Affiliate Software Documentation

Marketing Settings

The Marketing Settings allow you to configure certain options such as tools, member options, affiliate performance bonuses, and network marketing / multi-level marketing (MLM).

Affiliate Marketing Tab

Set New Commissions To - You can set your new commissions to pending or unpaid as well as send alerts to your affiliates when a new commission is made.

Affiliate Link Type - Set the type of link you want to use, regular, dynamic subdomain, or a replicated website.

Restricted Subdomains  - If you use dynamic subdomains for affiliate links, you can enter subdomains here (separated by commas) that users cannot use for their username.

Show Active Users Only in Downline - When viewing a members down-line, you can hide inactive members from the down-line if you want.

Require Referral Code on Registration - If you want to make sure that every affiliate that signs up on your registration form was referred by an affiliate, enable this option.  * This does not apply to users that log-in to your site using Facebook Connect (if you have enabled that option)

Restrict Self-commissions - If you want to try and restrict affiliates from purchasing from their own affiliate links, enable this option.  This will require specific configuration on your integration.

Restrict Downline View Levels - If you only want to show a specific number of levels on the down-line at any given time, select it here.  This option will work best if you have a lot of users and rendering a huge down-line will require more time.

Minimum Affiliate Payment - The minimum amount you want to pay affiliates at.  This will be used on the affiliate payments page to show who has reached the minimum payment amount.

Commission Status on Refund - If you have refunded sales that were referred by affiliates and generated a commission on, you can set this option to automatically set the commission associated with that refunded sale.  * Requires extra configuration.

Marketing Tools Tab

Enable Replication -  If you are using replicated websites for affiliate links, you must enable this option here.

Enable Header / Footer on Replication Page - On replicated website templates, if you want to use the same header and footer as that of the affiliate members area, enable this option.  

Cache Replicated Web Pages - Enter a number in minutes here if you want to cache replicated web pages. This speeds up access to each  replicated web page as each call to the URL will not be manually refreshed for the number of minutes you set here. 

Allow Javascript Info Display  - If you want to use the javascript snippets to show dynamic affiliate data such as affiliate name, username, and email on pages outside of the affiliate software.

Prune Ad Tracking Referrals in Days - If you want to delete / prune ad tracking data after a certain number of days, enter it here.

Auto Prune Paid CPM Impressions - If you are paying commissions for CPM impressions, you can auto prune paid ones by setting it here.

Marketing Tools Per Page - The number of marketing tools to show per page in the members area.

Member Options Tab

Allow Downline View - If you want members to be able to view his / her down-line, enable this option.

Alert On Downline Signup - Alert the affiliate when a new user signs up in his / her down-line.

Alert On Payment Sent - Send an alert to the affiliate when you have sent a payment to them.

Alert On New Commission - Send an alert to the affiliate when he / she has generated a commission on your site.

Show Pending Commissions In Members Area - If you want to show pending commissions in the members area instead of hiding it until it is approved, enable this option.

Allow Affiliate Upload Photos - If you want your affiliate members to be able to upload their own photos, enable this option.

Allow Affiliate Downline Email - If you want your affiliates to be able to email their down-line members, enable this option.

Show Affiliate Downloads - If you have downloadable files for your affiliates, enable this option here.

Allow Expandable Downline Views - If you want affiliates to be able to click up / down to view their expanded downline, enable this option.

Enable HTML Editor For Emailing - If you have allowed affiliate users to send email to their downline, you can enable the HTML editor here instead of a traditional text area for sending their email.

Show Affiliate Downline Details - If you have enabled the down-line view option, you can allow affiliates to view each of their down-line member's details such as their address information.

Show Downline Members Emails -  If you have enabled the down-line view option, you can allow affiliates to view each of their down-line member's email addresses.

Tracking Tab

Enable IP /User Agent Tracking - If you want to track affiliates using IP addresses, enable this option.

Enable Session Tracking - Enable this option to track affiliates using session cookies.

Enable Lifetime Tracking - To track affiliates using unique IDs such as email address, enable lifetime tracking here.

Affiliate Tracking Timer In Days - The number of days you want the tracking cookie to last on a user's machine.

Overwrite Existing Cookie - If you want to overwrite each cookie every time an affiliate link is clicked, enable this option.

Enable Integration Debug Email - Whenever a new commission is generated, you can have the affiliate software send an email to the alert email address for debugging.

Performance Bonuses Tab

Enable Affiliate Signup Bonus - If you want to give a sign-up bonus to your affiliate for registering with them, enable this option.

Affiliate Signup Bonus Amount - If you enable the affiliate signup bonus, enter an amount here.

Enable Referral Signup Bonus - If you want to give a referral bonus amount for each user an affiliate refers, enable this option.

Referral Bonus Signup Amount - If you enable the referral sign-up bonus, enter an amount here.

Network Marketing Tab

Enable Forced Matrix Downline - If you want to use forced matrix for your site, enable this option.

Forced Matrix Width - The maximum number of affiliates that can be set for each affiliate's direct down-line.

Forced Matrix Spillover - When the down-line has been filled, you can set the spillover to be a specific option set here.

Forced Matrix ID For Spillover - If you have set a specific affiliate for the forced matrix spillover, enter that affiliate's numeric member ID here.