How to send your affiliates their links

In this article, you will learn how to send affiliate links to your affiliates so that they can promote your products.

You will need:

a systeme.io account
a sales funnel

In systeme.io, affiliate links have the following structure: https://yourpagelink?sa=AFFILIATEID.

To learn how to set up your affiliate program with systeme.io, read this article.

Each contact will need to share a unique link to your page in order to promote your offer and earn commissions on each sale.

There are 2 ways to share your affiliate links:

1. Publishing your offer on the marketplace:

For detailed instructions on how to publish your offer on the marketplace, please read this article.

2. Send your affiliate links to your affiliates:

To share your affiliate link automatically, use the {affiliate_id} variable in your email. This will generate the affiliate ID of each contact.

Example: Aurelian wants to send an affiliate link to each of his affiliates, so they can promote systeme.io.

The offer link: https://systeme.io/

What to include in the email: https://systeme.io/?sa={affiliate_id}

By including the affiliate ID as part of the email, each affiliate will automatically receive their own affiliate link to promote systeme.io.

IMPORTANT: In order for your affiliates to keep track of the number of contacts and sales they have made, they'll need access to their affiliate dashboard.

2.1 How to send the affiliate ID and affiliate dashboard link to your affiliates:

Step 1: Create a special squeeze page for your affiliate program, and set up a field to capture email addresses (How to create a squeeze page or a pop-up)

IMPORTANT: With systeme.io, an affiliate ID is generated automatically for every contact on your email list allowing them to promote your affiliate program.

However, to better identify and communicate with your affiliates, we recommend that you create a specific squeeze page where they can subscribe to your affiliate program and get tagged with an "Affiliate" tag.

Step 2: Create an automation rule to automatically send an email whenever a new affiliate subscribes. To modify the email message contents, click on the pencil icon.

Step 3: You can include the following variables in your email:

The {affiliate_id} variable to send each subscriber their affiliate ID
The {affiliate_dashboard} variable to provide access to their affiliate dashboard.

As part of your email, you can also include an affiliate link to one or several of your offers by following this structure:

https://yourpagelink?sa={affiliate_id}

Final notes:

Links to share sales funnels are also affiliate links. (Click here to find out how to share a sales funnel)
The tracking works with all pages created with systeme.io. (including any page on which you added a form created with systeme.io, such as your website or blog).