BixGrow: Affiliate Marketing

BixGrow: Affiliate Marketing

• WHAT'S NEW: App updates & improvements
• What is BixGrow?
• How to install BixGrow: BixGrow is exclusively available for Shopify merchants, making integration into your store a straightforward process.
• Common Terms: Commonly used terms in BixGrow
• Merchant onboarding: It takes just 20–25 minutes to set up your affiliate program in BixGrow. Once everything is ready, it runs on autopilot — leaving you free to invite affiliates and grow referral sales.
• Get ready to launch your program: Set up all the core essentials so your affiliate program is branded, functional, and fully ready for affiliates to join.
• Test your setup: Once the foundation is in place, run a quick test to make sure tracking, conversions, and commissions work exactly as expected.
• Promote your affiliate program: After confirming everything is working smoothly, it’s time to share your program, attract affiliates, and start growing your referral sales.
• Affiliate onboarding: Jump in to join a program and start tracking rewards.
• Sign up and set up profile: Join the program by submitting application and getting approved.
• Share and promote: Promote the brand through posts, videos, reviews, and social platforms to reach the audience.
• Earn and track: Track clicks and orders, and receive generated payouts
• What is an affiliate program?: Where affiliates use their marketing channels to promote merchants' products or services, with a reward system in which merchants pay affiliates a commission for each sale they generate.
• Create a program: Programs > Create program
• Special commission rules: The Special Commission Rules page allows you to create advanced commission setups beyond your program default rate.
• Special product commission: Special product commission allows you to set different commission rates for specific products or collections, or give commission for these products only.
• Lifetime commission: Lifetime commission allows affiliates to be linked to customers they originally referred and receive commissions on all of these customers' subsequent orders (regardless of affiliate assets usage).
• Recurring commission: Track and reward affiliates for recurring subscription payments from referred customers. Affiliates earn commissions for every renewal or repeat charge in an active subscription.
• Advance commission: Advanced commission rules allow you to add different rules for orders that meet specific conditions of Coupon, Customer, or Lifetime tracking. These rules will override the default commission.
• Lifetime commission vs Recurring commission
• Commission priority: Have many tracking & commission types set up but don't know which one of them will take effect?
• Commission calculation
• Manage affiliates: You can manage all affiliate-related activities in the Affiliates tab.
• Invite/Add/Import/Move/Export affiliates: Manage how affiliates enter and move through your programs. Invite affiliates to self-register, add them manually, import in bulk, and export affiliate data as needed.
• Approve/Deny/Delete affiliates: Control affiliate access by reviewing applications, approving or denying affiliates, deleting accounts, and managing approval settings.
• Affiliate profile: The affiliate profile page allows you to review and manage all details related to an individual affiliate.
• Recruit affiliates: Attract, convert, and onboard new affiliates into your program across multiple recruitment channels.
• Multi-level marketing (MLM): Multi-level Marketing allows affiliates to recruit other affiliates and earn rewards from both their direct referrals and the performance of their downline, helping you grow and scale your affiliates.
• Marketplace: Promote your affiliate program in a public directory where affiliates can discover, review, and apply to join, helping you increase visibility and attract high-intent partners.
• Post-purchase widget: The post-purchase widget helps convert customers into affiliates immediately after checkout. This ensures you capture motivated customers at the moment of their purchase.
• Registration fees: Extra functions > Membership Fees
• Bonus for outstanding performances: Extra functions > Performance Bonus
• Affiliate Tiers: This function automatically move your affiliates to higher-commissioned programs when they meet the conditions you specified, thereby motivating them to earn more.
• Understanding the difference: Affiliate tiers vs. Commission tiers: While both motivate your partners, they manage your affiliates differently.
• Gifts: Extra functions > Gifts
• How do affiliate links work?
• Manage affiliate links
• Default affiliate link
• Product link: Affiliates often need to promote specific products rather than just your store's homepage.
• Custom link: Custom links offer both merchants and affiliates the flexibility to tailor links to specific campaigns.
