Important
As of March 31, 2020, Cleverbridge no longer issues payouts to affiliates through the Affiliate
An individual or a company that markets a product to potential customers. The Affiliate receives a commission on a specific action (also called event: e.g., sale, lead, click, visit etc.) previously agreed upon with you, the advertiser. Each action is tracked via a unique tracking link from Partnerize.
An affiliate is also called a publisher. Center. If you choose to continue using the Affiliate Center to manage your affiliates, you are responsible for paying them out based on the performance reports generated by the Cleverbridge platform.
If you no longer want to handle affiliate payouts yourself, ask us about upgrading to Partnerize, our newest performance marketing solution.
You can use the Partner A company that buys your products in bulk for a discounted price and resells them to their customers for a profit. In legal terms, a partner is a regular customer as there is no partnership agreement with Cleverbridge in place./Affiliate Group portal in the Commerce Assistant to add, view, and edit a partner/affiliate group.
- In the main menu, select Channel Management > Add Partner/Affiliate Group. The Partner/Affiliate Group portal opens.
- In the General section, enter an easily recognizable name based on characteristics of the partner/affiliate group.
- Optionally, select a product list. This ensures affiliates can only access products from a pre-defined list.
- Click Save. The partner/affiliate group is available to be selected for an affiliate in the Affiliate portal.
