Enter a descriptive name for the associate. This may be an individual, but is more likely a Web site.

This is the associate's e-mail address. The associate receives e-mail every time a customer that they send to your store makes a purchase.

Enter the amount the associate should be paid for every customer they send to your store that makes a purchase. If you check the currency button, the commission is calculated as a flat rate per sale. If you check the percentage (%) button, the commission is calculated as a percentage of the sale. The commission calculation is done when you view the sales report.

Customers will click on a link in the associate's site to arrive at your store. You can have them arrive at the main page of your store, or at any other page. Enter the URL of the page in your store that you want customers to see when they come from this associate's site. The URL should be of the form:

http://www.mystore.com/products.html

Click this button after filling in the above information. ShopSite will display the URL that the associate should use to link to your store. The code will look something like this:

<a href="http://mystore.com/cgi-bin/ss/ref.cgi ?name=Associate-Name&storeid=Mystore-id"> [Your link text or graphic goes here]</a>

Replace the bracketed area [Your link text or graphic goes here] with your own banner image or the text you want displayed on the associate site for the customer to click. The associate then pastes this HTML code in their site. When a customer clicks on the link, they arrive at your store at the URL you specified in the Store Page field above.