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Building an affiliate program using Podia | Setting up affiliate commissions

Learn the steps to set up affiliate commissions for your products.

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Written by Rodrigo
Updated over a month ago

This is Step 2 in our Building an affiliate program using Podia guide. Head over to the overview page to start at the beginning!

Setting up affiliate commissions

Once your affiliate program is open, it's time to set up commissions for your products.

Here's how to set up affiliate commissions for your affiliate program:

  1. From the Affiliates page, click on the Settings tab to access your commission options.

    Affiliate dashboard with a purple arrow pointing to the "Settings" tab, indicating it can be clicked to open affiliate settings.

  2. Once on your Affiliate settings page, you'll see options for setting up your commissions:

    • Default commissions - Set your default commission for each sale that’s referred by an affiliate.

    • Product-specific commissions - Override your default commission for specific products.

    Affiliate settings showing the "Default commission" section with different default commission options and Product-specific commissions options as well.

Let's take a look at each one of the commission options:

Default commission

Set a percentage or fixed amount commission that applies to all of your products.

If no product-specific commission is set, the default commission will be used when calculating affiliate sales.

Select the option and enter the value you'd like to use as your default commission:

Product-specific commissions

You can also set commissions for specific products. These will override the default commission rates for those particular products.

Here's how to set up product-specific commissions:

  1. Click on + New commission to get started.

    Affiliate settings screen with a purple arrow pointing to the "New commission" button, indicating it can be clicked to add a custom commission.

  2. Select a product from the dropdown menu and set a specific commission rate for this product.

    Product-specific commission setup with a sample product selected and a 25% commission chosen, with buttons to discard or add the commission.

  3. Click on Add commission to save your product-specific commission.

You can repeat this process multiple times if you'd like to add multiple product-specific commissions.


And that's it! You've now taken the steps to set up affiliate commissions for your affiliate program. When you're ready, let's head to Step 3 to add affiliates to your program.

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