How ShareASale Works?

To start as an affiliate or a merchant at ShareASale you need to sign-up at their website. After you have filled and submitted the application, ShareASale will inform you via email. Now you can log in to the dashboard and get the banners or the affiliate links and start promoting to start earning money. If you sign-up as a business, usually it will take two days for them to load your site into their system and to be ready for generating links and banners. As a merchant, you will need to choose a communion structure to pay the affiliates. Before you decide to join their program as a merchant you must know that they will charge you $550 as a setup fee.

Since ShareASale has more than 2500 merchants, there is a large variety of services or products which you can choose from. Most of the merchants attempt to make their sales from their sites. As an affiliate, you can earn a commission by referring people who have used your personal link to purchase the merchant site and you will get paid from ShareASale affiliates referrals. The good thing about being an affiliate here is that you decide the merchant you like to promote. You can log in to your dashboard and check your stats at any time.

Also, as a merchant ShareASale offers a lot of flexibility. Allowing each merchant to adopt the technology they want to use. To customize the commission structure in which they will pay the affiliates. Most of the merchants won't pay anything unless the referrals won't result in a direct sale.

The ShareASale platform offers a lot of benefits for both merchants and affiliates. Their clean and intuitive dashboard allows you to have control and track everything. ShareASale has been around for quite some time, it's legit and guarantees monthly payments for earned commissions. Another cool feature is that you can customize your link in case you don't want to redirect your referrals to their homepage but a more deep page.