I think that any affiliate that has sold anything in the mainstream world knows what the other terms are.

My first Internet business, earlier this decade, relied on pay-per-lead commissions from lenders. We had a network like Lending Tree except much, much, much smaller and extremely focused. So focused in fact that our first site was to obtain financing to upgrade the HVAC system in your home. www.hvacloan.com was the site -- long gone. As is my company back then, Loan Liaison, LLC. I thought I was so damn crafty with that name -- I was even able to get the matching .com domain back then. Now I am all nostalgic.

I have no idea what active payouts are.

What are they?

It's probably something simple that I should know, but I'll go ahead and put my neck out there at the risk of sounding dumb in order to find out.