Get Started as a Vendor Clickbank earn permanent passive income
Selling your digital product through ClickBank is one of
the best ways to quickly get exposure and sales for your product. Within a few
business days, you can be up and running and have your product promoted by our
huge network of affiliates! Here are the easy steps for getting set up as a
ClickBank vendor:
- Sign Up with ClickBank
- Create a Pitch Page and Thank You Page
- Make a Payment Link
- Complete My Site Information Within Your Account
- Complete My Products Information Within Your Account
- Test Payment Link
- Request Product Approval
- Pay One-Time $49.95 Activation Charge
- You’re Done!
1. Sign Up for a ClickBank Account
Before joining ClickBank, please make sure to read our Client
Contract, Vendor and Product Requirements, Accounting
Policy, and Return Policy. Click here to
sign up for a free ClickBank account now.
2. Create a Pitch Page and Thank You Page
To sell a product through ClickBank, you will need your own
website, including web hosting and a
registered domain name. You cannot sell a product through ClickBank using a web
page hosted on free sites, and ClickBank does not provide hosting for web pages
or assistance with design or coding of websites. You must create two pages on
your website that are used to sell your ClickBank product: pages that we at
ClickBank call a Pitch Page and a Thank You Page.
A: The Pitch Page
The Pitch Page is used to describe your product to
potential customers and convince them to buy. It is sometimes referred to as a
“sales page.” When customers are ready to buy they click on a ClickBank payment
link on your Pitch Page that links them to the ClickBank order form, where
customers can place their order. In addition to the ClickBank payment link (see
Step 3 for specific instructions), your Pitch Page must include the following
information:
- A detailed description of the product.
- The cost of the product.
- For recurring billing products, be sure to clearly state
all the details of the rebill schedule, including the number of times a customer
is billed, and how frequently they will be billed. For example, you should say,
“Your initial charge will be $19.95. You will then be charged $9.95 per month
for the next 11 months.”
- The file format of your product, as well as any particular
software or operating system required to use it (e.g., Microsoft Word, Adobe
Acrobat, etc.).
- If your product is only useful to customers in a
particular geographic region or country, be sure to say so.
- How the product will be delivered (e.g., direct download,
via email, etc.).
- How long delivery will take (e.g., immediate, 5 minutes,
etc.).
- For recurring billing products, explain how the product
will be delivered, and how often. For example, if you sold a monthly newsletter,
you could say that it will be delivered by email on the 1st of each month.
- Customers must be able to reach you if they have a
question about your product prior to purchase. Please include an email address,
a link to your email address, or a contact us link on your Pitch Page.
- To ensure your use of a ClickBank trademark does not
mislead consumers as to any sponsorship, affiliation or endorsement by ClickBank
of your company, products or services, the following disclaimer needs to be at
the bottom of any page with a ClickBank reference:
ClickBank is the retailer of
this product. CLICKBANK® is a registered trademark of Click Sales, Inc., a
Delaware corporation located at 917 S. Lusk Street, Suite 200, Boise Idaho,
83706, USA and used by permission. ClickBank’s role as retailer does not
constitute an endorsement, approval or review of this product or any claim,
statement or opinion used in promotion of this product.
All statements made on the Pitch Page are subject to
ClickBank’s Client Contract and Product Requirements, as well as all
applicable federal and state laws, including, but not limited to, U.S. Federal
Trade Commission regulations, policies, and guidelines governing advertising,
disclosure, and consumer protection. These rules can be found at www.FTC.gov. Also, please be sure to read our recent
article on important guidelines for ClickBank vendors
before submitting your product for approval.
Shortcut: If you don’t
know much about web design and want a quick and easy way to get your Pitch Page
and Thank You Page built and hosted, check out a product called PitchMagic, which is sold by a ClickBank vendor. The
software uses drag-and-drop functionality that follows many of the “best
practices” of successful Pitch Pages but doesn’t require any knowledge of
HTML.
B. The Thank You Page
The Thank You Page is the page customers will see after
they purchase your product. Customers will only see this page if their purchase
has been approved and the payment processed. In addition to thanking the
customer for their purchase, your Thank You Page must include the following
information:
- Customers must be able to reach you if they have a
question about your product need technical assistance after the purchase. Please
include an email address, a link to your email address, or a contact us link on
your Thank You Page.
- A reminder to the customer that his or her credit card or
bank statement will show a charge by ClickBank or CLKBANK*COM, rather than a
reference to your specific product. This reminder should be prominent, as
customers sometimes request refunds because they forget that ClickBank is
handling the purchase.
- Clear instructions on how to download or access the
product, or information on how and when it will be delivered to them.
