DAP offers you a built-in Affiliate Program for your web site, where all your Members can automatically and instantly be enrolled as Affiliates.
And here are a few, rarely implemented features in DAP that you won’t find in too many other affiliate providers:
1) Instant Affiliates
This means that as soon as a buyer purchases any product, or even signs up for a free product, they can get an instant affiliate link that they can immediately start using to promote your membership site.
In fact, you can even send them their own unique affiliate link right in their welcome email itself, the same email where you send them their login info! So even before they’ve logged in to your site to download or view the content that they’ve just purchased, they’re already and affiliate and can start promoting your site to others, and earn back their investment even before they’ve reached your refund period.
2) Affiliate Link Redirection
Let’s say you were an Affiliate of Amazon.com. Now imagine if Amazon gave you just one, static affiliate link to promote ALL of their products across their ENTIRE web site. That is, one standard affiliate link to promote millions of products, and anyone who clicked on that standard link would always land at Amazon’s home page, no matter what – and that there was no way to direct affiliate traffic directly to any of the actual product pages.
Imagine if you saw a link on our blog that read “Click here to check out the amazing Bamboo Fun tablet” and the link, instead of taking you directly to the product page of the Bamboo fun, took you to Amazon’s home page? How incredibly annoying would that be for the visitor to always be taken to Amazon’s home page no matter what product someone were recommending? Think Amazon would be the e-commerce juggernaut it is today without that implementing that simple feature?
But Amazon lets you link directly to the product pages of the product you are referring to (or recommending, or promoting).
Like….
“Check out the amazing Bamboo Fun tablet” (links directly to product page)
“Check out my best-selling book ‘No Business Like E-Business’ on Amazon” (links directly to the book page)
We are amazed that so many affiliate software providers do not offer this simple, basic feature. And that is the ability to set the affiliate cookie, and then redirect the referred visitor to any page on any web site the affiliate wants the visitor to land on.
So when you use DAP, your affiliates are not forced to always send traffic to your home page. They can redirect the visitor (who just clicked on their affiliate link) to any part of your web site. In fact, they can redirect the visitor to any web page on any web site anywhere online! So they could be sending traffic to one of your free videos, one of your blog posts, or even to one of your articles published on someone else’s web site!
3) Multi-Tier Affiliate Program
DAP allows you to offer multiple tiers of commissions, not just one. So you can create an incredible revenue stream for your affiliates, where they get paid on the sales generated by their 1st level referrals. Which means more incentive for them to join and promote your affiliate program!
4) Paying A Per-Lead Commission To Your ClickBank Affiliates
You already know that DAP supports ClickBank purchases, and you can turn off the display of your affiliate section if you are using ClickBank’s own affiliate program, instead of DAP.
But wait – that does not mean that you can’t use the two affiliate programs IN TANDEM to pull of something really crazy – like awarding your ClickBank affiliates with a commission just for sending you a lead – meaning, the lead just signs up for your “free” newsletter – and of course, if they go on to purchase something from your web site (assuming you are selling through ClickBank), then they get the usual CB commissions.
So here’s how it works:
- Every member on your DAP-powered site gets their own affiliate link that looks like:
http://YourSite.com/dap/a/?a=1234 - And their CB affiliate link for your product would look like
http://affnick.merchantnick.hop.clickbank.net
- Now DAP’s affiliate link has the capability of redirecting to any page on your site (or any page on any web site) by adding the destination URL to the affiliate link.
- So, now your affiliate adds their CB affiliate link to the END of their DAP affiliate link, like this:
http://YourSite.com/dap/a/?a=1234&p=http://affnick.merchantnick.hop.clickbank.net - So when someone clicks on this above link that your affiliate is promoting, then two things happen:
a) The DAP affiliate cookie is set
b) The CB cookie is also set - So within DAP, you can set up just a Per-Lead Affiliate Commission for your Product (which is say, a free newsletter or a free PDF, or whatever)
- So when the referred user signs up at your membership site, they first get paid the Per-Lead Commission
- If they then go on to purchase other products from your web site (which obviously you’re selling through ClickBank, otherwise, this whole section is of no meaning to you), then they get the Per-Sale commission from ClickBank too!
