Step 1

Once you have setup the Affiliate software, there a few steps necessary to get the software working with your site.

We also provide an affiliate setup guide video here.

If you would like a guide to setting up the software with your payment gateway, click here.

Create an Affiliate Program

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. Name your program, enter the url of the product page or store your advertisers will link to, set a commission type and enter a description for the product. When this is done, select Next.

Setup your program's Settings

You will now edit the affiliate settings. You can have the product display an image next to the affiliate program by uploading one, this is very useful if you are offering multiple affiliate programs because it creates a graphical contrast between programs. Set up the commission you will be offering. Commission can be a flat rate or a percentage of the total sale. You can also create recurring commission and tiered commission for products. Recurring commission will pay advertisers on a regular basis until a customer cancels, tiered commissions reward advertisers who signup others by giving both a commission for sales coming from the second tier.

Add our script to your Thank You page

This is for users who are going to use the affiliate program to track sales, if you are simply paying per click or based on impressions, you can skip this step. Once you have set up your affiliate program, you need to add our code to the bottom of your thank you page, or within the payment processing page. This code can be found on the Getting Started page, and it should be placed on a page every user who checks out must encounter after the transaction is complete. When the script runs it records whether the individual was referred by an affiliate. 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, but you can also have your shopping cart software pass the value to this code, consult your shopping cart software about how to do this.

Code Example:

Add Product descriptions to your Affiliate Page

Next you should customize the affiliate page. The affiliate page displays your affiliate programs on your affiliate software's front end, before users log in. It is used as an advertising tool to sell your programs and get new affiliates to sign up. Go to Customize User Interface 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.