- To ensure your use of a ClickBank trademark does not
mislead consumers as to any sponsorship, affiliation or endorsement by ClickBank
of your company, products or services, the following disclaimer needs to be at
the bottom of any page with a ClickBank reference:
ClickBank is the retailer of this product. CLICKBANK® is a
registered trademark of Click Sales, Inc., a Delaware corporation located at 917
S. Lusk Street, Suite 200, Boise Idaho, 83706, USA and used by permission.
ClickBank’s role as retailer does not constitute an endorsement, approval or
review of this product or any claim, statement or opinion used in promotion of
this product.
3. Make a Payment Link
When a customer is on your Pitch Page and ready to buy your
product, you need to provide them with a payment link that sends them to the
ClickBank order form, where they can enter their payment information and
complete the transaction. Once the payment is approved, the customer is taken to
a page hosted by ClickBank that confirms their order by providing them with a
unique receipt number. Customers are then prompted to click a final link that
takes them from this confirmation page to your Thank You Page, where you provide
them with the information detailed above. You’ll need to manually create the
payment link to send customers to the order form, and then insert this payment
link in HTML code on your Pitch Page. Put the HTML code for your payment link in
the following format:
http://ITEM.VENDOR.pay.clickbank.net
Here is a sample of what the HTML code would look like:
<a href=”http://ITEM.VENDOR.pay.clickbank.net” target=”cb”>CLICK HERE TO
PURCHASE</a>
You must customize this HTML code to link to the order form
for your specific product:
- Replace ITEM with the item number of the product for
sale. As you set up products to sell in your ClickBank account, each product
will be assigned a unique number: 1, 2, 3, etc. If you are setting up your first
product, the item number is 1.
- Replace VENDOR with your ClickBank account nickname.
- If you want, you can replace CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE with any text you prefer, or if
you are familiar with HTML you can insert code to make the payment link an
image.
See Creating a Payment Link for more information.
4. Complete My Site Information Within Your Account
A. Designate a HopLink Target URL
One of the biggest benefits of being a ClickBank vendor is
having access to our huge affiliate network. Affiliates advertise our vendors’
products by enticing visitors to click on their affiliate link (also known as a
HopLink) and “hop” over to your Pitch Page to make a purchase. The first step to
taking advantage of our affiliate network is specifying the URL where affiliates
should send potential customers, which we call the HopLink Target URL.
Typically, the HopLink Target URL is the same URL as your Pitch Page, although
this is not always the case. To designate a HopLink Target URL, follow the steps
below:
- Log in to your ClickBank account
- Click the Account Settings tab
- Click on My Site
- Click Edit to the right of the Marketplace Information
section
- Enter your HopLink Target URL in the top field (note: you can also edit your HopLink Target URL at
any time by using this screen)
- Enter Marketplace Information
B. Enter Marketplace Information
After you’ve designated a HopLink Target URL, fill out
details about your product to display in the ClickBank Marketplace. An accurate and compelling
Marketplace description will help affiliates find your product and can convince
them to promote it. If for any reason you do not wish to utilize our affiliate
network, you do not need to fill out this information. For tips on writing a
great Marketplace description, see The Affiliate Network and You.
First, enter a Marketplace Title, which can be up to 70
characters long. Then enter a Marketplace Description of your site or product,
which can be up to 250 characters long. Next, specify the commission you will
pay to affiliates if they successfully send a buying customer to your site.
Please note that this commission rate applies to any one-time, digital products
you sell, and to the initial sale of a recurring billing product. You can set
different commission rates for physical products, one-click upsell offers, and
rebills for recurring billing products.
On each affiliate-driven sale, this commission rate is
taken out of the remainder left after ClickBank’s payment processing charges
have been assessed.
Finally, choose the category and subcategory that best
describes your product or site and click the Save Changes button. Recurring
billing only: If you are selling recurring billing products, you will also
choose a Product Title and a Product Description for each product sold through
your account. The Product Title and Product Description will appear on the
ClickBank order form for each individual recurring billing subscription. The Product
Title and Product Description will not appear in the ClickBank Marketplace.
5. Complete My Products Information within Your
Account
To enter important information about your product, such as
the location of your Thank You page and your suggested retail price, click on
the My Products link under the Account Settings tab. Choose whether you’d like
to create a Standard Product or Recurring Billing Product by clicking on the
appropriate tab, then click on Add New Product on the right side of the page.
Enter the following information, based on which type of product you’re
creating.
