Create a new affiliate
To manually add a new affiliate, click the "New" button. The following screen will appear. We have broken in down into different section here to explain what each section is doing.
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| Field Name | Description | ||
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| Commission Group | Display the commission group this affiliate will be assigned into. | ||
| Pay Commissions on Auto Orders | If checked the affiliate will receive commissions on all the recurring auto orders that take place for the customer. **This setting overrides the configuration of this setting in the global settings and the commission group settings. | ||
| Pay Commissions on Repeat Orders by Email | When checked, the system will look to see if the email address used on an order has placed a previous order. If so, the same affiliate will receive credit on the new order regardless of whether the cookie is present on the customers browser.
**This setting overrides the configuration of this setting at the global and commission group levels. | ||
| Prevent Sending All Emails | If enabled, will prevent the sending of all emails to the affiliate. | ||
| Remove cookie after purchase | If checked, the affiliate cookie will be removed from the customers' browser after a purchase. Use this to enforce a single affiliate commission per customer. | ||
| Checks Payable to | Enter the name you will make the checks out to. | ||
| SSN / Tax ID | Enter either the affiliate's Social Security Number or their Tax ID. Most merchants will need this information for reporting incomes paid to affiliates. | ||
| Commission Adjustment | Please use "Commission Groups" for any adjustment in commission. (deprecated) | ||
| Pay via PayPal | If selected, when paying affiliates, rather than show a field to record the check number, the affiliate will be paid by the email address they specify as their paypal email. | ||
| Auto Approve Commissions | Allows orders to skip the approval step to be auto approved. | ||
| Minimum Payout | The minimum amount an affiliate has to reach before they can be paid a commission. | ||
Analytics Internal Tracking (Don't count commissions for this affiliate as an analytics expense) | If selected, don't count commissions for this affiliate as an analytics expense. |
Checkout Settings
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| Custom HTML on Receipt | When selected, the affiliate will see a configuration section in the affiliate link editor for the affiliate to insert HTML that is inserted into the receipt, when a purchase is made:  | |||||
| Allow Google Adwords Tracking on Receipt | When selected, the affiliate will see a configuration section in the affiliate link editor to include their google Adwords account ID:
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| Allow Yahoo Search Tracking on Receipt | When selected, the affiliate wiil see a configuration section in thew affiliate link editor to include their Yahoo Tracking ID:
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| Auto Apply Coupon | Provides a drop down list of configured coupons that can be auto applied to an order when the affiliates link is used. | |||||
| Prevent Cookie Stomping | Prevents this affiliates link from being overridden by another affiliates link. | |||||
| Affiliate Cookie Lifetime Override (days) | Overrides the default affiliate cookie lifetime that is configured in the Affiliate Management Settings. Use if the affiliate has been granted a different cookie lifetime. |
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Server to Server Postback URL
| Field | Description |
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| URL | Configure the Postback URL. NOTE: This will configured by you for the specific affiliates that you would like to have this functionality. |
| Postback Tokens | Valid tokens: [commission] |
Referral Source
| Field | Description |
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| Referral Source | If you have a multiple tier affiliate system, and the affiliate was recruited by another affiliate the recruiting affiliate will appear in the "Tier" drop down list, or lists. |
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