So that sums up some of the best features that are part of DAP.
Of course, there’s still all the other cool affiliate features in DAP, like…
- Commission Override: Give special treatment to your Top Affiliates and JV partners by giving them higher commissions than the rest of your affiliates.
- Pay affiliates both one-time or monthly recurring commissions for the life of the subscriber.
- Pay-Per-Lead and Pay-Per-Sale
- Ready-made Affiliate Links Displayed for Users
- Ready-made Affiliate Toolbox for your affiliates
- Affiliate-Analytics:
* Real-time Earnings Reporting
* Real-time Payment Report
* Real-time Traffic Stats for both Affiliates and Admin (with referers) - Paypal Mass-Pay Ready: You get a Paypal Mass-Pay ready, fully formatted affiliate list with all commissions listed.
- Offline Payments: Export Affiliates for payment, pay them using any offline means (eg., checks), and then once the checks have been mailed, you can mark them all as “Paid”.
- Process Refund for Affiliates: When you process a “refund”, DAP will also reverse the affiliate commission. It will not reverse the Pay-per-lead amounts. Only the Pay-per-sale amount is negated.
So these are the features available to right out-of-the-box, just waiting for you to start signing up an army of affiliates from day 1!
For more information about the Affiliate Module, check out our documentation page at http://DigitalAccessPass.com/documentation/ and see the
36 comments ↓
Ravi, I always knew that this was going to be a great product when I purchased it. It is so refreshing to see a product that has developed from it’s initial state to one that has achieved so much in such a short time.
Your commitment to this supurb software is only one of the reasons why I treasure this addition to my online marketing tools.
This Addition to the affiliate program shows phenomenal potential to increase sales. No longer can affiliates claim that they are being ripped off for all their hard work.
This is a great selling point to affiliates which will give them the incentive to promote my products over that of any rivals.
Ravi, You have produced a winner product here and one that keeps impressing those of us who own it.
I can’t wait to see what next innovative development you will think of next.
Nigel
Nigel,
If anyone looked at your comment, they would think that I must’ve paid you some money for saying such nice things about me and DAP. Wow, you blew me away with your generously kind, un-solicited testimonial
Thanks much!
- Ravi
Ravi,
DAP is fantastic. Easy to use yet very powerful. I’ve been searching high and low for the right membership site software. Every other title had its pluses and minuses. DAP is the 1st complete system that has it all.
Also, you are accessible to your clients. Thats’s what makes this thing a complete steal.
Cheers,
Barry
Barry,
Thank you for your kind words. I try
I have many incredible features lined up, so stay tuned.
Thanks!
- Ravi Jayagopal
Ravi,
For the pay per lead to work, we use the “direct signup” link?
If we want to pay for optins, user will have to create account and receive password via email, right?
Thanks
Emily,
>>For the pay per lead to work, we use the “direct signup” link?
Yes. You can also do a pay-per-lead with paid products, where buyer directly purchases your product.
>>If we want to pay for optins, user will have to create account and receive password via email, right?
Correct. Make it a double-optin if you’re paying for leads, so that the email will have to be real, and they would have to activate the account by clicking on a link.
Ravi Jayagopal
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Hi Ravi,
DAP rocks !
I’m planning to use the “project launch formula” method where i’m creating an opt-in list, give away preview videos and free stuff. And then only open the gates of my membership sites for a limited time only.
In this case my affiliates will be rewarded not per lead but per sale (recuring).
Is there a way for DAP to track and reward affiliates in this situation ? (using paypal)
Of course. If someone who signs up as a lead (“Free” member) goes on to purchase something from you later, the original affiliate will get credited for the sale.
