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Building an affiliate program using Podia | Setting up your affiliate program

Take a look at the first steps for setting up your affiliate program on Podia and get things started.

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Written by Rodrigo
Updated over a month ago

This is Step 1 in our Building an affiliate program using Podia guide. Head over to the overview page to start at the beginning!

Setting up your affiliate program

By default, your affiliate program will be set to Closed before you go in and configure it.

Here's how to set up your affiliate program using Podia:

  1. From your Podia dashboard, click on Affiliates in the sidebar menu.
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  2. Click on Setup affiliate program.
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    Onboarding section encouraging affiliate program setup, with a paused video featuring a presenter and buttons to ‘Learn more’ or ‘Setup affiliate program.

  3. By default, your affiliate program will be set to Closed. To open up your affiliate program, change the availability to Invite-only or Open:

    1. Invite-only: only existing and invited affiliates can earn commission

    2. Open: anyone invited or existing customers can earn commission
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    Affiliate program settings showing three availability options: ‘Closed,’ ‘Invite-only,’ and ‘Open.’

And that's it! You've taken the first steps when it comes to setting up your affiliate program. Now, let's head to Step 2 to set up your affiliate commissions.

Step 2: Setting up affiliate commissions
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