Affiliate Invoicing

The billing leg of commission payments — self-billing or affiliate-issued invoices carrying tax and audit weight.

Commission payments need paper: either affiliates invoice monthly statements, or programs self-bill (generating compliant invoices on the affiliate’s behalf — the scalable pattern where VAT rules permit).

Why process design matters

Cross-border B2B invoicing drags VAT/GST treatment, withholding-tax questions and payee-data accuracy into every cycle; manual invoice-chasing delays runs and poisons partner relations. Self-billing plus statement-approval workflows compress the cycle to days. Audit trail discipline (statement → invoice → payment → reconciliation) is what makes year-end and due-diligence exercises boring — the correct state for both.