Affiliate Program

From AMember Pro Manual

aMember includes simple one-level affiliate program (with ability to track commissions for recurring billing).

[edit] How to Configure Affiliate Program

1. Enable affiliate program usage, set aMember CP -> Setup/Configuration -> General : Enable affiliate program = YES
2. Go to aMember CP -> Setup/Configuration -> Affiliates and configure your affiliate program. Most important is to enter commissions. Commissions can be set as absolute value, for example if you set it as 10.25 will result to $10.25 commission. Or you can set it to be a percentage from amount paid, for example: 1.5%. Also, don't forget to choose payout methods that you will use to pay out your affiliates.
3. Go to aMember CP -> Setup Affiliate Banners (you will need to re-login into your aMember CP to start seeing this link. You have to setup some banners and text links that your affiliates will use to advertise your website. Add at least one text link, if you don't have banners yet.
4. Last, but not least, you have to make affiliate cookies working. Recent version of IE and other browsers have the following "feature" - it don't store permanent cookies from websites that don't have P3P policy. Please read this website http://www.p3ptoolbox.org , then build and install your own P3P policy.
5. Now, every member of your website (even those who never paid) can go to http://www.yoursite.com/amember/member.php and click link named Advertise our website to your friends and earn money. Once he clicks this link, he will see pages with text links and banners that you set on step (3).
6. When a new customer comes by affiliate link and places order, affiliate will be credited corresponding commission. aMember Pro tracks all clicks and commisions, this information is available for both admin and affiliate.
7. After some time, you have to go aMember Cp -> Affiliate Commissions, choose payout method (only affiliates choosed this method will be displayed), and period. We recommend to use default payout period, else you will be at risk of fraud. For example, we suggest to pay commisions for July in September, or even later. Usually it takes 2-3 months for chargeback to come.