Attribution

A member reaches their sharing link by signing into their own member account. A treasurer builds an organization’s roster — the scouts, players, students, or dancers selling on its behalf — by inviting each member to join, and that invitation is how a member gets to their link and QR code.

The treasurer or admin invites a member by email to join the organization. For a member under 13, the invitation goes to a parent or guardian instead, who manages the account on the member’s behalf — this is COPPA-conscious by design, with a formal privacy review still pending ahead of the broader public launch.

One person can belong to more than one organization under a single login — a parent with kids in a scout troop and a booster club, or a student selling for both a band program and a robotics team. Joining a second organization doesn’t merge anything: each membership is separate, and attribution always resolves within the one organization that issued the link.

Signed in, a member opens their own member page inside the organization and finds their sharing link and a matching QR code for that organization. A member who belongs to more than one organization gets a distinct link for each — there’s no single link that spans organizations. From there it’s shared however the member likes: texted, emailed, printed as a QR code, posted to a team group chat.

Member accounts, the member page, and QR generation are part of the member experience UnitTally is building toward the broader public launch — they aren’t live in a public account during the closed alpha. What already works today is the mechanism the rest of this page describes: a per-member attribution link that credits orders back automatically.

Following the link (or scanning the QR code) sets a signed attribution cookie in the supporter’s browser before redirecting them to the campaign, so credit survives even if the supporter browses for a while before buying. The supporter doesn’t need an account of their own — attribution rides on the cookie, not on anything the supporter signs into.

An order placed while that attribution cookie is set — meaning the supporter arrived via a specific member’s link — is credited to that member on the order record automatically. The treasurer gets a running per-member sales tally without asking anyone to keep their own count, and without a spreadsheet column someone forgot to update.

Beyond individual per-member tallies, UnitTally aggregates sales and order counts by member group — a team, a grade, a den, a squad — into a leaderboard view. This is part of the platform’s v1 feature set, landing ahead of the broader public launch later in 2026: Plus tier gets the basic version, Pro tier adds a fuller “Competitions” view.

Leaderboards are aggregate by design. They roll sales up to the group level; no view or export ever shows an individual member’s number next to their name publicly. It’s a way to make a season-long team or grade-level push visible without turning a fundraiser into a public ranking of individual kids. This aggregate-only design is COPPA-conscious by construction; a formal privacy review is still pending ahead of the broader public launch.

• The fundraising model — where member sharing fits in the season arc.
• Campaigns, products, variants & options — what a member is sharing a link to.
• Fees and caps — what an attributed sale costs.