# POST /commissions/create — Create Commission

> Product: **Pabbly Subscription Billing** (v1)
> Base URL: `https://payments.pabbly.com/api/v1`
> Auth: Basic via `Authorization` header
> Canonical: `/subscription-billing/affiliate-modules/create-commission`

Creates a new commission record for the affiliate in existing invoice. StartFragment . Attributes :: EndFragm

**Body parameters:**

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|------|------|----------|-------------|
| affiliate_id | string | Yes | ID of the affiliate. |
| affiliate_email | string | No | Required if affiliate_id not passed. |
| invoice_id | string | Yes | Number of the Invoice. eg: INV-1 |
| amount | string | Yes | Commission amount. |
| manual_commission_reason | string | No |  |
| date | string | Yes | Commission creation date. |
| recurring | string | No | Set true, if commission need to set recurring invoices. |
| multi_tier | string | No | Set true, if commssion need to apply for tiered affiliates. |

**Example request body:**

```json
{
    "affiliate_id": "5e16c7556d73c34665ade042", // Affiliate ID
    "invoice_id": "INV-1", // invoice id
    "amount": 9.99, // commission amount
    "manual_commission_reason": "Manual commission", // manual commission reason
    "date": "2023-03-31", // manual commission date
    "recurring": false, // is recurring or not
    "multi_tier": true // is multi_tier or not
}
```

**Response (200)** — Create Commission:

```json
{
    "status": "success",
    "message": "Commission is created successfully."
}
```

**Code examples:**

_cURL_

```curl
curl -X POST https://payments.pabbly.com/api/v1/commissions/create \
  -u {{YOUR_API_KEY}}:{{YOUR_SECRET_KEY}} \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "affiliate_id": "{{affiliate_id}}",
    "invoice_id": "{{invoice_id}}",
    "amount": "{{amount}}",
    "date": "{{date}}"
  }'
```

_Ruby_

```ruby
require 'net/http'
require 'json'

uri = URI('https://payments.pabbly.com/api/v1/commissions/create')
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
request.basic_auth '{{YOUR_API_KEY}}', '{{YOUR_SECRET_KEY}}'
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\"affiliate_id\":\"{{affiliate_id}}\",\"invoice_id\":\"{{invoice_id}}\",\"amount\":\"{{amount}}\",\"date\":\"{{date}}\"}"

response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
  http.request(request)
end

data = JSON.parse(response.body)
```

_Python_

```python
import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

response = requests.post(
    'https://payments.pabbly.com/api/v1/commissions/create',
    auth=HTTPBasicAuth('{{YOUR_API_KEY}}', '{{YOUR_SECRET_KEY}}'),
    json={
    'affiliate_id': '{{affiliate_id}}',
    'invoice_id': '{{invoice_id}}',
    'amount': '{{amount}}',
    'date': '{{date}}'
},
)

data = response.json()
```

_PHP_

```php
<?php
$ch = curl_init('https://payments.pabbly.com/api/v1/commissions/create');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'POST');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, '{{YOUR_API_KEY}}:{{YOUR_SECRET_KEY}}');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ['Content-Type: application/json']);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, '{"affiliate_id":"{{affiliate_id}}","invoice_id":"{{invoice_id}}","amount":"{{amount}}","date":"{{date}}"}');

$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$data = json_decode($response, true);
```

_Java_

```java
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
import java.util.Base64;

String credentials = Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString("{{YOUR_API_KEY}}:{{YOUR_SECRET_KEY}}".getBytes());

HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
HttpRequest.Builder builder = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
    .uri(URI.create("https://payments.pabbly.com/api/v1/commissions/create"))
    .header("Authorization", "Basic " + credentials)
    .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
    .method("POST", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.ofString("{\"affiliate_id\":\"{{affiliate_id}}\",\"invoice_id\":\"{{invoice_id}}\",\"amount\":\"{{amount}}\",\"date\":\"{{date}}\"}"));

HttpRequest request = builder.build();
HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
System.out.println(response.body());
```

_Node.js_

```node
const credentials = Buffer.from('{{YOUR_API_KEY}}:{{YOUR_SECRET_KEY}}').toString('base64');

const response = await fetch('https://payments.pabbly.com/api/v1/commissions/create', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Authorization': `Basic ${credentials}`,
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "affiliate_id": "{{affiliate_id}}",
    "invoice_id": "{{invoice_id}}",
    "amount": "{{amount}}",
    "date": "{{date}}"
  }),
});

const data = await response.json();
```

_Go_

```go
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "io"
    "net/http"
    "strings"
)

func main() {
    payload := strings.NewReader("{\"affiliate_id\":\"{{affiliate_id}}\",\"invoice_id\":\"{{invoice_id}}\",\"amount\":\"{{amount}}\",\"date\":\"{{date}}\"}")
    req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://payments.pabbly.com/api/v1/commissions/create", payload)
    req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
    req.SetBasicAuth("{{YOUR_API_KEY}}", "{{YOUR_SECRET_KEY}}")

    res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
    defer res.Body.Close()
    body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
    fmt.Println(string(body))
}
```

_.NET_

```dotnet
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

var credentials = Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("{{YOUR_API_KEY}}:{{YOUR_SECRET_KEY}}"));

var client = new HttpClient();
var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, "https://payments.pabbly.com/api/v1/commissions/create");
request.Headers.TryAddWithoutValidation("Authorization", $"Basic {credentials}");
request.Content = new StringContent("{\"affiliate_id\":\"{{affiliate_id}}\",\"invoice_id\":\"{{invoice_id}}\",\"amount\":\"{{amount}}\",\"date\":\"{{date}}\"}");
request.Content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json");

var response = await client.SendAsync(request);
var data = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
Console.WriteLine(data);
```

---

**Other endpoints in Affiliate Modules:**

- [GET /commissions — List Commissions](/subscription-billing/affiliate-modules/list-commissions)
- [PUT /commissions/{{commissionId}} — Update Commission](/subscription-billing/affiliate-modules/update-commission)
- [GET /commissions/clicks — Affiliate Clicks](/subscription-billing/affiliate-modules/affiliate-clicks)
- [DELETE /commissions/clicks/{{click_id}} — Delete Clicks](/subscription-billing/affiliate-modules/delete-clicks)
- [POST /affiliate/payout/generate — Create Manual Report](/subscription-billing/affiliate-modules/create-manual-report)
- [GET /affiliate/links — Affiliate Links](/subscription-billing/affiliate-modules/affiliate-links)
- [POST /affiliate/commissionrule/create — Create Commission Rule](/subscription-billing/affiliate-modules/create-commission-rule)
- [PUT /affiliate/status/{{id}} — Update Affiliate Status](/subscription-billing/affiliate-modules/update-affiliate-status)