How to directly sign up Affiliates without them having to buy a product
You can use a feature of DAP called “Instant Affiliate” where you send your affiliates this link:
http://YourSite.com/dap/e/?e=EMAILID&fn=FIRSTNAME
… and ask them to substitute EMAILID with their email id, and FIRSTNAME with their first name.
And when they visit the modified link, they will automatically be signed up as an affiliate.
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In fact, they can even skip the first name, in which case the link becomes:
http://YourSite.com/dap/e/?e=EMAILID
NOTE 1: They can use the same link to not only signup as a new affiliate, but also continue to use this as their final affiliate link that they can start promoting right away and start sending you affiliate traffic.
NOTE 2: Also remember that in this case they will be signed up using “NoName” as their first name, which they can always change later on the user profile screen.
When you do #2, they will get an account in DAP but not be associated with any product. So it will be hard to send just the affiliates an email.
NOTE 3: When affiliates sign up directly using this method, they will NOT be associated with any “Product” and will show in your “Manage Users” screen with access to NO product at all.
Of course, they can always go on to purchase a product from your web site, and if they use the same email id, then the product(s) they purchase will be associated with the same email address and will be added to their existing account, and NO new account will be created for them.
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Your affiliates can take this one step further and redirect their visitor to any page on your web site (or any web site, for that matter) after setting the affiliate cookie. Just add the text “&p=URL” at the end of the above affiliate link.
So, the link with redirection will look like this:
http://YourSite.com/dap/e/?e=EMAILID&p=URL
Replace the text URL with any link (like http://YourSite.com/anypage.php). So it would look like…
http://YourSite.com/dap/e/?e=affiliate@somesite.com&p=http://YourSite.com/anypage.php
5 comments ↓
Hi Ravi,
I’ve been playing around with this and it works, the affiliate is added immediately to the database but there is something that I don’t get…
How do affiliates receive their usernames and passwords to login?
An email is not sent for this so, I was thinking about creating a product named ‘Affiliates’ of course with nothing in it and set up the Thankyou Email, this way they can receive the login info.
I don’t know if there is another way to do this.
I look forward to your opinion.
Thanks!
^PV Reymond
PV,
The best way to do it, is like you rightly noted:
1) Create a Product called “Affiliates”
2) Send them their login info and anything else, using the “Thank You” email on the Product page.
- Ravi Jayagopal
Okay Ravi I’ll do that.
Thanks!
How do you get the affiliates to join without having to go through the payment processor?
Is there a way for them to join the site for free while by passing paypal?
Cheers!
Barry,
>>How do you get the affiliates to join without having to go through the payment processor?< <
The post above tells you how to do just that.
But if you want people to enter their name and email address and "join" your site for free, then see this link:
http://www.digitalaccesspass.com/doc/how-do-members-get-added/
- Ravi
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