- Ravi Jayagopal
Ravi, 2 quick questions:
1)Lets say the visitor before buying clicks on 2 different affiliate links. The visitor clicks on the first link but he doesn’t buy, then he clicks on the 2 affiliate link and he buys.
In this situation which affiliate is rewarded?
The first one or the last one who closed the sale?
2)I have 2 products, product A and product B.
Both are free with an OTO after the signup.
If an user buys product A in the download area he’ll find an offer for the product B at a discounted price.
If the buyer of product A bought throught an affiliate link and he will buy the product B at a discounted price i would like to give the credit to the affiliate also for this sale.
How can i do that?
it will work if i put %%AFF_LINK%%&p=http//mysite.com/product-b?
What if the affiliate has only the link to promote product A and not product B? He will get credited also for the sale of product B?
Thanks
First, I am impressed with DAP and look forward to using it as I am just getting started. I am wondering if you have givenaAny thought to adding a multi-tiered affiliate plan to DAP? (I’m also using PostAffiliatePro’s new system w/multi-tiered options)… even considering using DAP in conjunction with PAP as you described in an earlier post. What do you think?
Ravi
Your product puts the old imagination to work
you inspired me to possibly do a free down load of my novel – chapter by chapter, on a daily schedule. Then making the e-version available three days in.
Q. does it make sense to do an affiliate program?
the price point would be small
Thanks Guys
Wes,
>>Q. does it make sense to do an affiliate program?
the price point would be small<<
You should definitely start an affiliate program (which is included when you use DAP) and give a percentage of the sale – no matter how small it is – to the referring affiliate.
Share the bounty, and give others an incentive to promote your products.
That is the only way to get traffic and subscribers and sales that you otherwise may never have seen.
- Ravi Jayagopal
Ravi – Your feature page shows two-tier affiliate function as “coming soon”, do you have any idea how far away this is? DAP looks fantastic (switching from Wishlist), but I need two-tier affiliate function.
Thanks
Bill & Elsom,
We are hoping 2-tier affiliate program support by the next release – which is out before the end of April 2010.
- Ravi Jayagopal
Ravi,
If I am offering affiliates recurring commission, and I have a product, Reminsicing Workshop-1, which is a subscription for one assisted living facility priced at $87 per month, and later that facility would like to switch to Reminsicing Workshop-5 which is priced at $385 per month, and which I would switch them to manually via the DAP dashboard, how would the original affiliate be assured of their commission structure migrating to the newly switched manual upgrade? What steps does the admin have to take to see that this affiliate’s commission stays attached to wherever I upgrade their original referral?
Forgot to give the link which outlines the way I have my payment structue set up, which obviously has different paymen buttons for each level, and so I’m guessing must also be set up as separate products/levels in DAP:
http://elderforestpublishing.com/LSW/REM/reminiscing-workshop-broadcast.html#Subscribe
Hi,
If a user signs up to membership and doesn’t have the recurring setting on (they can basically access it forever), what happens if the affiliate link goes to the sales page and refers someone that signs up for a recurring fee?
Does it register?
Do they get 50% of every monthly recurring payment?
Hey Ravi.
I haven’t even purchased DAP yet but having spent 10 hrs daily on the Internet for the last 2 years, I have never spent as much time on a sales page like I have today… wait, it’s not the sales page that kept me here, it’s the awesome tutorial videos and documentation that I’ve been watching and reading for the last 3 hrs.
I feel that I already know how to use DAP even though 3 hrs ago, I had never heard of it. I did a search on Google for “build membership site” (just so you know your magical keyword)… I clicked on the first thing I saw and here I am.
And lest I forget to ask, “what’s the catch?.. seriously, how can you cram that many unbelievable features in one piece of software and not sell it for 2K or more?
