Affiliate Marketing: Bills and Payment Methods

The Affiliate Marketing System allows you to configure bills and payment methods. You can set the threshold for generating commission fee bills, set the billing date, and specify the supported payment methods.

Once the billing date is set, the system will tally referral orders meeting the conditions, approved, and outside the commission fee lock-up period to generate the monthly bill on each monthly billing date.

The commission fee payment method allows you to define the available payment methods for affiliates to select from. You can manage the commission fee payment method within the distribution system and hide unsupported payment methods.

Billing Threshold

You can set a minimum amount for generating commission fee bills. On the monthly billing date, the distribution system will generate the bill for the current month. In each bill, the amounts will be aggregated per affiliate. You can view the amount you need to pay to each affiliate.

The billing threshold setting is specific to each affiliate. When generating billings, affiliates whose outstanding commission fee is below this threshold will not be included in the billing statistics. You do not need to make commission fee payments to them in the current monthly bill.

The outstanding commission fee refers to the cumulative commission fee that has been approved and is outside the commission fee lock-up period.

Steps:

1. In the Affiliate Marketing System, click Settings and select Bills and payment methods.

2. In the Billing threshold section, set the billing threshold.

• • None (no threshold): Once the order is approved and outside the commission fee lock-up period, the corresponding commission fee will be included in the bill. There is no additional threshold limit, and the distribution system defaults to no threshold. 
  • Specific amount required: If selected, you can set the threshold amount.

3. Click Update.

Billing Date Setting

You have the option to set a calculation date for the monthly bill, which defaults to the 20th of each month. However, you have the flexibility to adjust this date according to your preference.

The billing date can be set between the 1st and 28th day of each month; however, it must not be later than the 28th day.

On the monthly billing date, the distribution system will generate the bill for the current month. Within the bill details, you can view the specific amount to be paid to each affiliate.

When a referral order is approved and outside the commission fee lock-up period, it will be included in the monthly bill.

You can modify the billing date at any time. When you do so:

• If the current month's bill has already been generated, the counting work in the next month will be based on the new billing date.
• If the current month's bill has not been generated yet, the counting work in the current month will be based on the new billing date.

Steps:

1. In the Affiliate Marketing System, click Settings and select Bills and payment methods.

2. In the Billing date setting section, fill in your desired date.

3. Click Update.

Payment Method

In the Payment method section, you can set the payment methods that are available for affiliates to choose from. The distribution system provides 3 payment methods by default. You can hide the ones you do not support within the distribution system.

You can modify the supported payment methods at any time. If you cancel some of them, affiliates who have selected the canceled payment method need to reset their receiving bank account based on the payment methods you currently support.

Steps:

1. In the Affiliate Marketing System, click Settings and select Bills and payment methods.

2. In the Payment method section, select the payment methods you support.

• • You need to select at least one payment method.
  • If you cancel a selected payment method, affiliates who have selected this method need to reset their receiving bank account based on the payment methods you currently support.

3. Click Update.