Affiliates

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Affiliates

This is the section where you can see all the affiliates registered on the site, their statuses and you can manage their information. Click on the column headers to sort the list based on the information on the column.The buttons on the top right toolbar have the following functions:

• Check – is a function that checks if all the users in Joomla! are added into the list of affiliates. It is executed by default on installation and you only need it if you import more users or add users in some other way then by adding them one by one in the “Manage users” page.
• Approve – is allowing you to set one or more affiliates as approved. You need to select them from the list before using the button.
• Decommission – is allowing you to deactivate one or more affiliates. You need to select them from the list before using the button.
• View – is displaying the details of an affiliate, allowing you to modify his details. You need to select him from the list. If more then one is selected the details of the first one will be displayed.
  After the information is displayed you can click the “Edit” button to modify it.

• Add new – is allowing you to add more affiliates. You need to have users defined in Joomla! That are not yet added as affiliates. This is an alternative of using the “Check” button and adding the affiliates one by one.
• Edit – is allowing you to access the window to modify the affiliate's details directly. It is opening the same window as by clicking “View” and then “Edit” in the “View” window.
• Delete – is allowing you to delete one or more affiliates. They will not be deleted from Joomla!, only from wizAffiliates. You can use the “Add new” button to define them as affiliates again later. You need to select them from the list before using the button.
• Help – will open a page with this instructions.

Here is the window with the details of an affiliate:

Here is what you have to enter in each field:

• User – Is the user that controls the affiliate and can't be modified.
• Affiliate status – Allows you to set the status of the affiliate. Only the active affiliates get commissions.
• Commission category – Here you can select the category of the commission that the affiliate is assigned to. Based on it the commissions are calculated.
• User Friendly Link (suffix) – This is a field used only with SEF activated. If will replace “wiz_id=affiliate_id” with the value you set here so you have a friendly URL. You will also be able to use an URL like “www.domain.com/suffix” for an affiliate link. The extension will open the hope page of the site ( if not otherwise set ) and will generate the cookie for the visitor to be assigned to the selected affiliate.
• Allow referring affiliate to see I registered – Set this to “Yes” if you want to allow the referrals to see what users they referred have registered. If set to “No” the referrals will only be able to see the number of their affiliates.
• First name – Set the first name of the affiliate.
• Last name – Set the last name of the affiliate.
• Street – Set the street of the address of the affiliate.
• City – Set the city of the address of the affiliate.
• State – Set the state of the address of the affiliate.
• Country – Set the country of the address of the affiliate.
• Zip code – Set the zip code of the address of the affiliate.
• Phone – Set the phone of the affiliate.
• Terms and conditions accepted – This field is telling you if the affiliate clicked the link to accept the terms and conditions of the site. You can manually set it as he did or you can ask him to accept them again ( if you set this to “No” ).
• Referred by – Here you can set the referral of the affiliate. This value is influencing the commissions. You can modify it at any point and the affiliates that were referred by the affiliate you are modifying ( if he has any ) will be moved from the tree of the original referral ( if any ) to the new one.
• Receive referrals – This is a parameter that allows you to set wizAffiliates to asign the users that were not referred by anybody to a specified affiliate. To be more clear, in case a user registered without clicking an affiliate link first, he will not have an referral. This parameter is allowing you to set that referral to a specified affiliate.
• Ordering to receive referrals – The referrals that receive affiliates can be more then one. This parameter is allowing you to set the order in which the affiliates will be assigned and each one from the list will receive one in the order set by this parameter.
• Next assigned – This parameter is allowing you to set which user will get the next unassigned affiliate. It is used only for the next affiliate assigned and will be automatically changed to the next user based on the parameter “Ordering to receive referrals”.
• Select the preferred payment gateway – Here you have the list with the payment gateways and their required parameters. In order for an affiliate to receive commissions he has to select one of the payment gateways and set all it's parameters.

Commissions

This is the section where you can see all the commissions of the affiliates, view and change their status, approve or deny them. The buttons from the top right toolbar have the following functions:

• Approve – Is allowing you to approve one or more commissions. You need to select them from the list before using the button.
• Deny – Is allowing you to deny one or more commissions. You need to select them from the list before using the button.
• Edit – You can modify the status of a commission seeing a detailed view of it. You need to select the commission from the list before using the button. If more then one is selected the first one is displayed and you can modify it.
• Help – Is displaying a page with this instructions.

The fields on the “Edit” commission are explained below:

• Commission status – is the current status of the commission and you can change it.
• Affiliate – is the affiliate that will get the commission. This can't be changed. It is displayed only to offer relevant information for changing the status of the commission.
• Commission source – is the source that generated the commission. This can't be changed either.
• Commission generator – is the name of the user based on the action ( order in a shopping cart for example ) which the commission is generated. This can't be changed.
• Level – is the level of the affiliate, starting from the user placing the order that generated the commission. This can't be changed.
• Value – is the value of the commission. This can't be changed.

Payments

This is the section where the payments are displayed and you can manage them. The buttons on the top right toolbar have the following functions:

• Check – is used to check if there are any users with the total commission higher then the “Minimum commission amount” set in the control panel of wizAffiliates, “Commissions” tab. The function is also executed with the “Cron” function. It is placed here just for an extra check.
• Pay – You can send a payment using this button. If the affiliate set as his preffered payment method one that can be used over the Internet to send money the moderator can make the payment. Otherwise the payment has to be done using other means and the moderator has to manually set the payment as sent.
• Decline – This is allowing you to set the payment as declined.
• Delete – Will delete the selected payments. This will not change the status of the commissions.
• Help – will open a page with this instructions.

Banners

This is the section where you can manage the banners. The top right toolbar buttons have the following functions:

• Add new – Is allowing you to add more banners.
• Edit – You can modify exiting banners using this.
• Delete – You can delete one or more banners using this. You need to select the commission from the list before using the button.
• Help – Will display a page with this instructions.

The parameters of a banner are explained below:

• Name – Set the name for the banner. It will influence only how it is displayed in the banners list both in front and back-end sections of the site.
• Type – You can have 3 tipes of banners:
  • wizAffiliates – is making an affiliate link to the front-end page of wizAffiliates
  • Menu item – you can select a menu item and display is as an affiliate link in the banner.
  • Custom URL – allows you to make an affiliate link from any URL of the site.
• Open the link in a new page – Is setting the “target” attribute of the banner. Will open the linked page in a new window or in the same window, depending on how it is set.
• Banner image – is displaying a list of images uploaded on the site in wizAffiliates's banners folder. You can upload more by clicking “Click here to add more images”.
• Banner text – is allowing you to set a text for the banner. If no image is selected the banner is made using only this text. Otherwise the text is used as the “alt” attribute for the image.