How To Directly Sign-up Affiliates

Using an “Affiliate Signup Page”

1) Create a new product by name “Affiliates”

2) This product obviously will not have any content associated with it (unless you want to give  some content as part of this product, to your affiliates)

3) Use the product’s “Direct Signup HTML”, and publish it on any page of your web site. Let’s call this the “Affiliate Signup Page”

4) Now this form has 2 fields: First name & Email. Anyone can sign up via this form by entering their first name and email id, and DAP will create an account for them, and they will have access to one product, which is “Affiliates”

Manually adding Affiliates from the backend

1) Log in to DAP Dashboard

2) Go to Users > Add

3) In the “Add New User” table, enter the affiliate’s first name, last name (optional), select the product “Affiliates” (which you must have created previously), and add them.

16 comments ↓

#1 PV Reymond on 12.17.09 at 12:06 pm

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

#2 Ravi Jayagopal on 12.17.09 at 12:14 pm

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

#3 PV Reymond on 12.17.09 at 3:11 pm

Okay Ravi I’ll do that.

Thanks!

#4 Barry on 12.17.09 at 4:03 pm

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!

#5 Ravi Jayagopal on 12.17.09 at 4:44 pm

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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#7 Max on 05.07.10 at 9:47 am

When they have signed up for ‘Affiliates’ how do I specify what they can promote?

Do I just create the usual PayPal sales page, and they just link to it using the special affiliate link?

#8 Max on 05.12.10 at 11:15 am

And then the PayPal sends them commission..
i.e. if they sign up to a one time payment they get 50%
or recurring the get it every month

does dap do that automatically?
confusing!

#9 Ravi Jayagopal on 05.12.10 at 11:47 am

Max,

>>When they have signed up for ‘Affiliates’ how do I specify what they can promote?< <

They can promote any product on your site (that is being sold through DAP, of course). There's only one affiliate link regardless of which product they promote.

Of course, you need to make sure you have actually set up affiliate commissions on the backend for all of your products. Affiliates will not earn commissions on products for which you have not set up any commissions.

>>Do I just create the usual PayPal sales page, and they just link to it using the special affiliate link?< <
Correct.

>>And then the PayPal sends them commission..< <
Paypal won't automatically send them any commissions. From the DAP Dashboard, you have to "export" affiliates for payment (say at the beginning of each month), which generates a CSV file that is "Paypal Mass-Pay Ready".

You then upload the file to Paypal (click on "Send Payments" > “Mass Pay” in your Paypal account), and then send out payments through Paypal.

- Ravi Jayagopal

#10 Mark Wolfinger on 06.18.10 at 8:09 pm

I see traffic from affiliates.
How do I know when a sale is made? I don’t want to wait until I can run the payments report.

#11 Ravi Jayagopal on 06.19.10 at 6:50 am

Mark,

You can run “Affiliates > Reports”.

#12 Mark Wolfinger on 06.19.10 at 10:27 am

Thank you.
Does ‘no data found’ tell me ‘no sales’ or does that tell me that I made an error somewhere?

#13 Ravi Jayagopal on 06.19.10 at 2:27 pm

“No data found” means that no affiliates have made any referrals. If you want order info, go to the “Orders” (previously “Transactions”) page.

#14 Andrea Goodsaid on 06.24.10 at 2:29 pm

Hi Ravi –

Is there a way to assign a sale to an affiliate? I just made a sale that should have gone to one and would like to credit them within DAP.

Thanks – loving this software :)

Andrea

#15 Ravi Jayagopal on 06.24.10 at 2:33 pm

Andrea,

Sorry, not yet. This feature is coming soon though – hopefully in v4.0 (mid August).

- Ravi Jayagopal

#16 Rick Wilkes on 07.28.10 at 6:27 pm

The affiliate sign-up page in 1ShoppingCart asks for key information like full name, company, address, SSN/EIN for tax purposes, paypal email address (if different from the email they use). Also there is an agreement they have to confirm.

I’ve looked around the docs and didn’t see how that is handled here.

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