Affiliate Software Documentation

How To Pay Affiliates Via Bitcoin Using Coinbase

To pay affiliates via Coinbase, follow these steps:

Coinbase ID Requirement

For Coinbase payments to work, please make sure your affiliates have entered their CoinBase ID in their affiliate profile. If you have not enabled the CoinBase form field, you can do that in Design > Manage Form Fields so that it will show up on your affiliate registration and profile areas.

Generate API Keys

Before making payments, you will need to login to your Coinbase account and generate your API key and API secret.

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 Coinbase Get Started button.

On the Coinbase 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
  • API Key - Your Coinbase API Key
  • API Secret - Your Coinbase API Secret
  • Payment Notes - Notes to add for payment. For example: September 2014 Affiliate Payment

Click on the Generate Payment List

Pay with Bitcoin

On the Select Users page, you can pay affiliates via Coinbase directly by clicking on the Pay with Bitcoin button.

Archive Payments

Once you have finished paying affiliates through Bitcoin, make sure to check the boxes and select the dropdown for archive checked as paid to mark all the commissions as paid.

This step is important so that the commissions you paid will not be added to future payments.

Once you have archived payments, you can review them under Affiliate Payments > Payments History