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id: "partners/account-settings"
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url: "https://affitor.com/docs/partners/account-settings"
kind: "guide"
updated: "2026-10-17"
---
# Account and Payout Settings

> Manage your profile, security, and the payout details that decide how you get paid.

Your account settings hold two things that matter: how brands see you, and how your money reaches you. This page walks through both so nothing blocks a payout when you've earned one.

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## Profile

Your profile is what a brand sees when they review your application. Open the **⋯** menu on your profile row at the bottom of the left rail and choose **Your account**. It opens on **Profile**:

- **Avatar**: the photo shown to brands and partners you work with.
- **Your details**: **Full name**, **Email** (your sign-in email, shown read-only), **Username** (your Refer a brand link, `affitor.com/r/<username>`, see below) and **Country**. **Save** saves this card.
- **Website and social links**: your **Website** and your **YouTube**, **X (Twitter)**, **Instagram**, **TikTok** and **LinkedIn** links, where you promote. Brands running manual review use these to decide. This card has its own **Save**.

A real name and photo help your applications get approved.

A complete profile is the single cheapest way to raise your approval rate: brands approve partners they can size up.

### Username

Your username makes your Refer a brand link `affitor.com/r/<username>`. It is 3 to 30 characters: lowercase letters, numbers and single hyphens. The field checks right away whether the name is free and can suggest one. Usernames are unique and share one namespace with brands' program URLs: when a name is taken, Affitor suggests others such as `name-hq`, `get-name` or `try-name`.

- **Changing it**: your first username is free, then you can change it once every 14 days.
- **Your old name**: when you change your username, the old link stops crediting you at once. The old name stays reserved for you for 14 days, then anyone can take it.
- **Not affected**: your partner link codes (`?via=` or `?aff=` on program links) never change when you rename. Older usernames you replaced before this rule started still credit you.

## Security

Under **Your account** → **Login and security**, change your password with **Current password**, **New password** and **Confirm new password**, then **Update password**. Changing it signs you out everywhere else. If you signed up with Google, **Set a password** lets you also sign in with your email address.

## Payout details

This is the part that blocks money if it's missing. Before your first withdrawal, finish **Get ready to be paid** under **Your account** → **Payouts**: your legal name, a payout method and a tax form (W-8BEN, W-8BEN-E or W-9). See [Getting paid](/docs/partners/payouts) for each step.

- **Payout method**: where Affitor sends your earnings when you withdraw: Wise or a bank account. **Add payout method** adds one; **⋯** → **Edit** or **Remove** changes a saved one. Enter the details accurately: a typo in a payout address is the most common reason a withdrawal fails. PayPal is no longer supported: a PayPal method you saved before still shows, and you can remove it.
- **Invoice details**: **Business name**, **Address** and **Postal code**, added to your payout invoices.

## Verify it worked

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## Next steps

- [Getting paid](/docs/partners/payouts): turn your balance into a withdrawal
- [Promote your link and earn](/docs/partners/quickstart/promote-your-link): drive the commissions in the first place