Admin System (Affiliate) > Setup

System Setup

Use this tool to customize options for the Affiliate Program and quickly setup banners and various payout values. This is where all the main data is stored for the program. Modify these values at any time without going through the entire setup process.

If required, choose a subaccount from the drop-down menu in the Selection Pane. Click the View button to access the subaccount information.

WARNING: As a fail safe, the Affiliate System is designed to payout 1% to Affiliates, if you enter "0" in the Base Percentage Payout or Base Dollar Amount fields. Entering "0" in these fields will NOT disable an Affiliate or add a Tracker to the system. See Related Topics below for more information.

Enter the following information on the Signup New Affiliate page:

Redirect URL - The redirect location. Use this URL for all traffic through the Affiliate Program. When consumers click on a banner that 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.
Banner 1-10 URL - Enter the banner location for the banner number.

Affiliates will be able to download these banners from the CCBill webmaster to promote a subaccount website. The Affiliate System has the ability to track "total clicks " on up to ten user-defined banners. The stats for these banners will be available to both the referring CCBill Client and the Affiliates. This URL points to the directory and file where the banner is located on the subaccount website. An example of a valid Banner URL is http://www.yourwebsite.com/banners/banner1.jpg. The ten available fields allow you to enter URLs pointing to ten different banners created for the Affiliate Program. You are required to enter one banner but have the option to enter up to ten different banners.

Banner Farm URL - This is an HTML page on the host's server that CCBill will use to display to new Affiliates; it serves as a central location where the Affiliates can get the most current banners. Enter the Banner Farm location. Specify ten banners to track, a banner farm URL, or both.

The Banner Farm URL specifies the CCBill client page location where a collection of banners reside. The banner farm must link to a specific file not a directory, e.g., http:// www.yourwebsite.com/banners.html.

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.
Base Percent Payout - The Base Percent is a fraction of the sales amount generated through affiliate referrals; the percentage is paid to the referring affiliate. To offer a combination of percentage and dollar amount per sale, enter values in the Base Percentage Payout and the Base Dollar Amount fields. Enter percentages as 25, not 0.25. *

Base Dollar Amount - The base dollar amount is the flat payout rate for the sale. *
Recurring Payment - Select Yes to offer a portion of the recurring sales to your affiliates. If No is selected, affiliates will only receive payment from the initial sale.
Receive Sales Emails - Select Yes to receive an email from CCBill for each sale that originated from an Affiliate’s referral to the subaccount website. This E-mail contains the date of the sale, the amount, and other valuable transaction information. Select No if you do not want to receive an email for every referred sale. **
Serve Banners - Links to CCBill client banners can be placed on Affiliate websites. If these banners are modified they will be automatically updated, guaranteeing that Affiliates always display the most recent banner versions. Select Yes to serve banners from the CCBill webmaster's website, otherwise select No.

The CCBill clients' server and website bandwidth are used to access and load banner images. This provides the freedom to change the look of the banners at any time. It is not necessary to ask others to change the information on their own pages. The website may use a lot of bandwidth depending on how many Affiliates use it.

Receive Signup Emails - Select Yes to receive an email every time a new Affiliate signs up. Select No if you do not want to be notified of new affiliate signups. **
Send Signup Emails - Select Yes to send a welcome email from the CCBill webmaster when a new Affiliate signs up; select No if you do not want to welcome new affiliates via email.
Program Name - A short descriptive name for the Affiliate Program. Example: If the website's name is "E-cash", the program name could be "E-cash Affiliate Program". The system uses a default name when nothing is entered.
Click Tracking - Allows you to choose the type of click tracking desired and define unique tracking for your Affiliates. You may choose Raw and/or one Unique option. Also choose from the drop-down menu the time frame (1, 3, 6, 12, or 24 hours) to use for breaking down the data collected. The title Click Tracking contains a drop-down menu with your Click Tracking history for the account. You can use this feature to view past settings for the account and re-activate those settings by clicking Activate. Click the X to close the history viewer. Raw is enabled by default and cannot be turned off.
Allow Affiliate to View the Following Clicks - Choose the level of detail you wish your affiliates to be able to view: Raw, Second Page, Unique (as you defined in Click Tracking above), or Form.

Verify all the information and make changes as needed. The settings can be edited at any time but will only affect newly signed up affiliates; existing affiliate's setting will not change.

Click Update to save all changes.

Click the Reset button to set the options on the page back to their default values.

* You can set the Base Percentage, Dollar Amount, or a combination of the two so that new Affiliates who sign up can immediately begin referring website traffic.

** CCBill will send Affiliate Signup and Sales emails to the Client Contact email address that was entered in the Modify Subaccount, Basic area of the CCBill Account Admin in the Tools section. If you do not specify a Client Contact email address, CCBill will use the default email entered during the Webmaster Online Signup.

Example Transaction:

Setting payout percentage = 75.000, and dollar amount = $3.00, the Affiliate would receive $40.50, if the transaction amount = $50.00.

$50.00 x (75.000 ÷ 100) + $3.00 = $40.50