Frequently Asked Questions

The service does two things at once: it keeps a catalog of all your favorite affiliate networks and their offers — and watches every change happening to them. Both public offers and your own individual private offers and payouts.

Should the hold, geography, price tags or your payout rates change, the Sentinel Cat will notice it right away and tell you — in your news feed, by e-mail or via Telegram.

PS: why WatchCat? Because it's not a WatchDog, obviously.

The toolkit will appeal to webmasters, arbitrage teams and resellers: you'll stay on top of every change to your offers in almost real time.

As practice shows, affiliate networks love to change their offers suddenly — and sometimes forget to tell you about it. Any moment you might discover that a rate has dropped while your traffic flows nowhere. Sure, you could go around all the networks you care about by hand every morning, or monitor their social networks — and from a "Rates changed for offer Cream-N!" announcement try to work out which rates exactly, for which geos and which cream. Agree it's much easier when all the changes flow into one place.

All changes are collected into a live update feed — it has five sections:

• Global feed — every event in public networks, regardless of subscription. Handy for catching new offers appearing.
• Private offers — changes to your private offers and payouts. Only you can see them.
• Subscriptions feed — events for the public offers you're subscribed to.
• My networks — changes in the networks you follow as a whole.
• Personal updates — a summary of your offers and subscriptions; a counter of new events sits on the dashboard next to a cat paw.

In the catalog you can subscribe to any offer and receive its updates in your subscriptions feed. Look for these buttons on the offer card:

Captain Obvious notes: if the button is green, you're already subscribed and there's no need to click it again.

All affiliate networks are gathered in the networks catalog — as cards. Each one shows its "pulse": the state of its export and the time of the last successful sync.

You can follow a whole network by choosing a level: only new offers — so you don't miss a launch, or any changes — to keep your finger on the pulse. A network's stream goes into a separate "My networks" tab, without clogging your personal feed.

The catalog is alive and constantly growing, but covering every affiliate network in the world at once is, alas, physically beyond us. If the network you need isn't here yet, that's easy to fix — and it all depends on who you are.

Are you a webmaster who wants to see your network here? Drop us a line — tell us which network to add and we'll try to connect it. It goes even faster if you nudge the network itself, letting it know it's wanted in the catalog: joining is free for the network, and it pays you back with live monitoring of its offers and payouts.

Do you represent an affiliate network or an advertiser? Join in yourself — it's free and worthwhile: a storefront in the catalog, an instant channel for pushing new offers to subscribers, and less partner churn. All we need from you is an API to export offers; the terms and details are gathered on a dedicated page.

Join the monitoring

You track your private offers and individual payouts in the "My offers" section. This data never enters the global feed and is visible to you alone. You can add a private offer from the catalog or by an offer link from the affiliate network.

When adding one you supply credentials — each network has its own set:

• Login and password — we try to avoid these, but some networks require exactly them.
• API ID — the user identifier, usually in the network profile or from your manager.
• API key — the main (public) token.
• API secret — the secret token, if the network uses a key pair.

All monitoring functions are available through a convenient JSON interface. Your key and everything you need are in the API section of your account.

Open the API docs

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