Adding a product to the affiliate listing can be very beneficial to the promotion of your merchandise and/or services. Before reading this tutorial, make sure you have established at least one product under your 2Checkout account. You can get instruction on how to do this by following the tutorial regarding the creation of products here.

To add an established product to the affiliate program, first locate the product in the listing by logging into the Vendor Administration area (https://www.2checkout.com/va/) and clicking on the Products main tab. Find the product in the listing and click the Edit icon next to that specific product under the Actions column.

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If you would like to research affiliate opportunities for a specific category you may visit the list opportunities page in your account. This page provides you with affiliate opportunities for the category you select. To access the list opportunities page in our new vendor administration panel login at the following url: https://www.2checkout.com/va/

Once you have logged in please click on the ‘Affiliates’ tab and then select the ‘Browse Opportunities’ sub category. From here you may view the affiliate opportunities by selecting the affiliate category that you would like to browse. The affiliate opportunities page will display the following fields for each affiliate product. (You may click on each field to sort the products in the affiliate opportunities table.)

• Image- Thumbnail image of the product.
• Name- Product Name
• Price- Product Price
• Description- A short description of the product.
• Commission- The commission amount you will earn on each product.
• Category- Category listing for the product.

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.

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?

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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