Manage Affiliates

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Affiliates

An affiliate helps direct traffic to your site. Every affiliate in your affiliate program must have their own assigned affiliate code, this allows the affiliate to get paid for every order the affiliate sends your way.

Becoming an Affiliate

First, a user must sign up for the affiliate program, they can do this by clicking on a link, that will be on your site. From the "Manage Affiliates" features, you are able to view a list of users that have signed up. In order for this affiliate program to work properly, you need to assign an affiliate code for each individual user.

Assigning an Affiliate Code

Click on the "Edit" link for someone who has signed up for the program

Enter appropriate information into the text fields

Click the "Update" button to save

Email the new affiliate with the affiliate code that you have just created

Include this url within the email:(http://your_web_site_name/vs_ac.jsp?ac=the_affiliate_code_ you_have_created) this is the url that the affiliate user uses to keep track the traffic comes from their web site.


Affiliate Code	This is the code you assign to this affiliate. Only alphanumeric characters are allowed in an affiliate code.
Company Name	This would be the affiliate's company name.
Email	Affiliate's email address.
Username	Affiliate's user name for your site.
Password	Affiliate's password for your site.
Site URL	Affiliate's web site address.
Pay Option	This is where you would choose to either pay by percentage or per order.
Percentage	If choosing to pay by percentage, this is where the percentage would go. (Numerical Value Only)
Paid Per Order	If choosing to pay per order, this is where you would put the dollar amount. (Numerical Value Only)
Name on the Check	This is the name that the affiliate is to be paid out to, usually the affiliate directly or their company.
Sign Up Date	This is the date that the affiliate signed up for the program.

Payment Info

There are two ways you can pay your affiliates. You can either choose to pay a percentage of the order placed, or a set amount per order.

Pay by percentage

To pay the user in percentage means that when a customer, from affiliate user's web site, places an order online, you will pay the percentage of the customer's order. For example, if a customer places one hundred dollars order, you pay him an affiliate percentage rate of 5 percent. So in return, you are going to pay 5 dollars to the affiliate user.

Pay per order

Paying by order means that for each order places from the affiliate's web site, you would pay a set amount. For example, for example if a customer from an affiliate's website places an order totaling $200, you would pay the affiliate a set amount, such as $5, no matter how much the order totaled.

View affiliate user activity

To view how many visitors that the affiliate users has brought to your web site, click on the "View This Account Activity" link. The page will contain the traffic information and how much you have to pay for the affiliate users. Select the month and year from the drop down box to view the affiliate information.

Definitions
Affiliate	An affiliate is a person or site that refers customers to your site, you would then pay this affiliate for their referals.

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