{"id":1139,"date":"2012-02-09T17:53:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T17:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2012\/02\/09\/introduction-to-affiliates-in-opencart\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T23:47:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T03:47:19","slug":"introduction-to-affiliates-in-opencart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/opencart\/introduction-to-affiliates-in-opencart\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Affiliates in OpenCart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenCart is extremely robust and gives you the option to pay affiliates who promote your products. This can help you promote specific products on your website and increase your sales. You can also set the percentage rate in which each affiliate is paid. Different affiliates can make different commission rates. You can also decide how they receive the commission payment (check, PayPal, and Bank Transfer).<\/p>\n<p>Affiliates are managed through your OpenCart Dashboard. Anyone can set up an affiliate account, but the OpenCart Administrator must approve it prior the tracking being used. Once the account has been approved in the OpenCart Dashboard, the affiliate can then retrieve their links to use so they can gain commissions.<\/p>\n<p>Here are our other tutorials on OpenCart Affiliates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/edu\/opencart\/manually-creating-affiliate-accounts-in-opencart\/\">Manually Creating Affiliate accounts in OpenCart<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/edu\/opencart\/creating-an-affiliate-account-as-a-customer-in-opencart\/\">Creating an Affiliate account as a customer in OpenCart<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/edu\/opencart\/approving-affiliate-accounts-in-opencart\/\">Approving OpenCart Affiliates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/edu\/opencart\/deleting-an-affiliate-account-in-opencart\/\">Deleting an Affiliate account in OpenCart<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you need further assistance please feel free to <a ferh=\"\/support\/community-support\/\">ask a question on our support center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Try web hosting with InMotion Hosting for OpenCart! \u00a0Go to <a href=\"\/opencart-hosting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OpenCart Hosting with InMotion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenCart is extremely robust and gives you the option to pay affiliates who promote your products. 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