Built-In Fraud Detection
Protect your affiliate program from abuse with self-referral blocking, IP rate limiting, Proxy-header detection, bot filtering, and duplicate referral prevention. Complete fraud log with severity levels and context tracking.
6 Layers of Protection
Royal Affiliate Pro defends your program with multiple overlapping safeguards. Each layer catches what the others might miss, ensuring no fraudulent activity slips through.
Self-Referral Blocking
Automatically detects when affiliates try to earn commissions on their own purchases. Blocks by user ID and email matching.
IP Rate Limiting
Configure maximum clicks allowed per IP per day. Excessive clicks are flagged and blocked, preventing click fraud schemes.
Proxy-Header Detection
Inspects HTTP headers (X-Forwarded-For, Via, Client-IP) for proxy relay signatures and blocks private/reserved IP ranges that can indicate masked traffic. Header-based detection catches most transparent proxies and misconfigured VPNs — pair with a third-party IP-intelligence API for full commercial VPN coverage.
Bot Detection
User agent analysis identifies automated bot traffic. Known bot signatures are blocked before they can generate fake referrals.
Duplicate Prevention
Prevents double-crediting by checking reference IDs and cookies. The same order can never generate duplicate commission records.
Fraud Activity Log
Complete audit trail with severity levels (low, medium, high), fraud type categories, timestamps, IP addresses, user agents, and referrer URLs.
How Fraud Detection Works
Every referral click passes through the fraud engine before it can generate a commission. The process is automatic and invisible to legitimate visitors.
Visitor Clicks a Referral Link
A potential customer clicks an affiliate referral link on social media, a blog post, email, or any other channel. The click is intercepted by the fraud engine before tracking begins.
Multi-Layer Verification
The system checks IP rate limits, proxy headers, and bot signatures in parallel. Each check runs independently so no single point of failure can bypass protection.
Flagged Clicks Are Logged
If any check flags the click, it is logged in the fraud log with full context — IP address, user agent, referrer URL, fraud type, and severity level for your review.
Clean Clicks Proceed Silently
Clean clicks proceed to tracking as normal. Fraudulent ones are blocked silently — no error pages, no disruption. The visitor never knows the check happened.
Complete Protection at a Glance
Royal Affiliate Pro ships with a comprehensive fraud engine that requires zero setup. Sensible defaults protect your program from day one.
All fraud detection is included in every Royal Affiliate Pro license. No add-ons to purchase, no external API subscriptions to maintain, and no per-check fees.
Fraud Detection Capabilities
- Fraud type categories: self_referral, excessive_clicks, bot_detected, vpn_proxy, duplicate_referral
- Context logging: IP address, user agent, referrer URL
- Configurable max clicks per IP per day (default: 10)
- Enable/disable individual fraud checks independently
- Admin fraud log with filtering and search
- No performance impact — checks run in milliseconds
- Works alongside all commission types (direct, multi-tier, recurring)
- No external API calls — all detection runs locally
- Zero configuration needed — sensible defaults out of the box
Protect Your Affiliate Program From Day One
Get built-in fraud detection and all other Royal Affiliate Pro features with a single license.