• Auto-shortened link
• Track affiliate link clicks
• Tracking on headless Shopify stores: By default, BixGrow cannot track affiliate links on headless stores. To help with this, you can add a custom JS code snippet to enable normal conversions tracking.
• Static coupons: Static Coupons allow you to give affiliates their own fixed, shareable discount codes that customers can easily use at checkout.
• Manage/Edit/Delete coupons
• Anti-leak coupons: This coupon type offers a secure way to provide discounts without exposing public coupon codes that can leak onto coupon websites.
• Static coupons & Anti-leak coupons: Static Coupons and Anti-Leak Coupons both help you offer discounts to customers; however, they work in different ways and are useful for different goals.
• Referral orders: This page will show you how to manage conversions, track their order statuses, and review order details.
• Returns & Refunded orders: When referral orders are returned or refunded, affiliate commissions are automatically recalculated based on the refunded items.
• Automated Shopify tags for referral orders/customers
• Bonus: The Bonus page displays all perfomance bonuses earned by your affiliates.
• Clicks: This is where you can see the list of clicks on all affiliate links.
• Customers: This page shows all customers who were referred by your affiliates. You can track customer–affiliate relationships and manage referred customer records in one place.
• How to payout: This guide shows you how to pay affiliates once their commissions are approved. You’ll learn how to set up your payout methods, generate payouts, and complete payments.
• External Payout: External payout is for merchants who prefer to pay affiliates outside BixGrow, for example, via Bank Transfer, Debit Card, Payoneer, or any other payment service.
• In-app PayPal payout: In-app PayPal payout lets you pay your affiliates directly from BixGrow using your connected PayPal account. This helps you speed up payouts, reduce manual work.
• In-app Store Credit payout: This method lets you reward affiliates with Store Credit coupons based on the commission amounts they earn, helping you keep payout costs low while encouraging affiliates to shop with your brand.
• Invoice: The Invoice feature allows you to edit BixGrow’s default invoice template or create your own version to match your brand.
• Payout Tax: The Payout tax settings let you add or deduct taxes from affiliate payouts. This helps you stay compliant with tax regulations and ensures your affiliates receive the correct payout amount.
• Build your affiliate network with Multi-level Marketing: What is MLM and how does it merge with your affilate program?
• Let potential affiliates find you via BixGrow Marketplace: An affiliate marketplace is a platform that connects affiliates with merchants by helping affiliates find a suitable affiliate program to join among the ones listed there by merchants
• Post-purchase Widget
• Affiliate signup page: The signup page is the entry point for users who want to join your affiliate program. From this page, visitors can submit their information and apply to become affiliates.
• Affiliate landing page: The central entry point for your affiliate program, where potential affiliates can quickly understand how the program works and why they should join.
• Affiliate log-in page: There is only one login page for affiliates, regardless of how many affiliate programs you create.
• Affiliate admin: Easily adjust the Affiliate admin appearance to create an interface that aligns with your needs and delivers a consistent brand experience.
• Customize affiliate admin: Easily adjust the Affiliate Dashboard appearance to create an interface that aligns with your needs and delivers a consistent brand experience.
• Program Directory: This is a summary of everything your affiliates need to know about your affiliate program and how they should work to promote your products and earn commissions.
• Draft/Editing
• Affiliate admin tour
• Affiliate leaderboard: Allows affiliates to track their ranking and performance compared to others in the same program
• Promotional materials: Provide ready-to-use marketing assets that affiliates can use to promote your products more effectively
• Branding
• Add your brand information: Enhance your brand recognition and consistency across all affiliate interactions
• Change your Sender Email: Now you can personalize your affiliate communication by emailing with your email address rather than BixGrow's default address.
• Custom Domain: Let's create a Custom Domain with us!
• Languages: Allows merchants to manage the display languages of the affiliate portal, ensuring affiliates can access content in their preferred language
• Privacy: Allows merchants to manage Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy that apply to affiliates when they join and use the affiliate program.
• Prevent indexing: You can prevent search engines like Google and Bing from indexing your affiliate portal. This will help you control public exposure of your program and ensure it only reaches your intended audience.
