Your registration page is where potential partners apply to your affiliate program and share their qualifications. As a merchant you'll want to share a bit about your company and ask questions to help vet potential affiliates. You can revisit and tweak it anytime as you learn what works for you.
Important Note: Before you begin customizing your registration form, you may want to upload your brand's logo. The logo that you upload will show up on the registration form. You will also want to set your program terms and privacy policy, since this information will also show up on your registration form.
To start customizing your registration form, go to Program Details>Registration Page.
Customization Options:
Colors
Adjust the default color of page elements such as background, buttons, and links.
Content
A quick intro to your company, what type of affiliates you're looking for, or whatever you’d like your applicants to know about you. You can also include a branded image here.
Custom form fields
If you have a clear idea of the type of affiliates you want in your network, then you can add custom form fields (by clicking the +Add Custom Field button) to screen registrants.
You can select some common fields from the Field mapping drop-down list, or create your own by selecting Custom Field and entering a Label. Consider asking some or all of the following questions to potential affiliates on your registration form:
How long have you been in the industry?
How do you plan on promoting our products? What’s your promotion strategy?
What’s the size of your audience?
What other brands do you promote?
Do you currently work with any of our competitors?
What drove your interest in our program and our brand?
To determine your response type, select a text box or checkbox, then indicate whether or not a response to this question will be required.
A detailed application process is essential. Some businesses even have affiliates get on a phone interview before handing over the keys to their program. This may be time-consuming, but it can ensure your affiliates are professional and won’t spam or do anything that could negatively affect your brand's reputation. You can check out our help guide on how to best vet new affiliate sign-ups for additional best practices.
Of course, you want to find a balance. The fewer the number of fields, the higher the conversions of people who will sign up to join your program. However, more sign-ups do not equal quality affiliates. After all, one reason to ask potential affiliates more questions is to learn more about them and how their actions will impact your brand image. A shorter registration form is likely to attract more bogus entries.
If you’re just a small business and are starting an affiliate program from the ground up, then a minimal registration form may serve you best. However, if you sell premium products or want only the best affiliates to join your program, then a longer form will be more effective.
Third-Party Tracking
Refersion also supports options to track your page performance, such as Google Analytics or Facebook Pixel tracking. You can find step-by-step instructions for getting this setup on both platforms below:
Open Graph Meta Tags
You can also control how URLs are displayed on social media using Open Graph Meta Tags.
Promote Your Page
You’ve built it. Now, here’s how to get your page into the universe.
Share the direct link
Two simple ways to place your registration page anywhere on the web:
1. Go to Performance>Overview>Affiliate Sign-up.
2. Select the Offer you’d like to include for this channel (or multiple channels).
Once you have the URL of the registration form that you want to promote, you can paste it anywhere! If you have a public-facing affiliate program, then we recommend making it as easy as possible to find your registration form:
You can include the link to the form in an email newsletter or a post-sales marketing drip.
You can directly send the link to potential partners.
You can promote the program on your social media channels.
You can include a page on your website that talks about the affiliate program and then links out to the registration form.
Embed your sign-up form into your site
You also have the option to Embed your sign-up form into your site and paste the code snippet onto your web or landing page of choice. Here's the code snippet you'd copy and paste onto your website to embed the form (make sure to replace the dummy registration URL with your account's actual unique registration form URL!):
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.refersion.com/iframe.js"></script>
<div id="refersion-iframe-goes-here" data-frame-url="https://XXXXXXXXXX.refersion.com/affiliate/registration"></div>
Tip: Depending on how many questions are on your form, the height of the form will vary from merchant to merchant. You can use the code snippet below to edit the height of the embedded form to fit your page more cleanly. Adjust the height value accordingly based on your needs:
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.refersion.com/iframe.js"></script>
<style><!--
iframe {
height: 1050px;
}
--></style>
<div id="refersion-iframe-goes-here" data-frame-url="https://XXXXXXXXXX.refersion.com/affiliate/registration"></div>
Some merchants choose to place a link to the registration form in the header or footer navigation of their website:
Social Media
If you're on the Performance>Overview>Affiliate Sign-up tab, then you'll also have the option to quickly promote your page on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit, and Pinterest. To do that, simply click a Social Media Icon.
Note: If you’re logged in to the corresponding account, you’ll navigate there, and a draft post will appear containing the registration page link. If you’re not logged in, you will need to log in and paste the URL from Refersion into a new post you create.
What's next?
Now that your registration form is looking good and is open for applications, you can start recruiting affiliates to join your program. Check out the help guide on how to grow your affiliate network.