This tab sets the configuration for your affiliate marketing, rewards, and network marketing options
Affiliate Settings

• Enable / Disable the affiliate marketing system
• Set new account registrations as affiliates automatically
• Set the default affiliate registration group.
• New Commission Status – Pay on the total cart amount or per product commissions
• If you want to manually approve affiliate registrations, enable it here
• Set Default Landing Page – If you want referrals to land on a different URL on your site, you can set the relative path here
• Enable Affiliate Lifetime Sponsor – If you want to pay the same affiliate with all the purchases of a specific user for all time, enable this option.
• Require affiliate referrals to be set when a customer checks out and pays.
• Auto Approve Affiliate Commissions – If you want to approve all commissions immediately once it is generated, enable it here.
• Enable recurring commissions if you sell membership / subscriptions
• Set the minimum payment amount
• Allow affiliates to directly link to specific products on your site
• If you want to set a different referral variable for custom affiliate links, set the variable here
• Show active downline users for network marketing settings

            Tracking

• Affiliate Link Type – Set to the following if you want:
• Regular – https://domain.com/username
• Subdomain – https://username.domain.com
• Custom – a custom affiliate link you set under the Custom Affiliate Link URL setting
• If you want the affiliate tracking cookie to be overwritten by a new one every time a user clicks on an affiliate link, enable this option
• Affiliate Cookie Timer – the default is 365 days
• Track affiliate via IP Address
• When using subdomain links, enter the ones that are restricted here
• For custom affiliate links, enter it here if you are using one
• Prune Tracking logs after 365 days by default
• Set the minimum username length when registering
• If you set usernames randomly, set the type here for numeric or alphanumeric usernames
• If you want to allow tracking of sites outside of this eCommerce Suite, enable that here along with the commission tracking key
• If you want to use Google Analytics, enter the code here
• If you want to block specific URLs from referring to your site, set this option to enable and enter the URLs under Affiliates > Affiliate Traffic > Block Traffic

            Performance

• If you want to set rewards points, set the conversion rate here.  For example, 100 points equals 1 dollar

            Member Options

• If you want to show pending commissions in the members area, enable it
• Show Widget Profiles – If you want to show an affiliate’s widget profile on the sidebar for content pages
• Show Customer Data on Commissions - If you want to show the invoice and customer data on commission details in the members area, enable this option
• If you have downlines, you can allow members to view their downlines
• In Downlines, you can show the members emails for contact requirements

           
 Network Marketing
            * This tab only shows when you have a network marketing license key

• Affiliate Commission Levels – Up to 10 levels is supported
• Forced matrix – enable if you want to use this option and set the forced matrix width
• Forced Matrix Spillover – In Forced Matrix, if a downline has been filled, you can set the spillover affiliate option here.  You can set them to have no sponsor, a random sponsor ID, or a specific sponsor ID
• Set the Downline Viewing Option
• Allow Affiliates to Mass Email Their Downline from the Members Area