Creator & Affiliates

Astral includes an authenticated creator and affiliate program separate from public Explore profiles. Access is account-specific and can require onboarding, an agreement, and payout setup.

Entry and onboarding

Open the affiliate dashboard from your program link or the Affiliates menu entry when available. It is not in every current workspace menu. Accounts without a completed affiliate record are routed through creator onboarding. The flow can collect program information, survey responses, agreement acceptance, content details, and payout onboarding.

Marketing-team members are redirected to Astral Analytics → Affiliate when that destination is configured for the release. Other affiliate accounts continue in the trading-app portal described below. Analytics is a separate application with its own access and guidance; this guide does not establish availability of its role-specific controls.

Approved affiliate records can require Stripe Connect setup before commissions are payable. Payout identity, tax, bank, and verification requirements are handled through the presented onboarding flow.

Once admitted, use Dashboard for your referral link and Total Earned, Paid Out, Pending and Referred Users. Use the referral link's copy control before sharing. The program sidebar offers Leaderboard, Media, Guide, Contract, and role-dependent Team Overview. Download Contract downloads your program contract. Media upload/removal controls depend on role; ordinary access does not grant asset-management permissions.

Affiliate dashboard

Depending on role and program access, the dashboard can include:

• referral link and code,
• attributed users and conversion activity,
• earned and paid commission summaries,
• monthly charts and payment records,
• leaderboard,
• partner guide and approved media,
• contract download,
• team or sub-affiliate management.

Your public pages

Your public pages work like your link. When someone new arrives from outside Astral on your profile, or on a strategy or indicator you published, and creates an account, they are attributed to your affiliate account without needing ?ref= in the URL. A visitor who came from Google, Bing or another search engine, moved there from elsewhere on Astral, or already had an account is not attributed this way. Your referral link always takes priority, so keep using it wherever you can. If your login shares another creator's affiliate account, ask the Astral team to link your profile.

Referral and disclosure rules

Use only the referral URL assigned to your account. Attribution, qualifying transactions, commission rate, holdbacks, reversals, payout timing, and termination are governed by the current agreement and dashboard—not by a cached documentation value.

Creators are responsible for clear sponsorship and affiliate disclosures and must not present Astral as guaranteeing results or providing personalized investment advice.

Creator profile versus affiliate account

An Explore public profile represents published product activity. An affiliate account represents a commercial referral relationship. Creating a public profile does not enroll you in the program, and completing affiliate onboarding does not automatically publish strategies or indicators. Once a login has an active affiliate account, or the Astral team has linked it to one, new visitors who arrive on that login's public pages count toward that account.

Keep the two identities consistent enough that a reader can understand who is making a recommendation, but do not expose payout, tax, team, or agreement data through the public profile.

Attribution lifecycle

Referral reporting can move through several stages: a visitor uses an attributed link or code or arrives on your public page, creates an eligible account, completes a qualifying event, passes any hold or review period, and becomes payable under the agreement. A click, signup, displayed conversion, earned amount, and paid amount are not equivalent states.

Reversals, refunds, duplicate attribution, ineligible traffic, or agreement violations can change an earlier estimate. Use the dashboard’s current status and payment history when reconciling a payout.

Content and disclosure checklist

Before publishing affiliate content:

• Use the assigned referral link without obscuring the destination.
• Place a clear affiliate or sponsorship disclosure near the recommendation.
• Describe Astral as research and workflow software, not a broker or adviser.
• Do not promise profitability, approval, availability, or a specific future feature.
• Distinguish backtest, paper, and live-account examples.
• Use current approved logos and media from the dashboard where required.
• Preserve records needed under your agreement and applicable rules.

Payout onboarding

Stripe Connect can request identity, business, tax, and banking information. Complete that process only through the presented Stripe/Astral flow. Program access can exist before payout setup is complete, but payable commissions can remain blocked until required verification succeeds.

Astral support or a program manager should not request your password, one-time authentication code, or complete bank credentials in an ordinary message.

Teams and sub-affiliates

Where enabled, team and sub-affiliate areas show scoped performance or management information. Access depends on role. Do not assume that every affiliate can invite members, change rates, or view another participant’s full account data.

For attribution disputes, provide the non-sensitive referral code, approximate date, and dashboard state. Do not send a referred user’s private billing information.