Question   When I add an affiliate program where does the "program" show?

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. Step 1
Go to Advanced Features


Step 2
Click Affiliate Program to expand it then modify Allow Add Programs settings




Step 3
Go to Memberships and click membership title to edit it







Step 4
Click Affiliate Programs Settings to extract it then select from Allow Add Programs whether a member belongs to this membership will be able to add affiliate programs or not. Also you can control number of programs a member can add for his downline. Then click save changes

A. This would need to be done in our Pro Software.

What you would do is modify the adminpages files for these pages and create pages for the memberships that you don't want to have access to the page.
Then, make these pages completely blank (or put a message saying they need to upgrade).
You would also want to modify the account.php adminpage so that only the appropriate memberships can see the links to go to these pages.

This is something we can do as a extra support request for an additional 200-400 credits.

Below is a document explaining more about editing admin pages:
CLICK HERE to learn about editing members area pages.

A. Yes, we do offer an Affiliate Program Tool in our software.

Overview

The Affiliate Programs Tool can be purchased as an addon to your membership software.  The affiliate programs tool allows you to add external members programs to your software (example: Aweber Affiliate Program, Traffic Exchange Affiliate Program etc) for your Members to join.

When combined with the commission tracking tool, the affiliate programs tool allows your members then to have members they refer see their link to join the affiliate program under them. A similar effect can be created using member variables and resource pages without needing the affiliate programs (it is much easier to manage it using the affiliate programs plugin rather than trying to build it out using member variables).

What can be done with affiliate programs that can't be done with member variables is to have the it pull links from an upline's upline if the sponsor does not have a link set.

For example, lets say you create an affiliate program called "My MLM" and Abe refers Bill who in turn refers Caleb.  Abe goes in and puts his link into the My MLM affiliate program, but Bill does not.  When Caleb logs into his members area and goes to join "My MLM", because his sponsor Bill does not have a link assigned, it will show Caleb Abe's link instead.
Because of this, it is important that the admin's account has a link for every affiliate program because if no one else in the software has added a link yet, it will need to pull the link from the admin's account.