Affiliates overview

Affiliates lets you leverage partnerships to grow your revenue by rewarding others for selling your courses on your behalf. You set the commission, your affiliates share the links, and Kajabi tracks every conversion.

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Key benefits

• Manage affiliate registrations and accounts
• Track conversions and form submissions
• Automatically calculate earnings
• Create detailed reports

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Determine payout method

• Automatic Payouts reduce manual work by scheduling payments directly through PayPal.
• Manual Payouts give you full control over when and how affiliates are paid. Kajabi helps you track and batch Due commissions, but you send the money outside Kajabi (for example, PayPal, Wise, or cash).

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Set up a payout schedule

• Go to Transactions > Payouts to determine your preferred method of paying out your affiliates
• Create a payout schedule to keep transactions organized and set reminders to pay commissions

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Enable commissions

• Enable Affiliate Commission for your Offers

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Create Share Links or Affiliate Coupons

• Create Share Links to track referrals from affiliate traffic
• Create Affiliate Coupons to credit affiliates when their personalized code is used

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Affiliate Dashboard

The Affiliate Dashboard shows an overview of how your affiliates are performing. Set the Date range and Currency using the selectors above the graph to narrow down the data to review the following metrics:

• Total Sales: The total value of sales attributed to your affiliates, excluding refunds.
• Commission Earned: The total amount of commissions earned by your affiliates, excluding refunds.
• Form Submissions: The count of form submissions attributed to your affiliates.
• Sales Count: The count of both free and paid sales attributed to your affiliate.
• Leaderboard: A ranked list of your top affiliates.
• Top offers: A ranked list of your top-selling affiliate-related Offers

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Commission setup

Set up your affiliate’s commission percentage or amount for each Offer when it is purchased with their unique Share Link or personalized Coupon Code. Learn how to activate Affiliate Commission.

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Share Links and Affiliate Coupons

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Share Links

A Share Link is simply a URL that can lead to any site or page (even a site outside Kajabi). When a user clicks on a Share Link a cookie is placed in their browser based upon the referral conversion window you have set in your Affiliate settings. This cookie will attribute the visitor’s form submissions and purchases to the appropriate Affiliate. Create Share Links that lead to any URL, Landing Page, or Checkout Page. As long as the user completes a purchase of an Offer on Kajabi using the same browser where they originally clicked the Share Link, the sale will be credited to the Affiliate User.

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Affiliate Coupons

Unlike Share Links, when an Affiliate Coupon code is used to purchase an Offer from your site, the affiliate is credited with the transaction without needing to click a Share Link first. As an administrator, you can create Discounts that generate personalized coupon codes for each affiliate.

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Affiliate Users

Create and manage your Affiliate Users in the Users section of your Affiliate Dashboard. Click on an Affiliate User’s Name to:

• Review their individual affiliate statistics.
• Override their Affiliate Percentage.
• View which Share Links are available to each affiliate.
• View and update your affiliates’ personalized Coupon Code.
• Manually add an affiliate transaction.
• Export their form submissions, which contain the following:
  • Form Title
  • Form ID
  • Submission Date
  • Customer Name
  • Customer ID
  • Customer Email
  • Affiliate ID
  • Affiliate Name
  • Affiliate Email

See Managing your Affiliates for more details.

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Transactions

View all transactions credited to your Affiliate Users in Transactions. Learn more about the Affiliate Commission Workflow and how to manage Affiliate payouts and commissions to begin allocating commission and paying out your affiliates.

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Announcements

Communicate with every Affiliate User on your site by creating an Announcement. An Announcement sends an email to every affiliate, including a Title and Body text.

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Settings

Affiliate Settings in the top menu of your Affiliates page lets you customize the appearance of your Affiliate Dashboards and configure key elements of your affiliate program. Use Memos to convey useful information that your affiliates will see when they sign in. Use Resources to share files and links (e.g., promo creatives, swipe copy, calendars). A maximum of 10 resources can be added at any given time. Preview the dashboard to see the view your affiliates have when they log into their Portal. The Affiliate Signup Page is where individuals can register as your affiliate. Learn how to create a custom Affiliate Signup Page. The Affiliate Login page is where your registered affiliates log in to their own Affiliate Dashboard and view their sales metrics. The Referral Conversion Window determines the duration of an affiliate cookie in a visitor’s browser. Learn more about the Referral Conversion Window.

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Affiliate Portal

After an affiliate is added to your site manually or through registration, they receive an Affiliate User welcome email containing a link to set up their affiliate account and instructions on how to access their Affiliate Portal.

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Affiliate Portal features

• View their Stats within a specified time range:
  • Total Sales
  • Commissions earned
  • Clicks
  • Form submissions
• View the latest updates of your affiliate program in the Memo.
• Download or access Resources you’ve uploaded in your Affiliate Settings.
• Access their Share Links or their Personalized Coupon Code.
• Export their Purchase Summary Report.
• Change their Settings to update their profile, email preferences, and change their password.

See Affiliate Portal overview for more details.