ReferOn presents Personal Access Tokens (PAT), a simplified method that makes it quicker, safer, and much simpler for operators, affiliates, and technical teams to authenticate with the platform’s API.
The setup process was previously complicated by the need to use legacy authentication endpoints in order to connect to a platform’s API. With PATs, users can now create a dedicated token right within their ReferOn profile and connect to the API right away, eliminating the need for further configuration or multi-step processes.
Personal Access Tokens: What Are They?
Without having to deal with multi-step token flows or legacy authentication endpoints, a Personal Access Token is an automatically produced authentication token that allows system access to the ReferOn API.
PATs integrate APIs:
- Faster: It takes only a few seconds to create a single token.
- Simpler: Simple API access without multi-step authentication processes.
- Safer: Instant access revocation and customizable expiration at the user level.
Because all ReferOn API endpoints are offered under a single domain (api.referon.com), integrations are more predictable, simpler to automate, and more appropriate for affiliate operations with rapid growth.
Why Does This Matter?
More data, partners, and workflows are being managed by affiliate programs today than in the past. Every manual step in an integration creates a bottleneck because to the rapidly increasing pressure on reporting, payouts, and tracking. By removing friction from API authentication, PATs speed up integrations and lessen reliance on antiquated, multi-step processes.
Teams can use PATs to:
- Automate routine, daily tasks to lessen workload
- Instantaneously sync data between departments and workflows
- Reduce time spent on technical implementation and setup
Vlad Bondarenko, Head of Product, adds:
Every feature we ship follows the same core principle: remove friction and give teams more control. PATs do exactly that by replacing the old authentication flow with a single, predictable token, making automation easier and helping affiliate programs scale without extra operational load.
