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# Commission Flow

> How recommendations become payable commission.

# Commission Flow

Rako connects agent recommendations to merchant outcomes. Every recommendation creates attribution context that can later be reconciled into a payable conversion.

## Three steps

### 1. Search

Your agent queries Rako for offers matching user intent: vertical, price, features, provider, contract length, or other structured criteria. Rako returns eligible offers and a session ID.

### 2. Recommend

When the agent recommends a product, it calls the recommendation endpoint. This records the attribution event: the agent influenced the user toward a specific offer.

### 3. Checkout handoff

When the user is ready to buy, the checkout step returns a hosted checkout handoff. The merchant or payment processor handles payment, while Rako keeps attribution context available for later reconciliation. The checkout link or checkout session is not conversion proof; conversion requires later platform-side outcome evidence.

## How attribution survives

* **No cookies required.** Attribution is logged server-side when the recommendation is recorded.
* **Cross-device safe.** The session ID ties the recommendation to the eventual purchase or payable milestone.
* **Drop-off recovery.** Recommendations can return fallback links that preserve attribution if the user does not buy immediately.
* **Signed offer context.** AAP Codes help verify the offer context Rako issued for the recommendation, including merchant, offer, price, currency, and commission basis.

## Settlement levels

Rako supports multiple evidence models depending on merchant integration depth:

1. **Merchant-reported** — the merchant reports payable outcomes.
2. **Payment-observed** — payment-processor events confirm transaction status.
3. **Payment-split** — commission is split as part of transaction clearing.