Comments on: DAP’s Incredibly Powerful Affiliate Program

By: Veena Prashanth

Veena Prashanth — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:21:08 +0000

>>Is it possible to set the initial affiliate commission amount to something different from the recurring? <<

Not possible at this time.

By: D.

D. — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:29:56 +0000

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.

By: TheNightOwl

TheNightOwl — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:57:42 +0000

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

By: Veena Prashanth

Veena Prashanth — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 05:09:27 +0000

>> 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.

By: TheNightOwl

TheNightOwl — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 04:07:37 +0000

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

By: Veena Prashanth

Veena Prashanth — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:46:11 +0000

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.

By: Raven

Raven — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:10:48 +0000

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)?

By: Ravi Jayagopal

Ravi Jayagopal — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:26:33 +0000

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

By: Roderick

Roderick — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 06:41:34 +0000

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?

By: Chaim

Chaim — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:12:57 +0000

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