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Downline Builder

Or also called as network builder. And we introduced this feature in DAP v4.4.

We call it DAP “Upline” – basically a shortcode called [DAPUpline] that allows you (site admin) to display the person’s upline’s affiliate code to the person. So in effect, it is a downline builder.

1) John joins your site
2) John fills out profile with (say) his ClickBank nickname
3) John refers Adam
4) When Adam logs in, he sees affiliate link to some xyz third party product, but CB nick in the affiliate link is replaced with John’s CB nickname.
5) Adam fills out his profile with his own CB nickname
6) Adam refers Jill
7) When Jill logs in, she sees affiliate link to same third party product, but cbnickname is replaced with Adam’s CB nickname.

This can be done with any number of third-party programs, as long as the nickname can be easily replaced with the info provided by the upline affiliate.

DAP even takes this one step further.

When Jill joins through Adam’s DAP affiliate link, if Adam has not filled out his CB nickname in his profile, then the third-party CB link shows CB Nickname of Site Admin in its place.

So if an affiliate fails to claim his affiliate link, then site admin gets credit for it (and all such links).

Here’s the documentation for [DAPUpline]

Processing Offline Payments

DAP supports offline payments.

Your buyer does not have to necessarily pay using one of our supported payment processors. You can also use un-supported processors, like say a physical Check/Cheque, Western Union, Wire Transfer, Bank Deposit, etc.

So when someone pays you offline, if you just want to give them access to a product or membership level, then see:

Creating New Users Manually

If you also want to record (or book) the payment in DAP, so that DAP can include the payment in the Admin reports, then keep reading.

Adding A Manual Transaction

And normally, when the user logs in after they’ve received the login information from DAP, when they log in, if they had an affiliate cookie on their system, the affiliate will get credit for their purchase, and will get credited the commission within an hour of their logging in (when the hourly DAP cron runs).

But if you want to override this and manually give some other affiliate credit for the purchase, then see:

Manually Crediting Affiliates

 

Affiliate Link Landing Page

Your DAP affiliate link (for DAP on your site, for your affiliates) by default will take the visitor to your home page.

If you wish to point this default landing page to some other URL – like, say, your squeeze page at http://YourSite.com/squeeze-page/ – then you can change this default landing page URL setting at:

DAP Admin > Setup > Config > Default Landing Page for Affiliates

Please note that this will change the landing page for ALL “default” affiliate links – except those using special redirection.

So it will affect all default affiliate links that look like this:

http://YourSite.com/dap/a/?a=1234

But it will not affect affiliate links where they’re already setting a special landing page, like:

http://YourSite.com/dap/a/?a=1234&p=yoursite.com/some-cool-blog-post/

Affiliate Commissions For Offline Payments

DAP is one of the very few membership platforms that will let affiliates earn commissions on offline payments too.

And in fact, DAP will credit affiliates for not just offline payments, but for any payments that you accepted outside of the payment options listed on your web site.

So, for example, you’re using Paypal and Authorize.net buttons on your site. And someone wants to send you a check (cheque) in the mail, or they want to send you money via Western Union, or wire transfer, or they call you and you accept their credit card information by phone, or any other such offline methods.

In this case, DAP can still give credit to the right affiliate for the sale. Here’s how…

1) Add Manual Transaction

  • First you add the user manually, by going to DAP Admin > Users > Add.
  • Once you’ve added them to the product, come back to DAP Admin > Users > Manage.
  • Search for the user by email
  • On the user data row for that Product, initially, under Trans Id column, it will show PAID (see image below)
  • Step 1: Enter a manual transaction by clicking on Add Trans (which stands for “Add Transaction”). That will record your offline payment in DAP. So now there’s an actual payment associated with that user’s sign up.
  • When you click on the “Add Trans” link, you will see a small popup appear (see image below) that allows you to manually enter an order. So if the offline payment was for say $97, then you would enter “97” or “97.00” in the “Order Amount” field and click on “Submit”.
  • Once you’ve entered a manual order, the “Trans Id” column will change from “PAID” to an actual transaction id.

That’s it.

By this time, the user would’ve received their “Welcome Email” from DAP, which will have their login info to log in to your site.

And when they log in, if they have an affiliate cookie set in their browser (which they would, if they had clicked on an affiliate link at some point before they contacted you and asked you about a non-standard, offline payment method), then when they first log in to your member’s area, DAP will pick up the referring affiliate’s id from the affiliate cookie, and give credit to them for the sale.

And when the DAP hourly cron runs at the top of the next hour, that affiliate will be credited with any commissions that you’ve set up for that product.

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Leveraging Multiple Affiliate Networks

DAP is so powerful and flexible, that you can sell access to your membership through different payment processors, all at the same time.

And we often get asked how to leverage different affiliate networks like ClickBank and JVZoo and Warrior Plus at the same time while making sure no affiliate commissions are lost, and every affiliate gets credited their commissions for sending potential buyers to your site.

The Big Picture

1) If buyer arrives ONLY through DAP affiliate link, and ends up purchasing through ANY payment processor, then DAP affiliate will get credit.

2) If buyer arrives ONLY through CB affiliate link, and ends up purchasing through CB payment processor, but the buyer has a different DAP affiliate’s cookie from a link he clicked on at some point before (but did not purchase at that time, say), then both CB affiliate and DAP affiliate will get credit (double commissions on same purchase, but to two different affiliates).

