Question   With the Affiliate Programs Tool, how can I can make it so that only one membership is able to add member programs for their downline to see?

A.

To add an affiliate program with the affiliate programs tool first login to your system as the admin

Click Affiliate Programs to manage/ add affiliate programs





Click add an affiliate program link to add new one

- For the Title, put the title of the affiliate program (exa: "Aweber")
- For the Description put a description of the affiliate program (exa: "An autoresponder service")
- For the Cost Description put a description about the cost (exa: "$1 for your first month then $19 a month after that")
- For the Small Cost put a shorter description about the small cost (exa: "$19/mo")
- For the Payout put the amount of money member receive for referring someone (exa: "Earn 30% For All Sales")
- The video is optional.  A video explanation for your member can be added.  If you put embed code for a video here, then an icon will appear on the member side where they can click on the link to watch the video.

A. When using the external billing plugin, in combination with the commission tracking plugin, you are able to define that a specific member gets paid when a purchase is made.  You can add a drop down to the order form, and have it pay a different member based off which drop down option a person selects when ordering the product. 

An example of how you might use this, is if you are conducting training in several locations across the USA, and each location has a different instructor. 
You can create a drop down for the person to select the Location when ordering the product.  Then, based off which location is selected, you can have the instructor (a member) get paid a specified amount.

To do this first go to the "Manage External Billing Page".




Scroll to the bottom of the page, and in the "Additional Variables" section, add an additional variable.



After you have added the additional variable, click the icon to edit it:




On the edit page, add drop down values for each location, attach it to the member receiving the payment, then specify the amount they receive:




You can use this for several other scenarios also.  In the location example we had multiple people getting paid based off which location was selected.  If you wish for only one member to get paid, then add only one drop down value. (Yes, you must make it a drop down, but you can limit it to only one possible value so one person gets paid a specific amount no matter what.)

The amount the member receives would be in addition to any payment he receives from the normal commission tiers setup under the product.

A. Yes, there is both a graphical report and a table report that they can see.

A. It will show yellow for the 2nd level and beyond.
Instead of the color changing what it does is add an - in front of their name for each level.
So, for example, if someone is in the 4th level they would show as: ---- John Doe.
If you believe it would be helpful to have the colors change we can put an upgrade request in for it.

A. You can modify new downline notification, new commission notification without any issues.  You should not turn test payments on except if you are doing a test payment.  While test payments are on real payments will not work and vice versa.