Connect your Xero organisation and approved commission posts itself as bills, against the right contact, the right account code and the right tracking category.
Open Airstride's App Centre, select Xero and authorise. The connect screen lists every scope before you grant it, and the write access it asks for is deliberately narrow: creating bills, and creating a party record for a partner who does not have one yet.
A run collects every deal that reached a won stage in the period and prices each one against the tier its partner held at the time. You get a list with the working shown: partner, tier, rate, amount.
Then it stops. Nothing is transferred and nothing is posted until someone with approval rights releases the run, and the approval is recorded against it. That gate is the difference between automation you can defend in an audit and automation you cannot.
Each partner is matched to a record you already have before anything new is created, so you do not end up with a second entry for a partner you have paid for two years. Commission is coded by type rather than dropped into one catch-all account, which is what keeps programme-level reporting usable.
Bills are dated to the period close on the run, not the day they were created, so a run approved after month end still lands in the month it belongs to. When finance pays a bill, Xero reports it back and the partner sees paid in your portal without asking anyone.
Paying partners is where programs lose trust, so the guard rails matter more than the automation.
Beyond the Xero connection, Airstride handles your full setup within 24 hours of signup: partner data migrated with tiers and history, collateral connected, the portal white-labelled to your brand, SSO configured, the Partner Activation Agent trained, and your partners invited.
No. Bills are the only thing it creates. Payment stays in Xero and follows whatever approval process you already run.
They are mapped once, by partner program, when you connect. Every bill carries the category automatically, which is what keeps programme-level reporting usable instead of everything landing under one label.
Airstride matches an existing contact before creating one, so a partner you already have in Xero does not get a duplicate.
The one you map against each commission type. Different types can use different codes, so the ledger reflects the shape of your program rather than a single catch-all.
Connect the organisation the partner program is paid from. If you run programs out of separate entities, talk to us and we will walk you through how to structure it.
The tier each partner holds. Rates are attached to the rungs of your tier ladder, and a run prices against the tier the partner held when the deal closed. See invite partners and set what they see for how the ladder is built.
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