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Originally Posted by pompousjohn
I am pretty sure that if you change payouts and switch to retroactive payout it will affect pending balances and earning history. That would cause a number of alarm bells to go off and its not a very sneaky tactic at all, so no I don't think that can be used to sneakily shave the way you are thinking.
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Thanks. I think you sort of get what I am saying (or maybe I only sort of get what you are saying
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The NATS wiki states:
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Retro-active Payout - Locks the affiliate pay-out based on member join date. This option is used in conjunction with "Payout Changes"
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IOW NATS uses the payout options for joins based on what the payout options were at the time of the join (as opposed to the settings at present which is the normal behavior)
My question is basically whether or not NATS also locks payout options in this way for the HIDE JOINS and HIDE REBILLS options too in addition to just the payout amounts when this RETRO PAYOUT option is ON. If so then in theory a sponsor would be able to change the payout options and still not have those old joins or rebills show (NATS would use the old HIDE JOINS and HIDE REBILLS settings which were in effect at the time of the join). If not then yes a bunch of phantom joins and rebills would show up where the affiliate is shown as getting $0 for them. This would tip off the affiliate.