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If you approved a content reward submission by mistake, or something about the post changes your mind, you can undo it. You do this by changing the submission’s status — and Referly asks what should happen to any reward it already created.

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Reverting a submission

Open the submission from the Submissions tab. Once a submission has been reviewed — approved or rejected — the review panel gives you a Change status control instead of the approve and reject buttons. To undo an approval, change the status to Pending review (to look at it again later) or Rejected (to turn it down). You can also do this from the table: select one or more submissions and use the set-status control in the selection bar.

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Choosing what happens to the payout

Because the approval created a reward, moving an approved submission away from Approved opens a What should happen to the payouts? window. It gives you two choices:
  • Keep the payouts — the reward stays in the affiliate’s earnings and can still be paid out, even though the submission is no longer approved.
  • Delete the unpaid payouts — the reward is removed, so it won’t be paid.
A reward that has already been paid out (or marked as paid) is always kept — reverting the submission can’t claw back money that’s already gone out. The choice above only affects rewards that were created but haven’t been paid yet.

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After reverting

  • A submission moved to Pending review is back in your queue, and you can approve or reject it again. Re-approving creates its reward afresh.
  • A submission moved to Rejected is turned down; the affiliate is notified, as with any rejection.
If you’d rather remove an entry entirely — the submission and any reward it created — use the Delete action instead. That permanently removes it, so reach for a status change when you only want to undo the approval.

Review submissions

Approve or reject submissions in the first place.

Content rewards overview

How content rewards work from start to finish.

Managing rewards

Find content rewards among your other rewards.

Managing payouts

How created rewards get paid out.
Last modified on July 21, 2026