When you want to QA a creator or see what their audience sees, you have two ways to reach their storefront: clicking the creator’s affiliate link, or using a manual preview URL. This article walks through both.
Option 1: Click the creator's affiliate link (preferred)
- Find the collab in the Collaborations table.
- Open the creator’s profile and click their affiliate link.
- You’ll be redirected through
/apps/cc-storefront/redirect, which resolves the creator’s Destination and loads their co-branded experience.
For this to work, two things must be true:
- The creator must be in a valid Destination.
- The affiliate link in your affiliate platform must route through
/apps/cc-storefront/redirect— this is the essential step of integrating your affiliate platform with CreatorCommerce.
Option 2: Use the manual preview URL
If the redirect isn’t set up yet in your affiliate platform, or you just need to preview a creator page without triggering affiliate tracking, go directly to:
/pages/creator/{{handle}}?cc={{handle}}
Replace {{handle}} with the creator’s handle — you can find it on the creator’s page in the dashboard.
Use the manual URL as a preview only. Production affiliate links should always route through /apps/cc-storefront/redirect so Destination logic, tracking, and the co-branded SDK all fire correctly.
Why the redirect matters
The redirect does three things at once: it identifies which creator the click belongs to, resolves their Destination to determine the landing page, and loads the CreatorCommerce SDK so personalization and tracking work. Skipping it means the shopper lands on a plain Shopify page with no co-branding.
Once you’ve confirmed the redirect is in place and the creator is in a Destination, their affiliate link becomes the single source of truth for testing.
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