Affiliate Software Documentation

Enabling Facebook Connect

What is Facebook Connect?

Facebook Connect is a log-in service provided by Facebook that allows users to register and log-in to your site without having to fill out a separate registration form. By enabling this service on your affiliate program, your users can use their Facebook profiles to easily connect to or log-in to your site.

What's Cool About Facebook Connect?

With Facebook Connect, your new affiliates don't have to fill out a registration form. They just need to click on the Facebook Connect button, click on a few screens, and they're logged into your affiliate program. No need to fill out any data on your form.

Easy Viral Referral Traffic

Another cool thing about Facebook Connect is that it gives your affiliate program great exposure on Facebook. When the user registers for your site using Facebook Connect, they give you permissions to publish on their Facebook Wall. This effectively promotes your affiliate program to all of their Facebook friends and even the "friends of their friends".

What this means is that whenever someone registers on your affiliate program using Facebook Connect, a wall post appears on their Facebook Profile (provided they allow it), which his friends will see, ultimately giving you a lot of possible referrals. With this option alone, you can get some pretty good viral traffic coming in to your affiliate program from all of the users from Facebook. (A billion users on Facebook :-D )

Enabling Facebook Connect

  1. To enable Facebook connect, you must first create a Facebook app under your Facebook account.
  2. Once you have created your app, make sure to take down your App ID and App Secret.
  3. Log-in to your Affiliate Manage admin area and go to Settings > Global Configuration > Automation > Facebook Connect
  4. Enter your Facebook App ID and Facebook App Secret and Enable Facebook Connect
  5. Click on Save Changes
  6. You will now see a Log-in with Facebook button on your affiliate registration page.