Affiliate Software Documentation
How To Pay Affiliates Via Paypal Mass Payment
To pay affiliates via Paypal Mass Payment, follow these steps:
Paypal Email Address Requirement
For Paypal mass payment to work, please make sure your affiliates have entered their Paypal email address in their affiliate profile. If you have not enabled the Paypal form field, you can do that in Design > Manage Form Fields so that it will show up on your affiliate registration and profile areas.
Approving Commissions
You must first approve the commissions you want to pay out. You can do that through the Commissions > Manage Commissions area. Select the checkbox for the commissions you want to approve and select mark checked as approved for payment at the bottom.
Alternatively, you can also go to Affiliate Payments > Make Payments and click on the Approve Pending Commissions button. This will mark all pending commissions as approved.
Make Affiliate Payments
Once you've approved your commissions, you can go to Affiliate Payments > Make Payments and click on the Paypal's Get Started button.
On the Paypal Mass Payment Page, fill in the following fields:
- Pay Commissions Based On Date - Select Yes if you only want to pay commissions generated on a specific date.
- Start Date - If you want to pay commissions based on date, enter the start date here.
- End Date - If you want to pay commissions based on date, enter the end date here.
- Exclude Those Not Within Min Quota - If you don't want to include affiliates who have not reached your minimum affiliate payment quota, select Yes
- Total Rows - The total affiliates you want to pay.
- Currency Code - Currency code to use, the default is USD
- Payment Notes - Notes to add for payment. For example: September 2014 Affiliate Payment
Click on the Generate Payment List
Download the Mass Payment File
On the Select Users page, you can click on the check box to add the affiliate to your Paypal Mass Payment file. You can also pay affiliates via Paypal directly by clicking on the Pay Now button.
Once you have selected the affiliates, click on the Generate button to download the mass payment file.
You can now log-in to your Paypal account and upload the mass payment file for payment.
Archive Payments
Once you have finished paying affiliates through Paypal, make sure to check the boxes and select the dropdown for archive checked as paid to mark all the commissions as paid.
Once you have archived payments, you can review them under Affiliate Payments > Payments History