Using E-junkie Affiliate Programs
Create and Manage an Affiliate Program for Your Products
NOTE: Affiliate programs that you create with E-junkie do not work with TrialPay checkout payments.
Obtain your Affiliate Sign-Up Link code
- After adding your product(s), go to Seller Admin > Affiliate Program Settings.
- From the yellow box under Common Affiliate Sign-Up Link and Instructions, select and copy the link code provided.
- Paste the code into your Web site page, wherever you are recruiting Affiliates to join your program.
If you are going to provide special instructions, linking images or banners, etc., you may wish to set things up where all your Affiliate recruitment links actually point to a single Affiliate Information page on your site, where your custom images/instructions/etc. would be presented. That page would then be where you post our actual Affiliate sign-up link as part of your instructions, and then you could have your E-junkie Affiliate Settings > More Info URL also pointing back to that page, so all prospective Affiliates would see your instructions first when they sign up, and then have an easy way to get back to that page via the More Info button we show to your Affiliates.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: E-junkie's affiliate system is free for affiliates to use at no charge. You may not require payment of any kind of fee for anyone to join or participate in your E-junkie affiliate programs, and we will suspend any merchant accounts in our system who are discovered to be conducting such schemes.
Help for Affiliates
This help page explains how our Affiliate Admin works from an Affiliate's perspective, after they click your sign-up link to join your program.
Common Affiliate Program
This is the simplest method, for when you want to offer the same commission percentage for all of your products and issue just one easy link for each Affiliate to use. You can override this Common percentage with product-specific percentages (see below), but you cannot exempt any products from granting commission if you have a Common percentage set.
- After adding your product(s), go to Seller Admin > Affiliate Program Settings;
- Enter an Affiliate Share percentage -- this is the percentage of the purchase price each Affiliate will earn as commission for sales they referred to your site;
- Enter the URL of the page which you want Affiliate links to point to -- this is the "landing page" where buyers will arrive after clicking any Affiliate's link, and can be a specific product page, your main Shopping page, or just your site's homepage (you do not need a special landing page just for Affiliate links);
- Optional: Enter the URL of a "More Information" page for Affiliates to refer to on your site -- your Affiliates will see a More Info button in their Affiliate Admin, which they can click to obtain any special instructions you may provide for their reference.
- Click Submit to save changes.
After clicking your sign-up link to join your program, your Affiliates will be able to log into their own E-junkie Affiliate Admin, where they can obtain their Common Hop Link code for your program to post to their Web site. Buyers who click a Hop Link will be redirected to your landing page URL while our system sets a cookie in the buyer's browser that expires in 6 months. Any affiliate-eligible products the buyer purchases from you during the lifetime of that cookie will earn the referring affiliate a commission according to your specified share percentage.
These allow you to define a unique Hop Link landing page URL and/or share percentage for each product, and you can also optionally allow Affiliates to sell your products directly from their own site rather than referring buyers to your site for all purchases.
- Go to Seller Admin > Setup Product-Specific Affiliate Programs;
- Select a product from the menu and click Edit Affiliate Settings;
- Set a share percentage for sales of this product --
- If you also have a Common Affiliate Program, the product-specific percentage would always override the Common percentage, regardless of whether the buyer clicked a Common or a Product-specific Hop Link to reach your site;
- However, a 0% product percentage means the Common percentage (if any) would apply to sales of that product.
- Enable one or both types of product-specific Affiliate link codes:
- Hop link: Here you can specify the URL of a product-specific landing page on your site. Buyers who click a product-specific Hop Link will be redirected to that product's landing page URL while our system sets a cookie in the buyer's browser that expires in 6 months. The referring affiliate will earn a commission according to your specified share percentage (common % unless overridden by a product %) on every Affiliate-eligible product the buyer purchases from you during the lifetime of that cookie.
- Direct Link: This is an Add to Cart button which the Affiliate can place on their own Web site to sell your product for you directly from their site. The buyer will still order from you directly and pay you in full during checkout, and the rest of the sales process will stay the same as if the buyer purchased from your site. The Affiliate will earn a commission according to your specified share percentage (common % unless overridden by a product %) on each sale generated with a Direct Link button, but unlike Hop Links this does not set a cookie for residual commissions on future orders. This option does not support checkout payments using ClickBank or 2CheckOut. This option will be unavailable if your product has variants.
Paying Your Affiliates
After each month you will be able to download a "mass payment" file from E-junkie admin. You can go to your PayPal account to make a mass payment using that file. When you make a mass payment, the affiliates get the complete amount you pay without any fee deduction. You pay a very small fee to make a mass payment. To learn more about PayPal mass payments, click here.
We only offer Mass Payment file to make it convenient for you. If you have an understanding with your affiliates to pay with an alternate payment method, you can simply use the Mass Payment file for figuring out how much you owe to each affiliate. Make sure that you use a payment method which can be tracked in the event of a dispute.
What about commissions on refunded purchases?
At the moment you generate the masspay.txt file, that is derived from the current state of the logs for sales your affiliates referred in the last completed month. Any refunds already processed for those sales would adjust the corresponding commission amounts calcuated for the masspay.txt file accordingly.
Once you generate the file, any refunds processed afterwards cannot be reflected in the file you already have, and those refunds will not be deducted from future months' commissions; however, if you have not already paid commissions for that month (i.e. you generated the file but did not submit it to PayPal yet), you can simply generate a fresh masspay.txt file to recalculate commissions for the last completed month.
For this reason, we recommend waiting until mid-month or later to generate the masspay.txt file, as that will allow enough time for most likely refunds to come in; just make sure you generate your masspay file before the end of the month, since it can only be generated for the latest completed month.
Viewing Affiliate Sales
Affiliates will get an e-mail each time a sale gets initiated from their links. Affiliates can also see the sales log in their account and you can see affiliate sales in your E-junkie transactions log.
Editing Individual Affiliates
To view a list of Affiliates who have joined your program, go to Seller Admin > View/Edit Affiliates; for each Affiliate on that list, you can:
- Delete (Ban) an Affiliate - Deleted Affiliates cannot rejoin your program;
- Grant an Extra Percentage - For highly-productive Affiliates or when you want to negotiate a custom commission with each Affiliate;
- Grant a Per-Sale Bonus - Another incentive to reward or negotiate with Affiliates.
Receiving a notification when an affiliate joins
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