The Station sells its own vessels and nothing else. Everything a rider actually burns — gels, mixes, chews, salt, kit — is made by people better at it than we are. So we built a berth for them instead of a warehouse. You keep your product, your pricing and your customer. We make the introduction and take a cut of what it produces.
Every partner card on this site says out loud which arrangement it is, because a shopper deserves to know who is taking their money.
Your product appears on the deck it belongs to. The buy button goes to your store. You take the payment, you ship it, you own the customer and the support. The link carries a tagged partner ID so the sale is attributed back to us, and we are paid a commission on what closes.
We list and sell it at the station. Checkout happens here, and the order routes to you to fulfil from your own shelf. You are paid the wholesale line on each order. Slower to set up, better conversion, and it puts you inside the cart with our vessels.
A spot never shows a name until a partnership is signed. Until then the card reads PARTNER SPOT · OPEN. We do not list a brand we have not agreed terms with, and we do not carry fuel we would not drink ourselves.
Every spot is measured the same way — revenue per slot-day — and reviewed on a 34-day and 89-day window. A rail that earns its berth climbs. One that does not, opens up again.
You do not upload anything and you do not maintain a second store. You give us one URL that returns your live catalogue as JSON, and your spot renders itself — prices, sizes and stock come from you, so the deck is never stale.
GET https://your-store.com/station-feed.json
{
"brand": "YOUR BRAND",
"updated": "2026-08-16T12:00:00Z",
"items": [
{
"title": "Citrus Gel · 24 pack",
"price": "38.00",
"url": "https://your-store.com/products/citrus-gel",
"handle":"citrus-gel",
"cat": "GEL",
"size": "24 x 32g",
"grade": "A",
"stock": true
}
]
}
Shopify stores already have most of this at /products.json — if that is what you have, send that and we will map it. Any host that returns JSON over HTTPS with CORS open to thestationcalls.com works. We poll it; we never write to it. If the feed goes down the card falls back to a plain link to your shop, so a bad night on your side never shows a broken deck on ours.
Every click out of the station carries a partner ID and campaign tags, so the sale shows up in your own analytics as ours before it ever reaches a statement. You can verify our number against your dashboard any day of the month.
We never see your customer’s payment details on the commission rail, we do not resell your list, and we do not touch your pricing. The station takes a cut for the introduction. That is the whole arrangement.
Link to us with ?ref=your-id on the end of any station URL. We hold that ID for 34 days and stamp it onto the shopping cart, so if that visitor buys anything — then or three weeks later — your ID rides along into the order itself. No pixel to install, no script to host.
Every outbound click on your card carries your tracking ID and campaign tags, so the visit lands in your analytics already attributed to the station. You can check our count against yours any day of the month.
Attributed orders total up per partner, the agreed rate applies, and the settlement run exports as a plain CSV — the same numbers you can see in your own dashboard. Where a commission platform is in the middle, its statement is the one that pays; ours is the copy we check it against. If the two disagree we will show you our working.
Commission rails settle through an affiliate platform rather than by hand, so attribution, the cooling-off window on returns, and the payout itself run on their rails and not on our memory. Partners see the same numbers we do.
Rate is agreed per partner and written into the card. Tracking, the return window and the statement are handled by the network; the station is paid on the same schedule as any other publisher on it.
We buy at the wholesale line or settle on an agreed split per order. Orders land with you as they are placed; remittance runs on a fixed cycle stated in your agreement.
Rates, windows and the payout cycle live in the signed agreement, not on a marketing page — anything printed here would be out of date the first time we agreed something different with someone. Ask and we will send the current sheet.
Two minutes. A human reads every one of these — there are three spots per deck and we would rather leave one open than fill it badly.
Applying is not an agreement and does not reserve a spot. Nothing appears on the site until terms are signed. Prefer email? Write to the bay crew.
No. A spot is earned, not bought. The three deck banners are separate advertising and priced openly on the arcade deck — those are ads and they are labelled as ads.
Sometimes, in different categories. We will tell you who is on the deck before you sign, and category exclusivity is a thing we can discuss — it costs more, because it costs us.
On the commission rail, you do — entirely. On the stocked rail we do, because they bought here, and we do not hand our list to anyone.
The card falls back to a plain link to your shop. Nothing on the deck ever shows a price we cannot verify from your feed.
Any time, on the notice in the agreement. We pull the card the day you ask. A partnership that has to be trapped was not a partnership.
Always. Every commission card is labelled on the card itself, and the deck carries a plain-language disclosure. That is the FTC’s rule and it is also just decent.