Commissions

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Commissions are an important part of affiliate marketing, it is the money that affiliates earn when they share or promote your products and their followers purchase them from your store using the affiliate's referral. This earns the affiliate a commission on the sale.

Affiliate marketing works on the merchant-affiliate partnership, it is a win-win situation, since the sale of products increases, benefiting the merchant and the affiliate as he earns a small commission on the sale made.

Referral Commissions

Default Commission
Affiliate Commissions
Product Commissions
Commission Rules
Collection Commissions

Default Commission

It is the commission that applies to all products and affiliates, it can be changed by clicking on Change and setting the percentage/flat rate to a value of your choice.

Set Default Commission for Program

Affiliate Commissions

It can be used to set different commissions for affiliates or a group of affiliates. You can use it to create affiliate groups with different commission rates.

For setting up the affiliate commissions, click on Set commission for an affiliate. After this, you can select the affiliates and set the commission rate for them. Click on Submit to save the changes.

Setup Affiliate Commissions

Product Commissions

You can set different commission rates for different products or affiliates, this helps in setting up different commission rates for different categories of products. The table shows the products, affiliates, and the commission set for them.

For setting up a new product commission, you can click on New Product Commission and search for the product or partner/affiliate, and set the percentage/flat rate. You can also activate the bulk mode option to select multiple products. Click Save to save the changes you made.

Set Product Commission for Affiliates

In the Product Commissions section, you can also bulk import commission rates for products. You can do this by uploading a correctly formatted CSV file.

To make sure the CSV file you upload is correctly formatted, you can download the sample CSV file and use it to create your bulk import file.

Commission rules

You can set up commission rules for affiliates. Here, you can set up rules to determine the commission given for sales to affiliates.

To set up commission rules, you can click on New Commission Rule. After this, you can select the rule, set the matching value (if applicable), and finally, set the commission rate.

Here, you can select rules such as:

Product name
Product SKU
Product Tag
Product Vendor
Product Type
Customer is first time customer
Customer is old customer/recurring customer
Coupon code
Customer email
Discount percentage (on order)
Discount percentage (on product)
Order subtotal
Order total

Click on Submit to save the commission rule.

Setup Commission Rules

Collection Commissions

It can be used to set up commissions for a collection or category of products. The table shows the collections, the affiliates for whom it is set, and the commission set for them.

For setting up a new collection commission, you can click on New Collection Commission and search for the collection or partner/affiliate, and set the percentage/flat rate. Click Save to save the changes you made.

Set Collection Commission for Affiliates

Royalties Commissions

Royalties Commissions
Rule based royalties
Rule based tracking

Royalties Commissions

When a royalty commission is set for an affiliate, they will get credited for the sale regardless of whom refers the sale.

It is useful in creating partnerships with influencers who want to work with a particular category of products or services. The table shows the products/collections, affiliates, and the commission rate set for the affiliate.

You can set the royalty commission, by clicking on Set Royalties on a Product, where you can select the product, partner/affiliate, and set the percentage/flat rate for sales.

You also have the option to set royalties on a collection of products, by clicking on Set Royalties on a Collection. Here you can select the collection or category of products, the partner/affiliate, and set the commission rate.

You can also activate the bulk mode. Click on Save to save the changes you made.

Set Royalty Commissions for Affiliates

Rule Based Royalty

You can also set up a rule based royalty for affiliates. Here, you can set up rules for determining how the royalties are given to an affiliate.

To set up a rule based royalty, click on New rule. Here you can select the rule, set the match value, set the commission rate, and select the affiliate.

You can select different rules such as:

Product name
Product SKU
Product Tag
Product Vendor
Product Type

Click on Submit to save the rule based royalty rule you created.

Setup Rule Based Royalties

Rule Based Tracking

You can also set up a rule based tracking for sales. Here, you can set up conditions for attributing a sale to an affiliate.

To set up a rule based tracking, click on New rule. Here you can select the condition, set the match value and select the affiliate (to whom the sale will get attributed).

You can select different conditions such as:

Order value is >=
Order value is <=
Customer Shipping State
Customer Postal Code (Zip Code)
Customer Shipping Country
Total quantity of items is >=
Total quantity of items is <=
First Time Customer
Old/Recurring Customer
Coupon code matches
Customer email matches
Customer tag matches
Order tag matches
Payment gateway matches
Sub ID

Click on Submit to save the commission rule you created.

Setup Rule Based Tracking for Sales

Commission Modifiers

You can modify the affiliate commissions using commission modifiers. Here, you can set rules for commissions that an affiliate will earn on their referrals. In the table, you can view the rules you have set, the matches, and the commission adjustments.

To set a commission modifier, click on Add new modifier. Here you can select the rule, set the match value, and set the commission adjustment.

You can select different rules such as: