- If you have admin commissions (including aff=0)
you don't usually pay yourself .. so select those lines and mark
them as paid .. and include an admin note and/or comment for your
own reference
- If you have a payout minimum amount, select those
who fall below the payout threshold and move them back to currently
earning .. and include an admin note and/or comment
- Make any other adjustments you deem necessary. Then
move on to step 2.
Step 2: Save the Mass Pay File for Paypal
Note: If the email address above is shown in red, then it
means the affiliate did not provide any paypal email, so the login
email is being displayed instead.
You may choose to not pay that affiliate until you get a paypal
email (select them and choose to move them to currently earning
.. and include a comment that you need their paypal email)
... or you can choose to pay them to their login email instead.
(If their login email is not a paypal email, then paypal will send
them an email that they have money waiting for them .. so they can
add that email to their paypal account.)
(checked) means to use the login email for the mass pay file when
no paypal email has been provided.
(Note: You must have enough funding in your paypal
account to cover your commissions, as you cannot pay using mass
pay from an alternate funding source.)
Log in to your paypal account
Click the "Send Money" tab
Click "Make a Mass Payment" which displays just below
the main tabs
Browse for the mass pay file you just created
Select "email address" as the Recipient Type
Type in a subject (all recipients see the same subject) ...
ie Jan 2009 commissions from sitename.com
Type in a general note (all recipients get the same note) ..
ie Great job! Keep up the good work!
Click "continue"
Verify that the info appears correct. then click "Send
Money" to process the mass payment.
When you pay your affiliates using the "mass pay" system,
the affiliate recieves the entire amount due them (instead of a
significant processing fee being extracted). You will be charged
a nominal fee per mass pay recipient ... typically up to about $1
per person, no matter how large that person's payment is. As you
can see, using mass pay to pay affiliates is an outstanding system.
Step 4: Mark all these commissions as PAID
When you have successfully paid your affiliates for
this pay period, click the link below to tag them all as having
been paid (so you don't end up paying them next month for these
commissions too.) This will also mark them in the database as having
been paid on this date, for future reference.