Our Discovery feature helps merchants find and recruit high-quality Marketplace affiliates that align with your target audience. If you’re not familiar, the Refersion Marketplace is our network of affiliate partners who are actively looking to work with merchants. This network includes large publishers, affiliates, and influencers that have wide-reaching audiences and can expose your brand to new customers. It’s a fantastic supplemental tool at your fingertips to quickly add affiliates. You can click here to learn more about the Refersion Marketplace.

To get started with finding affiliates, just go to the Discovery>Find tab. Here you will see a list of Refersion Marketplace users.

You’ll see each affiliate’s company name if available. Otherwise their first and last name will be displayed. You’ll also see if the affiliate has identified themselves as a publisher or as an influencer, and whether or not their email and phone have been verified (when joining the Refersion Marketplace as an affiliate, we ask users to verify both their email and their phone number). You’ll also see if they are accepting commission payments through Unified Payments. VIP affiliates will be tagged accordingly:

You can click on an affiliate’s name to reveal a side menu. If the affiliate has provided a bio about themselves, then that will be displayed. From here you can decide whether to invite an affiliate into your program. You’ll select your offer that you want to invite the affiliate to join via a dropdown (you can always easily change an affiliate’s offer after they join your program if needed), decide whether the affiliate should be auto-approved or not, and then click the Invite button.

That’s it! Once an affiliate has been invited to join your program, they’ll see the invitation on the Dashboard tab of their Marketplace account:

To help you stay organized, affiliates that you’ve invited to your program using the Discovery feature will be moved to the Discovery>Invited tab. This page will look similar to the Find tab, although it will also show the status of each invited affiliate (indicating whether or not they have applied, accepted, or rejected your invitation).

You can click any row to reveal a side menu that displays additional information about the affiliate. For applied affiliates, the menu will give you a clickable button that takes you to the affiliate's profile in the Manage>Affiliates tab. From there you can review the affiliate’s application before approving or denying them.

Once you start getting new affiliates into your program through the Discovery feature, you’ll want to keep them engaged and keep your brand top of mind! Check out our help guide on how to communicate with and motivate your affiliates for best practices.