ShareASale

ShareASale is a performance marketing network, which means that the affiliates who generate traffic and sales are only paid upon actual performance, and at the commission rate that an individual merchant sets.

When you setup your account as a Merchant, you get to decide which action will constitute a commission, and how much that commission should be. You may also have multiple different commission structures depending on which affiliate brought you traffic, or based on another pre-set criteria.

Once your account is setup, you are able to quickly upload any number of banners, text links, videos, widgets, etc. Affiliates will choose from your available creatives and begin sending you visitors using their own individual traffic generation methods.

When a sale or lead takes place on your site, the referring affiliate will be commissioned according to your set rates, and we will pay that affiliate for you, while deducting the money from your ShareASale account.

Below is a quick table showing the pricing structure of ShareASale. For any questions, please feel free to give us a call at (312) 321-0487 and use "Option 1" for the Sales team.

Service Description

Cost

Extra Info

Network Access Fee

$550

This is a one time fee occurring only after all of the setup steps have been completed, and prior to activation on the network.

Minimum Deposit Amount

$100

This amount is used to pay the affiliates and ShareASale for sales and other qualified leads that you define. Any amount left in your account that is not used to pay for sales, leads, etc to ShareASale can be refunded to you at anytime that you wish to close your account.

Transaction fees

20%

Fees are based on the commission payout. For example,if you pay an affiliate $1 per lead, you pay shareasale.com 20% or $0.2
(Minimum of 1 cent per transaction)

Monthly Minimum

$25

In a given month, if your account does not generate a minimum of $25 in transaction fees to ShareASale, your account will be charged the difference. There is a grace period.

We understand that affiliate programs take time to grow, so we offer the following grace period:

Prior to Activation on the Network	No Minimum Fees
Up to 60 days after Activation	No Minimum Fees
60-120 after Activation	$10 Minimum Per Month
120+ after Activation	$25 Minimum Per Month

Monthly minimum billing will begin on the 1st of the month following your grace period, so your actual grace period may be a little longer depending on what day of the month your account is activated.

Check Processing and Paying of Affiliates

Included

ShareASale processes and writes your affiliates' checks free of charge each month.

Affiliate Approval

Included

ShareASale will pre-screen all of your affiliates for you.

Affiliate Help Desk

Included

Your Affiliates may contact our help desk at any time for the life of their membership, without any cost to you.

Ad Serving Charges

Included

ShareASale hosts all banners, buttons, and text links for you.

Datafeed upload

Included / Restricted

You may upload a datafeed of your products, to be used by your affiliates, at no charge. This is limited to datafeeds with no more than 50,000 overall product SKU records. For larger datafeeds, please contact your sales representative for reasonable pricing.

FTP Download Permission Fees

$1 Per Approved Affiliate

At your option, you may grant permission for an affiliate to download your datafeed via the ShareASale FTP server. This is completely optional, and at your discretion. Each affiliate you approve carries a nominal $1 charge.