Impact is a marketing technology platform providing an affiliate program and marketplace for businesses. Aspire has partnered with Impact to serve our customers with high-quality service for their affiliate influencer marketing.

This integration enables you to use Aspire for influencer marketing while leveraging Impact’s affiliate program capabilities for managing links and tracking. With the Aspire x Impact integration, data passes between both systems so you have complete visibility into your influencer and affiliate marketing programs and conversions.

How It Works

Invite Aspire as an affiliate to your Impact program and request for an Impact promotion link to be generated by our team to use within Aspire’s sales tracking.
Generate unique links for your members.
Once an end-user clicks on a link shared by a member, Impact will track clicks and conversions.
Impact sends all clicks and conversions through a “transaction_id” to Aspire.
Aspire links all data to the creators and projects they are associated with.
Impact pays affiliates on the 1st of the month. Our Aspire publisher account will receive payment for transactions “locked” by the advertiser and attributed to Aspire.
Once Aspire receives the funds, we will credit the amount to your Aspire balance within 2-5 business days.
You can then go to Aspire’s Sales Tracking dashboard, click the Payments Overview button, and send payments.

Step-by-Step Implementation

Invite Aspire (3449144) as an affiliate to your Impact program.
Aspire will accept the Invitation shared with us.
Email your Aspire CSM or reach out to our Support Team to request for an Impact URL to be generated. There are two options:
1. We can use an existing general link.
2. We can create a unique link, page, or product category for Aspire members only.
The Aspire team will send the Impact URL to you.
Configure your link tracking offer within Aspire’s Sales Tracking dashboard.
1. Go to Reporting > Sales Tracking.
2. Click “Add Offer”, then select “Link Tracking Offer” from the drop-down menu.
3. Enter an Offer Name, Offer Description, Conversion Type, and Payout Option.
4. Set the Conversion Tracking protocol to HTTPS Image Pixel.
5. In the Offer URL tracking, enter the Impact URL we sent you.
  1. Append &subId1={transaction_id}&subId2={affiliate_id} to the end of your Impact URL.
    
    Here is an example of a URL with the necessary parameters:
    [Impact Created URL]?&subId1={transaction_id}&subId2={affiliate_id}

Once you complete the steps above, we highly recommend adding a test member to your project, generating a link, and placing a test purchase. The click and conversion should track in both Impact and Aspire.

Frequently Asked Questions

What data will be available in Aspire and Impact?

Both systems track clicks, conversions, and payout. Within your Aspire Sales Tracking dashboard, you’ll be able to see this information for individual members. Within your Impact account, all data will be aggregated under Aspire’s sub-affiliate account.

What happens if we reverse an action in Impact?

If you are managing conversions within Impact and 'reverse' an action, that reversal will not be passed to us and the sale will remain in your Aspire Sales Tracking dashboard.

How do we pass information between Aspire and Impact?

Aspire uses server postback tracking to receive the following information from Impact:

Transaction ID: related to a specific transaction
Affiliate ID: the unique ID we have in our system for each member
Amount: the total amount of sales for that transaction id
Payout: the payout amount for that transaction id

How does payment processing work?

Impact pays affiliates on the 1st of the month. Our Aspire publisher account will receive payment for transactions “locked” by the advertiser and attributed to Aspire. Once Aspire receives the funds, we will credit the amount to your Aspire balance within 2-5 business days. You can then go to Aspire’s Sales Tracking dashboard, click the Payments Overview button, and send payments.

Can we payout members sooner or do we have to wait until the funds are deposited into our account?

As long as you have a sufficient account balance or a credit card linked, you can payout members anytime from your Sales Tracking dashboard by clicking on “Payments Overview”, then “Make a Payment”.

Can we add UTMs to our Offer URL?

Yes, you can add UTMs to your Offer URL, such as source, medium, and campaign. These UTMs will be added to any links you generate within that offer. If you’re looking to add creator-specific UTMs, we recommend using deep links for this.