Edit Affiliates
An Affiliates Program allows the merchant to make linking agreements
with the owners of other web sites then track which orders come in from
those off-site links. In many cases, the partner site earn a percentage of
the sale from that link. In other cases, the merchant is simply interested
in knowing how many people are buying as a result of a particular link.
The Edit Affiliates page allows you to edit Affilite information.
Create New Affiliate
Click this button to make a new
Affiliate. You will be asked to give that Affiliate a name. This name will
appear in your personal list of Affiliates and will also appear on any
orders resulting from this affiliate's links. After you submit the new
Affiliate information, Interchange will display a unique URL which you
will need to email to your new Affiliate. They will receive credit for an
order only if the purchaser originally clicked on that specific URL.
Default URL to Redirect to
When setting up your Affilate, you
have the choice of having their link point to your front page, to any
other page in your site, or perhaps to a welcome page specifically for
that Affiliate's customers. Enter the complete URL in this space. Note: do
not enter the URL of the Affiliate's web site in this space.
Timeout Delay
The amount of time you enter here, in seconds,
is the time that purchasers have between the time they enter your site
through the link and when they must purchase before their status expires.
If you set this time to 60 seconds, most purchasers will not have time to
place an order and your Affiliate would not get credit for any of the
sales. We recommend a setting in the thousands, or a setting of zero,
which disables this feature.
Edit Affiliate
Select an Affiliate's name from the list, and
click "Edit Affiliate" to review or change the Affiliate information. If
you forget the URL that the Affiliate needs to use, it is displayed in the
"Edit Affiliate" screen.
Show Orders
This feature will review the number, amounts, and
specifics of all orders attributed to a particular affiliate. Select the
Affiliate from the list and click "Show Statistics."
Show Traffic
This button will allow you to view information
on the number of visitors who have come to your site via the selected
affiliate.
Delete Affiliate
Select the Affiliate from the list and click
"Delete Affiliate" to remove it. You will be asked to confirm your choice,
after which it can not be recovered.
Affiliate Relations
You may also choose to allow the
Affiliate to view the statistics for the traffic on your site to which
they are responsible. You can do this by allowing them a restricted amount
of access. (See the Access Manager
for details.)
Note: the affiliates feature requires that the purchaser's computer
accept cookies. Keep in mind that some purchasers may have their browsers
set to reject cookies or may be using browsers that do not support them.
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