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HelpAffiliates
Guide to using Affiliate codes
IntroductionAffiliates are external vendors that help you sell your products. Substruct supports tracking affiliate codes for people that make referrals to your site. SetupStart by setting up your affiliates from the Admin > Affiliates screen. You'll need to create a custom code for your affiliate. This code will be used to track all orders referred by them to your site. LinkingAffiliate orders can be tracked by providing a properly formatted link to your site. You should provide this link to your affiliates so they can place it on the internet wherever they are promoting your site. An example of a proper link would be: http://www.yoursite.com?affiliate=affiliate_code Substruct will then link the proper affiliate to all orders when your site is accessed with this specially formatted URL. Promotion CodesSubstruct automatically uses the affiliate code to fill in the promotion code of any order. If you have a promotion with the exact same code you can use it to automatically offer a discount to customers who come from your affiliates. The javascript tracking code will pick up the affiliate code on any deep linked page. Affiliate LoginAffiliates can login to Substruct by using their email address and affiliate code at http://yoursite.com/affiliates Here they can see what orders they've referred and how much they've earned in each monthly period. Affiliate PaymentsPreferencesHow much an affiliate makes per referred order is controlled by the Amount of total to pay Affiliate preference on the Preferences screen. The number is specified as a percentage. You will probably want to have some sort of time buffer between when orders are completed and when affiliates are eligible to get paid. The Number of days before paying Affiliate preference controls this amount of time, in days. Making Payments to AffiliatesWhen affiliates are eligible for payment you can easily create payment records for each of them by using the Pay Affiliates button on the Affiliates tab from the administration console. This will generate payment records for all outstanding, payable referred orders. After generating these records you are able to export a CSV file for your records, or to use with PayPal's Mass Pay System. Uploading this CSV file to PayPal will pay your affiliates using their email address, through PayPal. See their documentation for more information on this service. |