Before launching your affiliate program, one of the most important things you need to prepare is to establish the default commission structure which is seen as base commission rate. By using this commission rate, you can apply for all types of standard affiliates in your affiliate system. You can change any rules and terms depending on different situations in the process of running your affiliate program. When your affiliates see your base commission rate, they can know the amount of commission (by percentage or specific amount of commission) which they are paid without any negotiation.
In order to manage your affiliate program and set commission effectively, you use Affiliate Plus extension (Ultimate). However, you don’t know clearly how to set commission in Affiliate Plus (Ultimate). Top 6 effective options will be explored in this post below.
1. Set commission in Standard Features
In order to promote and buy your products, your affiliates need use many channels. However, they only receive commission when they made a sale through their links. It means that you just Pay when you get Sale. You can configure this feature of Affiliate Plus (Ultimate):
- Go to backend > Settings > Commission Configuration
2. Tier Commission – Platinum Feature
Your affiliate refers a links and then he gets a friend sign up to become one of your affiliates. When his friend made a sale, both he and his friend can get commission from you.
You can set the number of tiers, commission types as well as commission amounts for different tiers by using this plugin.
- Go to backend > Affiliate Plus > Commission Configuration
- Affiliate Plus > Multi Program > Add Program
3. Commission by level plugin – Advanced Feature
When you want to encourage your affiliate marketers to buy more products by giving them additional commissions based on order amount or a certain sale. Especially, after installing this plugin, your affiliates also see your information about additional commission in Affiliate Home page.
In order to configure characteristics of this additional commission, you can: Go to backend > Affiliate Plus > Commission Configuration.
4. Pay per Lead – Advanced Features
This plugin can help you create a program which allows your affiliate marketers to get commission for the actual number of leads that he generates. The meaning of “Lead” might be newsletter subscribers or new accounts signup in your e-commerce website.
To configure it: Go to backend > Affiliate Plus > Settings > Pay Per Lead Configuration
5. Pay Per Mille – Advanced Features
When you want your affiliates to receive commission for thousand impressions of link/banner that they generate. In order to configure, you can do as the instruction below:
Go to backend > Affiliate Plus > Commission Configuration
6. Pay Per Click – Advanced Features
Pay Per Click (PPC) is a very popular method in affiliating. This plugin allows referrals to earn money based on the number of clicks to your website that they generate. Affiliates can view the number of clicks and also the corresponding commissions that they receive. To configure it, you can do as the instruction below:
Go to backend > Affiliate Plus > Commission Configuration
If you still confuse about setting up commission for your affiliate program, you can read more at How to set up an Affiliate Program for e-commerce site with Magento.
