The item-based commission is a type of commission in which a publisher agrees on commission rates with the affiliates based on individual products rather than offering them a general commission rate for all products. This commission type is mostly used to provide an extra incentive for the sales of a particular product or to cut down on the standard commission rate for products with a low margin.
Steps for Implementing Item Based Commissions
- Put in place a functioning Datafeed.
- Update the Datafeed file for your product and add a column for “Item-based commission.” Adding this column to your far right makes it easier to access for mapping purposes.
- Populate this column for products that won’t be getting the base commission. Instead of percentage, use the decimal forms i.e. 10% = 0.1. The default value is the standard commission rate for those with empty values.
- Make sure that the items that you don’t want to commission, such as gift cards, at (0.1% or 0.0001) in the item-based commission column.
