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Programs Admin

• Displayed by clicking the button from the Admin menu at the footer of Affiliates Area
• Displayed by clicking the Programs Admin link from the header menu of any Admin area

Now that you are able to get surfers to pay for your products and/or services, you will need to pay the affiliates that delivered those surfers to your website. This is handled in the "Programs Admin". The "Programs Admin" will aid you in creating payout plans for your affiliates. Each program has several "Program Options" that can be configured to tailor the Program to your needs. Since, you are paying your affiliates for traffic that you deliver to your websites, NATS requires that you specify to which Site(s) each Program will belong. This is done by associating Tours to the Program and is established in the "Tours In This Program" section of the Edit Program page.

Set up Programs

Programs can be created in one (1) of two (2) ways. You can create an "Enabled" or "Disabled" Program. An "Enabled" Program will enroll all future affiliates automatically. However, any existing affiliates will NOT be automatically enrolled. A "Disabled" Program will not have any affiliates automatically enrolled. Essentially, the distinction between an "Enabled" and "Disabled" Program revolves around when the affiliate joins. When a new affiliate joins, he will be automatically enrolled in "Enabled" Programs and NOT automatically enrolled in "Disabled" Programs. However, you can manually enroll any affiliate into either "Enabled" or "Disabled" Programs by clicking the button in the Actions heading of the specific Program. When the "List Enabled Resellers" page displays, check the affiliates that you want to "enroll" into the Program from the "Not Enrolled" list and click the "Enroll Affiliates" button. Conversely, to remove affiliates from a Program, check the affiliates that you want to "remove" from the "Enrolled" list and click the "Remove Affiliates" button.
Note: The easiest way to "enroll" all affiliates to a new Program is to create a "Disabled" Program and click the button from the Action heading associated with that Program in the "Programs" list. Conversely, the easiest way to add all current affiliates only into a new Program is to create a new "Disabled" Program and then "Enable" it and then "Disable" it again.

Creating a new "Enabled" and Disabled" Program require the same information and utilize the same form. Once you have clicked the "Create a New Enabled Program" or "Create a New Disabled Program" link, you will be directed to a form that requires the following information:

• Program Name - Name displayed to Affiliates
• Short Name - Internal Program Name (cannot contain spaces)
• Program Type - Drop-down list of available Program Types
  • Standard Program - Typical pay-per-click, rev/share Program
  • Cross Sale Program - Used for both in-coming and out-going Cross Sale Programs
  • Affiliate Referral Program - Pay Affiliates that bring you more Affiliates (three (3) Tiers only)
  • Affiliate Referral 8 Tiers Program - Ibid, except eight (8) Tiers
  • Account Rep Program - Paying Affiliates that aid other Affiliates (based on subordinates sales)

Additionally, you can specify:

• Payout Extension Desc - Displayed for Extended Payout purposes
• Hidden - Pay Affiliates without them seeing their payout information

Enter the required information and click the "Add Program" button. Once the Program has been added, an advanced form for the program will be displayed. This view will expose all the attributes associated with Program. This same advanced form can be accessed by clicking the button from the Actions heading of the desired Program.

Editing Programs

After newly creating a Program or by clicking the in the Actions heading of an associated Program, a form displaying all configurable attributes for said Program will be shown. Once a Program is created, the "Shortname" and "Program Type" attribute are NOT editable. However, there are many more attributes that can be configured.

There are seven (7) additional "Program Options":

• Deduct Credits - Deducts Credits from Joins and Rebills from affiliate pay-out
• Deduct Chargebacks - Deducts Chargebacks from Joins and Rebills from affiliate pay-out
• Deduct Voids - Deducts Voids from Joins and Rebills from affiliate pay-out
• Deduct Insufficient Funds - Deducts Insufficient Funds from Joins and Rebills from affiliate pay-out
• Hide Rebills - Hides Rebills from affiliates (Used only when affiliate is NOT paid on Rebills)
• Hide Joins - Hides Joins from affiliates (Used only when affiliate is NOT paid on Joins)
• Retro-active Payout - Locks the affiliate pay-out based on member join date
  

Note: This option is used in conjunction with "Payout Changes"

There are two (2) methods to add "Tours In This Program":

• You can choose individual Tours by choosing a Tour from the "Add Tour..." drop-down list and clicking the associated "Add" button.
• You can choose all Tours for a given Site by choosing a Site from the "Add Site Tours..." drop-down list and clicking the associated "Add" button.

And finally, you can configure the Program's default pay-out by clicking the in the "Program Default Payouts" section. You configure any combination of eight (8) pay-out options:

• Raw
• Unique (Unq)
• Qualified (Qual)
• Join (By Currency)
• Rebill (By Currency)
• Active (By Currency)
• Join (By % Sale)
• Rebill (By % Sale)
• Dialer (By % Sale)

You you are satisfied with the set-up of the current Program, you can click the "Program List" tab in the upper left of the "Edit Program" page to view all available Programs.