Payouts FAQ

Affiliate Commission Payments: Frequently Asked Questions

How do I pay my affiliates?

You have three ways to pay your affiliates:

1. You can pay the affiliate outside of our app and then mark the payment as paid in the Payouts tab within our app. This way, you can use any payment method you prefer, such as a bank transfer or debit card, to complete the payment on your end before marking it as paid.

2. You can pay affiliates directly from our app using PayPal Payouts. To enable this feature, go to Settings > Integrations and integrate PayPal Payouts. This allows you to make both bulk and quick payments to affiliates. You can choose to pay using PayPal Payouts or automate the payment process. Additionally, integrating PayPal Payouts also lets you make Venmo payments.

3. You can also pay affiliates using store discount coupons.

You can check this guide for more information:

Paying Affiliates

How to select the payment method for affiliates?

To select the payment methods you want to offer affiliates, go to Settings > Payments > Supported Payment Methods. Here, you can choose the payment methods you would like to offer. The selected methods will then be available to affiliates in their dashboard, where they can select their preferred option and enter their payment details.

Setup Supported Payment Methods

If the payment method you want to use isn't listed, then you can create that payment method for your affiliates using the guide below:

Create Custom Payment Method

How do I pay via PayPal?

You have two ways to pay your affiliates with PayPal:

1. You can make the payment to the affiliate outside the app, directly on PayPal. After that, mark the payment as paid within GoAffPro for record-keeping.

Manually Pay With PayPal

1. You can integrate PayPal Payouts from Settings > Integrations section. After that, you can make PayPal payments to affiliates from within the GoAffPro app.

PayPal Payouts Session

How do I pay affiliates from within GoAffPro?

You can integrate PayPal payouts with GoAffPro from the Settings > Integrations > PayPal Payouts section.

Setup PayPal Payouts

This will allow you to pay affiliates using PayPal payouts from within the GoAffPro app.

PayPal Payout Payments

How do I pay affiliates with store credits?

There are two types of store credits payouts you can make to your affiliates:

Store Discount Coupons: You can pay your affiliates their commissions using store discount coupons within the GoAffPro app.

Store Gift Cards: You can issue the gift card outside the app, directly in your store, and mark the payment as paid within GoAffPro.

If you are using Shopify, marking the payment as paid will automatically generate the gift card code and display it to affiliates in their dashboard.

How do I deal with high transaction fees while paying affiliates?

We would recommend setting up a minimum payout amount for affiliates from Settings > Payments > Minimum Payout Amount section. It will allow you to set the minimum commission amount that your affiliates will be required to earn before getting paid.

Set Minimum Payout for Affiliates

For example, if you're paying an affiliate a $10 commission and the payment service charges you a $2 transaction fee, this could considerably impact your margins.

To address this issue, you can set up a minimum payout threshold of $25. This means you would only pay your affiliates when they have earned at least $25 in commissions. Since the transaction fee remains constant, paying the $25 commission would allow you to save both money and time.