This guide will serve as a playbook to help you quickly set up your affiliate program and start growing your affiliate network today.

It is important that you have a good understanding of your profit margins while deciding the values to set for your discount code and commission settings. For example, if you sell a $100 product with $50 profit on a regular sale, here is how you would calculate your profit on a referral sale:

If you set your commission value to $5 and your discount code to 10%, then your $100 sale would be a $90 sale with the discount code applied. Additionally, you would have to pay your affiliate $5 for their commission. So your profit on the sale would come out to $35 instead of $50. That may seem scary, but keep in mind that all referral sales are free sales, meaning you didn't have to spend any advertising dollars to acquire this customer. It is free profit for your business!

To set up your discount code and commission settings, go to the Programs tab in your Social Snowboard dashboard.

In the Customize tab of your dashboard, you can customize all of the design and messaging of your affiliate program touch-points.

Social Snowball syncs data to your other apps so you can communicate to affiliates on all of your marketing channels. Head to the Integrations tab to set these up.

You can add affiliates to a program in Social Snowball through a sign up form, a purchase (turn customers into affiliates), or manually.

Social Snowball lets you bulk send instant cash payouts in two clicks with our Tremendous integration. Alternatively, you can send store credit payouts with gift cards.

If you need more help getting your account set up or have any questions at all, please contact us via live chat support.