The “Affiliate Program” section allows you to define various parameters for your affiliate program such as rates per sale, payment threshold, the payment method for paying affiliates, etc.
In order to start defining affiliate program, choose option “Affiliate Program” from the “Configuration” menu.
Figure 141: Defining Affiliate Program (step 1/4)
The following screen will be displayed.
Figure 142: Defining Affiliate Program (step 2/4)
The following parameters are available inside this screen:
Email address – field for entering the email address of the person who is running the affiliate program
Affiliate per pay sale – enter the percents of sale the affiliate will be paid
Payment Threshold – enter the amount the affiliates need to earn prior to being paid
Cookie Lifetime – enter the cookie lifetime in seconds; i.e. how long will the cookie last after the customer coming from an affiliate website visits your shop; if the customer returns after the set period of time the affiliate will not get a fee (in order words the customer needs to make a purchase during the cookie lifetime – otherwise, the affiliate is not given any credit)
Billing time – option for setting billing time for the affiliates (e.g. if you set this value to 30 days the affiliate will be paid 30 days after the purchase has been made); this will give you an opportunity to avoid paying affiliates for the purchases that are being refunded
Order minimum status – this option should help you avoid paying for waitlisted customer
Available payment methods for paying affiliates
Pay Affiliates with check
Pay Affiliates with PayPal
Pay Affiliates by Bank
Individual Affiliate Percentage – set this value to “true” if you are using individual affiliates i.e. if the customer is coming from single website as opposed to different levels i.e. several affiliate websites before visiting your shop
Use Affiliate-tier false – select this option to “True” if you want to use different levels of affiliates i.e. if the customers are visiting several websites before visiting your shop
Number of Tierlevels – set the number of levels i.e. number of websites customer visits prior to landing to your shop
Percentage Rate for the Tierlevels – option for setting the percentage rate for each level i.e. website
In order to set any of these parameters, click on its name inside the list and the following screen will be displayed.
Figure 143: Defining Sessions (step 3/4)
Click on the “edit” button and the screen for setting the desired value will be displayed.
Figure 144: Defining Sessions (step 4/4)
Set the desired value inside this screen and click on the “update’” button in order to save the changes.