Two long-standing rough edges in affiliate tooling, fixed in one go. If you run a program on Sled, one of them helps you get discovered. If you are an affiliate, the other ends the bookmark-juggling. Here's what shipped.
TL;DR
- One affiliate dashboard for every program. Affiliates sign in once with their email at usesled.com/affiliate and see all the Sled programs they've joined, combined earnings, a per-program breakdown, and payout details set once for all of them.
- An opt-in directory. Flip on a setting and your program shows up at
/affiliate/discover, where signed-in affiliates can find it and apply. - You stay in control. Applications land as Pending, you Approve or Decline each one. Nothing goes live without your OK. The directory is off by default, and your private
/joinlink still does instant sign-ups.
The problem, on both sides
If you're an affiliate promoting more than one product, every program used to be its own island: a separate dashboard link to bookmark, a separate place to check earnings, a separate payout form to fill in. Lose the welcome email and you'd lose the dashboard.
If you're a founder, your program was invisible. The only way anyone joined was if you handed them the link directly. Great for control, useless for discovery, there was no front door for an affiliate who wanted to promote you to find you.
We fixed both without making either side worse.
For affiliates: one login, every program
Affiliates now go to usesled.com/affiliate, enter their email, and get a magic link. Inside:
- Combined earnings across every program, plus what's owed.
- A card per program with its own stats and referral link, one click to the full per-program dashboard.
- Payout set once. Add PayPal / Wise / Payoneer / Revolut / bank / crypto a single time and it applies to every program you're in. Join a new one and it inherits your details automatically.
Every per-program dashboard now has an All my programs link, so affiliates can get to the unified view (and the directory) from wherever they landed.
Why a separate email login instead of showing everything from your existing dashboard link? Because the unified view aggregates by email and can change your global payout, so it sits behind email verification, not behind a single program's link. A leaked link to one program can't expose all of them.
For program owners: get discovered, on your terms
In Settings, there's a new toggle: List in the Sled affiliate directory. Turn it on and your program appears at /affiliate/discover for signed-in affiliates to find, showing your commission rate and cookie window.
When someone applies, they don't join automatically. They show up on your Affiliates page under Pending applications, where you:
- Approve, they become active, get the welcome email, and their link starts tracking. (There's no affiliate cap, during the trial or on Pro, so approve as many as you want.)
- Decline, the application is closed, no link, no tracking.
This is the part we cared most about getting right: discovery should never mean losing control of who represents your brand. A public directory that auto-admits anyone is a spam magnet and a brand risk. Approval-gated applications give you the upside (inbound affiliates who chose you) without the downside.
A few deliberate defaults:
- Off by default. Nothing about your program becomes public until you opt in.
- Your direct link still works. Sharing your
/joinlink remains an instant, no-approval sign-up, because handing someone the link is your approval. - Only listed programs appear. Affiliates can't browse programs that haven't opted in.
How to turn it on
- Go to /dashboard/settings, check List in the Sled affiliate directory, save.
- When applications come in, review them under /dashboard/affiliates → Pending applications.
- Approve the ones that fit. That's it.
If you're still recruiting your first affiliates the old-fashioned way, the directory is a complement, not a replacement, our playbook for finding your first 10 affiliates still applies, and direct outreach still converts best.
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