Screening and approving affiliates

[jderamo]

Is it possible to set it up so that I have to approve affiliates before they're active?

[E-junkie_Ninja]

There is no setting in our system to make it so you have to approve affiliates first. But what you can do is make your sign-up link only available after a potential affiliate e-mails you for approval. Once you approve them you can send them the sign-up link via e-mail.

[sgt_bilko]

I would just like to add that implementing jderamo's request would be much appreciated. I had some unwanted affiliates signing up without my knowledge a while back that later caused problems and the only way around it was to do as e-JunkieNinja suggested but since then I've not had one potential new affiliate contact me. It's currently a lose lose situation from a seller's point of view.

[E-junkie_Guru]

Thanks for the suggestion; we'll add that to the wishlist.

[renzska]

I'll throw in my hand on this one. I have just had an experience with fraudulent purchases being made against certain affiliates that are using the affiliate program to get cash back from potentially stolen credit cards. Being able to approve the affiliate would possibly help mitigate this.



Thanks,



John

[sgt_bilko]

This is exactly what happened to me John and I'm very disappointed to hear this is still going on.

[renzska]

I wanted to report back that this is still happening and is tied specifically to 2Checkout purchases. From March 20th, 2014 to April 9th, I have had 8 fraudulent purchases go through 2Checkout tied to new affiliates. 2Checkout may or may not come back a few days later cancelling the orders but because that doesn't tie back to our records, it's causing HUGE problems. Can we please get an affiliate system option that sends us an email when someone signs up so that we can approve them before the are allowed into the program?



Regards,



John

[E-junkie_Guru]

That particular feature is still on the wishlist, but you can already restrict new affiliate sign-ups to those you have vetted and approved. In Seller Admin > Edit Affiliate Program Settings, un-check "List affiliate program in E-junkie Marketplace", and also remove any sign-up links you have posted on your site or elsewhere, and optionally replace them with a link to your site's contact form with suitable link text (e.g., "Click here to apply for our affiliate program").



This way, new affiliates will need to apply to join by contacting you, then if you approve, you can personally email them your sign-up link URL, which would be the href= URL from your sign-up code, like this example (the XXX and YYY parts would of course be unique to your own link):



https://www.e-junkie.com/affiliates/?cl=XXXXXX&ev=YYYYYYYYYY