Affiliates can play a crucial role in the success of a community. It helps promote the community to new audience, driving more traffic and potential members. By maximizing the affiliates feature, communities can increase their visibility and credibility, as collaborating with fellow user/creator can help increase the community earnings.

Under Marketing category, go to Affiliates tab.

1. All paid products will automatically appear in the Products tab under Affiliates. If a community is paid, its subscription will also be listed automatically.

2. CM can toggle on/off to decide if they want to recruit affiliates for a certain product.

3. CM needs to set the rate and give an introduction when enable a product for affiliate.

4. Once the product is enabled for affiliate, CM can copy the application link. The link will bring the user to the corresponding product public page with affiliate application.

Commissions are calculated from the Net Income the community managers get from the product.

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For example, if a paid item is priced at $100 and the platform fee is 5%, the CM’s net income would be:

If this sale occurs through an affiliate who receives a 30% commission, the calculation will be:

You will see the breakdown of the transactions like this:

For community subscriptions, affiliates will only earn a commission on the first payment. They will not receive commissions for subscription renewals.

Only community members can apply to become affiliate. If an external person wants to become an affiliate, user needs to join the community and become a member first.

The affiliate program in the community is only available to members, so members just need to Apply and Confirm. There will be no approval and additional information required when applying to be an affiliate.

Members can see the "Become Affiliate" button on the product public page, if the product is enabled for affiliate.

If there is affiliate program available in the community, on the profile dropdown menu, there is a "Become an affiliate" button as a shortcut.

When a member becomes an affiliate, they become an affiliate for the entire community. This means they can have affiliate links for all the products that have affiliate enabled.

If CM disables one product for affiliate, and enables another one, the affiliate links for the disabled product will automatically become invalid. The newly enabled product will then appear in the list of products available to affiliates.

On the affiliate settings page, CM can see the list of affiliates his community. CM can also do the following:

Click the "Add affiliate" button, input the member's email address, then Add.

Select the affiliate's details, click the three dots > Remove affiliate.

Select the affiliate's details, click the button beside the products > customize the rate > click Save.

Once a member has become an affiliate of any community, on the profile dropdown menu, Affiliate button will appear with information on all affiliated products.

Affiliates can find the relevant info of all the affiliated product(s): Product name, commission rate, from which community.

If member is an affiliate for multiple communities, all the products from different communities will be listed on one affiliate page.

Affiliates can view their earnings in the Affiliates tab > Payout section

To cash out their commissions earned, affiliates must connect their preferred bank account and choose their desired payout currency.

They will be provided with the list of information we require for us to be able to send them their payouts.

Minimum payout amount for affiliates is 10 USD. If you have not reached 10 USD, your commissions will be carried over to the next month until you reach the 10 USD threshold.
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Affiliate payouts are processed on the 16th of every month.
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If there are cases of refunds and disputes for affiliates, the commission earned from the refunded/disputed amount will be deducted from the affiliate earnings.
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For example, member "A" purchased product "P1" from the affiliate link of user "A2". But member A requested a refund for P1. A2's commission will be deducted since A's money was refunded.

Same goes with chargeback if the case is won by the member. The commission earned will be reverted.
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