaba.com -> create an order(start order/add to cart) -> make payment -> complete the order -> settle the order. Possible reasons for being marked as a non-alliance order:

● Cookie expired, lost cookie, not use the correct tracking link

● Last click attribution, reached by other non-affiliate channel

● Order can only be created/added to cart after clicking the tracking link; cannot be added to the cart and then click the tracking link


Additional Terms:

1. Tracking System: Alibaba.com affiliate programs do not work with MMP or AppsFlyer. We have an internal anti-cheating system, and we only use our own attribution system.

2. Attribution Window: The attribution cookie window is 60 days. This means that if a user clicks on an affiliate tracking link and completes a qualifying order within 60 days, the order will be attributed to the affiliate partner.

3. Commission: Commission rates shall apply to the verified settlement price (excluding shipping costs, taxes, and marketing discounts) of each eligible order transaction. Alibaba.com shall assess the contribution of each order based on traffic quality and user quality. No commission shall be payable for any non-compliant order.

4. Buyer Classification: Buyer classification shall be determined by Alibaba.com based on its historical transaction records.

5. Stacking Rule: The Extra Bonus shall be cumulative and shall apply in addition to the applicable standard commission rate or fixed commission amount for the same eligible order.

6. Core Countries: For the purposes of this Insertion Order, "Core Countries" mean: US, CA, AU, UK, GB, FR, NL, DE, IT, ES, CH, PL, BE, SE, IE, AT, DK, CZ, MX, KR, and JP.

7. Important: We encourage all partners to focus on driving high-quality traffic through compliant practices. Prohibited activities include false advertising, unauthorized content, click fraud, and promotion in restricted countries (as listed in Section 3 above). Violations may lead to penalties, suspension, or legal action.

8. Alibaba.com reserves the right to amend the commission structure upon prior written notice to the affiliate partners.