Frequently Asked Questions...
Q - When do I get paid?
We calculate sales from the 1st of the month to midnight of the last day of the same month. If we are paying you by cheque, you need to accumulate $50 in commissions before a payment is sent. If we are paying you by direct deposit, you can choose a minimum payment amount as low as $10. All payments are made by the 10th of the following month.
Q - Are all sales registered on my "sales counter"?
The visitor counter records every single person that links to Simple Savings from your site. The sales counter records all sales that are made through your referral number for that month.
Q - I have clicked through my special link MANY times, but it only shows 1 visitor, what is wrong?
Our tracking software recognises repeat visitors to our site. You may click through from your link many times, but our site will see that it is "you" each time and record you as one visitor. We do it this way so the visitor numbers are always accurate and you can always figure out the "real" sales conversion ratio (the ratio of how many visitors it took to get one sale).
The software only counts NEW visitors to the site so you can see your proper conversion ratio to make sure everything is going OK with the way you are promoting Simple Savings.
This may raise one question in your head. How do I test to see if my counter is working if after the first time I go through the link, it will not count me anymore? That is easy. Simply delete/erase all the "cookies" from your browser and you will trick our counters into thinking you have not been at the site before so it will count you as a "new" visitors (and you can verify that the counter is working by seeing it increment by one).
On a little different note, no matter if the visitor is counted as a "new" visitor or if they are a "repeat" visitor and not counted on the visitor counter, your affiliate referral number is still coded in that visitor's cookies and if that visitor ever orders within the next 2 years, you will get the referral fee.
Q - I have been an affiliate for a month and have not received any referral fees yet. What is going on?
You have to be getting a reasonable amount of visitors to your site before you can start earning any reasonable amount of referral fees. I say this because there have been a few people in the past that expected to make huge referral fees when they were only getting a few hundred visitors to their site every month (and this is just mathematically impossible). The fact of the matter is that if you are not getting many visitors to your site, then you will not get many people linking through to Simple Savings, and you will not be making a lot in referral fees.
Q - How will my visitors order?
Overview: First, your customer will browse your website and find the description of Simple Savings that you have included in your pages. If your description catches their interest and they wish to find out more, they would follow the link you provide to Simple Savings.
We will then display the membership sales letter, where the customer can order directly online, by fax or by mail.
We will handle all of the financial transactions. Our customer service department will answer any questions or requests they have about their orders, including cancellations or refunds as necessary - you do nothing but sit back and collect your referral fee.
Q - How will you keep track of the orders coming from my site?
We have provided you with specially formatted URLs that you will use to link to our site. These URLs will identify a particular "Reference Number" for us to display, and your unique store code which we use to track your referral fees as they are earned.
Our software is designed so that people can visit the site now through your link to our site and come back later to order (up to 2 years) and you will still get credit for that sale.
Using the reporting URL that you were assigned in the email that was sent to you right after you became an affiliate, you can check exactly how many people have linked from your site to Simple Savings and how many people have ordered at any time.
Q - I don't understand all this technical stuff... What is the easiest way to link?
Just put up one of the banners on your main page (or a high traffic sub-page on your site). This is the most common way to link to Simple Savings. Generally, the closer the banner is to the top of your page, the more visitors will click on it, thus resulting in more referral fees for you. Click here to get up and running within five minutes.
If you experience any problems, please email us.