Once you have setup the Affiliate software, there a few steps necessary to get the software working with your site.
If you would like a guide to setting up the software with your payment gateway, click here.
First, you want to setup an affiliate program. The affiliate program will be for one of your products, or if you are offering a flat rate of commission on a range of products, it will be your online store. To create a new affiliate program, go to Manage Affiliate Program and select Add Affiliate Program. The next thing to do is the enter the following fields:
| Field | Description |
| Name: | This is the name of your affiliate program. This will be the named referenced in the software. Also, this name will be displayed to users. |
| Redirection URL: | This is the URL that is where users will go when they click on the affiliate user's link. When they click on the affiliate user's link, they will be forwarded to the page you enter for this link. |
| Commission Type: | You can choose whether you want commission to be calculated when a sale is made, when a link is clicked or if a banner is shown. You can choose one of these options. |
| Description: | This description will be shown to your affiliate user's when they sign up for the affiliate program. |
After you fill out these fields click on the “Next Page”.
| Field | Description |
| All sales from this affiliate must be approved before being added to the system: | If this check box is checked, then if the commission type is set to sales, then all sales must be approved before they are added to the system. If sales need to be approved, when they appear in the Manage Sales Report section they will have an "approve" link next to each sale. |
| Affiliate users will earn the following amount per sale: | This is the amount that each affiliate will earn when they send you sales. |
| Multi-Tier Commission: | The options below are only used if you want to have multi-tier commission, so that your affiliates can earn money if they sign up addition affiliates. You may leave this section blank if you do not want to offer multi-tier commissions. For example if you set the 2nd Tier to $5.00 per sale. This means if you have an affiliate who signs up another affiliate and the affiliate he signs up makes a sale then the original affiliate will earn $5.00 |
| Re-Occurring Commission: | A reoccurring commission is if you want your affiliates to earn a commission on a reoccurring basis as long as the affiliate they signed up remains an affiliate. To setup a reoccurring commission you must setup a cron job which is located on this page. |
| Field | Description |
| Cost per click: | The amount you enter in this field represents the amount that your affiliates will earn per click. |
| Multi-Tier System: | Use this field if you want to setup a multi-tier field. Therefore for example if you setup 2 tier to be $2.00 then if you have an affiliate that signs up an affiliate. If the second affiliate gets clicks then the original affiliate will earn $2.00. |
| Field | Description |
| Earn Commission based on CPM: | The amount you enter in this field represents the amount that your affiliate will earn based upon the impressions they send. The amount is based upon 1000 impression. Therefore if you enter $1.00 in this field then after 1000 impressions from the affiliate the affiliate will earn $1.00 |
| Multi-Tier System: | Use this field if you want to setup a multi-tier field. Therefore for example if you setup 2 tier to be $2.00 then if you have an affiliate that signs up an affiliate. If the second affiliate gets 1000 impressions then the original affiliate will earn $2.00. |
This is for users who are going to use our affiliate program to track sales, if you are simply paying per click or based on the number of impressions that are shown, you can skip this step. If you are going to pay your affiliate users for each sale they send you, then you need to add our code to the thank you page for your shopping-cart. This code can be found on the Getting Started page in your affiliate software. You should login to your affiliate software, and click on the “Getting Started Wizard”.
This is an example of the code:
<img src=http://www.YourDomain.com/affiliate/sale.php?amount=10&transaction=B style='visibility: hidden'>
NOTE: Where it shows YourDomain.com in the link above, replace this link with your actual domain name.
This code should come from the Getting Started Wizard in your affiliate software.
This code contains the line amount=10, this is the default value of sales. If you want to set a specific price, edit the number. You can also have your shopping cart software pass the value for the amount. If you would like to pass the amount value, then consult your shopping cart software or how to pass the amount.
You can also pass values for the transaction id by passing values to the transaction field.
Next you should customize the affiliate user page. The affiliate user page is located on the user front-end area and you get to it by clicking on “affiliate program”. To add product descriptions on this affiliate user page, click on “Customize User Interface” from the administrative page and select the page “prodgroups.php”. You can customize the title and images for the page, then create your own content. Our WYSIWYG editor allows you create an attractive page without having to know HTML.
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