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Affiliate Program Beta Continues

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.

If you would like to participate in this beta program, please send an email to affiliatebeta@2co.com with the following information:

subject: Affiliate Beta
name: your name
SID: your 2CO supplier id
Would you like to offer commissions on your products? Yes/No
Would you like to earn commissions on others’ products? Yes/No

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

Affiliate Program Limited Beta

Thank you to everyone who has provided their advice and recommendations for the new 2CO affiliate program so far.

Our developers have been working on the new affiliate program and are now ready to release a limited invite-only beta.

If you would like to participate in this beta program, please send an email to affiliatebeta@2co.com with the following information:

subject: Affiliate Beta
name: your name
SID: your 2CO supplier id
Would you like to offer commissions on your products? Yes/No
Would you like to earn commissions on others’ products? Yes/No

We will be contacting the first round of beta participants over the course of the following week.

Affiliate Signup Program Update

2Checkout has updated it’s 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 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?

2CO’s New Affiliate Program

2CO wants your help designing our new integrated affiliate program.

About a month ago, a 2CO community member started a thread in the forums asking if 2Checkout would consider an integrated affiliate network. It was good timing, because we are. We’re currently researching the possibilities and would love to get some feedback from our suppliers and the public at large.

This is currently a high priority for our developers, so now is a great time to take advantage of this opportunity. The more information you can provide, the better. We’d love to know exactly what you want from a 2CO affiliate program, so no detail is too small.

You can follow the affiliate program discussion in the forums or leave your suggestions as a comment to this post.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Does 2checkout support affiliate accounts?

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.

Do you offer a referral bonus program?

You can earn money by referring new vendors to 2checkout using your built in 2checkout affiliate account. Place a link to the following URL on your site:

>> https://www.2checkout.com/2co/signup?affiliate=XXXXXX (be sure to replace the XXXXXX with your account number, it will not work the way it is)

And, if someone clicks on this, signs up, and their account is active for 60 days, you will receive an $11.00 bonus.

You can access a detailed list of your affiliate information by logging into your account, selecting ‘Vendor Reporting - Reports’ under the helpful links menu, and then clicking on the ‘Affiliate Signups’ link. This page will show the date the order was placed, whether or not the vendor stayed with us long enough for you to earn your bonus, the vendor’s website address, and the amount of the bonus you received.

You may use one of the following graphics for your referral links:

2Checkout.com: Start Selling Now

2Checkout.com: Start Selling Now

I need assistance with membership script support, who do I contact?

For support on the Free Membership Script, you need to contact the maker MembershipClientPro.com, who provides the script free for Vendors to use. You can contact them at Lite@MembershipClientPro.com

How can I use a third-party affiliate script with 2CO?

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

Just fill in the string that is provided by your affiliate program in the Seller Admin under Look and Feel. 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

Does your system offer an integrated affiliate solution?

2Checkout’s integrated affiliate program is the industry’s first FREE affiliate program. No additional fees are charged by 2Checkout for participating as a supplier or as an affiliate. As a supplier, you can offer affiliates a commission for successfully re-marketing your products on their websites. In this Pay-Per-Sale program, you choose the commission amount, and do not pay anything until a sale is made and the funds are deposited.

Our affiliate program provides our suppliers with many benefits over traditional affiliate programs.

Benefits for the supplier:

  • No additional fees from 2Checkout.
  • No additional software changes to your website.
  • Ability to resell other suppliers products.
  • No worries about keeping track of affiliate sales, 2Checkout pays your affiliates directly.
  • Begin earning and paying commissions immediately after product enrollment.

Benefits for the affiliate:

  • Free affiliate account.
  • No ugly banner ads.
  • HTML code and product images provided by 2Checkout.
  • Ability to resell all of our suppliers affiliate products.
  • Easy to navigate interface that provides up to date reporting for sale and payment information.
  • Ability to receive payments by all of our supported payment methods.

The affiliate program is available to all of our suppliers and affiliates can now signup for free affiliate accounts. Affiliates can signup for their free account at the following url: https://www.2checkout.com/va/signup.
To access this program you must login to our new vendor interface at the following url: https://www.2checkout.com/va/

To make your products available for affiliate sales, simply edit your products by clicking on the ‘Products’ tab at the top of your supplier home page, then clicking on the ‘Edit’ sub-tab. Here you can add a category and commission for the products that you would like to offer in the affiliate program. To find products for you to sell on a commission basis on your website, just click on the ‘Affiliates’ tab at the top of the page, then click on the ‘Browse Opportunities’ sub-tab. From here you can select a category to find products that will interest visitors to your website.

A new feature guide which may help you navigate the affiliate area can be found here:
https://www.2checkout.com/static/va/documentation/FeatureGuide/content/06_Affiliates.html

We have also provided our suppliers with an in depth tutorial on adding products to the affiliate program and a tutorial for new affiliates that explains how to find affiliate opportunities.

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