This tutorial will explain how to search/browse affiliate resale opportunities, obtain the HTML for addition to your site and view your affiliate commission information. To participate in our affiliate program you must first sign up for a free affiliate account at the following url: https://www.2checkout.com/va/signup. These free accounts are only for individuals who wish to offer current vendors products to customers and earn a commission. If you wish to be a part of the affiliate program and offer your own products for others to sell then you must sign up for a full 2Checkout account. Affiliates can then sign into the account at https://www.2checkout.com/va/

Once you have logged into your account you can browse our affiliate opportunities by clicking on the ‘Affiliates’ tab on your account homepage. Here you may search affiliate resale opportunities by keyword. You can also browse the affiliate resale opportunities by product category.

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Thank you to all of the participants of our new Affiliate Program Beta!

We’re expanding the beta program now, so if you’ve been waiting for the second round, now’s the time to apply.

UPDATE:

February 18, 2009:  All 2Checkout suppliers may now enroll in the Affiliate Program and are no longer required to apply to be enrolled. To enroll in the Affiliate Program, suppliers will first need to agree to the new Terms of Service and Operating regulations for the program. To review and agree to the new Terms of Service and Operating Regulations, suppliers will need to login to their account using the New Vendors Administration area and then click the Affiliates tab on the account home page. Suppliers will then be able read and agree to the new documentation.

To learn more about the Affiliate Program Beta, see these previous posts:

• Affiliate Program Limited Beta
• 2CO’s New Affiliate Program
• TUTORIAL: Adding Products to the Affiliate Program
• TUTORIAL: Finding Affiliate Opportunities

2Checkout has updated its Affiliate Signup Program

The 2Checkout Affiliate Signup Program is our way of rewarding suppliers with compensation for referring others to use our service. Here are some of the highlights:

• Suppliers now earn $11.00 USD for each new supplier they refer.
• Suppliers now have access to an affiliate reporting system which allows them to track their affiliate signup sales. This report can be found in the vendor reporting section of your 2CO Admin Area.
• A column has been added to the payment section of your 2CO Admin Area (’Aff Comm’). This column details money paid to you by 2Checkout for affiliate signup sales.

If you already have a supplier account, using the affiliate signup program is as easy as adding one link to your website (replace ‘XXXXXX’ with your vendor account number):

https://www.2checkout.com/2co/signup?aff_id=XXXXXX

After the account is active for 60 days you will receive payment for referring a supplier to start selling with us.

This is just the start of our new affiliate program revamp. Please keep sharing your ideas and recommendations as we continue to add to and improve this program.

Related blog post: 2CO’s New Affiliate Program
Related forum thread: Possible Integrated Affiliate Network?

2Checkout provides our suppliers with an integrated affiliate system where your affiliates can resell your products and the affiliate commissions are payed out by 2Checkout. For more information please visit our article on our integrated affiliate system.

We also provide you with the option to use your own third party affiliate script that works off of a hidden image tag. When using a third party affiliate script 2Checkout does not payout your affiliate commissions. Please visit this article for instructions on using a third party affiliate script.

2Checkout.com supports almost any affiliate program that works off of a hidden image tag on the sales confirmation page.

To setup third-party affiliate script, log in to your account and click on the “Account” tab, then click on “Site Management” subcategory. From here you can fill in the string that is provided by your affiliate program as the Affiliate URL. 2Checkout.com payment routines will fill in dynamic parameters like “order number”, “order total”, “your product id”, “quantity ordered”.

The Affiliate link will only work if you have Direct Return OFF. The hidden image tag is placed on the 2Checkout confirmation page after the sale and with Direct Return ON, this page is by passed.

To have the string populated dynamically, put the following variables in the appropriate location. The payment routine will fill them in after the sale is complete:

$a_order – 2Checkout.com Order Id.
$a_total – Total Dollars Paid.
$a_product – Your product id
$a_quantity – Quantity of product id sold.

Example src string:

https://affiliate.com/sale.cgi?order=$a_order&total=$a_total&product=$a_product&quantity=$a_quantity

If the buyer bought 1 of your product id 01-Widget for $2.00, after the sale the string would become

http://affiliate.com/sale.cgi?order=123456&total=2.00&product=01-Widget&quantity=1