An affiliate marketing browser that keeps every site and network in order

What an affiliate's browser looks like

A typical affiliate business isn't one account. It's three niche sites, each with a CMS, analytics, a search console property and an email list. It's accounts with five or six affiliate networks and a few direct programs. It's ad access for paid traffic, a social account for each brand, and a few writers, an editor and a VA.

Put all of that in one browser and the problems are predictable. You check the wrong network's dashboard and think a site had a bad week. A writer who only needs the CMS can also reach your payout settings. Every tool's session overwrites another's.

An affiliate marketing browser fixes the organizing part. In Multime, each site or brand gets its own browser profile: a separate Chromium-based browser with its own cookies, storage, extensions, saved logins and proxy. The camping site's sessions never share a window with the coffee site's.

The rules that apply to affiliate work

Affiliate work sits under three sets of rules: the law where you and your readers are, each program's terms, and each traffic source's policies. A browser profile doesn't change any of them. A few that come up often:

• Disclosure. The US Federal Trade Commission's Endorsement Guides FAQ says affiliate marketers should disclose their relationship to the retailer "clearly and conspicuously" on their site, and that the closer the disclosure sits to the recommendation, the better. Other countries have their own rules, so check the ones that apply to you and your readers.
• Program terms. Every network and program has its own. Amazon's Associates Program Policies, for example, restrict bidding on search keywords that include Amazon's trademarks, allow email promotion only to people who opted in, forbid artificially generating clicks or sessions, and say that someone removed from the program can't rejoin without Amazon's advance authorization.
• Traffic sources. Google's circumventing systems policy forbids using multiple accounts to get around its policies and creating new accounts after a suspension. X's platform manipulation policy allows several accounts only for distinct purposes and forbids posting substantially similar content across them.

Where a program or platform allows one account per person or business, keep one. A profile is for organizing the accounts you're allowed to have, not for adding more. Multime's acceptable use policy forbids fraud, fake engagement and getting around bans.

One profile per site: what goes in it

Split editorial from money

A useful pattern is two profiles per site. "TrailKitchen – Editorial" holds the CMS, analytics and image tools, and you share it with writers. "TrailKitchen – Revenue" holds the network dashboards, payout settings and ad access, and stays in your private workspace, which team members never see. Writers get what they need and nothing that pays you.

Check pages from your readers' markets

Retailer pages, prices and availability often change by country. A profile with a proxy in Germany opens with its time zone, language and geolocation set from the proxy's IP, so you can see what a reader in Germany sees: whether your article shows the right currency, whether the disclosure appears where it should, and whether a retailer's page exists in that market at all.

Keep one checking profile per market, such as "Check – US", "Check – UK" and "Check – DE". Multime supports HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 and SSH proxies, sends DNS through the proxy and can import a whole proxy list at once. See the proxy manager.

Use these profiles to read pages, not to produce traffic. Don't use them to generate clicks, sessions or purchases through your own links. Programs such as Amazon Associates forbid artificially generated clicks, and other programs have similar terms.

Writers, editors and VAs

The owner's computer hosts the team workspace, and each person signs in from their own computer. You choose which groups and profiles each person sees and what they can do:

• A writer for one site sees only that site's Editorial profile, with permission to open it and nothing more.
• An editor across all sites sees every Editorial profile and can edit profile notes.
• A VA who handles outreach sees only the outreach profiles.

Without the "See account passwords and 2FA keys" permission, people work in signed-in profiles without reading the saved passwords. A profile opens for one person at a time, and the activity log records each open and close, edits, cookie imports and exports and 2FA codes viewed. Details are on the teams page.

Reporting without the copy-paste

Checking earnings across six networks every morning is slow. Multime's automation can open each site's Revenue profile on a schedule, read a figure from the dashboard, and write it to an Excel file or a Google Sheet. Flows run across many profiles with a thread limit, so only a few run at once.

Many networks offer reporting APIs or scheduled exports. Use them when they exist: Multime's HTTP request step can call an API directly. Before you automate anything inside a network's dashboard, check that network's terms on automated access.

What Multime doesn't do

• It doesn't track links or attribute sales. Keep your link tracking and analytics tools.
• It doesn't handle disclosures. Writing clear disclosures is your job.
• It doesn't protect accounts from suspension. Each program's and platform's rules apply to every account you open in it.
• It's no help with fraud. Fake clicks, fake leads, forced cookies and fake reviews are forbidden by programs and by Multime's acceptable use policy.

Plans

A solo affiliate with a few sites fits the Solo plan: $19 a month for 100 profiles. With writers or VAs, the Team plan costs $49 a month for 300 profiles and 5 VA seats. The Free plan has 5 profiles and needs no card. See pricing.