The Affiliate Feature utilizes your partnerships to encourage others to sell your course on your behalf while receiving a commission from you in the process. Learn to maximize your revenue with the Affiliate Feature.
Note:
The Affiliate Feature is only available with the Growth and Pro Plans. Check out kajabi.com/pricing for more details.
How the Affiliate Feature Works
The Affiliate Feature helps you:
Manage affiliate registrations and accounts
Track conversions and form submissions
Automatically calculate earnings
Create detailed reports
Determine Payout Method
Automatic Payouts reduce manual work by scheduling payments directly through PayPal.
Manual Payouts give you full control over when and how affiliates are paid. Kajabi helps you track and batch Due commissions, but you send the money outside Kajabi (for example, PayPal, Wise, or cash).
Set Up Payout Schedule
Go to the Transactions tab → Payouts card and determine your preferred method of paying out your affiliates.
Create a payout schedule to keep transactions organized and set reminders to pay commissions.
Enable Commissions
Enable Affiliate Commission for your offers.
Create Share Links or Affiliate Coupons
Share Links: Redirect traffic to any URL, landing page, or checkout page. They install a cookie on visitors’ browsers to track submissions and purchases.
Affiliate Coupons: Provide affiliates with unique coupon codes that credit them for sales, even if no cookie is present.
Add Affiliates
New affiliates will receive a welcome email with setup instructions and a link to their Affiliate Dashboard.
Affiliates Start Promoting
Affiliates can share their:
Unique Share Link
Personalized Coupon Code through any marketing channel.
Manage Your Affiliate Payouts
Review and Manage Your Affiliate Payouts based upon what you’ve sent in the earlier steps.
Note:
The Affiliate Feature tracks conversions on your site only. It does not track purchases made through external carts or checkout pages. Refer to our Affiliate Troubleshooting Article for more information.
Your Affiliate Dashboard
The Affiliate Dashboard shows an overview of how your Affiliates are performing.
Set the date range and currency using the selectors above the graph to include the period you want to analyze for the following metrics:
Total Sales: The total value of sales attributed to your affiliates, excluding refunds..
Commission Earned: The totem amount of commissions earned by your affiliates, excluding refunds.
Form Submissions: The count of form submissions attributed to your affiliates.
Sales Count: The count of both free & paid sales attributed to your affiliate.
Leaderboard: A ranked list of your top affiliates.
Top offers: A ranked list of your top selling affiliate-related offers
Commission Setup
Setup your commission percentage or amount for each Offer to credit to your Affiliate(s) when the Offer is purchased with their unique Share Link or personalized Coupon Code:
Share Links and Affiliate Coupons
Share Links
A Share Link is simply a URL that can lead to any site or page (even a site outside Kajabi). When a user clicks on a Share Link a cookie is placed in their browser based upon the referral conversion window you have set in your Affiliate settings. This cookie will attribute the visitor’s form submissions and purchases to the appropriate Affiliate.
Create Share Links that lead to any URL, Landing Page, or Checkout Page. As long as the user completes a purchase of an Offer on Kajabi using the same browser where they originally clicked the Share Link, the sale will be credited to the Affiliate User.
Affiliate Coupons
Unlike Share Links, when an Affiliate Coupon code is used to purchase an Offer from your site, the Affiliate will be credited with the transaction without the requirement of having to click a Share Link first. As an admin, you can create Discounts that will generate personalized coupon codes for each Affiliate.
Note:
Affiliates will only be credited if the Offer has commission activated. If an affiliate still isn’t getting credited, Troubleshoot Affiliate Commission.
Affiliates Users
Create and manage your Affiliate Users in the Users section of your Affiliate Dashboard.
Click on an Affiliate User's name to:
Review their individual Affiliate statistics.
Override their Affiliate Percentage.
View which Share Links are available to each Affiliate.
View and update your Affiliates' personalized coupon code.
Manually add an affiliate transaction.
Export their form submissions which contains the following:
Form Title
Form ID
Submission Date
Customer Name
Customer ID
Customer Email
Affiliate ID
Affiliate Name
Affiliate Email
Read Managing Your Affiliates for more details.
Transactions
The Transactions section in your Affiliate dashboard will display all transactions credited to your Affiliate Users:
Learn more about the New Affiliate Commission Workflow and how to Manage Your Affiliate Payouts and Commissions to begin allocating commission and paying out your affiliates!
Announcements
Communicate with every Affiliate User on your site by creating an Affiliate Announcement. Sending an Affiliate Announcement sends an email to every Affiliate containing the Title and Body text:
Settings
The Affiliate Settings located in the top menu of your Affiliates page allow you to make a variety of edits to the appearance of your Affiliate’s Dashboards, and configure key elements of your affiliate program.
Use Memos to convey useful information that your affiliates will see when they sign in. Use Resources to share files and links (e.g., promo creatives, swipe copy, calendars). Preview the dashboard to emulate what the view your affiliates will have when they log into their portal.
Tip: Click & drag your resources to re-arrange the order that your affiliates view them!
The Affiliate Sign-up page is where individuals can register as an affiliate to your site. Learn to create a custom Affiliate Signup Page.
Note: If Registrations are disabled, this page will prompt your prospective Affiliate to send an email to the Support email listed in your Site Details.
The Affiliate Login page is where your registered affiliates will log in to their own affiliate dashboard and view their sales metrics and
The referral conversion window determines the duration of an Affiliate cookie in a visitor’s browser. Learn more here.
Affiliate Dashboard
After an Affiliate is added to your site by registering or by manually adding them, they will receive an Affiliate User Welcome email containing a link to setup an Affiliate account and access their Affiliate Portal.
The Affiliate Portal allows your Affiliates to:
View their Stats within a specified time range:
Total sales
Commissions earned
Clicks
Form submissions
View the latest updates of your Affiliate program in the Memo
Download or access Resources you’ve uploaded in your Affiliate Settings
Access their Share Links or their Personalized Coupon Code.
Export their Purchase Summary Report.
Change their Settings to update their Profile, email preferences, and change their Password.
Read the Affiliate Portal Overview for more details.
And that’s how you can get started with Affiliates! Please vote below and let us know if you found this article helpful. We value your feedback. Thanks for being the best part of Kajabi!