Lifetime commissions are a huge incentive for any affiliate looking to promote your products and services.
How It Works
When a customer clicks on an affiliate’s referral link or uses an affiliate’s coupon code to make a purchase on your website, then their email address will be instantly linked to the affiliate. This will be done by automatically creating an email Promotion Method for the referring affiliate using the customer’s email address that was used to place the order.
When the customer returns to make another purchase on your website, then the original referring affiliate will receive commission, regardless of how the customer returned to your website. Since the affiliate and customer are tied together, the affiliate will still be awarded a commission even if the customer clears their browser's cache/cookies or uses a different computer.
A customer can only be linked to one affiliate at a time, but affiliates can be linked to multiple customers.
Important Note: In a situation where a single order creates 2 conversions (a link conversion for one affiliate and a coupon conversion for another affiliate), then Refersion will assign the customer email to the coupon affiliate.
You also have the flexibility to manually add, transfer, or remove lifetime customer emails for affiliates by manually creating or deleting Email Promotion Methods.
Finally, please note that this is an account wide setting. Having this feature enabled on your account will give all of your affiliates lifetime commission! If you want to have different groups of affiliates that do or do not earn lifetime commission, then you can reference our workaround documented using Zapier.
Interested in having this feature turned on?
Enabling lifetime commissions on your Refersion affiliate program is quick and easy. Shoot us a message at [email protected] or use the in-app chat if you'd like to discuss having this feature enabled on your account.