What is
Affiliate Marketing
and Why it is a trending
marketing tactic now?

Simply put, you create an incentivized program for people to join and reward those who bring you successful sales with the commission.
There are 2 main reasons why you should consider affiliate marketing as a viable solution for raising conversion for your business.

Affiliate Marketing

with UpPromote

4 steps launch an effective Affiliate Marketing campaign with UpPromote

Step 01
Program

Create program

Basic settings: Build a program to set up commission rate for affiliates in that program.

Tax options in Programs: Set tax option based on your Shopify’s settings to exclude tax properly when calculating commissions.

Registration form

Set up registration form: 
Registration form is where your affiliates will sign up for your program.

Publish registration form:  
Publicize your registration form to draw affiliates’ attention.

Step 02
Affiliate

Find affiliates

Marketplace Listing: List your offer to UpPromote’s Marketplace.

Find affiliate profiles:  Propose your offer to affiliates by getting in touch with them directly via Marketplace.

Convert customers to affiliates:  Customers is a great source of potential affiliates.

Motivate affiliates

Coupon: Promoting by Coupon helps the affiliates promote easier, compared to Affiliate link, which eventually brings in more sales for your store.

Media Gallery: Upload media resources for affiliate’s promotion posts/videos.

Manage affiliate

Review affiliate’s profile: 
Approve/deny affiliates when they register to your program.

Auto-activate affiliate: 
Automatically approve all affiliates who join the program.

Communicate with affiliates

Emails: Reach out to affiliates via emails and in-app chat.

Step 03
Referral

Guide affiliates to get promotional resources

Promotional resources:  Instruct affiliates to get their own advertising sources. As mentioned above, the Emails section contains default templates for each action.

Marketing tools for affiliates:  In case you have uploaded media fields earlier on your merchant account.

Log in as affiliate:  Log in to your affiliate’s account.

Tracking

Tracking methods: How the system track referrals from affiliates.

Referral recorded

Approve/Deny referrals: Review the affiliates’ referrals.

Delay time to auto-approve orders: Automatically approve orders after specific days.

Step 04
Payment

Manual Payout

Set up Payment methods: Pay affiliates by your store’s discounts.

Collect affiliate’s payment details: In order to pay affiliates, you will need to gather their payment information first. It can be done either by.

Pay within the app

Store Credit: How the system track referrals from affiliates.

PayPal Integration: Process payment with PayPal via UpPromote.

Invoice, tax on paid commissions

Invoice: If your country’s tax regulations require Invoice for commission payment, you can enable it in Settings and download Invoice for each transaction.

Tax on paid commissions: 
There is also an option which allows you to set up tax percentage regarding commission transactions to file the report to tax regulations in your country or affiliate’s country. 

Product analytics

Analytics page: Show detailed statistics regarding affiliates’ productivity.

Product analytics: View detailed statistics of most referred products by affiliates.

Build a program to set up commission rate for affiliates in that program.
First thing we need to do when setting up an affiliate campaign is to create a program.

The program is where you can set a set of settings and apply to all affiliates in that program. Each program will have 1 commission rate. So, for example, if you want to give different affiliates different commission rates, you can create more than 1 program and put your affiliates into those.

Basic settings