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How orders are attributed to posts

The link between an order and the post that drove it — what gets attributed, what does not, and how to inspect it.

Last updated: 2026-04-28

When you publish a post to a group with tracking enabled, Afflow stamps the affiliate link with a unique tracking tag. Every order that comes back from a click on that exact link is then attributed to that exact post on that exact group. The Tracking column on the Orders page shows that tag — and if Afflow can match the tag to a post you published, the row also unlocks a shortcut to its analytics.

What gets attributed

An order is fully attributed when all of these are true:

  1. The post's category had Tracking enabled at the moment it was published.
  2. The destination group also had tracking configured, so Afflow rewrote the affiliate URL with its tracking link.
  3. The buyer clicked that exact tracked link and completed the order on AliExpress.
Posts published before tracking was enabled — or to groups that do not have tracking configured — fall back to the marketplace's default affiliate link. Orders from those links still arrive in the table, but the Tracking column is empty and there is no per-post attribution.

Inspecting an attributed order

From any row, open the actions menu (the ⋯ on the right). When the order has a tracking match, you get an extra item:

  • View Post Tracking — jumps to the post-tracking dashboard so you can see every order, click, and group connected to the same post.

Filtering by a tracking tag

Click the badge in the Tracking column on any row, or paste a tag into the Search by Tracking ID field above the table. The view filters down to every order from that tag — useful for quickly answering "how much did this one post earn?". The summary tiles update to match.

Where the deeper analytics live

The Orders page is order-by-order. For per-post performance — clicks, conversions, conversion rate, revenue per platform — go to Reports → Post Tracking. The two views read from the same attribution, just sliced differently.