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# Affiliate Future API Connector

Affiliate Future provides advertisers with an effective marketing solution through its affiliate network and tools.

- Channel: Affiliate Network
- Data Stream Types:
    - Ads
    - Conversion Tags
- Data Lag: 1 Day

## Prerequisites

A valid Affiliate Future API Key and API Password are required.

- Log in to your Affiliate Future Advertiser account
- Click the Bar Chart icon and select ‘Reporting APIs’
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and click ‘Click here’.
- Under the API Details you’ll find your API Key and API Password.
- Enter your API Key and Password into the Authentication box.

## General Setup

After you authenticate, in the General section, select the Account you want to connect to Marketing Cloud Intelligence.

## Extended Properties

- Reports Type - The following two reports are available for retrieval from Affiliate Future:
    - Publisher Report
    - Transaction Report (includes both the Sales and Leads reports).

## QA Your Data

- Create the desired report in the Affiliate Future UI for the required date range. Then, process the relevant Data Stream in Marketing Cloud Intelligence for the same date range.
- Select the relevant Affiliate Future Report, as specified in the Extended Properties of the Data Stream.
- Create a Report/Table Widget/Pivot Table within Marketing Cloud Intelligence containing the exact same Dimensions and Measurements for the same report and date range.
- Compare the Measurement Totals and make sure they’re aligned.