You’re restored my faith in humanity, especially on the Internet where I’ve been doing business for 2 years. I’ve spent thousands of dollars on crap and s#!t but I’m really looking forward to building my new membership site… and on my favorite platform on earth.. WordPress!! (what a dream).
Now, let me go watch more of your videos.
Thanks
Anthony
Hi Ravi,
I affirm what others have said: “Bravo!” for conceiving and developing DAP. Not only is it well thought out with the customer (the internet marketer) in mind, but it’s obvious that you will continue to add features as our profession necessitates and your client base requests.
OK, my question: I have not gone over every square inch of your site and watched every video, but I’ve done a decent job, but I am not clear whether the affiliate part of DAP software covers every type of product sale we might have on our WordPress website. Yes, when people buy memberships that’s more than coverd, and I also see (by your answers above) how it can be tied into Clickbank, but what about info and hard goods products we sell directly off our site? Will it track those for our affiliates too?
I don’t expect DAP to be the only thing I need to run my online marketing business, but it seems you are developing it to be such.
So…is DAP the only affiliate software I will need to run a vibrant affiliate program with all our products, or are you not quite there yet? If you are a complete solution, then may I suggest you write some clearer copy about it on your sales page (of if it’s there already, that you make it easier to find)? But, if I currently require third-party software to fill in the gaps, might you suggest one or two that “plays nice” with DAP?
Thanks again. The night I found you I was somewhat freaked-out and was Googling to see if there really was an out-of-the-box app out there to meet the needs of our fledgling WP site in a comprehensive and affordable way. And there you were…
-Chaim
PS: I’m sure you are busy running DAP, but (after you answer my inquiry) I’d love to see your answers to Fred’s and Mark’s questions above.
Chaim,
DAP will track affiliate commissions for any product sold through DAP. Will work for both hard goods and digital products.
>>is DAP the only affiliate software I will need to run a vibrant affiliate program< <
Again, depends on how you define "vibrant". DAP's affiliate program does everything an affiliate program should do - give out custom affiliate links, track per-lead and per-sale commissions, etc. So not sure what other feature you have in mind. If you can be more specific, we can let you know if DAP does it.
Go to http://digitalaccesspass.com/features.php and scroll down to the affiliate section. That tells you all about your affiliate module features.
Hope this helps.
- Ravi Jayagopal
Anthony,
Thank you so much for your kind words
>>seriously, how can you cram that many unbelievable features in one piece of software and not sell it for 2K or more< <
DAP will surely go up in price at some point in the future, but definitely not to 2K. We want every single WordPress blogger and WP user in the world to be able to afford it, so we won’t be pricing it that high any time soon
- Ravi Jayagopal
Max,
>>If a user signs up to membership and doesn’t have the recurring setting on (they can basically access it forever), what happens if the affiliate link goes to the sales page and refers someone that signs up for a recurring fee?<<
The affiliate commission will be paid only on the first purchase, not on any of the recurring payments.
- Ravi Jayagopal
Heya, Ravi
The “Affiliate Features” section of the salespage says that the affiliate prog can be switched ON/OFF.
Question #1: Can I launch a site with the affiliate prog switched OFF and then later switch it ON?
Question #2: Is there a way to run the affiliate module but NOT have every member automatically become an affiliate (i.e. make it “invitation only” via an application form of some sort, where I manually create each affiliate account after approval)?
Thanks very much!
P.S. I know that Q#1 might seem an odd thing to do, but there is method to my madness. Basically, the idea is to do a beta-run of a Training Course, get feedback, make modifications, and then open the affiliate prog to those existing members who’ve been through the course (and who will therefore make good, honest reviewers).
Hello. Does Dap now have 2 tier Affiliate? I need that very much and read before that it would be available soon. Is it now available?
Tyler,
Sorry, we don’t have the 2-tier yet. Hopefully, it’s coming within a month.
Hi Ravi,
We were really hoping for the second tier affiliate program in April like you said above. But we have decided that we need to use another Affiliate program software and try to get it to work with DAP, not just for the second tier reason.
