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The Intricacies of SaaS Billing
SaaS billing is notoriously fluid. Customers upgrade, downgrade, pause subscriptions, and request prorated refunds. If your affiliate software is disconnected from the actual billing events, you will inevitably overpay commissions on refunded accounts.
Architecting Event-Driven Commissions
The only secure way to manage payouts is through an event-driven architecture that listens directly to Stripe webhooks. When Stripe processes a successful charge, the commission is calculated. If a charge fails, the commission is automatically adjusted.
The Rewardful Sync
This exact architecture is why Rewardful is the industry standard for Stripe users. It acts as an intelligent overlay that reads your Stripe data continuously, ensuring your FinOps team never has to manually reconcile a discrepancy between affiliate payouts and actual cash collected.