Most posts about affiliate tooling are written from the outside, by people listing every option without using any of them. This one is the opposite. We use WeCanTrack ourselves. It's the dashboard we open every morning. We genuinely think it's the best affiliate-data product on the market right now.
And we built LinkPulse on top of it.
That sometimes confuses people. If WeCanTrack is so good, why are we shipping our own product? The answer is that they solve a different problem than we do. Both problems matter, neither product covers the other. So we use both.
Here's the longer version, because the boundaries are useful to understand if you run an affiliate site.
What WeCanTrack actually solves
If you've ever tried to look at affiliate revenue across more than two networks, you know the pain. Awin has one dashboard. Daisycon has another. Amazon, Bol, Tradetracker, Adtraction, Impact, Webgains, all separate. Each one has its own login, its own date filters, its own way of categorizing transactions, its own export format. Some of them have APIs. Some of them have APIs that almost work. A few only let you see your data through CSV downloads.
WeCanTrack collapses that into one place. You give them your network credentials once, and from that point on, every commission, every pending sale, every reversal lands in a single dashboard. They normalize the network differences so you can sort by program, by month, by sub-id, by clickout URL. They expose the whole thing through an API so you can pipe it into your own tools.
That sounds simple. It is not simple. The amount of glue code, network-specific edge cases, currency conversions, and quirky-status handling that lives behind the WeCanTrack API is enormous. Building that yourself is a multi-year project, and we know because we considered it. Then we used WeCanTrack and stopped considering it.
It also looks good. The UI is clean, the filters work the way you'd want them to, and you don't need a tutorial to find what you're looking for. For pure "show me my affiliate revenue across networks" use cases, we haven't found anything better.
What WeCanTrack does not solve
Affiliate revenue is downstream of affiliate links. You can't earn a commission on a link that doesn't work. And links break, constantly, in ways that are nearly invisible from a network dashboard.
A typical broken affiliate link still returns HTTP 200. The merchant might have removed the product, but the URL now lands on a category page, or a "this product is no longer available" message, or a homepage redirect. The HTTP layer says everything is fine. The reader clicks, gets a useless page, leaves. The network records nothing because there was no conversion to record. The publisher sees the missing revenue, eventually, but has no way to attribute it to any specific link.
WeCanTrack tells you what your sales were. It cannot tell you what your sales should have been if a particular link in a particular article on a particular site had still been working. That's not a flaw in their product. It's just a question they were never built to answer.
Where LinkPulse fits
LinkPulse runs at the article level. It scans every affiliate link in your content, follows the redirect chain, looks at what the destination page actually returns, and flags the ones that have quietly stopped doing their job. Then it pulls in revenue data, including from WeCanTrack if you've connected your account, and joins the two so you can see which articles are losing money and how much.
The point is the join. A network dashboard can show you which articles drive revenue. A link checker can tell you which links are broken. Neither can tell you "this article used to make four hundred euros a month, and now it makes one fifty, and the reason is that the second affiliate link in the third paragraph silently started redirecting to a category page in March." That's the question we wanted answered, for our own sites, and we couldn't find an existing tool that answered it.
So LinkPulse is a layer on top of WeCanTrack, not a replacement. WeCanTrack does the heavy lifting on the data side. LinkPulse adds the per-article health and revenue-attribution layer that makes the data actionable at the content level.
Why this matters if you're a publisher
If you only care about total affiliate revenue across your sites, WeCanTrack alone is probably enough. Their dashboard answers "how much did I earn this month, and from which programs" in a way that nothing else does as cleanly.
If you also care about which articles are leaking revenue right now and why, you need a layer that thinks in articles and links, not transactions and programs. That's the gap LinkPulse fills.
Most serious affiliate operations end up wanting both views eventually. The networks-and-money view, for billing reality and trend lines. The articles-and-links view, for keeping the actual content healthy at scale. They're complementary rather than competing.
An honest recommendation
If you're an affiliate publisher and you don't already have something doing what WeCanTrack does, go look at them. We don't get a kickback for saying that. We just have not found a better product in the category, and we use them ourselves.
If you've got the data side handled and what you actually need is to see which links and which articles are silently bleeding money, that's what we built LinkPulse for. The two stack, they don't compete.
The longer affiliate marketing exists, the more obvious it gets that there isn't one tool that solves "affiliate" as a problem. It's a stack. Different layers, different specialists. We're glad WeCanTrack is one of them, and we tried to build something that earns its own spot in the same stack rather than trying to absorb theirs.