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Can I set up the affiliate plugin so that the affiliate gets commission on referral’s first purchase?
Example: I just launched a program and had affiliates promoting it. An affiliate referred a customer that purchased the program. Then five days later, the customer bought an expensive package from me and the plugin shows that I am to payout for that as well.
Is there a way to set it so that I payout for the purchase that brought the customer over to me, but no more payouts after that?
Yes, there is a *workaround* way to do that but please not that this practice is a little unethical and against how affiliate softwares normally work. When an affiliate sends you a customer your way, that affiliate deserves commission for any sales made to that customer. Your affiliates will expect this behavior as it is a common practice.
For example, Lets say I am an affiliate of amazon.com. When I send a customer to their site I expect to get commission for any sale made to that customer. Amazon.com will give me commission for all purchases that the customer makes but if they didn’t then I would be upset.
Anyway, go to the affiliate plugin’s settings and set the cookie life field’s value to 1 day. This will make it to where the commission will only be given on the purchases made on the same day of the referral. This way if a customer purchase something 5 days later, the affiliate won’t get the commission anymore.
I see that you are using the eStore plugin. So you could also apply a different commission (maybe a low %) for this *special* product by using the product specific commission feature.
Okay. This is good to know. But something seems off to me here…
If I refer someone to a product on Amazon, are you saying that Amazon should pay me commission for anything and everything that customer purchases forever?
I used to be an affiliate for amazon and if someone purchased the book that I linked to, then yes – I got a commission. If that person later purchased a different product I never saw commissions on that. That would mean that EVERY PURCHASE ever made on Amazon.com by that customer – I would receive commission. That does not happen. Am I wrong here?
“If I refer someone to a product on Amazon, are you saying that Amazon should pay me commission for anything and everything that customer purchases forever?”
Yes that’s right but not “forever” and only as long as the cookie has not expired.
I have personally seen this in action for my own amazon affiliate account where I was receiving commissions for sales of items I was not specifically linking to.
If you go to amazon’s affiliate page now you will see the following message which should clear any doubt:
Earn advertising fees from Qualifying Purchases, not just the products you advertised.
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