A. Standard Products:
- The web address (or URL) of your Thank You Page
- The item number of your product; this value can be
alphanumeric
- The suggested retail price of your product,which is
subject to ClickBank approval
B. Recurring Billing Subscriptions:
- The web address (or URL) of your Thank You Page
- The item number of your product; this value can be
alphanumeric
- Product Title (up to 70 characters; will appear on the
ClickBank order form, not in the ClickBank Marketplace)
- Product Description (up to 250 characters; will appear on
the ClickBank order form, not in the ClickBank Marketplace)
- Suggested Initial Price and Rebill Price (subject to
ClickBank approval)
- Frequency (how often the customer will be billed)
- Duration (total number of times the customer will be
billed over the life of your product, including the initial charge, even in the
case of a trial purchase)
Once you’ve completed this information, it’s a good idea to
add a Product Title (if you haven’t already) and a Product Image. You can add
the latter by clicking on My Images under Account Settings, then clicking Add
New Image. Your product image will be shown on the ClickBank order form.
Products with images tend to convert better than products without them. Since
ClickBank products are digitally delivered, many vendors create “virtual images”
of the products by having an image of a book cover with their eBook’s title on
it, or an image of a box of software for a software package, etc. Please note
that images you submit will need to be approved by the ClickBank’s Business
Services before they are live. For more information on product images and
titles, see Product Images and Titles.
6. Test Your Payment Link
Before submitting your product for approval, you must first
place a test order for your product as if you were a customer. That way, you can
make sure all of your links are working before potential customers try to buy.
Testing your payment link also helps ensure your product is approved the first
time by ClickBank’s Business Services.
To make a test purchase, you’ll need to use test credit
card details that ClickBank provides to you. You will not be able to place test
orders using a real credit card number for products that have not been submitted
or approved.
To get this test credit card information, click the My Site
link under the Account Settings tab. If you’ve created a product in the My
Products tab, you should see a box near the bottom of the My Site page called
Testing Your Products.
Next to Test Credit Card Number, click Generate New Card
Number. This will create a credit card number, expiration date, and validation
code you can use to place test orders. This card information will be valid for
24 hours, after which time it will expire and will no longer be usable for test
orders.
Note: If you need to change the test credit card
information for any reason, you can click Edit on the right side of the box, and
then click Generate New Card Number. This will disable the old test credit card
information so it can no longer be used to place test orders for your
product.
Take note of the test credit card information, or leave the
information open in your Internet browser.
To make a test purchase, go to your Pitch Page and click
your payment link or Buy Now button as if you were a customer. On the ClickBank
order form, enter any address information you want, along with the test credit
card information we provided on the My Site page.
Once the order is submitted and approved, continue the
order process as if you were a customer, to ensure you can access or download
your product. It’s important to make sure you can access the product, as our
Business Services will test this before approving your product for sale.
If you receive errors during a test purchase, here are some
things to check:
- Is your payment link set up correctly?
- Is your ClickBank nickname spelled correctly?
- Did you enter the test credit card information correctly?
- Do you have the correct item number listed in the payment
link?
- Have you saved your Thank You Page URL in the My Products
section of your account?
- For additional information, please see Creating a Payment
Link.
7. Request Product Approval
Important: Please note that once a recurring
billing product has been approved, you cannot
change any details for that product, such as price, description, etc.
Before submitting a recurring billing product for approval, please verify that
all of your product information is correct. Before you can start selling your
product with ClickBank, it needs to be approved by ClickBank’s Business
Services. Once you’ve completed the steps above, you can submit a product
approval request by following the steps below:
- Log in to your ClickBank account
- Click on the Accounts Settings tab
- Click on My Products
- Click on the Request Approval button under the Action
column for each product that you want to submit for approval
- Verify that the information on the Request Product
Approval form is correct, and answer the required questions on the form
- Click Submit Product Approval Request, which will send
your request to ClickBank’s Business Services for review
If you have submitted your request correctly, the Status
column will change to Approval Requested for the product that is awaiting
approval. Once your product has been approved, the Status column will show
Approved. You will typically receive the results of your request within three to
five business days, via email.
8. Pay One-Time $49.95 Activation Charge
Once you receive the approval email for your first product,
you will need to pay your one-time $49.95 activation charge. You’ll receive
instructions from Business Services on how to log in and pay the activation
charge. You can pay by credit/debit card, PayPal, or money order. Once your
payment has gone through successfully, your site status on the My Site page will
change to Activated, and you can begin selling your approved products. Please
note that you cannot pay the activation charge until your product has been
approved and you have received notification from Business Services.
Advanced users: If you
would like to delay your Marketplace listing until a specific date (for example,
if you have a scheduled “launch date” for your product) you can wait until the
day before you wish to launch to pay your activation fee. Once your product is
activated, it will be live in our Marketplace within 24 hours.
9. You’re Done!
Once your product is activated, it will be listed in the
ClickBank Marketplace and ready for affiliates to promote. You can also begin
accepting orders through the ClickBank Order Form.
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- Get Started as an Affiliate
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