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Before connecting PartnerStack to Claude through Porter, partnerships teams usually ask about Anthropic's partner program, affiliates, several programs, freshness and payouts. After those come 3 fixes: numbers that don't match the PartnerStack dashboard, lists that stop at 10 partners and a 429 error.
Is this the Claude Partner Network?
No. The Claude Partner Network is Anthropic's program for partner organizations that help enterprises adopt Claude (Anthropic's Claude Partner Network announcement). This page covers something else: connecting the partner program you run in PartnerStack to Claude through Porter, so Claude can read your partners, referrals and commissions.
Can affiliates and publishers use Porter's PartnerStack connection?
Porter connects to PartnerStack's Vendor API, which serves the company that runs the partner program and owns its partners, customers and commissions. Affiliates and publishers who earn commissions through PartnerStack read their own data through PartnerStack's separate Partner API.
Can I connect more than one PartnerStack partner program?
Yes. Each PartnerStack program has its own pair of API keys, and Porter keeps each key pair as a separate account that Claude can read. Agencies that run partner programs for clients connect each client's program the same way and name the account when they ask.
How fresh is PartnerStack data in Claude?
Porter reads PartnerStack's API at the moment Claude asks a question, so a commission approved this morning shows as approved in the answer. PartnerStack documents no delay for partnerships, customers, transactions or commissions, so Claude sees what your dashboard shows, minus link clicks and conversion rates.
Can Claude approve or pay out PartnerStack commissions?
Claude reads every commission's status through Porter and can create a manual commission, while approving, declining and paying out happen in your PartnerStack account as usual. Use Claude to list what's pending before payout, then approve those commissions in your PartnerStack dashboard.
Troubleshooting
Why don't Claude's numbers match PartnerStack?
Claude's PartnerStack totals through Porter differ from the dashboard for 4 reasons. The dashboard shows link clicks and conversion rates that the API doesn't return. Commission totals change with the statuses you include, test customers never create commissions, and amounts come in cents until Claude divides them.
Why does Claude list only 10 PartnerStack partners?
PartnerStack returns 10 records per page unless the request asks for more, up to 250, so Claude's first answer through Porter may stop early. Ask Claude to read every page of results, and split long ranges by month so each request stays small.
Why did PartnerStack return a 429 error?
PartnerStack answers 429 when requests from one address pass PartnerStack's API rate limit of 4,000 requests per minute, so a burst of Claude questions through Porter can hit it. Wait a minute, then ask again with a shorter date range or one group at a time.