Affiliate Links earn more money than the Designer?

[southlake01]

New to re-learning about affiliate linking. I leave the default 10% on my products for sale. But I earn a minimum of 15% when referring someone else's products?

And this might be a dumb question - can I affiliate link my own products on external websites and earn 15% on my sales? Or do I only get my default 10%? TIA.

[PenguinPower]

If you use a regular affiliate link and the person enters the site on it, you get your 10% and 15% for the referral. If you join the promotor program you can earn your royalty and 35% for referrals on your own products - the caveat is that if someone enters the website on your clean promotor link and buys from another store you earn $0. 

[southlake01]

Wow! Ok it pays to "refer" your own products!

[Barbara]

I've always thought the affiliate's 15% was a percentage of our royalty. So, if your royalty on a sale with no third party is $5.00, but a customer comes in on an affiliate link, you'll earn $4.25 and the affiliate earns 75 cents. However, if you buy your own product and successfully do so on your own link, I'm totally lost on how it works.

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[waterart]

I thought the 15% affiliate commission is on the total retail price which includes your royalty. So referring your own products will get you 15% of the base price plus your royalty. Is that correct or am I understanding it wrong?

[ColsCreations]

Correct. The referrer, be it you or a third-party, earns a flat 15% of whatever total the customer paid.

[Barbara]

I always get it wrong. 🙂

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[goodsy]

Hi, I'm new to affiliate, need advice, so my question which one is the right one : like colscreation said, ex: customer buys total $10, if my royalty is 10%, I will get $1, and the affiliate earns $1.5?

or 15% from my 10% royalty which is $0.15 and I earn $0.85? like Barbara said, thanks in advance

[PacifierCity]

The referrer gets 15% of the total sale.

Our earnings are reduced by 20%, 15% of which goes to the referrer towards their total earnings and 5% goes to Z for ... idk actually, to cover the cost of the program to them... maybe...

It has been awhile since I went and looked this up, so I apologize in advance if the above is incorrect.

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[goodsy]

Thank you for your reply, so then, if I'm not mistaken, based on your answer, if I set my royalty at 10%, affiliate earns 15%, and it means the referrer earn more than my royalty? just like @ColsCreations colscreation said

[ColsCreations]

You are not mistaken.
For that $10 order, the referrer earns $1.50.
With your royalty at 10%, you would earn $0.80. ($1 minus 20% for it being a referred sale.)

[Barbara]

[swear word]

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[PacifierCity]

Thanks @ColsCreations for the confirmation.

@goodsy  - You are the one that gets to set your royalty.  There is nothing stopping you from setting it higher than 15%.  Many do.  But on some products, the end price point may price you too far above the MP for the product to be successful.  For others, you may find that customers do not mind paying the higher price, especially if the design is high quality and templates are created properly and function properly. 

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[Barbara]

If it works how it's explained, it means Zazzle values affiliates more than it does designers...or am I still getting it wrong?

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[PacifierCity]

And I think it should be noted that you "pay" the 20% referral charge even when you refer your own product....

FYI

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[Barbara]

As @PacifierCity  says, you can set your royalty higher, which is what I've done and apparently without ill effects. Just today, I sold one of the LED signs, which aren't cheap. It suited what the customer wanted, and in the end, this is what seems to count. Don't forget that there isn't a single product on Zazzle that's a necessity. People are coming here to find things they want, not things they need, and if they find what they want, a dollar or two more won't make them walk away.

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