What stays in Affise
Affise is where your network lives: offers, partners, advertisers, caps, postbacks, smartlinks and billing. AffZero doesn't copy any of that into a second system. It reads and writes through the Affise API, the same way your own scripts would, so Affise remains the source of truth.
That matters for a comparison like this one. The question isn't Affise or AffZero. It's who does the repetitive work that sits around Affise every week: a manager, or an automation.
The weekly work around Affise
By hand
- Export stats per partner and paste them into emails
- Check the statistics page for conversion drops and caps
- Build invoices in a document, number them, attach PDFs
- Copy totals into the finance sheet
With AffZero
- Partners get their numbers every Monday
- An hourly check emails you when an offer moves
- Invoices are built, numbered and queued for approval
- Every run writes its totals to Google Sheets
None of these jobs is hard. They are just frequent, and they land on the people who should be finding new partners and offers.
Month-end, as one automation
AffZero ships a monthly invoicing preset. It's the workflow most Affise teams build first, because month-end is where the manual hours pile up.
Monthly affiliate invoicing
- 1Pull statsAffise, last month, by affiliate
- 2Filter dataKeep the partner being invoiced
- 3Invoice numberNext number in your series
- 4Create invoiceYour HTML or Google Doc template
- 5Write to SheetsOne row per invoice
- 6Send for approvalFinance approves, then it's emailed
Each automation invoices one partner or advertiser, so once the first one works you duplicate it for the next. Agent Zero can copy it and swap the partner's name and ID across every step in one go.
The presets guide walks through this exact workflow step by step, and there are separate guides for invoice templates and invoice numbering.
Where Affise's own tools are enough
Affise can generate affiliate billings on a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly schedule by itself, and its reports are strong. If your partners are happy to see billing inside the Affise portal and your managers rarely export anything, you may not need another tool.
AffZero fits when the work leaves Affise: invoices in your own format, emails to each partner, a finance sheet, an alert in someone's inbox, or reports that combine Affise with another tracker. To see what that's worth at your volume, try the savings calculator.