This is Step 3 in our Building an affiliate program using Podia guide. Head over to the overview page to start at the beginning!
Adding affiliates to your program
Now that you have an open affiliate program and have set commissions for your program, it's time to start bringing people into it!
We don't automatically notify your customers that you've turned on an affiliate program, so you'll need to manually let them know.
You can manually invite affiliates, send a broadcast email to your customers letting them know about the affiliate program and inviting them to join, or encourage them to sign up directly on your product pages.
Let's take a look at the most common ways customers can join your affiliate program:
Inviting affiliates
Having customers/affiliates sign up for products
Inviting affiliates
If your affiliate program is set to Open or Invite-only, you can invite people to your affiliate program directly from your Podia dashboard.
Here's how to invite affiliates:
To invite a new affiliate, click on the "Invite affiliate" button from your Affiliates page.
On the next page, enter the email address of the person you'd like to invite as an affiliate and click on "Send invite".
Invited affiliates will receive an email asking them to join your affiliate program.
Clicking on the button will take them to your site where they'll be able to set up their accounts. Once they're all set, they'll be automatically directed to their Affiliate dashboard.
Having customers/affiliates sign up directly
If your affiliate program is set to open, people can also become affiliates by signing up for products on your site.
Here's how customers can become affiliates by signing up for products:
Customer signs up for a product
Customers access the product by accessing their customer dashboard
Customers access the Affiliate area on their customer dashboard by clicking on their avatar and selecting Affiliate.
To complete the signup process, they'll be asked to enter their PayPal email address so they can be paid.
After connecting their PayPal email address, they'll be taken to their affiliate dashboard.
And that's it! You've now taken the steps to invite affiliates to your program. When you're ready, head to Step 4 to learn how to pay affiliates.