---
id: "changelog/improvements-2026-10-18"
type: "changelog"
url: "https://affitor.com/changelog/improvements-2026-10-18"
updated: "2026-10-18"
---
# Improvements and fixes, Oct 12–18

> Simpler username rules, website suggestions for your Business details, faster partner pages, and fixes to renewals, phones and sign-up.

### Improved

- Usernames are 3 to 30 lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens. Change yours once every 14 days; a name you give up is held for you for 14 days.
- In Program settings › Business, saving your website suggests a logo, tagline and About for you to review. Nothing is saved until you save each card.
- Partner pages you opened before show at once and refresh in the background, and moving between them keeps the sidebar in place.
- Every page that shows your attribution window shows the one tracking applies.
- The Payments page says why connecting Stripe failed, inside the Stripe card.
- Old directory links (`/list/<slug>`) open the program on the Affitor marketplace, or the marketplace when it is not listed.
- The tracking and CLI quickstarts in the docs have an **Agent prompt** tab you can copy into your coding agent.
- [changelog.json](https://affitor.com/changelog.json) and [context.md](https://affitor.com/changelog/context.md) give AI tools every changelog entry and the facts to reuse.

- The Customers page is retired. Commissions names the customer on each row, shows a count for each status in use, and old Customers links open it.
- Invoice emails drop the invoice number from the subject and show the amount due large at the top of the invoice details.
- Confirm and reset emails no longer show a long link under the button.

- Invite a brand by email from Refer a brand: add up to five addresses, preview the message, and Affitor sends your link.
- Program settings › Business shows your Program ID with a Copy button. It is the ID the tracking script, the API and AI agents use.
- Program settings › Payments shows two cards, Stripe and Server API, each with its own status. Either one counts for Payments when you go live.
- A partner invite to a program listed on the marketplace shows the commission, how long it pays and the attribution window before the partner signs in.
- Team members with the Member role no longer see Invite member, Resend invite or Regenerate on the API keys page. Owners keep them.
- On the API keys page, a new key comes with a **Copy key** button, Regenerate confirms in a dialog that names the key it stops, and an expired key tells Owners to update `AFFITOR_API_KEY`.
- [affitor.com/switch](https://affitor.com/switch) shows how to move from another affiliate tool: connect payments, test tracking, then invite your partners by CSV. Partners get new links.
- Finished steps on Get started and most success tags use Affitor blue instead of green.
- On Account › Payouts, the Get ready to be paid list no longer repeats the Add payout method button. The Legal name and Payout method rows jump to their cards on the page.
- Marketplace programs without an uploaded logo can show their website's icon instead of initials. An uploaded logo always wins.

### Fixed

- A refund or chargeback on a subscription renewal now reaches the commission for that renewal.
- Withdraw and the invoice details form fit a phone screen.
- On an iPhone, the profile row at the bottom of the rail stays on screen, and tapping a field no longer zooms the page.
- A team invite still works when the person signs up with email, and they are not asked to pick brand or partner.
- Signing up with email keeps the name you typed.
- A renamed Refer a brand link still credits the brands who sign up through it.
- Program pages show their whole About, with no Read more.
- The invoice number in the How to pay part of invoice emails stays on one line on a phone.
- Paying an Affitor invoice by card stays in the invoice currency, with no conversion to a local currency at checkout.
- In Partner › Programs, a program's dashboard shows the same logo as your Programs list instead of an initial, and Copy buttons line up for short and long links.

### For developers

- New programs use `?via=` in partner links instead of `?aff=`. Older programs keep `?aff=`, and tracking reads both.
- `affitor` 0.4.5: `affitor agent setup` configures Claude Code or Cursor for your project, with a dry run and backups first, and prints the command for Codex.
- `affitor doctor` checks that your agent config and key are set, without starting an agent or calling the API.
- `affitor onboard` leaves your Stripe webhook alone when Stripe is connected in Affitor, so sales are not counted twice.
- `@affitor/sdk` 2.1.3 marks its React entry `"use client"`, so it imports cleanly in the Next.js App Router.
- `affitor status` and `affitor test` run with an API key alone, with no project config.
- Stripe invoices now record their sale from `invoice.paid` as well as `invoice.payment_succeeded`, once per invoice. An invoice already refunded, even partly, when Affitor records it adds no sale.
- A Stripe invoice paid with several payments, or by a payment that also pays other invoices, does not record a sale on its own.
- `POST /api/v1/track/refund` with an empty Bearer token returns 401 `Empty Bearer token`.
- `affitor` 0.4.6: `affitor agent setup --program-id <id>` gives each coding agent its own restricted key, separate from your live key. Run `affitor login` first; only program Owners can create keys.
- MCP tools describe every input: what it means, where it comes from and what leaving it out does. `list_my_payouts` says bank or Wise.
- `@affitor/recipes` 0.1.1: the Stripe sale and renewal snippets skip a checkout with no Affitor customer key instead of failing the webhook.