The main reason is because (we have been told by you guys) that either ALL your site members are affiliates or NONE of them are. That is, that the DAP Affiliate program feature is global, and cannot be turned on for some and not for others. That is crazy, and very disappointing! Why did you code it like this?
We have very compelling reasons why we don’t want most of our members to be affiliates, but we MUST have some JVs. So, because of this, we have spent extra money buying other software, and are spending a lot of time (and delaying our launch) in order to integrate it with DAP. Not cool!
We really hope you change this in your next release, and make it that the Affiliate feature is not just ON or OFF. I don’t know if we will ever end up using the DAP Affiliate system, since we have been forced to go with a 3rd party software, but your other clients should be allowed to do this, along with having two or more tiers.
Until then, you should make it clear in your sales info that your Affiliate module is an all or nothing feature.
Thanks,
Chaim
Short question
Say I have an affiliate program set up and get people to sign up without purchasing anything. Can they use their own affiliate link to purchase a product thereafter and earn a ‘rebate’ or commission?
Roderick,
By default, yes. They could use their own affiliate link, then purchase your product through their own link, using a spouse’s or friend’s name.
Before DAP v3.9, one way you could avoid this was by protecting the “Affiliate” page as part of only Paid products, so free users could never get access to the affiliates page (which is what showed them their affiliate link).
Now starting DAP v3.9 (which is what was released about a month ago), you also have a new DAP Admin setting, where you can set “Config > Advanced > Allow only PAID users to be affiliates. FREE users get no aff credit” to “Yes”. Once you do that, your free users (users who do not have any real orders/transactions associated with them in the system) won’t get paid for any affiliate referrals. Just make sure you also protect the Affiliate page from free users – as you don’t want to give them an affiliate link which doesn’t pay them any commissions
Ravi did you answer the Night Owl’s question:
Question #2: Is there a way to run the affiliate module but NOT have every member automatically become an affiliate (i.e. make it “invitation only” via an application form of some sort, where I manually create each affiliate account after approval)?
Every member will automatically be an affiliate, but you do not have to publish their affiliate link on their home page. So users will now know what their affiliate link is.
You can create an affiliate links/details page and hide it under a product to which only the select users have access. You can manually give access to the product to only those select users.
Thanks for the reply, Veena. (And thanks, Raven, for giving that question a bump!)
Could you go into more detail about how to do that, exactly, please?
(a) Not showing affiliate status/link
How do we not publish each user’s affiliate link on their individual homepage? What settings do we change to disable this default setting?
(b) “Hiding the affiliate resources centre underneath a product to which you grant manual access…
Could you give an example of how to set this up, please?
Much appreciated,
TheNightOwl
>> How do we not publish each user’s affiliate link on their individual homepage? What settings do we change to disable this default setting? < <
Under DAP Setup -> Config -> Advanced ->
Should Affiliate Section be displayed on User `Home` Page?
>> Could you give an example of how to set this up, please? < <
Create an affiliate info page (described here).
Create a product in DAP products page, go to content protection section and protect the affiliate info page you created above.
Then go to Manage Users page, select the user and manually give access to that product you created above.
Aha!
Thanks very much, Veena. That’s a simple workaround.
I believe I’ve read elsewhere that you’ve got the ability to manually approve/ban/suspend affiliates, etc. (a much-requested, uh, request, it seems) in a coming release. That’ll be great.
But this solution will work great in the meantime
Ravi,
Thanks for all your great work with DAP.
I have a question about the affiliate module. Is it possible to set the initial affiliate commission amount to something different from the recurring?
Example: Customer buys product that is $10 a month. Is it possible to give the affiliate $8 for the initial sale and then $3 for all of the recurring payments?
Thanks,
D.
>>Is it possible to set the initial affiliate commission amount to something different from the recurring? <<
Not possible at this time.
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