Definition

Commission reversal

A commission reversal is a merchant cancelling a previously tracked commission — because the order was returned, cancelled, or failed the program's terms. Reversals happen in the network's reporting layer, after tracking worked correctly.

Reversals are commercial, not technical: no link check can predict them. They matter to link auditing only as a diagnostic distinction — "commissions tracked then reversed" points at order quality or program terms, while "commissions never tracked" points at link or attribution failure, which is fixable on your side.