If there’s no DAP cookie on his computer, then only CB affiliate will get the commission.

If the DAP affiliate “chains” two of his own affiliate links – his DAP affiliate link and CB affiliate link – like shown below, then same affiliate will get both CB commission as well as DAP commission. Again, double commissions but to same person.

http://YourSite.com/dap/a/?a=1234&p=http://hop.clickbank.net…./

3) If buyer arrives ONLY through JVZOO affiliate link, and ends up purchasing through JVZOO payment processor, but the buyer has a different DAP affiliate’s cookie from a link he clicked on at some point before (but did not purchase at that time, say), then both JVZOO affiliate and DAP affiliate will get credit (double commissions on same purchase, but to two different affiliates).

If there’s no DAP cookie on his computer, then only JVZOO affiliate will get the commission.

If the DAP affiliate “chains” two of his own affiliate links – his DAP affiliate link and JVZOO affiliate link – like shown below, then same affiliate will get both JVZOO commission as well as DAP commission. Again, double commissions but to same person.

http://YourSite.com/dap/a/?a=1234&p=http://jvzoo.com/c/1944/17

The Right Setup For Multiple Affiliate Networks

To make sure that you’re not paying double-commissions on purchases, and also to make sure that sales don’t get lost between affiliate networks (and your affiliates losing their commissions in the process), you have to set things up the right way.

The main thing to do, is to create a separate set of the following for each affiliate network:

  • A separate DAP product
  • A separate Sales Page
  • A network-specific buy button on that sales page
  • If it’s a product that is sold through CB or JVZoo or DigiResults (or any of the affiliate networks), then DO NOT set up commissions for that Product in DAP. So that will prevent you paying a commission to, say, a CB affiliate as well as a DAP affiliate for the same purchase.

So the net effect of this, is…

If a CB affiliate sends traffic to a page, that page must have a CB buy link ONLY on that page. If you have, say, a JVZoo button on that same page, and the buyer buys through the JVZoo link, then the CB affiliate will get no commissions for that purchase. Which means, they will stop promoting your product because you’re basically funnelling off their visitors to a different affiliate network.

Similarly, the landing page for JVZoo affiliates must have only JVZoo buy buttons.

Landing page for a regular payment processor – like Paypal or Authorize.net – should have only a Paypal and/or Authorize.net buy button (and no CB or JVZoo buy buttons). In this case, for these products in DAP, you should set up an affiliate commission row on the “Affiliates > Manage” screen, so that your DAP affiliates can get credited for sales made through your regular web site.

 

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Affiliate Link Chaining

Updated: 09/03/2013

This will be very useful to you if you own multiple DAP-Powered membership sites, and you want your affiliates to set affiliate cookies for multiple DAP sites all at once.

DAP allows your affiliates to set the cookie, and then redirect the visitor to any web site URL they want. That second link could be yet another affiliate link from another DAP site, or any affiliate link for that matter.

This allows your affiliates the ability to drop their affiliate cookie on the visitor’s computer for multiple DAP sites. So if they visitor goes on to buy from any of the “network” sites (all powered by DAP), they will get the credit for the sale.

This article is about setting 2 separate DAP affiliate cookies (from two separate membership sites) with one single user-click.

A Tale Of Two Cookies 🙂

Let’s say you have DAP running on two separate web sites. SiteA.com and SiteB.com

You have someone who is an affiliate on both sites. They have user id 1111 on SiteA.com, and user id 2222 on SiteB.com

So here’s how they can create a link that drops two separate DAP affiliate cookies from two different domains on the visitor’s computer, so the affiliate can get credit for any sales happening on either web site.

  • Your affiliate’s link for SiteA.com is http://SiteA.com/dap/a/?a=1111
  • Now redirect that to a intermediate auto-redirecting page on any of those two sites (doesn’t matter. So let’s pick SiteA.com. And this redirect page – let’s call it redirect.html – is a simple HTML page with a meta-refresh tag as shown below:<html>
    <head>
    <META HTTP-EQUIV=”Refresh” CONTENT=”0;URL=http://SiteB.com/dap/a/?a=2222“>
    </head>
    </html>
  • If you see the URL value in the above text, you’ll see that the above page is basically doing a simple and instant redirect to the 2nd affiliate link – which is http://SiteB.com/dap/a/?a=2222
  • So the main affiliate link becomes http://SiteA.com/dap/a/?a=1111&p=www.SiteA.com/redirect.html

That’s it!

So basically, here’s what’s happening:

The first affiliate link (with extra redirection at the end)…

http://SiteA.com/dap/a/?a=1111&p=www.SiteA.com/redirect.html

Redirects to…

www.SiteA.com/redirect.html

And redirect.html in turn redirects the visitor to…

http://SiteB.com/dap/a/?a=2222

That ends the chain. But if you want to take it further, keep reading.

If you want the final landing page to be say SiteC.com/some-page/ then your HTML code for redirect.html becomes…

<html>
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV=”Refresh” CONTENT=”0;URL=http://SiteB.com/dap/a/?a=2222&p=www.SiteC.com/some-page/“>
</head>
</html>

Hope this helps.