What
is a Merchant?
A
Merchant is any web site that offers other web
sites (affiliates), online-ads and links to
their products and services, and agrees to pay
those affiliates a commission for leads or sales
that result from their site.
What
is an Affiliate?
An
Affiliate is an independent party, or web site,
that promotes the products or services of a
Merchant via selected approved media in the form
of banners and links in exchange for a
commission.
What
is a CPA (cost per action) advertising program?
Any
type of revenue sharing program where an
Affiliate web site receives a commission for
delivering a visitor to a Merchants site, and/or
for generating a lead or sale for that
advertiser.
What
are the requirements for being a Merchant?
A
Merchant has a product or service they want to
advertise and sell via the Internet. All
Merchants must apply to join and are screened by
Checkmystats staff. New Merchants agree to pay a
set-up fee to activate their program. To set up
a merchant program, merchants must have creative
content (i.e. banners, text links, product
links) to advertise these products or services. Review
our acceptance criteria.
Can
I participate if I live outside the country?
Yes
you can. Checkmystats.com.au is available to
Merchants who reside outside Australia.
Currently all Affiliate commissions are
paid in Australian dollars.
How
do the Affiliates get paid?
Checkmystats aggregates each Affiliate's total commissions earned each month
from all merchants they partner with, and all of the links used. If this
amount exceeds AU$50, Checkmystats sends the Affiliate either a cheque,
direct deposit or online payment via PayPal. For this reason,
each merchant is required to keep a balance of AUD$200 in their
Checkmystats account so their Affiliates can be paid by Checkmystats.
Do
I have to serve my own banners and pay for ad
serving?
No,
Checkmystats serves every ad, banner, and link
in the network for each Merchant at no
additional cost.
What
type of shopping cart does your system work
with?
The
Checkmystats system will work with 99% of all
shopping carts.
How
much is it really going to cost us?
A
Merchant only pays for valid traffic of which a
commission is paid to your Affiliate and a
service fee is paid to Checkmystats.
EXAMPLE ONE: If you, a Merchant, offer $0.10 per
click and an affiliate sends you a valid
click, the affiliate earns $0.10 and
Checkmystats earns a $0.03 service fee, so the
total will be $0.13. The $0.13 is then deducted
from your escrow account.
EXAMPLE TWO: If you, the Merchant, are offering 20% commission on each sale and
if an Affiliate sends you a valid sale for example $100, the Affiliate earns $20
and Checkmystats earns a $2.50 service fee, so the total will be $22.50, which is
then deducted from your escrow account.
In order to protect affiliates from Merchant non-payment, we require that all
Merchants open an escrow account. All Affiliate payout and service fees will be deducted
from this account as they occur. The minimum escrow starting balance is $200.00 AUD
and can be topped up at anytime please
see
price guide for latest information.
Tracking
Code
The following two
sets of code will provide tracking for two
different types of campaigns.
Fixed Lead
This tracking code relates to a fixed lead/sale
(defined on the campaign in checkmystats) - the
code would be installed on the Thank-you or
confirmation page after the sale/lead has taken
place.
Where XXXX is the campaign ID. We can optionally
add tracking to this lead script to collect
email address or any unique reference to allow
you to trace back leads.
Sales Percentage
This tracking code relates to a percentage based
sales track, the amount string needs to be
defined and order_id by your system/shopping
basket to enable checkmystats to calculate a
percentage of the order total to pass back to
Affiliates.
Where AXXXXX is any defined system order number
(checkmystats will record this in the merchant
stats area) and XX.XX is the total value of the
transaction. MD5 Signature is optional security
for checking orders.
Further options are included automatically for
Multi Currency Support for real-time currency conversion.
The system has a variety of built in safety
features to identify fraudulent commission
claims from affiliates.
-
The system operates a unique IP system where by
a visitor is only unique to a Checkmystats merchant once in any 24 hour period,
therefore repetitive clicking will not rack up commission on a PPC campaign.
-
Order_id /
Email address can be extracted from your own
system to confirm lead/sale is 100%
accurate.
-
Md5 signature
for option confirmation of lead/sale.
-
URL from - System detects if the tracking code
is being sub-hosted on another domain to rack up false leads/sales
-
Built in
fraud flagging for irregular lead generation
- for example, lots of leads in a very short
space of time, then none.
We operate a very
strict policy on fraud control, if an affiliate
is found in any way shape or form to be
operating against the rules of the system, they
will be removed and commission earned will be
refunded to the merchants concerned, legitimate
or not.
Currency
Support
Multi currency Support now
available AUD,USD,GBP,EUR,NZD and many more just advise us of your
currency and we will add it.
