Why we require minimum commisions and affiliate tracking dashboards for partnership
There are a few reasons we have decided to do this as a company:
Some partners in the past have offered coupon codes or analytics tracking in leu of an affiliate link/program. Coupon codes leave us unable to effectively track conversions and halo sales as well as conversions after promotion. Because of this the numbers we can piece together to measure the effectiveness of the partnership and campaign may be unfair and inaccurate. As we use these numbers to make future partnership decisions, we feel this is not an ideal partnership option.
Here are tools and platforms we have had a good experience using in case they help.
ThiveCart
ThiveCart is the most amazing all in one platform have seen with a price that is even more amazing as it is a one time, lifetime price! Us and partner have run 6 and seven figure launches on the platform with no issues. It includes an amazing and highly optimized checkout, the ability to build one click up-sell pages, in cart bump offers, subscriptions and one time payments and so much more! Seriously this platform could run your entire business assuming you are doing landing pages vs a store with multiple cart items at a time. Enjoy!
Learn more and purchase ThriveCart here.
P.S. If you are looking to sell multiple items in a more traditional storefront be sure to check out Thinkific, Shopify and Woocommerce bellow.
Thinkific
Thinkific is an amazing membership and course delivery platform. We use it to provide download and streaming access to our customers.
Their platform can handle anything you can throw at it and their documentation, API and customer support has been wonderful from our extensive experience with them. It has built in checkout system, affiliate system, video analytics, download and streaming access and much more.
Learn more about and purchase Thinkific here.
Shopify
If you are looking for a robust, fast and fully fledged store platform then look no further. Shopify is typically used for physical products and has shipping functionality built in, but also can be a great option for digital storefronts with some easy to add apps for download delivery and an affiliate system.
To learn more about Shopify click here.
Woocommerce
If you are looking for a really good and FREE WordPress plugin that will allow you to sell physical or digital products with a full cart, checkout and customer account setup, then look no further than Woocommerce!
For the first 7 years of business, 5DayDeal used Wordpress and Woocommerce to handle more than 120,000 orders from our first 15 bundle events over a total of 75 days. It is powerful, robust and a great option. The only downside or caution we would give on this system is that by the time you add hosting, plugins, development and other expenses at a large scale sometimes a platform like Thinkfic with a cart like ThriveCart above can be much more cost effective in the long run.
You can learn more about Woocommerce by clicking here.
AffiliateWP
If you are using Wordpress and Woocommerce for your store and website, then do yourself a favor and use AffiliateWP for your affiliate system. Their plugin, code and support is unbeatable in the wordpress space from our experience. The affiliate plugin can do everything we ever needed and much more and you can reach out with any questions or issues and get a fast and helpful response or resolution every time.
To learn more about AffiliateWP click here.
SendOwl
If you are needing a great secure download platform that can scale easily SendOwl is a great one. It has its own minimal checkout as well as a good affiliate system built in and also has seemless integration with Shopify if you want to use that for your storefront and checkout.
To learn more about SendOwl click here.