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Money flows through a Paylead Program on two distinct tracks. Ventilations carry Cashback amounts owed to your Consumers: Paylead computes who is owed what, you execute the bank transfer. Invoices carry the billing between Paylead and you, the Program Manager: commission on Rewards, Gifts reimbursement, VAT. Shift exposes both. This page covers where to find them and what each column means.
For the operating model behind Ventilation (Consumer-centric vs. Standard, invoicing cycle), see the Ventilation concept.

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Ventilations

In My Account > Ventilations, each row is a Ventilation file covering one invoicing cycle. The file lists the Cashback amount to transfer to each Consumer’s bank account. Use the search field to find a specific Ventilation, or the Date from / Date to filters to narrow the list.

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Columns

Rewards on a Ventilation line have transitioned through the technical statuses Pending Validation → Validated → Paid In → Paid Out. Only Rewards in Paid Out are settled for distribution to Consumers under the Standard approach. See the Status reference for the full lifecycle.

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Downloading the file

Click the download icon on a row to retrieve the Ventilation as a CSV. Each line in the CSV corresponds to one Cashback owed to one Consumer.
If your back-office automates payouts, prefer the M2M API over the manual download. See the Ventilation concept for the endpoint.

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Affiliation Ventilation

Affiliation Rewards are paid out on a separate track: they are funded by the affiliation network (AWIN), not by the ALO commission flow. The Affiliation Ventilation section reflects that distinction. Click the download icon to get the per-Consumer breakdown:
Affiliation Ventilation and ALO Ventilation are reconciled separately. Two Consumers, one earning a Cashback from a card transaction and the other from a click-tracked online purchase, appear in different files even though they sit in the same Program.

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Invoices

In My Account > Invoices, you can view and download every invoice Paylead issues to your Program. Two invoice types coexist: Gifts (reimbursement for Gift Rewards you distributed) and Revenue (commission Paylead owes you on ALO Cashbacks). Use the All filter to display both. Use Date from / Date to to scope the list. Without filters, every invoice since the Program launched is displayed. Click the download icon on a row to retrieve the invoice as a PDF. Click the view icon to open it in a new tab without downloading.

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What’s next

Ventilation concept

Consumer-centric vs. Standard payout, invoicing cycle.

Status reference

What Pending Validation, Validated, Paid In, Paid Out mean for a Reward.

Webhooks

Subscribe to Ventilation File Available to automate file retrieval.

Reward lifecycle

Drive the Consumer-facing Rewards screen from the Connector API.