How to Find a Vendor ID on Clickbank

Clickbank is a payment processor used by thousands of digital product vendors to manage fee processing and the subsequent delivery of digital goods. Clickbank makes it easy for vendors and affiliate marketers to connect, as more than 100,000 affiliates have accounts integrated with the Clickbank digital products marketplace. When vendors create a Clickbank account, they chose an ID, which is later combined with the affiliate's ID, to build a unique URL or "hoplink" for sales tracking purposes.

Instructions
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Log in to your Clickbank account. Click "Marketplace" on the horizontal navigation menu. In the page that opens, a list of categories is displayed on the left-hand side of the page. At the top of this page, you'll see a search box entitled "Find Products."
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Browse the marketplace by category or enter a keyword in the search box. A list of relevant products pertaining to your category or keyword will load. When you find a product that you are interested in promoting, click the "Promote" button next to the product description. A small window will pop up, with a field to enter your affiliate ID and an optional personal-tracking ID.


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Note the URL in the address bar of the small window. The last string of words will look something akin to "vendor=2COOK." "2COOK" is the vendor ID.



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Tips & Warnings

A Clickbank hoplink to be promoted on your affiliate website or in email newsletters is correctly formulated as "http://AFFILIATE-ID.VENDOR-ID.hop.clickbank.net" (without quotes). However, to help prevent would-be customers from stealing your commissions by replacing your ID with their own ID, enter your affiliate ID in the small window that appears when you click the "promote" button. This will generate an encrypted URL that disguises both the affiliate and vendor IDs.

After adding your Clickbank hoplink to your website, test it to make sure you it is working right, and that customer sales you refer will be credited to your account. Click on your referral hoplink, and scroll down the vendor's sales page until you see an image or text link to purchase the product. Once clicked, this will load a Clickbank order form. If all is working as it should, at the bottom of the form, you will see "[affiliate=YourAfilliateID]" (without quotes).

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Earning Commissions and Getting Paid

If you’re new to affiliate marketing, the idea of earning commissions for promoting other people’s products can be both exciting and confusing. How do you know how much you’ll earn? How is the sale tracked and reported? When will you get paid for the sales you’ve driven?

Understanding Commissions

Here’s a simple overview of how ClickBank commissions work:

1. You find a product to promote and create a customized HopLink.
2. You promote the product online.
3. A customer clicks on your HopLink, goes to the vendor’s website, and ends up purchasing the product.
4. The customer purchases the product from ClickBank and you receive credit for promoting the sale.
5. Your commission is calculated based on the net sale price (see below) and credited to your account within two minutes of the sale.

How Commissions Are Calculated and Reported

Every ClickBank product has a commission rate that is set by the vendor, ranging from 1% to 75%. When you drive a sale to that product, ClickBank processes the sale, applies its charges, then calculates the commission rate based on the remaining net sale amount. Here’s an example of how much you’ll earn on a one-time purchase product with a 55% commission rate:

Retail Price: $29.95
Subtract 7.5% + $1: -$3.25
Net Sale Amount: $26.70
55% of Remainder: $14.69

Therefore, as the referring affiliate for this sale, you would earn $14.69.

Commissions for recurring billing products are slightly different. See Promoting Recurring Billing Products for details.

The maximum commission you can earn on a single sale is $150.

Getting Paid

Obviously, the goal of being an affiliate is to get paid for your efforts. To receive your first commission payment, there are two requirements:

1. You must reach your payment threshold, which you set in your Account Settings.
2. You must meet the Customer Distribution Requirement.

For more details about these requirements, please see our Accounting Policy.

Once you’ve met these two requirements, you can start receiving payments. For more details about ClickBank’s payment schedule see Paychecks.

If you’re located in an eligible country, once you’ve received two paper checks from ClickBank within a 12-week time period, you can start receiving payment via direct deposit. Once you become eligible for direct deposit, you can specify this as your payment method in Account Settings->Payment Information. If you are not within a country supported by direct deposit you may be eligible to receive wire payments.

Refunds and Chargebacks

One question you may have is whether you will still receive your affiliate commission if the product is returned or if the customer requests a chargeback on the purchase. Unfortunately, the answer is no. All money is returned to the customer, so the vendor and affiliate must return their portions of the sale as well.

Because of the 60-day return period for all ClickBank products, we utilize a return allowance to cover the possibility of returns.

FAQ

Q: I misspelled my ClickBank nickname in my HopLink and I know I’ve made sales! Can I get that money?

A: Possibly. If the misspelled nickname you used belongs to another ClickBank user, we cannot transfer that money to your account. However, if the misspelled nickname does not belong to anyone else, you can contact customer service for access to that account. All sales made using that nickname will be listed in the account’s sales reporting, even though the account did not exist when the sales were made. However, we cannot transfer money from that account to your main account.

Q: Can vendors cheat affiliates by “undoing” the commission on a sale, or by pretending that a sale was returned?

A: No. Unlike some other affiliate networks, ClickBank handles all sales processing and commission tracking, so vendors cannot attempt to avoid paying commission on a sale. If a vendor approves a refund on a sale, they lose their portion of the sale as well, so there is no incentive for them to pretend that a sale has been refunded.

 

 

 

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