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How to Pay Commission to Affiliates?

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Tips and Tricks HQ Support Portal › Forums › WP Affiliate Platform › WP Affiliate General Questions › How to Pay Commission to Affiliates?

Tagged: Affiliate platform, Commission, mass pay, Paying Affiliates, Paypal MassPay

  • This topic has 9 replies, 6 voices, and was last updated 12 years, 11 months ago by AThomas.
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  • March 17, 2011 at 8:52 pm #2976
    markluchauer
    Member

    I am considering purchasing the Affiliate Platform, however, I’m not sure how much time I will have to invest in sending out payments to my affiliates each month.

    Does the Affiliate Platform automatically send payments to my affiliates when they make a sale or will I have to pay them manually?

    Thank you so much!

    March 17, 2011 at 11:35 pm #30335
    wpCommerce
    Moderator

    Affiliate platform keeps track of the sales. It doesn’t automatically send payments to the affiliates. You will have to manually send the payments which is explained here:

    http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/how-to-make-a-paypal-mass-payment-1934

    March 18, 2011 at 12:18 am #30336
    markluchauer
    Member

    Thank you for the quick response.

    1. I noticed that in the admin section, there is a “Create Mass Pay File” button. That link above explaining mass payment made it seem like I would have to make it manually in a txt file. But, it seems like you have created a button in the admin section that does it for me. Great!

    One more question…

    2. Let’s say that I owe someone $5.00. If I use the “Create Mass Pay File” button to create a file to upload in Paypal. Then, send the payment via Paypal MassPay, will that person get $5.00 or will they be deducted a Paypal fee and get like $4.95? If they will be deducted a Paypal fee, it seems that I will get a lot of angry affiliates saying they did not receive their full payment.

    Thank you for your help with this!

    March 18, 2011 at 12:31 am #30337
    amin007
    Participant

    The affiliate will get the exact amount ($5.00). PayPal will charge you additionally for the mass payment (this does not come out of the affiliate’s money). Mass payment is a really cheap way to make payments to multiple PayPal email addresses. This post has more info for you on this:

    https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/mass-paying-affiliate-with-paypal

    March 18, 2011 at 2:25 am #30338
    markluchauer
    Member

    Thank you so much for the clarification on this! I absolutely love your WP-Estore plugin and will be getting your Affiliate Platform as well. You are very good with customer service as well and I very much appreciate that!

    November 14, 2011 at 6:29 pm #30339
    Roger MacRae
    Member

    Is there going to be an option to automatically pay affiliates. I only ask this because I recommend to my clients which products to use based on the features they need. Many of the affiliate programs out there have an option to make automatic payments to affiliates with options to hold the payment for a given amount of time. Not having this feature in your affiliate program is a serious drawback and makes me hesitant to use it (even though I have already purchased it) or recommend it to any of my clients.

    November 14, 2011 at 6:36 pm #30340
    markluchauer
    Member

    I would agree that this functionality would be awesome!!

    June 5, 2012 at 7:35 am #30341
    AThomas
    Member

    I would like to see this as well

    June 16, 2012 at 7:36 pm #30342
    yositsitsu
    Member

    @Roger MacRae: the paypal mass payout being manual is paypal’s “drawback”, not Affiliate Platform’s. Several affiliate software I know do it manually as well (including DAP).

    The automatic handling might be available though other services.

    Anyway, I would be glad to hear how can the process of rewarding affiliates automated.

    Anyone can give more specific information on what software and gateways support that?

    June 16, 2012 at 8:13 pm #30343
    AThomas
    Member

    it is definitely not a limitation of paypal. They even have sample code on their site for how to do it.

    here is the link https://cms.paypal.com/cms_content/US/en_US/files/developer/nvp_MassPay_php.txt

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