AFFILIATE QUESTIONS
- How do
I become an affiliate?
Simply click on the 'new
affiliates' link on the home page and fill in your details.
Your website will be assessed by one of our Affiliate Managers
as to the suitability of your website, and will accept or
reject your application as necessary. You will then be notified
via email. If successful you can then login to your account
and access our campaigns.
- What type of affiliates
do you accept?
Smart-Quotes is a specialist finance affiliate network
and therefore will only consider applications from
affiliates who have financially related websites
or a dedicated finance page. Therefore, applications
from other types of affiliates will be rejected.
- What types of commission
do you pay out?
- Cost Per Valid
Submit -
This is a cost per lead (CPL) campaign where
commissions are paid for all valid submitted
applications. Therefore, as long as the merchant
has approved the submit i.e. correct telephone
number, address and name it will be accepted.
- Per
Sale – This
is a cost per acquisition (CPA) campaign
where commissions are paid for all accepted
and approved sales.
- % of Value – This is a % of the
value of the sale campaign where commissions are paid based
on a set % of the overall value of the sale made. For example
– an insurance campaign paying 15%, if the value of
the policy was £70, the commission earned would be
15% of £70, therefore a total commission of £10.50
would be earned for that sale.
- When Will I Be Paid?
As an affiliate network we are constrained by the fact that we can only pay you once we have received the results for each campaign from the merchant. This can vary from merchant to merchant but generally this is between 1 week and 6 weeks after the month end the campaign was run in. This is clearly defined in the ‘more details section’ for each campaign.
Once the results are received this is uploaded into your account and will show in pending payments which you can access from the left hand menu of the home page.
Around the 5th of the following month that results have been obtained a commission statement will be produced and published to your account. Then by the 5th of the following month commission will reach your account / a cheque will be sent out. Therefore, payment for a campaign is generally 2 months in arrears.
Example:
- Campaign ran in Sept
- Results in on 7th October
- Results uploaded to pending
payments on 7th October
- Commission statement created
on 5th November
- Commission paid and received by 5th December.
From time to time there may be exceptions to this which may be out of our control or due to extenuating circumstances with results not being received from the merchants within said timescales.
MERCHANT QUESTIONS
- What is the Benefit of
Running My Product on Smart-Quotes?
We have over 700 financially related
affiliates who have anything up to a thousand websites each.
Therefore, you can ensure that your product is placed on
highly visible financial websites. In addition our staff
only deal with financial products so we can offer advice
to help with the success of your campaign and help to improve
performance and ROI.
We have dedicated affiliate managers
who work closely with affiliates to promote your campaigns,
which we do free of charge. We also regulate compliance issues
and notify affiliates of any changes to the program, saving
you time and money in managing campaigns yourself.
- What Will It Cost Me To
Run My Campaign Via Smart-Quotes?
Smart-Quotes operate a completely FREE service
to all merchants. We offer more than any other affiliate
network in the industry by having no management fees or
set up costs, free management of affiliates and compliance.
- What is required in order
to Feature My Product on Smart-Quotes?
All
we require are the following and we can set your campaign
live the same day:
- A signed Insertion Order agreeing
basis for payment (CPA, CPL, CPC) and amount.
- Tracking
links (in order for us to track sales and leads for
each of our affiliates) minimum 50, or one tracking
link and the ability to add Unique IDs (UIDs) to
the end of the link. Or a pixel on the Thank You
page for 'Valid Submit' campaigns. This enables us
to track the traffic that our affiliates are producing.
- Creative – we
require a full inventory of creative including banners,
email creative, logos and text ads. This offers choice
to the affiliates and enables more affiliates to
run your campaign. We can also, where possible add
your product to our best buy tables which affiliates
can pick up and run on their websites. These offer
excellent conversion rates and help to maximise traffic
to your product.
- What is required on an
ongoing basis to maximise our campaign and
ensure affiliates continue to run it?
- Once
the campaign is live, we require an initial interim
report mid-way through the month in order to assess
how well the campaign is doing and any changes
that need to be made.
- We require a monthly report
be sent to us no later than the 7th of the month
following activity. This ensures that we can notify
affiliates of the sales they have made, enabling
them to see how well the campaign is doing and
allow them to budget for the coming month. This
also ensures that affiliates are paid on time which
enhances the quality of your brand and their trust
in your program.
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