What is an Affiliate Program? 

An affiliate program is way of allowing others to sell or promote your products and services for commission. 

Benefits 

• Because your banners and links are placed on other sites this makes you more visible with not much effort.  
• You have other people marketing your product and services, it's not all down to you.  
• Your sales will increase dramatically.  
• You will certainly appear "bigger" than what you are and your credibility will be higher. 

Gone are the days when only the "big" sites could set up and run affiliate programs. Today its easy and there are a couple of ways of doing this. You could get someone to install the required scripts on your own server and run it yourself. This is the way I like to do it as you have full control; but in order to do this you need to be able to accept credit cards on-line via your own merchant account. 

It's not that expensive or complicated, sometimes it's a matter of who you know. My hosting company actually provided and installed the script on my latest site absolutely free and offer an excellent service. Take a look at http://www.rambit.com to find out more about this option. You need to decide what your objectives of your affiliate program are before you decide which route to go down. You can either have your whole site replicated or you can have a script installed that will simply track your affiliate sales. You will need to look at various options depending on what you hope to achieve.

Ask yourself the following questions before you begin. 

• Do you want to replicate your entire site giving each affiliate their very own www.yoursite.com?  
• Do you simply want to track sales giving each affiliate their own unique ID?  
• Do you want to pay affiliates for actual sales, clicks or leads only?  
• Do you sell products, services or electronic products? Do you want your affiliates to market all your services and products or only some?  
• Do you want to pay only the actual affiliate who makes the sale or do you want to build a two-tier program, compensating the affiliate for sales his referrals make too.  
• Do you want international affiliates or affiliates from your own country only?  
• Do you want to pay a percentage of sales or a flat rate?

We recommend http://affiliateprogramsystem.com.

FREE installation - Our team will install the script on your server  
24/7 Customer care - 24 hours a day and 7 days a week email support
Smart unique clicks - Advanced per click program NEW!
Multiple domains support
Access / MS-SQL Database support
Advanced Links including Flash Banners, Popups, and Search Boxes
7 downline levels support with Downline/Upline network tree
Affiliate applications approval - automatic / Admin approval required
Advanced fraud protection - You are protected from fraudulent affiliates
Secure verification code - Signup/login pages are secured by verification code
Campaigns tracking system - Create campaigns and track their statistics
Chargeback / Refund management
Recurring payment support

System Integration and Security

Complete Design intergration with your website
Design your affiliate program software to integrate perfectly with your website. Add your header and footer, change background, text, links, tables and navigation colors.

Compatible with any Shopping Cart / Billing Company
We have 100% success in integrating our system with different Billing Companies / Shopping Carts.

Advanced fraud protection
Our Affiliate System has built in protection from "Click Spammers" and fabricated sales.

Advanced Features

Multiple domains / Unlimited landing pages support
You can set a different Landing Page for every Text Link, Banner, Popup, Search Box & Campaign. You can use different links for different products / domains.

Affiliate Software Downline contains up to 7 levels
The Affiliate Program contains up to 7 downline levels. You can set a different commission to each level

Downline / Upline network tree
Your affiliates can view their entire downline / upline network tree; they can also view the details of their affiliates companions and contact them (If you'll enable the Activate downline/upline details feature).

Advanced Banners/Links
The Affiliate Software supports advanced links. You can add to your affiliate program unlimited number of flash banners, image banners, text links, popups and search boxes. Every link has it's own landing page.

Campaigns tracking system
You can create unlimited number of campaigns and track their statistics.

Commissions

Flat fee / percentage commissions
You can give your affiliates flat fee or percentage commissions per sales, plus per click and per lead commissions.

Recurring payment support
The affiliate software has its own recurring engine which supports recurring payments commissions.

Commissions for Preferred Affiliates
You can give your preferred affiliates higher commissions by changing their status.

Multi Currency Support
You can customize the currency of your affiliates commissions.

Affiliate Bonus Option
You can give a Bonus to affiliate who reaches a certain amount.



Affiliate Program Administration System

Affiliates Signup Process
Affiliate applications approval can be automatic or by the Administrator. This option allows the administrator to approve/reject affiliate applications. A notification email is sent to the administrator every new application and to the affiliate to notify the administrator's approval/rejection.

Extensive activities reports & administration tools
Administrator Reports including: Affiliate List, Affiliates Activities, Payment Reports, Banners Popularity, Convert Rate and more...

Transfer Reports to EXCEL Datasheet
You can view/print your Payment Reports with Microsoft EXCEL. This feature is useful for accounting and for PayPal Mass Payment. You can also export your complete affiliate database to EXCEL Datasheet.

Chargeback / Refund management
Chargebacks are inserted into the system manually and are being reduced from the affiliate commission. All the chargebacks appears in the Activities Reports in red text.

Send Newsletter to your affiliates
You can send your own designed newsletter by insert the newsletter's HTML Code to the software. Your mailing list contains all your active affiliates.

Status & Activation Control
You have full control on your Affiliates: Status (Preferred Affiliates) and Activation (Activate User, Freeze User)

Automated Emails

Automated Sales Notification
Your Affiliates are notified by email when they earn commissions from sales activities.