Hi ! I'm testing affiliate payments and what I see is that if a payment is made using an affiliate link, then to this member (affiliate) his commission is a credit and not a debit. But if this member logs in and check his affiliate stats at http://www.yoursite.com/amember/aff_member.php he sees his commission in a DEBIT column. I mean he made money and he'll get a commission from a merchant so for member this affiliate commission is a CREDIT and not a DEBIT. I mean imagine the shock when a member (affiliate) brings a paying member to me and then he sees that for this he even owes me his commission. How come that nobody saw this before ? I mean in admin part od amember this commission is correctly put in DEBIT column since merchant has to payout commission to his affiliate. But for affiliate this is a credit and when he logs into his member (affiliate) account, then this commission for him should be written in CREDIT column and not DEBIT !!! Am I right or wrong ? If I'm right then easiest is to just rename DEBIT and CREDIT column in this 3 files inside of members area of amember script. I can do it on my own but just let me know if I'm right and if everything will calculate OK if I just rename columns. Or do you suggest any other steps ?
You are confusing (perhaps) what banks do. A credit balance is actually (to you) the reverse. But of course that's just being a purist for debits/credits. For stuff like this (I do not use affiliates) you would be better showing it is a "Commission Due" rather than credit. Naturally my opinion only
Well like you say - what is for a bank a credit is for you a debit. And this is my point - if for me in admin area affiliate commission is showed as debit (my expense) then for my affiliate his commission is a credit (he will get money) and not a debit (since he's not paying me a commission that he earned).