VM Affiliate is a complete affiliate marketing solution designed to help online merchants that run their shops using VirtueMart (and of course, Joomla!™) increase their profits. Affiliate marketing has proven itself as one of today's best marketing methods, both online and offline. So, if you decide to give affiliate marketing a shot, and run your own affiliate program, VM Affiliate does just that.
Here are VM Affiliate's most important current features:
- Online tracking – VM Affiliate automatically detects the affiliate ID from incoming links, and tracks referral visits and orders
- Offline tracking – VM Affiliate supports tracking of users referred through offline advertising efforts, such as printed material. The user can type the username of the referrer, or select his name from a list
- Coupon-based tracking – Your affiliates' usernames can become discount coupon codes which can be tracked. Thus, an affiliate can hand out the coupon to a person, which gains a discount, while the affiliate earns a commission
- Multi-tier tracking – Commonly referred to as MLM – Multi-Level Marketing enables your affiliates to refer other affiliates, which leads to more marketing, thus greater profits, for both the merchant and the affiliate! VM Affiliate can track and commission up to 5 tier/levels
- Automatic commissioning – VM Affiliate automatically assigns the corresponding commissions to the corresponding affiliates, only if the order is finalized (confirmed or shipped). Likewise, if a commission is given to the affiliate, but then the order is cancelled, the commission will be deducted from the affiliate's balance
- Affiliate Panel – VM Affiliate provides a complete affiliate panel for affiliates, where they can see their earnings, visits, orders, have access to advertising material, monitor their referred traffic, conduct an e-mail campaign, or update their personal information
- Affiliate Management – Goes without saying that you have full control over your affiliates. You can add, remove, edit, enable or disable them, and edit their preferences
- Advertising Material – VM Affiliate allows you to upload banners (either images, animated GIFs or flash SWF files), create text ads (either normal text or HTML), or manage the automatically generated product and category ads
- Affiliate Program Configuration – Without any bloated settings, you can specify key preferences of your affiliate program, regarding tracking, registration, payments, and so on
- Default Terms & Conditions – Don't feel like writing a huge terms & conditions text? Don't worry! VM Affiliate provides such a text by default, automatically customized using your site's name and address. So you can just review it and make sure it meets your needs
- Payout Method Management – You can add or modify existing payment methods that you like to offer to your affiliates. You can pay them by PayPal (semi-automatic), Check, Bank Transfer, or you can easily add your own payout methods, or edit existing ones
- Logs & Statistics – Easily monitor, review and filter through traffic, sales, payments, or affiliate program's performance. VM Affiliate logs and provides access to all this information
- MVC Framework – Following Joomla!™'s development standards, VM Affiliate uses the MVC architecture for the frontend Affiliate Panel, which enables you to easily modify the layout of your affiliates' panel, and preserve this layout, even if you update VM Affiliate in the future
- Multi-language – At the moment, VM Affiliate is available in 16 languages. Need another? VM Affiliate uses standard INI files, which are very easily translatable. Only 300 lines, or 1330 words
- Hack-free – VM Affiliate achieves all the tracking and integration without modifying a single VirtueMart file, and without requiring any custom code. The smart tracking plugin takes care of everything
VM Affiliate is currently compatible with Joomla! 1.5, 1.7, 2.5 and VirtueMart 1.1 & 2.0.
Read more about VM Affiliate on its product description page:
http://www.globacide.com/products/virtuemart-affiliate (http://www.globacide.com/products/virtuemart-affiliate)