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Referly doesn’t pay each commission on its own. It gathers all of an affiliate’s eligible earnings into a single payout, then groups every affiliate’s payout for one run into a payout batch. A batch is the thing you review and pay — one screen that covers everyone due this round. You’ll find your batches under Payouts in the left sidebar. This page explains what a batch contains, how to read the list, and the actions you can take on one.

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What’s in a batch

Each batch collects all the eligible commissions since the last payout for the affiliates it covers. A batch is for one payout method and one reward type, so cash, coupon, and credit earnings are grouped into separate batches even when they’re created at the same time. The batches table shows a row per batch, with columns you can turn on or off:
  • Method — how this batch will be paid (Wise, PayPal, manual bank, Referly Payouts, or a coupon or credit source).
  • Reward — whether the batch pays out Cash, Coupons, or Credits.
  • Total Amount — the total value of every payout in the batch.
  • Transactions — how many sales are included.
  • Affiliates — how many affiliates are paid in this batch.
  • Type — whether the batch was Auto-Generated on your schedule or Manually Created.
  • Created On — when the batch was created.
  • Status — where the batch is in the payout process. See Payout batch statuses.

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Auto-generated vs manually created batches

A batch gets created one of two ways:
  • Auto-Generated — Referly creates it for you on the schedule you set, if you’ve turned on automated payouts. See Holding period and frequency.
  • Manually Created — you create it yourself when you want to pay affiliates outside the normal schedule.
Either way, you still review and pay the batch. Automating creation doesn’t send money on its own unless you’ve turned on automatic paying under Referly Payouts.

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Find a batch

At the top of the list you can search by keyword and open Filters to narrow down by status, method, type, reward type, affiliate, or amount ranges. Active filters show as chips you can clear one at a time. This is handy when you want to see, for example, only failed cash batches, or every batch that included a particular affiliate.

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Pay a batch

Select a batch to open it and see every affiliate payout inside. From there:
  • Select Pay Now to pay a cash batch, or Process Rewards to deliver a non-cash batch. Referly then walks you through paying with the batch’s method.
  • Select individual payouts and choose Mark as paid if you paid them elsewhere and want to record that.
  • Use the Export option to download the payouts as a CSV for Wise, PayPal, or your bank — see Export payouts.
  • For a Referly Payouts batch, choose Download Invoice to save the invoice for your records.

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Manage batches in bulk

Back on the list, you can select several batches at once (or select all that match your current filters) and then:
  • Mark as paid — record a set of batches as paid in one go.
  • Delete — remove batches you don’t need.
You can also mark a single batch as paid or delete it from the actions menu at the end of its row.
You can’t delete a batch that has already been paid, and you can’t manually mark a Referly Payouts batch as paid once Referly has charged you for it — those are settled through Referly.

Payout batch statuses

Learn what each batch status means and what to do next.

Holding period and frequency

Control when batches are automatically created.

Export payouts

Download a batch as a CSV to pay affiliates.

Failed payouts

Find out why a payout failed and how to retry it.
Last modified on July 21, 2026