How every quote and booking is credited to your account.

The short version

• Your key identifies you. Every widget, API call and tracked link carries your partner key.
• The quote is the record. When a shopper asks for a price, our server checks your key and saves the quote with your account on it.
• The booking follows the quote. A booking is always credited to the partner whose quote was booked. Nothing the browser sends at booking time can change that.
• No third-party cookies. Credit does not depend on a cookie that can be cleared, blocked or overwritten.

From page view to booking

1. The widget loads on one of your approved sites and records a page view against your key.
2. The shopper asks for a price. Our server confirms your key is active and the request comes from one of your approved sites, gets a live price from our FMCSA-licensed fulfillment partner, and saves the quote with your account on it.
3. The price is shown, with its transit estimate and the time the price expires.
4. The shopper clicks to book. The secure booking page opens on autotransportvehicle.com, carrying the quote.
5. The booking is submitted. The booking record takes its partner from the saved quote, and it counts toward your account.

Every step is recorded against your key. Your dashboard totals the two that matter most: quotes requested (step 2) and bookings completed (step 5).

Why a cookie can't take the credit

Most referral programs credit the last link a shopper clicked, stored in a browser cookie. That cookie can be cleared, blocked by the browser, or overwritten by the next site the shopper visits.

Here the credit sits on the quote, on our server. The widget keeps one random session id in your site's own browser storage for 30 days to group a visitor's events on your pages, and it sets no cookies (see the developer docs). If a shopper later clears that storage, the quotes they already received are still yours.

If the same shopper gets quotes on two partners' sites, each quote belongs to the site that produced it, and the booking is credited to whichever quote was booked.

The tracked quote link

The tracked quote link at /q/ plus your key opens a hosted quote page that says the quote was referred by your business. Our server resolves your key when the quote is created, so the credit is fixed on the quote in the same way. A later visit through another partner's link cannot reassign a quote that already exists. Quotes from the link and from your widget appear together in your dashboard because they use the same key.

Approved sites protect your key

Each key works only on the exact web addresses listed on your account, such as https://www.yourdealer.com. A price request from any other site is refused with no quote, and the attempt is recorded against your account so a copied key shows up. Details are in the approved origins section of the developer docs.

Test traffic never counts

• Sandbox key. Real prices, simulated bookings. Sandbox bookings are never sent to the fulfillment partner and never count toward compensation. See sandbox.
• Internal accounts. Demo and QA traffic from AutoTransportVehicle.com's own accounts is never credited.
• Your own shipments. A booking where the buyer's email matches your account's contact email is not credited automatically. It can still be reviewed under your partner agreement.

From booking to compensation

• Your agreement sets the terms. The rate and the attribution window, measured from when the quote was created to when it was booked, come from your signed partner agreement. They are not published on this site.
• A credited booking starts as pending. It becomes payable only after the shipment is verified as delivered and the entry is approved.
• History does not change. The terms in effect are saved with each entry, so a later change to your terms never rewrites past bookings.
• Your dashboard shows the totals: quotes requested, bookings completed, and earnings split into paid and pending. Sign in to see yours.

What you see, and what you don't

You see counts for your own account. You do not receive shoppers' names, phone numbers, emails or addresses. Booking details go to AutoTransportVehicle.com and the fulfillment partner that arranges the shipment. The events the widget sends to your page never contain customer personal data either.