This tutorial will help you as a new advertiser at Adrecord to get your affiliate program up and running. You should read it as a guidance to find all the neccesary functions for your continuously follow-ups on your affiliate marketing.
On these pages you will add your contact information. First your general information and login information, then the contact informnation to your technical department, and lastly if you have any additional invoice details.
On the last tab you can also add your credit card if you wish to pay with that.
On these pages you will be abel to administer all your settings for your affiliate program. This is how you tell your affiliates how they will work with your program.
The program description is what affiliates can read in the program directory when browsing among all avaliable affiliate programs. It's prefered to describe what your brand are great at, what you sell and why customers should buy from you. Note that this description should be informative yet encourage affiliates to apply to your program and start promote your brand.
Here are a few tips:
You can use the following tags to format your description:
If you need help with the program description, please contact us.
In this section you will allow or deny your affiliates to promote your program through social media. For example, it could be Facebook-pages, Twitter accounts etc.
It's recomended to allow affiliates to purchase from your site through their own links. However, if that's not appropriate to your business you can deny affiliates this privilege.
In this section you will allow or deny affiliates to promote your brand through email marketing. For example newsletters or through other email lists. You could also set this to "not allow" and then in the program description make at not to affiliates to contact you to get permmission.
This option allows or denies cashback, reward or incetive sites to apply and promote your affiliate program. Allowing this can get you more loyal customers.
The SEM-policy can be set to three diffrent states and are controlling how your affiliates can work with paid traffic to promote your affiliate program. For example Google Adwords, Facebook or Microsoft adCenter (Yahoo! Search and Bing). The three states are as follows:
Please contact us for more help and explanation about the SEM-policy settings.
In this box you can provide extra details about your chosen SEM-policy. For example what affiliates are allowed or not regarding to paid traffic.
You can add/change the Google Analytics custom campaigns link parameters as you like in this section. Default value is:utm_source=adrecord&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=adrecord
More information about Google Analytics-parameters.
If you represent an online retail store it's recomended to provide your affiliates with access to your product feed. Certain affiliates will use your information to market your products, prices and categories in different ways. For example, have a look at Pricerunner, Kelkoo or Smartster. Common file formats of the product feed are CSV, XML or JSON.
You can find information about what we need in a product feed from you here Information about feeds
Just send us an email if you have more questions regarding structure or anything else.
On this tab you will get a clear overview of your commissions. If you like to delete, change or add a commission, please contact us.
Read more about offering your affiliates commission for iSale.
On this tab you can add or change your contact information to your affiliate manager assigned to your program. This information will be public for all affiliates viewing your program page in our dashboard.
When you are just starting your affiliate program with us we will email you a quick-start-guide. This guide contains your unique tracking code that you will need to implement so we can measure your conversion and sales. You will also get the documentation and your code example and if you need this information again, later on, you can go to this page in the dashboard.
We have also added some additional information about your tracking on this tab. For example click since last sale and your latest requests to our system.
We will automatically block sales made from the same IP-address that also have signed in to your program account in our dashboard. If need to add additional IP-addresses we should block sales from you can add them on this tab. If you for example place manual order from another computer that you almost never sign in to your program account from.
Please have in mind not to click on links and banners on your affiliates webpages on that same computer you are going to use to place manual orders on your website.
Banners are graphics and pictures that your affiliates will use to market your brand, website and products. You can upload them, put them into different sets, show them on specific dates, change target-URL or Google Analytics-parameters.
If you don’t already have banners we can help you with that. Please contact us for further information.
If you like to create or order your banners by yourself, we will need att least one set in these sizes:
On this page you can add coupon or discount codes that your affiliates can use in their marketing on your behalf.
This page shows you a clear overview of all your affiliates and their channels (websites, blogs, Facebook-pages etc.).
This page allows you to add individual commissions for a specific channel. Chose channel and type in the new commission and set a date interval if necessary.
Use this page to add individual coupon codes to a specific channel. This code will only be visible for the assigned channel and affiliate.
On this page and tab you will see all of your transaction lists. Normally you will get them by email the first day every month, but you can also find them here. These transaction lists contains all your tracked orders (transactions) from the preceding month. Audit the list and mark transactions as approved, rejected or change the order value if the order have been partially returned by your customer.
On this page you will also have the possibility to change what day in a month we should send you these lists and to what email address. Default email address is your account standard.
On this tab you can access all your invoices you will receive from us. You can access them and print them out at any time.
This page lets you generate reports over your affiliates and their channels. You get detailed statistics on banner-impressions, clicks and transactions (sales/leads).
This report gives you more details about all transactions registered in your affiliate program.
This report gives you statistics on how your banners and graphics are preforming.
This report shows you the whole chain of events that a transaction passes through. From when the transaction first are registered until the commission regarding that same transaction is paid to the affiliate.
The tracking time is the time measured from that a potential customer clicks on a link to your website until it’s permitted to register a transaction in our system. If the customer doesn’t make a purchase on the first visit on your website the customer might return and complete the purchase at a later point. The purchase will be registered in our system only if that later point is within the tracking timeframe.
The most common tracking timeframes are 30, 45 and 90 days. It’s recommended to set the tracking time to 45 days and it’s the most common within the industry.
Compared to your regular tracking, which is based on visitors clicking on a link or a banner on your affiliates websites, iSale is based on visitors viewing one of your banners, then completes the purchase that is registered into our system. For more information about iSales, please read this page.