About MLC Referral Program and Its Benefits

Introduction –  

One of the main questions that lurks in the mind of the people is how to set a multi-tier affiliate program or multi-level marketing (MLM)? So, one of the most important things that you ought to know is that affiliate for WooCommerce plugin assists you to manage, add, affiliates and trace the performance from single platform – payouts, sales, commissions, leaderboard etc. One of the best things that you can do is earn money without any hard-work, enhance your brand outreach and get possible clients. A Multi-Level Commission Referral Program, or in short an MLM is a commission structure in which your affiliates earn commissions on sales which they make as well as on the sales created by people which they refer to your affiliate program. Let’s look at some of the instances.

Instances of MLC Referral Program -

For instance, Michael is your affiliate and he refers or recruits George to your affiliate program. Now, if someone purchases your product through George’s affiliate link, both George and Michael will earn a commission. Besides all of that, you should also note that, you can set up an affiliate program with the unlimited tiers using the plugins. Other few queries that people have are, how to enable or disable a multi-tier affiliate program? You can simply enable it by default. Next, how can your affiliates refer other users to your affiliate program? So, the answer is that, your affiliates will look for the registration form on the website. All that, they require is to append their referral link and share the link. So, that people can join your affiliate program using the shared link. Then, these new affiliates will then share the referral link with others and thereby developing a chain of affiliates and multi-level referral system.

Configuring MLC Referral Program -

For instance, if Rosy refers Joey and Joey refers Tarzan, it forms a 3-tier affiliate structure. But, if rosy refers to both Joey and Chris, then, it forms 2 different 2 tier affiliate structures, one of rosy and other of joey, and other of rosy and Chris respectively. Besides all of that, there are certain steps that you ought to follow before setting up a multi-tier affiliate program. You have to set up default tiered commission plan. By default, your affiliate program will have a global or storewide commission plan with a single tier. You can also configure the multi-tier commission for your global or storewide commission plan by certifying the number of tiers you want. Then, you can assign a commission rate for each tier. So, whenever any product is bought and if no other tiered commission plan matches, then this default commission plan will kick in. Besides all of that, setting up tiered commission plans based on products, affiliates and other conditions using the plugin’s plans feature. Moreover, be it 2-tier, 3-tier or 4-tier or 5-tiers you have complete elasticity to set up any number of tiers. However, keep in mind that the more tiers you add up, the more will be the commission you will need to pay out. So, make sure that you put up tiers wisely.