Gifts for affiliates

Available from the Professional plan

What are Gifts?

Gifts are free or discounted products that you can send to affiliates as a welcome package when they join the program or as a bonus when they perform well.

Why you should use Gifts for affiliates?

Research shows that 80% of affiliates said that they prefer to register for brands that provide sample products. Setting up gifts will help your brand stand out and attract more qualified affiliates.

The brand ambassadors will have real experience with your products and they will share their real thoughts on social media posts, therefore, their followers will have more confidence in following the affiliate's advice.

Customers tend to purchase products that have good reviews from influencers, especially when the brand ambassadors prove that they have used the products before promoting them to their followers.

Set up Gifts

To set up a Gift package, please go to Motivation > Gifts > Create new gift.

First, please input the Gift name for this gift package to label it. If you consider sending gifts automatically to affiliates when they join your program, please check the box and choose the program(s) that you would like to deliver gifts to affiliates who register for these programs.

Secondly, kindly choose the Gift type, which could be Free or Discounted product(s) as gift. The free gift allows affiliates to receive free products while the latter option sends discounts (the amount will be set from your end) for the selected products.

With either option, you can choose to charge affiliates shipping fees, which means that even if they get the gifts free, they will still have to pay for shipping to get the products delivered to them. The applied shipping rate will depend on your Shopify store's settings.

Last but not least, you'll need to select products for this gift package. Kindly search for the product name on the search bar and add it to the package. Also, indicate the number of products that affiliates can choose when claiming this gift. For example, if you select 3 products for the gift but affiliates can only choose 1 out of 3 products given, kindly insert 1 in this field.

After that, you can select the quantity of that product as well as its variant options to be a specific variant or Allow affiliates to choose their preferred variant.

Once you're done with all settings, click Save to complete the process. The created gift will be shown on the Gift list like this:

On the Gift list page, you can view all the available gifts of your affiliate program with the necessary information, edit them, or send gifts manually (the plane icon) to specific affiliates (both auto-gifts and manual gifts can be sent manually).

If you choose to send a gift manually, a Send gift popup will be shown on the screen for you to input specific affiliates' names/emails with the selected gift. Kindly then click Send gift to send itmanually to these affiliates.

In case you want to send/delete multiple gifts at a time, kindly check the boxes of these gifts and click on this bulk option.

For both auto-gifts and manual gifts, after sending them successfully, you'll be able to review the status of these sent gifts in the History tab as well as check for their brief report to know if affiliates have claimed it or not. If it fails, it means that the auto-gift has failed to be sent due to out-of-stock or the products/variates were deleted.

Note: The claimed status does not necessarily mean that the affiliates have claimed it. It is just that the affiliates have clicked on the Claim gift button on their end and they can redeem the gift anytime afterward.

When gifts are sent successfully to affiliates, they will automatically receive an email telling them that there's a gift for them to claim. You can always edit the template of that email to suit your business's strategy in the Edit email template.

Gifts on the affiliate account

When gifts are sent successfully to affiliates, they will be notified about it right on their Dashboard. Clicking on the Claim button will then redirect them to the Gifts tab so they can redeem the gift.

The sent gift will be shown on the Available gift list for affiliates to review and claim. Affiliates can also check for the products they are about to receive by clicking directly on the product's name.

After clicking the Claim button, a Claim gift popup will appear on the screen. In this example, affiliates can only redeem 1 of the 2 available products, therefore, only 2 boxes can be checked to select products.

Once the products are selected successfully, the system will automatically calculate the Estimated fee that affiliates need to pay to claim the gift.

Note: Kindly note that this "estimated fee" may not include product tax, shipping fee, and shipping tax. Only when affiliates click Next and then get the Draft order link to complete the order, it will show the actual total fee.

Shipping fees and taxes might be applied at checkout, if any, based on the merchant's Shopify store's settings. Please note that the Free gift doesn't have product tax at all as its products are discounted 100%.

After claiming a gift successfully, affiliates can go back to the Gifts page and check on the Gift history to check for this redemption. In case the affiliates haven't had the chance to claim the gift totally, they can always get the draft order link again and place an order by clicking on the Get link button.