Import your Awin transactions

Awin keeps every tracked sale pending until you approve, decline or amend it. Anything still pending when the auto-validation period ends is approved automatically: "If a commission isn't reviewed before the period ends, it will be automatically approved in line with your program's auto-validation settings."¹ The import is how AffCheck gets that pending list.

Export the pending transactions

Awin Classic

1. Open Reports → Performance → Transactions.
2. Set Transaction Status to Pending and pick the dates you want to check.
3. Options → Export as CSV.²

New Awin

1. Open Commissions → Review commission payments.
2. Choose Review pending.
3. Export as CSV.³

Export CSV, not Excel — a spreadsheet file is not read.

Import it

Drop the file on the network zone of the Imports screen. AffCheck recognises both Awin layouts from their header rows and tells you which one it saw. The columns it looks for are Awin's own field names: Order Ref, Sale Amount, Commission Amount, Commission Status, Transaction Date, Publisher ID, Publisher Name, Voucher Code and Transaction ID.

Which rows to export

Pending rows are the ones you can still act on — only pending transactions can be amended on Awin.⁴ A wider export is still worth having: already approved and declined rows feed the "did auto-validation catch it?" card, which shows what Awin declined on its own and what it approved anyway. Nothing settled is ever turned into a suggestion.

The deadline

Awin's auto-validation period is set per programme and cannot be switched off. The maximum is 67 days on Awin Access; on Accelerate and Advanced it depends on sector and contract.⁵ AffCheck starts from 30 days — Awin's own worked example — and you set your real period on the Deadlines screen, where every pending row is then re-dated.

Declining and amending

A full refund or a cancellation is a decline. A partial refund is an amend: you change the sale amount to what the customer kept and Awin recalculates the commission — you cannot amend the commission directly.⁴ That is exactly how AffCheck suggests them.

Where the file goes next: upload your decisions to your network, and the full walk-through in how to decline Awin commissions for returns.

If you came from ShareASale

Your programme is an Awin programme, so everything above applies — but the deadline, the words and the Shopify tracking all changed at the upgrade, and the ShareASale Shopify plugin's order auto-void stopped with it.⁶ ShareASale to Awin: what changes for validation is the list, with Awin's own wording for each change.