How many ways are there to implement the development of an affiliate program (invite a friend, get a balance)?

Question

JavaScript

Good evening. I need to implement an affiliate program and I roughly understand how it works and will describe it below, correct me if I'm wrong.

We need a link which, for example, is created from a hashed user id, when clicking on it, the one whose id in the database is equal to this id will be substituted into the user in a certain field.
After that, enter the person whose link is in the database to the registered user, and add N balance to the owner of the link.

Answer 1

You can generate a link in your personal account, for example: example.com/ref?id=367
everything can be implemented using php
when you enter the site, the code will be checked. where 367 is the id of the link creator.
to clarify my vk