Connecting the Affiliate Manager is the second piece of the TikTok Shop setup. The first step authenticates your shop — this one gives Hubfluence permission to actually send Target Invites, Open Collab invites, and creator messages through TikTok's official affiliate channels. Without it, outreach campaigns won't fire.
Inside Hubfluence, head to Settings, open the Integrations tab, and click Setup next to Affiliate Manager. You'll be sent over to TikTok Shop's Affiliate Manager settings, where you'll see a pending invitation from Hubfluence waiting. Accept it, and you're authorized — the integration flips to connected on the Hubfluence side and you can start running outreach right away.
Once it's connected, you can fire creator invites from Hubfluence campaigns, watch responses and collab status from the Message Center, and skip ever having to manually invite creators inside Seller Center again. Everything stays in sync with your TikTok Shop in real time.
If the invitation isn't going through, it's almost always a permissions thing — only an admin on the TikTok Shop account can accept Affiliate Manager invites, so a sub-account or operator role will get stuck at the handshake. Double-check that the invite actually got accepted (TikTok sometimes silently swallows the click), and if the status still looks weird after a few minutes, reload Hubfluence to force a fresh sync.
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