Welcome to our Q2 2026 product update roundup for Post Affiliate Pro. This quarter brought two major milestones: a brand-new AI Assistant built directly into the merchant panel, and the successful migration of our entire cloud infrastructure to Amazon Web Services. On top of that, we continued strengthening security, expanding the REST API, refining our Shopify and payment integrations, and making the panels faster and more pleasant to work in every day.
Read on to learn about everything we’ve added and improved in Q2 2026.
Meet the new AI Assistant: Instant help, right inside your dashboard
Managing your affiliate program just got a whole lot easier. The merchant panel now includes a built-in AI Assistant , available via the “AI Assistant” button in the top right corner of your dashboard.
Here’s what it can do for you:
- 24/7 knowledge base expert – The assistant draws on our full documentation and support expertise to give you immediate, step-by-step answers to your questions.
- Context-aware support – It recognizes which section of the application you are currently viewing and tailors its answers to exactly where you are.
- One-click navigation – Instead of just telling you what to do, the assistant generates clickable shortcut buttons that take you straight to the settings panel you need.
- Native multilingual support – Ask in your preferred language and get answers in the same language, keeping your workflow smooth.
The best part? The AI Assistant is completely built-in and 100% free across all subscription tiers, including active free trial accounts. There is no external account or setup required, it’s activated automatically, so simply log in and start chatting.
And we’re not stopping there. We’re already working on extending AI assistance to your affiliates, adding secure AI data access for instant text-based reporting (such as listing your top-performing campaigns), and letting advanced users to connect custom automated workflows.
Migration to Amazon Web Services: Completed
In June, we successfully completed the migration of our entire cloud infrastructure from Linode to Amazon Web Services. Both our EU and US datacenters now run in AWS, with the EU datacenter located in Frankfurt and US datacenter located in North Virginia.
This move brings lasting benefits to every hosted account:
- Enhanced application performance with faster response times and an improved user experience
- Seamless scaling so resources can grow with demand, keeping performance optimal at all times
- Robust security thanks to the strong, built-in protection features of the AWS platform
- Increased service availability with infrastructure designed to minimize downtime
For the vast majority of customers, no action was needed. If your systems whitelist Post Affiliate Pro IP addresses for callbacks or API requests, please make sure your whitelist reflects the current application server addresses that you can find here .
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Security improvements: Continuous hardening across the platform
Security remained a top priority throughout the quarter, with improvements across the entire application:
- Stronger platform protection – We hardened output escaping across the merchant panel, widgets, and report builder, tightened permission checks on merchant panel endpoints, strengthened rate limiting, improved IP detection and validation for tracking and the REST API, and reinforced authentication of incoming Stripe webhooks.
- Smarter password experience – The set-password, password change, and signup screens now display the active password policy as a live checklist with red/green indicators, so you always know exactly what the validator expects.
- Earlier login protection – Fraud Protection IP rules are now evaluated earlier in the login process, and when a network owner changes a merchant account’s status to pending or declined, the merchant’s active session is closed immediately.
REST API v3: Coupon management and richer transaction data
Our REST API v3 continued to grow this quarter, opening up new automation possibilities:
- Coupon endpoints – You can now list, get, update, delete, generate, and import coupons through the API, and even assign an existing coupon code to a specific affiliate.
- Click details on transactions – GET /transactions can now return first and last click details (time, referrer, IP address, custom data) and click count alongside the commission, so you get the full click context in a single call.
- Better search and filtering – The transaction search now supports filtering by action code, merchant note, and system note, and the fields parameter is fully documented and works correctly across all grid endpoints.
- Clearer rate limiting – The request limits on list endpoints are now documented, and exceeding them returns a proper “Too Many Requests” response with a retry hint.
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Shopify integration: Smarter routing for multi-country stores
Merchants running Shopify stores received several meaningful upgrades:
- Per-locale and per-domain campaign routing – Multi-country Shopify stores under one account can now map each storefront domain, market, or locale to a different campaign within a single integration, instead of routing everything to one shared campaign.
- Billing address data – Billing address fields (name, phone, company, address, city, ZIP, province, country) are now available in the Shopify Extra data options.
- Checkout Extensibility support – The integration now works with Shopify’s Checkout Extensibility when the “Check missing order on order created” option is enabled.
- Reliability fixes – We fixed visit processing on queued Shopify webhook events such as refunds and order status changes, resolved cases where refunded orders could create an extra “remaining” commission, and made the write_orders scope notifications more accurate and less noisy.
Payment and marketing plugins: More accurate tracking across the board
Beyond Shopify, we refined several other integrations and plugins:
- Stripe – Subscription tracking now works reliably across all configuration tabs, product IDs are correctly stored for one-time purchases (which also fixes their subsequent refunds), and plan-based product ID settings no longer fail when a purchase has no plan attached.
- SamCart – Partial refunds are now tracked with the correct refund amount, and refunds of recurring payments correctly refund the recurring commission.
- AWeber – The plugin now uses AWeber’s OAuth 2.0 authorization, replacing the discontinued OAuth 1.0 flow. If you use this plugin, please re-authorize the connection.
- Plugin capability tags – The Plugins list now shows capability tags on each plugin (refunds, recurring commissions, coupons, lifetime commissions, and more), so you can see at a glance which features each integration supports.
User experience improvements: Small touches that make daily work easier
We also delivered a number of quality-of-life improvements across the panels:
- Refreshed login screens – The login, forgot-password, and set-new-password screens got a facelift with clearer affiliate vs. merchant role identification, and an explicit logout now shows a friendly “You have been signed out” confirmation.
- Search in category filters – The banner and campaign category filters now include a search box in both the merchant and affiliate panels, making it easy to find the right category even when many are configured.
- Better banner images – Banner images in WebP format are no longer re-encoded on upload, preventing blurry text, and conversion quality for other formats was increased. Banner image URLs also keep working even after an image format change.
- Dark mode polish – We fixed several readability issues in dark mode, including menus, popups, and the country commission settings screen.
Performance: A faster panel on large accounts
Accounts with large transaction histories will feel a noticeable difference this quarter. Refund and chargeback statistics on the home screen, trends report, and quick report load significantly faster and no longer hold up the rest of the home screen. Saving a campaign is also much quicker on accounts with thousands of banners, and coupon grids load more efficiently.
Combined with the performance gains from our new AWS infrastructure, the panel should feel snappier than ever.
Thank you for growing with us
Thank you for your continued trust in Post Affiliate Pro, and for all your valuable feedback, bug reports, and suggestions. Your input directly shapes where we take the platform next, and with the AI Assistant now live and our infrastructure running on AWS, we have a strong foundation for everything that’s coming.
We look forward to bringing you more improvements in the next quarter!
