Affiliate & affiliate payouts

1. Configuring the affiliate system

How to configure the affiliate tiers table.

• No. & Tier: The tier ranking from Level 1 to Level 5. The rule is simple: the higher the tier, the better the benefits and rewards.
• Name: The display name of each tier (for example Level 1, Level 2… you can rename them to Collaborator or Ambassador for a more professional feel).
• Discount: The discount passed directly to customers when they buy a course through that tier's affiliate link (for example, from Level 3 upward buyers get an extra 10% off).
• Referral commission: The percentage the affiliate actually earns on each successful referred order (for example rising from 5% at Level 1 to 15% at Level 5).
• Threshold (revenue milestone): The minimum accumulated commission an affiliate must reach before the system automatically promotes them to the next tier.
• Conditions: A detailed description or note about the qualifying criteria for that particular tier.
• Publisher column (turn the green switch on) Publisher: A manual override. When an admin enables this for any student, they are promoted straight to Level 3 and immediately earn 10% commission and 10% discount, without having to hit any revenue milestone.
• PRO column (turn the green switch on) PRO: An automatic override. As soon as a student pays to upgrade their account to the PRO (Ambassador) package, the system promotes them straight to Level 3 with no manual admin approval.

2. Affiliate payouts

In the admin interface -> choose Affiliate -> choose Payment history

What you need to know

Payment history contains two kinds of record:

Withdrawals

These are bonus withdrawal requests from students (from the rewards system, commissions and so on).

Rows with the Pending status are waiting for you to make the bank transfer.

-> Once you have transferred the money, click "Complete" to confirm it has been sent.

Incoming earnings

These are affiliate orders that a student successfully referred.

Orders with the Pending status are held for 7 days (to check that the order is not refunded or cancelled).

-> After 7 days the system moves them to Successful automatically, the money lands in the student's wallet, and only then can they submit a withdrawal request.

The Payment history screen shows the following columns, which are worth paying attention to:

• Details: student name & ID

• Amount

• Balance

• Bank: bank account details

• Type: incoming earnings / withdrawal

• Status: transaction status

• Reference: the bank transfer reference

• Created: the date the payment record was created

• Complete: tick the complete icon once the transaction has been approved.

Customers must add their bank account number in the affiliate dashboard before they can request a withdrawal.

Note: the instructor transfers the money manually, and must transfer exactly the amount shown in the system.

• On the 5th of each month, the system also creates withdrawal requests automatically for every account that has added a bank account number.