What is affiliate system and how can I activate it on my store?

The affiliate system is a system of Selling for a commission, that means to allow visitors of your store to register on the affiliate system to promote your products through a special link and then send them commissions on the sale

Is an integrated program that allows visitors of your store to register as Marketers on the affiliate system and after you agree on the account, the account holder can create a tracking link for each product that wants to promote it and the marketer doing publish and share this link by e-mail, social media, through his own site and another known way. If someone purchases from your site using this link the specified commission is calculated for the owner affiliate account

In order to be able to show affiliate system on your online store, please read the following article

https://expandcart.zendesk.com/knowledge/articles/360007100254/en?brand_id=360000292593

The following image is for clarification after adding a link to a blank link on your store

In order for your visitors to register as Marketers for your products, this is done in two ways

The first way: Registration on a storefront 

When visitors enter your store they can click on affiliate icon and you will see the page where you can click on the continue icon so that you can enter create account page,

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After clicking on the continue icon, you will see the data fields creation in which enter the marketer data which is divided into three parts

Part I: Your personal details

First name, last name, e-mail, password, password confirm, telephone, fax

Part II: of your address

Company, a website, address 1, address 2, city, postal code, country, Region / State

Part III: Payment Information

Tax ID

Payment method includes 3 ways for the marketer to choose one which is as follows:

• Cheque

Cheque Payee Name

• PayPal - PayPal

PayPal Email Account

• Bank transfer

Written bank account data including (bank name, ABA/BSB number (Branch Number), SWIFT Code, account name, account number)

after typing all the marketer data on the page you click on the Acceptance Terms of Site

after creating the account on the storefront, a message will appear that the account has been successfully created.

In order to view this account data in the control panel, please going into marketing then affiliate then you will find the account data that was created

we want to note that the account is not activated automatically it must be approved after being reviewed by the store manager through clicking on the name account holder and Then click approve button above the page, the following images for clarification before the approval of the account and after approval

Notice

regarding the percentage of commission that the marketer will receive for each sale of a product is agreed upon between the owner store and the marketer and the percentage is placed inside the account marketer by the owner store,,,

the following picture for illustration as an example

Once a product has been sold by the marketer through the tracking link for each product that he wants to promote and which will be used to track product orders, the store owner will see in the account marketer inside the control panel store Marketer's credit (sales commissions) and orders numbers of products sold.

Second way: Registration inside the store control panel

You can add a marketer from inside the store control panel by going from into marketing then affiliates then click on add new client affiliate icon,,, the next image for clarify 

After clicking on adding new client affiliate icon will appear with your creation account page and determine the percentage of the commission and all the data can be added as previously done in a first way

This method is used in the case the owner store is aware of the information marketer previously, so the account data is entered instead of him      

the affiliate system is one of the most powerful modern systems to be implemented in the largest stores such as Amazon, Souq, Alibaba