Basic affiliate questions

[reddragon]

I think I am about to get rich thanks to E-Junkie I work with a martial arts organization and we have about 100 schools that would like to participate in an affiliate program. We will be placing a storefront on each martial artists website and splitting the sales commissions with the school owners. I have already put several months of work into the martial arts sites and I am hoping I didnt over look anything in the affiliate program - here are my basic questions...



I want to be able to sign my affiliates up - I do not want them to have to create an account. The reasoning behind this is that we have already created there websites for them and told them we would simply attach a store front to each site.



I think this is a no brainer but I am hoping I can just put the affiliates Hop Link on each store and I wont have to create a new store for all 100 affiliates. The store is also more then 1 page so I am hoping that will work out ok.



Do my affiliates need a paypal account?



I think these are my 3 basic questions thank you for any help you can offer.



Justin Morris

[E-junkie_Guru]

First I'll refer you to the help page for our affiliate system, in case you haven't reviewed that yet:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.affiliates.htm



This help page for affiliates explains the system from their perspective:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.for-affiliates.htm



Each affiliate will need to have a their own, free E-junkie account (we only require sellers to subscribe). You could register this on their behalf, enter their PayPal Email where indicated in their Affiliate Admin > Edit Profile, and obtain the link code to put on their site. This is necessary so we could generate the unique link code for each affiliate that is used to track their referrals and sales commissions.



If you want the affiliate sites to simply refer buyers via a link to your regular site for actual shopping/purchases, you can use the hop link method. In your Seller Admin > Edit Affiliate Program Settings, you can set up a common hop link, with a common landing page URL and an across-the-board commission percentage for all your products. Each affiliate would get their own, common hop link that you'd put on their site to refer buyers to your site's store page. Buyers would purchase from you directly while we calculate the referring affiliate's commission in the background.



After the end of each month, you would obtain a monthly commission-totals report which you could simply upload directly to PayPal Mass Payments to pay everyone automatically all at once, or you could use the report as a reference to pay out commissions manually by some other method.