• Affiliate portal display options: Explore the available options for displaying and embedding your affiliate portal in your store.
• Show your affiliate portal on the storefront: Want to put your affiliate portal on your storefront and recruit affiliates right there? We've got you covered!
• Embed your affiliate portal into the store: Embedding your affiliate portal pages allows visitors to access the affiliate signup or landing pages directly from your storefront without being redirected to an external link.
• Embedding notes for Shopify themes: Learn how to easily embed your affiliate portal pages into your Shopify store based on your theme version, using either our quick automated steps or a manual setup guide.
• Notifications
• Merchant notifications: Merchant notifications provide timely email alerts for key activities and events related to your affiliate program.
• Affiliate notifications: Affiliate notification emails are designed to keep affiliates informed at every key stage of their journey.
• Fraud detection: This function helps safeguard your affiliate program from fraudulent or suspicious activities, such as self-referrals and invalid traffic sources.
• Royalty: This feature is commonly used when you work with an influencer as a long-term ambassador for a specific product or collection.
• On-site content: Some kinds of affiliate-related messages can be displayed directly on your storefront when customers visit through an affiliate link.
• Integrations
• With email platforms: Settings > Integration
• Mailchimp/Archived: Settings > Integration > Mailchimp
• Klaviyo/Archived: Settings > Integration > Klaviyo
• Klaviyo: Connecting BixGrow to Klaviyo helps you automate your affiliate emails. Instead of using basic app emails, you can use Klaviyo to design emails and send them automatically when affiliates take action.
• Mailchimp: By integrating BixGrow with Mailchimp, you can automatically trigger specific email marketing campaigns based on your affiliates' real-time actions.
• With Yampi checkout: Settings > Integration
• With app subscriptions: BixGrow supports selected subscription apps to help you track affiliate commissions on recurring subscription orders.
• PayPal integration: This feature allows you to pay affiliates directly within the app via PayPal.
• Staff accounts: Creating staff accounts allows your staff to be granted customized access to BixGrow and helps you with affiliate marketing management.
• W-9 form: This feature allows you to easily collect your U.S. affiliates' W-9 forms for tax filing purposes.
• Track affiliate performance with Bixgrow: View and analyze affiliate performance with clear sales and commission data for both merchants and affiliates.
• Track affiliate performance with GA4: Easily track affiliate performance by automatically adding UTM parameters to your affiliate links and analyzing results in GA4.
• Track affiliate performance with GTM/Facebook Pixel: Track affiliate activity in your affiliate portal by connecting Google Tag Manager (GTM) or Facebook Pixel, allowing you to monitor key events.
• What is a Referral Program?: This program allows your customers to recommend your store to their friends and earn rewards for successful referrals.
• Set up your program: Referral program > Program
• Set up rewards: Merchants can reward both advocates and referred friends to encourage sharing and conversions.
• Discount codes: Allows merchants to reward both advocates and referred friends with discount codes. This feature helps drive conversions and repeat purchases by offering instant savings at checkout.
• Shopify store credit: Allows merchants to reward advocates with store credit. This feature helps encourage repeat purchases by rewarding advocates directly within their Shopify customer accounts.
• Free product: This feature lets you reward advocates with a selected item once their referral leads to a completed order. It’s a great way to motivate advocates to drive meaningful conversions.
• Other settings: You are allowed to configure additional settings that support and optimize your referral program
• Attract advocates to sign up for your program: The app offers several tools to promote your referral program across your store and turn visitors into advocates.
• Widget: This function gives customers easy access to join and share your program at any time while browsing
• Custom Page: Create a “Refer a friend” page on your store to explain your referral program, show rewards, and let customers sign up easily.
• Post-purchase Widget: The Post-purchase Widget lets you invite customers to join your referral program right after they complete a purchase, helping you turn satisfied customers into advocates.
• Friend reward popup: This popup appears when a customer clicks on an advocate’s referral link. It highlights the reward and encourages them to continue shopping and complete a purchase.
• Customer profile referral block: Advocates can log in to their customer accounts on your Shopify store to view and track their referral activity.

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