Magento 2 Marketplace Affiliate System

After a successful installation, the admin will configure the module settings for use. Here, the admin will configure the general settings, payment information, manage commission for affiliates, and the affiliate program terms. The admin will -

• Enable the module by selecting Yes else select No to keep it disabled.
• Select Yes to display the blog link on the registration page.
• Select Yes to allow affiliate registrations & to automatically approve affiliates.
• Set the minimum payout balance. Enter the day number that will be the payday of the month.
• Enter the blog URL hint that is visible at the frontend.
• Enter the affiliate's email address and select various email templates.
• Enable the Sandbox mode or make use of the production model.
• Set the payment for pay per click & pay per unique click.
• Set the commission type as fixed or percentage.
• Set the commission.
• Enter the affiliate program terms & lastly, click the save button.

• There is no restriction as any user can become an affiliate user.
• There is no limit as any number of users can become the affiliate user.
• To become an affiliate user, the users first need to register themselves.
• For easy navigation, the Affiliate Registration link is available in the footer section.
• Clicking the registration link, a page will appear for the affiliate registration.
• After filling in all the information, the affiliate user will be registered successfully.
• The affiliates need to provide their first and last name.
• The affiliates need to provide their email address.
• The affiliates need to enter the password & confirm password fields.
• The affiliates will enter their Blog URL.
• And at last, need to confirm the Affiliate Terms by checking the checkbox.
• The affiliate can even check the Affiliate Terms by clicking the terms link available.

• After the registration, the affiliate user will be redirected to the affiliate dashboard.
• Upon the successful affiliate registration, the affiliate user will get the success message.
• Affiliates users will have a separate affiliate menu panel in their account.
• Under the affiliate panel, there will be a summary submenu option to check the current seller list and their details.
• The affiliate can check the seller details like - seller name, email address, click, unique clicks, total sales, sales commission, received amount, and balance amount.
• Unique clicks are the number of products for which the user has made clicks.
• Total clicks are the number of clicks the user has made.
• Sales commission is the set commission for the affiliate users Per Sale.
• Total sales is the total amount of the product sold.
• The received amount is the amount that the affiliate user has received against the total sales.
• The Balance amount is the pending amount that the affiliate user has not received yet.

• Under this section, the affiliates can check the commission rate of each seller.
• The affiliates can search the sellers from the list using their email address.
• The affiliates can check the seller's name and the seller's email address.
• And can also view the per-click commission rates applicable.
• View the per unique click commission rates applicable.
• Check the commission type applied by the sellers.
• The sellers can set the commission for the affiliate users Per Sale.
• The seller can set the commission category wise also.
• The seller can set commission as per "Fixed Commission" and "Percentage Commission".
• For a fixed commission, the affiliate will be getting the amount as per the fixed commission amount defined.
• For percentage commission, the affiliate will be getting the amount as per - (Percentage Commission) of (Amount of per sale).

• The module allows the sellers to create the Banners & Ads.
• To create the banner, the seller will enter Title, Description, Link, and Banner size.
• The seller can edit and delete the existing banners.
• And can even update the banner status like approve and unapproved.
• These banners and ads help in bringing sales traffic.
• This is one of the cost-effective advertising tools.
• Under this section, the affiliate can find all the banners and ads pertaining to the seller.
• The affiliate user can make use of the banners by copying the HTML code and pasting it on to a website where you want to display the ads.
• The affiliate can view the product based banner details like product name, product image, seller name, and HTML code.
• The affiliates can also make use of product text-based ads.
• The affiliate can view the text-based banner details like seller name, banner title, size, and HTML code.
• The affiliate users can preview the banners before using it.

• The affiliate users can send email campaigns to their customers.
• Affiliates can send emails to multiple email IDs at the same time separating each by a comma separator.
• Multiple email id feature eliminates the need to sending the mail to individual recipients.
• Send emails to multiple Ids at the same time.
• The affiliate user will enter the subject and the message to send.
• Add product links within the message body of the email.
• Clicking “Product Link” brings up a pop-up where an affiliate can search for the product that wants to attach.
• The affiliate can add multiple product links in the emails.

• The module provides a convenient way for easy tracking of all the records for traffic, sales, and payment.
• The affiliate will be able to check the complete traffic list under the traffic summary section.
• The affiliate user can check the traffic details like IP addresses, the referring URL, and the view date.
• The affiliates can also check the total sales that have happened under the sales section.
• For the product purchases made by the customer, only after the order gets complete the affiliate gets the commission.
• The affiliates can check all of the sales details related to orders that get purchased like the seller’s name, the order id, order subtotal, commission, status, and the date.
• The affiliates can check the details of the payments that have been made to them under the payment section.
• The affiliate can view the payment details like - name of the affiliate, affiliate email, paid by(How the payment was made), transaction Id and the IPN transaction Id, transaction amount, and the date.

Note: The affiliate can check the statistics for the traffic on a daily or monthly basis.

• After registering as an affiliate, the affiliate needs to select a seller and add a blog link where the affiliate wants to post the ads & banners.
• To successfully post the banners, the affiliate needs to send a request for the same.
• After sending the request, initially, the status of the request is pending and after the approval from the seller, the status gets changed to accept.
• The affiliate user will send a request to any of the sellers.
• The affiliate user can send the request to multiple sellers as there is no limit.
• The affiliate user can see the status of the request made.
• The seller will be able to view and manage the affiliate user requests.
• The seller can approve, un-approved, or delete the request as required.
• The seller can also search for the affiliates using their email id, their blog URL, or using the affiliate status(approved, unapproved).