The Shopify Affiliate Program – Is it worth promoting?
If you have been researching on ways to make money online, you must have come across creating your own eCommerce store at least once, as a way to make a great income from home. Shopify is one usch platform that offers eStore building.
The Shopify Affiliate Program is said to help you make money by promoting one of the 4 plans available, and each time there is an upgrade, you earn commissions.
Let’s take a look closer at the value Shopify is offering for your prospective sign-ups and whether the compensation plan is one that you should take into consideration.
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At A Glance
Name: Shopify Affiliate Program
Website: www.shopify.ca
Owner(s): Tobias Lutke
Training: Yes
Tools: Yes
Support: Yes
Successful Stories: Yes
Pricing: Free sign up
Recommended?: Yes
Background
Shopify was founded in 2006, and has since then become one of the leading eCommerce-website-building platforms today. It has done beautifully with keeping up with the evolution of technology as well as catering for the needs of its users and customers.
At first, the owners of Shopify has no intention of making it into a full-service eCommerce-building platform. It started off being a place online selling Snowboards, then its name changed to Jaded Pixels, finally rolling over to Shopify in 2006.
Requirements
RequirementsFirst of all, I would like to emphasize how easy it is to sign up as an affiliate with Shopify. You definitely would have higher chances of being approved as an affiliate if you already have a blog / website that you can use to promote shopify.
When I signed up, there was also a specific question that asked about the nature of my website. If your website/blog is attached to the MMO niche or anything similar, then I don’t believe it would matter whether you are just starting it or whether you have a well-established website, you will get approved.
Let me also tell you that there needs to be a few things present within your website in order for you to get approved, and those are your Privacy Policy, there needs to be a few articles on yor website already, you need to have some engagement to show that you are active and so on…
It took me about 2 days to get approved.
Tools
Everything you need is right at your fingertips when it comes to managing your referrals, your payout, your campaigns and accessing your affiliate links and banners to help you promote Shopify.
The most important tool within the program would be your affiliate link of course, because this is what will enable you to start making money immediately. This link can be posted within the contents of your website, it can be posted on social media, like your Facebook page, your twitter account, instagram as well as Pinterest.
Promoting your link is not the only way to make money with Shopify. The two other ways you can make money would be developing themes and apps to be sold on the App Store within Shopify. You can choose to offer the themes and apps for free, or you could choose to charge, even a small fee, for your hard work.
Support
The two ways that you can receive help, would be through the the Shopify Help Centre and through chat. These are both available 24/7. I will have to say that the support at Shopify is top-notch, specially if you decide to seek help through chat. Each time I needed somebody, I was able to get in touch with them within 2 – 3 minutes and I found that the agent was very knowledgeable and helpful.
Payout
Now comes probably the most important part of this review; it’s how much money can be made promoting Shopify. When you promote the standard plans available from Shopify, you are able to make 200% of the monthly rate whenever a new referral signs up for one of them.
Looking at the monthly plans, there are three of them; the Basic plan at $29 monthly, the Shopify Plan at $79 monthly and the Advanced Shopify Plan at $299 monthly. Therefore, 200% of these monthly plans would earn you upto $598.
There is also an Enterprise plan than can be promoted, but the prices for this is tailored to the requirements and needs of the company wanting a customized plan. And with this plan, you are able to make around $2000 per referral and even more.
When you sign up, you are asked to also link your Paypal account so Shopify can send you your payments. A minimum of $25 is required to be accumulated in the account before Shopify sends you any payment.
Conclusion
Looking at the success history of the platform, the kinds of plans that Shopify offers and the 200% commission that it pays out to its affiliates and partners, I can safely conclude that Shopify is one of the best programs to become affiliated with and to promote in this era of MMO.
Not only is it easy to sign up but it is also easy to promote because of the tailored plans that can be applicable to just anybody. The amount of money that can also be made when you promote even the regular plans makes it an affiliate program worth the effort.
Not only will your referral be satisifed, but you can also rest assured that you are promoting a genuinely good platform that will be helping somebody else make a success online.
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Now it’s Q and A time. Was there anything I missed that you wanted to know more about? Anything that I need to go over again in other terms? Do you also have any kind of experience with the Shopify Affiliate Program?
Anything at all, please feel free to leave your comments and your questions below, and I will get back to you asap.
Cheers,
Reyhana
I’ve never built an ecommerce store but I have heard nothing but great things from them.
If I ever do decide to and build an ecommerce store, I will defiantly use this platform.
Have you ever used this before, and if so how did you like it? Also are there any other companies that are just as good if not better?
Or is this basically the best one in the market right now?
Hey Michael! I, too, have heard nothing but good things about them. I have definitely tried the trial version to see what resources are available and I can tell you that If one day, you do decide to go the e-commerce route, that Shopify is the way to go!
The only thing that I don’t like about the platform is the lack of proper training. For example, you want to be able to reach customers and the way to do that is to appear on Page 1 of the search engines. Unfortunately, they don’t show you or explain this to you.
However, there is are a lot of apps within that can be used to share your products and promotions on social media and that is something that really helps with SEO, but because there is lack of training, not a lot of people understand how it should be done properly.
If you take this seriously and invest some time teaching yourself the ins and outs of e-commerce, then you can definitely make it on Shopify because the tools are bang! what you need.
Hi. Wow, I didn’t even know that shopify had an affiliate program. The commissions are amazing, I mean 200% is an insane amount to be making on sign-ups. Usually commissions are only paid once you reach a minimum of at least $50 USD, but this is just awesome having a $25 minimum.
Have you had any success with this program? I’m definitely going to give it a go.
Thanks for this post. Very helpful
When I found out about this affiliate program, I was also very surprised, that they would be giving you 200% commission on new sign-ups. Because like you, the most I have seen an affiliate program pay is 75%. But to be honest with you, depending on what kind of solution best fits the person you refer, you could be making close to $600 for only one sign up. Definitely give it a try and please come back to let us know of your results.
As far as my results in promoting Shopify, I only recently started promoting it, so my results have been only a few sign ups so far. But I know other affiliate marketers are making a lot of money promoting this platform, because it is 100% legit. The only place where it lacks, is proper training to help you understand the background of things but this kind of training can be found on the internet, sometimes even for free.