Affiliate Links

What is Affiliate Linking?
When using the Driveit Shop E-Commerce module, you can increase your site traffic by using DriveIt Affiliate Link Sharing.  All you have to do is have your website linked to from other websites, also known as cross-linking. You provide your site banners/links and other companies (affiliates) will place them on their site, and in return they will provide you with their links and you publish them on your site. 

DriveIt Shop will create a unique URL for every affiliate, allowing you to track the traffic generated by this affiliate.  DriveIt Shop will also track the number of orders from each affiliate, the purchase amounts, and the number of click thrus that came in from the affiliate website. When you get into paying for affiliate links, this can come in handy to see that the link is providing value for the initial investment.

Advantages of Affiliate Linking

• cross advertising between companies
• exchanging traffic and getting sales = higher revenue
• by putting your link on affiliate websites it increases your company's search engine (Google) relevancy

How it works

1.  Click on Setup.

2.  Under the Manage Orders tab, click on Affiliates.

3.  Fill out this form with the Affiliates' information.

Note:	1.	Commission: is the amount of commision the affiliate will receive off the purchase that was made.
	2.	Affiliate Code:  The affiliate code is automatically populated.

4.  Click Save when this form has been completed.

5.  Now that the Affiliate has been created, you need to approve them.  To do this, edit the Affiliate.

6.  On the bottom of the page, you'll see:

7.  Change the status from NEW to APPROVED and click Save. 

8.  The Affiliate link will appear and you can give this unique URL to your Affiliate so they
     can use this to put on their website.

9.  To see your Reporting , click on Setup, then Affiliates, and you will see this screen:

For each Affiliate, you'll see:

• the number of incomplete orders which are shoppers that had started a shopping cart but did not complete a purchase
• the number of new orders that have not yet been processed
• the number of shipped orders that have been processed
• click thru is the number of times the Affiliate link has been clicked on