Setting up your Affiliate Program
Create the banner or banners for your Affiliates to use on their sites. A banner is an image that you create to advertise your website as a marketing tool.
In the CCBill Admin System , click the Affiliates link on the upper right hand corner of the Admin System window. Click the Setup Tab under the Affiliate menu.
If you are setting up your Affiliate Program for the "0000" CCBill subaccount or main account, skip this step. If you are setting up your Affiliate Program for a subaccount other than "0000", click the Advanced Features link and disable CCBill Account Grouping .
Click the System Setup link. The System Setup page allows you to enter all of the basic information for your Affiliate Program. Enter the following information on the System Setup page:
Redirect URL - When a surfer clicks on an advertisement banner, which is located on an Affiliate website, they will be sent to the Redirect URL . Examples of valid Redirect URLs are, http://www.yourwebsite.com/index.htm and http://www.yourwebsite.com/tour/index.htm.
Banners - You can enter either individual Banner URLs, a Banner Farm URL or both. The Banner Farm URL is not required, but you must have at least one Banner URL and/ or a Banner Farm URL. Using a Banner Farm eliminates the need to enter individual Banner URLs.
Banner URL - This URL points to the directory and file where your banner is located on your website. An example of a valid Banner URL is http://www.yourwebsite.com/banners/banner1.jpg. There are ten fields available, which allow you to enter URLs pointing to ten different banners created for your Affiliate Program. You are only required to enter one banner, but you can enter up to ten, if required.
Banner Farm URL - The Banner Farm URL is a page you create, which displays all of your banners. Your Affiliates will be sent to this page after clicking the link you enter in the Banner Farm URL.
Affiliate Payouts - Only one base payout type is required. If you are using free trials, select the percentage payout option. To offer a combination of percentage payout and dollar amount per sale, enter information for both the base percentage and dollar amount.
Telephone Billing Percent Payout - The Telephone Billing Percent is a fraction of the sales amount generated through Telephone Billing referrals; the percentage is paid to the referring affiliate. Enter percentages as 25, not 0.25.
Dialers Percent Payout - The Dialer Percent is a fraction of the sales amount generated through dialer referrals; the percentage is paid to the referring affiliate. Enter percentages as 25, not 0.25.
Base Percentage Payout - The fraction amount to payout for referred sales. This is the amount that will be paid to Affiliates when they send customers to your site provided the customer successfully signs up. If this amount is set to 50 then the Affiliate will receive 50% of the sale. Enter the percentage as 25, not 0.25.
Base Dollar Amount - The flat payout rate for referred sales. This option does not work with free trials. This is the amount that will be paid to Affiliates when they send customers to your site provided the customer successfully signs up. If this amount is set to 5.00 then the Affiliate will receive $5.00 from the sale.
Recurring Payment - To offer a portion of the recurring sales select Yes, otherwise select No. *
Receive Sales Emails - Select Yes to receive an E-mail about each sale that the Affiliates refer to your website, otherwise select No. This E-mail contains the date of the transaction, the amount, and other valuable information pertaining to the sale. *
Serve Banners - Select Yes to serve banners from your website, otherwise select No. *
If you select Yes then each time a surfer views your Affiliate's website, the advertisement banner will be loaded from your website, and will be displayed on your Affiliate's website. This will increase your bandwidth usage. The advantage to using this option is that if you change your banner image then your Affiliate will not have to re-upload the new banner. The new banner image will be automatically displayed on your Affiliate's site.
If you select No then your Affiliates will save the banner image on their server, which will not have any effect on your bandwidth. In this instance you will need to notify the Affiliate to re-upload your updated banners.
Receive Signup Emails - Select Yes to receive an E-mail every time a new Affiliate signs up, otherwise select No. *
Program Name - Enter a short and descriptive name/ program designation for the Affiliate Program. For example, if the website's name is "E-cash", then the program name might be "E-cash Affiliate Program". The program will use a default name when nothing is entered. *
* These fields are optional.