Affiliate System
The affiliate system included in Caribou is a standard two-tier affiliate system that allows you to:
- Accept affiliate registrations (must be activated before they can login),
- Share personalized campaign media with links that track affiliate referrals,
- Automatically track commissions earned by affiliates, and
- Track payments sent to affiliates and the current amount owed to affiliates.
A two-tier system allows you to not only entice affiliates to sell your products/subscriptions for a commission but also to refer people to your site to become affiliates themselves. The 2nd tier commissions are paid to the affiliates who referred the affiliates that referred the paying customer.
Setting Up the Affiliate System
The affiliate system is managed in the Affiliates tab in the control panel. Before the affiliate system is activated on your site, you must check the box beside Enable the affiliate system? at Affiliates > Setup.
All settings in the Setup page include tips on how to use them properly.
After you’ve setup your commission settings, you should start creating Campaigns and adding media to the campaigns. This media will be provided to affiliates in the Affiliates Control Panel so that they can cut and paste links/code on their own websites to promote your products or subscriptions and earn money.
Day-to-day Affiliate System Maintenance
When your affiliate system is up-and-running, you will want to visit the Affiliates > Affiliates page in the control panel as often as you would like to pay out earnings to your affiliates. From this page, you can see the account balance on each user’s account. For each user, you can also view the log of commissions earned, payment sent, and statistics on this affiliate’s activity.
