Server-side affiliate tracking
Affiliate tracking fraudsters can’t see.
Argus Grape tracks every click server-side at the edge, shadow-bans abusive traffic without ever tipping it off, and splits commissions across multi-level referral trees — automatically.
Everything between the click and the payout.
No pixels, no client-side guesswork. Argus Grape sits on the redirect and the webhook — the only two places attribution can actually be trusted.
Edge-speed redirects
A Go tracker answers /r/:id in under 10 ms — Redis-cached destinations, async click persistence, zero blocking writes on the hot path.
Silent shadow-ban
Past the rate limit, fraudsters keep getting redirected like everyone else. They never learn they've been flagged — they just stop earning.
Multi-level commissions
Referral trees stored as Postgres ltree paths. One indexed query walks the ancestor chain and splits commission across every level.
Viral contests
Points per click and per conversion, live leaderboards per campaign. Turn your affiliate program into a competition worth winning.
Webhook reconciliation
Conversions arrive through signed webhooks — Stripe or your internal APIs. Idempotent on event id, so retries never double-count.
Privacy by default
IPs are salted and hashed at the edge; the plaintext address is never stored. No cookies required, no PII at rest.
How it works
01
Affiliate shares their link
Every affiliate gets a personal tracking URL on your campaign — one link, ready for any channel.
02
The edge answers in 10 ms
Argus Grape 302s the visitor to your store and appends ?argus_cid — a unique, unguessable click id. Fraud is screened on the way through.
03
Customer buys, webhook fires
Your checkout sends a signed webhook carrying the argus_cid and the amount. Argus Grape verifies the signature and dedupes the event.
04
Commissions split up the tree
The ltree ancestor chain is walked once and each level receives its share. Leaderboards and stats update immediately.
Pricing that scales with your clicks.
Start free, upgrade when the volume shows up. Fraud protection is included on every plan — it’s the whole point.
Free
Kick the tires on a side project.
- 1,000 tracked clicks/mo
- 1 campaign
- 1 seat
- Shadow-ban protection
- Signed webhook reconciliation
Growth
For programs that are starting to compound.
- 100,000 tracked clicks/mo
- 10 campaigns
- 10 seats
- Shadow-ban protection
- Signed webhook reconciliation
Scale
Serious volume, zero ceilings.
- Unlimited tracked clicks
- Unlimited campaigns
- Unlimited seats
- Shadow-ban protection
- Signed webhook reconciliation
- SLA + SSO
Start tracking in minutes.
Clone the repo, seed a demo campaign and watch commissions flow up a three-level tree — before your coffee gets cold.