Manage Affiliate Programs

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Affiliate Programs:

From this field you should add your affiliate name.  This will be the name displayed to users.  This will also be the name that will be used in the admin pages when your affiliate program is referenced.

Redirection URL:

When affiliate users add your banner or text link to their page and someone clicks on the banner this is the URL that users will be forwarded.  Therefore, most of the time this is the link to your main page of your site or the page that describes your products or services.

Time to wait before accepting next sale from same IP:

This field is used to prevent a duplicate sale.  The amount of time you enter in this field is the number of minutes that the system will wait before it counts an additional sale from the same IP.  You can leave this field blank if you do not want to use.  The purpose of this field is to make sure if someone hits refresh on the thank you page then your sale is not counted twice.

This field is only used if the Commission Type is set to Sale. If you are awarding your affiliate users based upon their clicks or impressions, then you can leave this field blank.

Commission Type:

Omnistar Affiliate has three methods that you can use to calculate the commission for your affiliate users.

1. The most popular method to calculate the commission for your affiliate users is to calculate the commission by paying your affiliate users a percentage or flat fee for each sale that is sent from the affiliate user.
2. Another method is to pay the affiliate user commission for each click that is sent from the affiliate user.
3. The last method is to pay commission for every 1000 impressions from the affiliate user.
   If you choose this option then every time your banner is shown from the affiliate user's site the affiliate user will earn a commission. The affiliate will receive commission based on every 1000 impressions of the banner that is shown. Therefore, if you set this field to the amount of $1 then after 1000 impressions the affiliate user will earn a commission of $1. If you use this method, then you should add a banner for your affiliate program. If you do not add a banner for the affiliate program, this method will not work.

Description:

This field is used to describe the affiliate program and the information entered in this field will be seen by the user so that they will understand the details of your affiliate program.

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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.

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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.

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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.