BestHost's affiliate software
An affiliate program is a type of online marketing, in which affiliate sites refer clients to your business. When visitors purchase goods or services through affiliate advertisements on affiliate sites, the transaction is logged by the affiliate software and you, the business, pay commissions to the affiliates.
Adding an affiliate tracking software to your site is one of the best ways to increase your sales and improve your search engine ranking. By using the affiliate software, you will be able to determine if you want to track your affiliates based on sales, clicks or impressions.
Overview
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Affiliate earn commission based on sales, clicks or impressions
The BestHost Affiliate software allows affiliates to earn commission in three ways. One of the ways affiliates can earn commission is based upon sales made from your e-commerce solution or shopping-cart system. Another way is based on clicks from the banner or text ad and the third way is based upon the number of impression that are received from the affiliate user’s banner.
Product will work if user has cookies turned off
Unlike other affiliate programs BestHost Affiliate will work if the user has cookies turned off. Therefore, if your affiliate user sends a user to your site and the user does not have cookies turned on, the affiliate will still be tracked.
Create unlimited affiliate programs
BestHost Affiliate allows administrators to create unlimited affiliate programs. Each affiliate program can be setup with unique properties and limits.
Works with all payment gateway companies
BestHost Affiliate only requires a simple code snippet to be added to your shopping cart's 'thank you' page, therefore you will be able to use it with any third-party payment gateway company. Please contact us first if you are not certain how to make it work with your shopping cart system.
Multi-tier affiliate system
BestHost Affiliate has multiple tier capabilities to allow affiliate users to sign up other affiliate users. BestHost Affiliate is a four tier system. The administrator will be able to easily setup each level with different commissions.
Duplicate sale protection
BestHost Affiliate has an optional feature that allows you to avoid duplicate sales by setting a limit on how often sales are counted from the same IP. This feature is optional.
Unlimited banner ads
BestHost Affiliate allows administrators to add unlimited banner ads for your affiliate programs. One affiliate program can have one or more banners.
Unlimited text links
BestHost Affiliate allows administrators to add unlimited text link ads for your affiliate programs. One affiliate program can have one or more text links.
Customized registration form
BestHost Affiliate allows administrators to add customized fields to your registration form.
Manage email list
BestHost Affiliate allows administrators to send HTML emails to their affiliate user’s. BestHost Affiliate comes with 10 HTML email templates so you do not have technical skills to create HTML newsletters. In addition, you will be able to send HTML emails you have created with third party software.
Accept re-occurring affiliates
BestHost Affiliate allows administrators to setup re-occurring affiliates. Therefore, if you have a product or service and you would like to pay your affiliates on a reoccurring basis then you can easily set this up with BestHost Affiliate.
Advance reporting
BestHost Affiliate includes a set of reports that allows administrators to view the number of clicks, impressions, sales, unique visitors, re-occurring transactions, and more using a variety of search options.
Easily setup minimum payout amount
BestHost Affiliate allows affiliates to easily setup minimum payout amounts. Therefore, if administrators want to require your affiliate user’s to earn a specific amount before they are paid, this can easily be done with BestHost Affiliate.
Require administrator approval for affiliates
BestHost Affiliate includes an option to require new affiliates to be approved by the administrator before they are added to your system.