Affiliate Settings

Field

Description

Require Admin Approval for New Affiliates:

If this option is checked then when an affiliate user signs up for your affiliate program they will not beaded to your database. The affiliate user will be added to the Approve Affiliates section and remain in that section until the administrator approves the affiliate.

Notify Affiliates of Invoice Payment:

If this option is checked when the administrator pays the affiliate user, the affiliate user will receive an email letting them know the administrator has paid the affiliate user. To pay an affiliate user the administrator should search for the sale in the Manage Invoice section. After you go into an invoice there is an option to pay the affiliate user.

Cookie Lifetime:

The cookie lifetime dictates how long a cookie will remain action. Once an affiliate user sends a user to your site, the system automatically stores a cookie on the users computer. This field is used to dictate how long that cookie will remain active, so that the affiliate user will receive credit for the sale. Therefore, if you have this field set to 60 days and the user visitors the site and does not make a sale and returns to the site before 60 days then the affiliate user will still receive credit for that sale.

Show affiliate users a link to refer other users to your affiliate programs:

This option is used if you want to have your affiliate program be multi-tier. If this option is checked then affiliate users will be able refer other affiliates and earn a commission for their referred affiliates. The exact commission can be specified when you add an affiliate program on Step two. When you click on "Add Affiliate Program" on the second step there is an option to setup your commission for the multi-tier system.

Minimum Payout Amount:

From this section you have the option of marking invoices as "Needs to Pay" when this user's invoice reaches the desired amount that you set below. Also, you have the option of automatically marking the invoice as close when it reaches the desired amount.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you have a specific affiliate user that you want to have a different minimum payout amount then what is specified in this field, when you add the affiliate user there is an option to override the amount that you enter on this page. For example: you can have all your affiliate users have a minimum payout of $300.00, but for one affiliate user you can set their minimum payout to be $200, so that one user gets marked to be paid when the amount reaches $200.