Hi to all
this week we uploaded changes to the banners page and we introduced more ways to customize and manage your affiliate program’s banners.
Now, when you open the Banners page in your admin panels, you will see this interface
It gives you a list with your uploaded banners and some useful data beside them.
And when you are uploading your banners you will see this window
Here is an explanation of the options:
- Show the banner to your affiliates: will your affiliates see this banner or not, you can uncheck the banners if the banners is for some old campaign or you are not finished with entering the other information and will finish it later
- Banner Category: if you have lots of banners, you can use categories to organize them better. By default there are no categories, but they can be created in your Banners settings page.
- Set specific URL: use this field if you have banner which is only for specific product, category or collection of products. When you enter a URL in this field, you will disable the ability for your affiliates to choose custom URL when generating the HTML code for the banner from their panels.
- Set specific Width in pixels/Set specific Height in pixels: set exact dimensions for your banner, if you left them empty, then the current banner’s dimensions will be taken
- Notes for this banner: enter some notes for the banner, if you wish to explain something to your affiliates
That is it, we hope this improvement will help you with your affiliate programs.
Hey There,
Just curious if I can use other urls other than my websites, such as landing pages for courses and products so that my affiliates get credit for those too?
Also, I don’t understand the aspect of the affiliates not being able to choose a url when I enter one. Can you explain better?
Just curious if I can use other urls other than my websites, such as landing pages for courses and products so that my affiliates get credit for those too?
– Yes, you can use other landing pages (which are not on your website), but you need to add the visitors tracking code to the footer of those pages (you can find it in the Integration tab of your panel). Your affiliates can use the Link Generator to create their links to these pages, or just append their tracking parameter (e.g. ?aff=123 for the affiliate with ID 123) to the URL.
Also, I don’t understand the aspect of the affiliates not being able to choose a url when I enter one. Can you explain better?
– The idea here is that if you do not enter a URL for a banner in the “Set specific URL” field, your affiliates can change the link to any page of your site. If you do enter it, however, they will not be able to change it. This feature is useful, if you want to create banners for specific products or collections in your store, for example.
Would be amazing if phone users could easily download / save the picture to their phone! Unfortunately that feature is missing.
Hi Mike, if you tap and hold on the banner’s image, you will be prompted to download/save it on your mobile device.
I’m new to this! What is a banner? (I’m sure everyone is getting a chuckle out of my question.) But I’m actually serious … what is the purpose of a banner and what does one look like once you get it set up?
Hi Lou, the banners are ads/images for your store, promoting your store as a whole or specific product. For example check this https://www.dropbox.com/s/qtz3ka3ja3uki4f/Screenshot%202018-10-17%2012.21.20.png?dl=0 They are used to help your affiliates promoting your store/brand. The banners are optional, your affiliates can promote your store and via text links only.
Can I change the page name BANNERS to MARKETING TOOLS..?
because I want to categorize all the marketing tools inside..
Like a banner with link for a specific product page.
Banner ad for social media promitions, etc.
Hi Calvin, the phrase is renamed, if you login into your test affiliate’s panel, you will see now “Marketing tools” instead of “Banners”.
You can recommend a site that can create banners easily, I think you had this within the affiliate system but I am not finding it.
Hi Edvanio, I can not remember that we had shared such site. We have shared only a page where you can see the most common banner sizes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_banner#Standard_sizes
The ability to generate HTML code for the banner is very helpful, however, it would be awesome if also a link with the affiliate parameter could be created.
For example: if the banner’s link is http://store.com/product and the affiliate id is 156, then the link http://store.com/product?aff=156 could be generated, so the affiliate can just copy it and use it as the link for an instagram account
Hi Francisca,
such functionality is supported. If the banner doesn’t have a set URL, the affiliates can change/put their desired link in the field, and the app will generate the banner HTML code with that link.