Affiliate Agreement (1)

To register as an affiliate you must have an active AffiliateWP license, that you own, and have used for 31+ days.
We review and moderate all affiliate registrations, and we appreciate your accurate and honest information. Please note that the review process may take a few days - we know you are eager to join our team of affiliates, and we appreciate your patience!
If you're approved, awesome! You'll be given a unique referral ID that you can use to promote AffiliateWP via referral links. Check out your private Affiliate Area for visits and referrals information, creatives, graphs?and more!
You'll earn a sweet 20% commission when a customer purchases a new AffiliateWP license subscription using your referral link. Here's the breakdown of earnings by each license level we sell:
We pay out affiliate commissions in USD?via PayPal in the first week of every month. As we have a 30-day money back guarantee, we only pay commissions that are older than 30 days. The minimum payout balance is $50.00, so you receive a decent chunk of cash when payouts come around. And there's no maximum payout balance, so go nuts!
To register as an affiliate you must have an active AffiliateWP license that you own (i.e. you may not?use a client's AffiliateWP license)
Commissions older than 30 days will be paid within the first week of each month
Referrals cannot be generated on your own purchases affiliate marketing amazon australia (this includes using a different email address).
When a potential customer clicks on your referral link, a cookie is stored in their browser to track your referral. The cookie is then stored for a generous 30 days to give your referred customers time to decide if they wish to purchase AffiliateWP, or ask us any pre-sale questions they may have.
The customer uses a different browser to purchase than the one they originally used to visit our site (because the cookie does not exist in that browser)
We use our own Direct Link Tracking pro add-on, so you can skip the referral link?(e.g. ?ref=123 or /ref/123) when you link to our site from your website. You can submit a direct link to your own website in the Settings tab of your Affiliate Area. We'll review your direct link submission, and when it's approved you'll no longer need to use a referral link?when linking to directly from your site! Awesome!
Note: Direct Link Tracking is only available if your site has an SSL certificate, and therefore the protocol. We will only approve websites that are 100% owned by you.
Referrals older than 30 days and in good standing (i.e. the purchase has not been refunded) will be included with each commission payout (if the commission balance totals $50.00 or over). If a purchase is refunded, a commission won't be paid out for that referral.
We reserve the right to reject affiliate commissions for any reason. Commission rejections may occur for the following reasons:
The method by which the referral was generated was in violation of our promotional policies (see below) or violated the spirit of the Affiliate Agreement.
By becoming an affiliate you agree to receive emails from AffiliateWP. These emails will be sent to affiliates only, on an ad-hoc basis, and may include important information regarding the AffiliateWP affiliate program. These emails will also provide you with relevant?news and updates to help you effectively promote AffiliateWP. As an affiliate you may be privy to embargoed or time-sensitive information in these emails (this information may only be promoted after an embargo is lifted). And we won't spam you, ever - promise!
We reserve the right to reject affiliate applications for any reason. We also reserve the right to choose whether we provide an explanation or reasoning for affiliate application rejection.?Affiliate applications for websites?that sell, advertise or engage in?pornography, phishing scams, spamming,?illegal business practices, or that include any material infringing on National or International Copyright will be rejected.
When you apply to become an affiliate we may email?you at the email address you have supplied with?some questions regarding your application. This may be because:
We'd like to learn a bit more about how you will promote AffiliateWP and need a little more detail.
If we reach out to you and we haven't heard back within 7 days, your application may be rejected. If your initial application is rejected, you are welcome to reapply to become an affiliate and?provide us with more detail for reconsideration.
Please don't leave us! We encourage all of our affiliates to actively promote AffiliateWP to keep earning referrals. If we can help you come up with ideas on how to promote AffiliateWP, please let us know - we're here for you! An affiliate account is considered dormant if no visits have been generated after?a 6-month period. A dormant affiliate account will be temporarily deactivated if no visits have been generated after 6 months. But we don't even want to go there right now, right?! Let's work together to help you start earning some cash!
How you promote AffiliateWP is reflected in the commission you earn! We encourage the use of promotional methods that add value to AffiliateWP and bring us legitimate, loyal customers. We love it when our team of affiliates blog about affiliate marketing and mention AffiliateWP.
Here are a few examples of awesome promotional methods to earn more commission:
Tell clients, customers or friends about AffiliateWP, and give them your affiliate referral link
Write a review or a blog post about affiliate marketing or AffiliateWP and link to our site with your referral link
Reach out to a broad audience with your social network accounts. Tweet about us on Twitter with your affiliate referral link, post about us on Facebook with your affiliate link, or communicate to your Linkedin followers about affiliate marketing with your affiliate link. Spam-free promotion is a great way to get more referrals!
Provide value to others by answering related questions on other sites with helpful responses, and using your referral link in your replies.
We love and back our product 100%, and we are very careful with how it's promoted, so we want affiliates who are 100% behind us too! The prohibited promotional methods listed below aren't meant to scare you off - they're here to protect you, and us, and our customers from any freaky or fraudulent activity, which is something we take pretty seriously. We know you'll understand. ?? But here they are in writing just in case you're not totally sure what is and what isn't allowed.
Customers who are searching for a coupon are already in the market for AffiliateWP, so this method adds no value to AffiliateWP.
Links, ads, emails, comments? any type of spam. Please respect the posting rules of any 3rd-party websites you use to promote AffiliateWP. P.S. This is not an exhaustive list of spam methods; if we decide that your activity is spam, it's spam.
This may result in referrals being rejected and/or your affiliate account being deactivated. See above for allowed and super cool promotional methods!
We're flattered, but please don't pretend to be professionally associated with AffiliateWP
Affiliates aren't employees of AffiliateWP or Sandhills Development and have no employee rights.
Cloning our site, copying our site, using our copyrighted site assets, and pretending that a site created by you is an official AffiliateWP?site is unethical and prohibited (this includes using services that automatically clone websites, or place them into iframes).
Again, false promotion to customers that you are endorsed or operated by AffiliateWP is prohibited (and super uncool).
If you're unsure or concerned that some activity you're about to proceed with may be considered prohibited, please ask us. ??
If your promotional methods step outside of these terms, your referrals may be rejected and we may disable your affiliate account. We reserve the right to do this and may or may not notify you in the instance that this occurs. Please use allowed?promotional methods, and?help us to help you succeed as an?affiliate!
The following types of sites are not permitted to become an affiliate: adult sites, sites that display adult material or banners, sites that promote violence, hatred or bigotry, sites that promote or engage in illegal activity, including (but not limited to), hacking, cracking, nulled, and warez sites. Affiliate applications for inappropriate websites will be rejected, and we reserve the right to choose whether or not to provide a rejection reason.
By accepting these terms and conditions you are providing your nonlegal agreement to abide by them. By registering and being approved as an affiliate in our affiliate program you agree that your commissions are subject to approval before they are accepted and subsequently paid.
Phew! Sound good? Great! Thanks for taking the time to read through these T's and C's and for agreeing to them. We can't wait to have you on board!