Affiliate Agreement

Affiliate Registration

To register as an affiliate you must have an active CheckoutWC license, that you own, and have used for 31+ days.

We review and moderate all affiliate registrations, and we appreciate your accurate and honest information. Please note that the review process may take a few days – we know you are eager to join our team of affiliates, and we appreciate your patience!

If you’re approved, awesome! You’ll be given a unique referral ID that you can use to promote CheckoutWC via referral links. Check out your private Affiliate Area for visits and referrals information, creatives, graphs and more!

Commissions and payouts

You’ll earn a sweet 20% commission when a customer purchases a new CheckoutWC license subscription using your referral link.

We pay out affiliate commissions in USD directly to your bank account or debit card in the first week of every month. We only pay commissions that are older than 30 days. The minimum payout balance is $50.00. There is no maximum payout.

In order to receive a payout for your referrals, you must provide a valid PayPal email address for payouts.

We do not allow referrals to be generated on your own purchases.

We do not offer recurring referrals at this time.

Here are the details of our program in summary:

• To register as an affiliate you must have an active CheckoutWC license that you own (i.e. you may not use a client’s CheckoutWC license)
• You must have held that license for 31+ days
• You’ll receive 20% commission for every new sale you refer
• Minimum payout balance of $50.00, and no maximum payout
• Payouts are in USD
• Commissions older than 30 days will be paid within the first 15 days of each month
• Referrals are paid out to your PayPal account
• Referrals cannot be generated on your own purchases (even if you use a different email address).

Referral Cookie Tracking

When a lead clicks on your referral link, a cookie is stored in their browser to track your referral. The cookie is then stored for a generous 30 days to give your referred customers time to decide if they wish to purchase CheckoutWC, or ask us any pre-sale questions they may have.

A referral won’t be awarded if:

1. The customer uses a different browser to purchase than the one they originally used to visit our site (because the cookie does not exist in that browser)
2. The customer purchases after 30 days (because the cookie will expire).

Direct Link Tracking

You have the option to bypass using a referral link (e.g. ?ref=123 or /ref/123) when you link to our site from your https:// website. You can submit a direct link to your own website in the Settings tab of your Affiliate Area. We’ll review your direct link submission, and when it’s approved you’ll no longer need to use a referral link when linking to CheckoutWC.com directly from your site! Awesome!

Note: Direct Link Tracking is only available if your site has an SSL certificate and uses the https:// protocol. We will only approve websites that are 100% owned by you.

Refunded Purchases

Referrals older than 30 days and in good standing (i.e. the purchase has not been refunded) will be included with each commission payout (if the commission balance totals $50.00 or over). If a purchase is refunded, a commission won’t be paid out for that referral.

We reserve the right to reject affiliate commissions for any reason. Commission rejections may occur for the following reasons:

1. The sale that the referral was based on was refunded
2. The method by which the referral was generated was in violation of our promotional policies (see below) or violated the spirit of the Affiliate Agreement.

Affiliate news and updates

By becoming an affiliate you agree to receive emails from CheckoutWC. These emails will be sent to affiliates only, on an ad-hoc basis, and may include important information regarding the CheckoutWC affiliate program. These emails will also provide you with relevant news and updates to help you effectively promote CheckoutWC. As an affiliate you may be privy to embargoed or time-sensitive information in these emails (this information may only be promoted after an embargo is lifted). We won’t spam you, ever – promise!

Affiliate application rejection

We reserve the right to reject affiliate applications for any reason. We also reserve the right to choose whether we provide an explanation or reasoning for affiliate application rejection. Below are just a few reasons why an application may be rejected (this is not an exhaustive list):

• Affiliate applications for websites that sell, advertise or engage in pornography, phishing scams, spamming, illegal business practices, or that include any material infringing on National or International Copyright will be rejected.
• Affiliate applications for websites that we do not believe are aligned with our industry or business may be rejected.
• If you apply to become an affiliate and you have not purchased an extension license, your application may be rejected.
• If you apply to become an affiliate and it has been less than 30 days since you purchased an extension license, your application may be rejected.
• Affiliate applicants with websites that re-sell any of our products will be rejected.
• Websites considered inappropriate by CheckoutWC will be rejected.

Inappropriate websites:

The following types of sites are not permitted to become an affiliate: adult sites, sites that display adult material or banners, sites that promote violence, hatred or bigotry, sites that promote or engage in illegal activity, including (but not limited to), hacking, cracking, nulled, and warez sites. Affiliate applications for inappropriate websites will be rejected, and we reserve the right to choose whether or not to provide a rejection reason.

Questions regarding your application

When you apply to become an affiliate we may email you at the email address you have supplied with some questions regarding your application. This may be because:

• We didn’t understand something in your application, or,
• We’d like to learn a bit more about how you will promote CheckoutWC and need a little more detail.

If we reach out to you and we haven’t heard back within 7 days, your application may be rejected. If your initial application is rejected, you are welcome to reapply to become an affiliate and provide us with more detail for reconsideration.

Dormant affiliate accounts

We encourage all of our affiliates to actively promote CheckoutWC to keep earning referrals.

An affiliate account is considered dormant if no visits have been generated in a 6-month period. A dormant affiliate account will be temporarily deactivated if no visits have been generated after 6 months.

CheckoutWC Affiliate Program Policies

Allowed promotional methods

How you promote CheckoutWC is reflected in the commission you earn! We encourage the use of promotional methods that add value to CheckoutWC and bring us legitimate, loyal customers. We love it when our team of affiliates blog about WooCommerce and mention CheckoutWC.

Here are a few examples of great promotional methods to earn more commission:

• Tell clients, customers or friends about CheckoutWC, and give them your affiliate referral link
• Write a review or a blog post about WooCommerce or CheckoutWC and link to our site with your referral link
• Reach out to a broad audience with your social network accounts. Tweet about us on Twitter with your affiliate referral link, post about us on Facebook with your affiliate link, or communicate to your Linkedin followers about WooCommerce checkout optimization with your affiliate link. Spam-free promotion is a great way to get more referrals!
• Provide value to others by answering related questions on other sites with helpful responses, and using your referral link in your replies.

Prohibited promotional methods

We love and back our product 100%, and we are very careful with how it’s promoted. The prohibited promotional methods listed below aren’t meant to scare you off – they’re here to protect you, and us, and our customers from any suspicious or fraudulent activity, which is something we take pretty seriously.

• CheckoutWC may not be promoted on coupon sites
  Customers who are searching for a coupon are already in the market for CheckoutWC, so this method adds no value to CheckoutWC.
• Paid advertising using your affiliate link is prohibited
  Buying ads through services like Google AdWords, social ads, or retargeting ads using our brand keywords and your affiliate link will result in affiliate account deactivation.
• Promoting incorrect or misleading information
  Any promotional activity that shares incorrect or misleading information will result in affiliate account deactivation. This includes false information intended to click-bait potential customers. If you are unsure of the correct information or details for promoting CheckoutWC, please contact us.
• Any type of spam is prohibited
  Links, ads, emails, comments… any type of spam. Please respect the posting rules of any 3rd-party websites you use to promote CheckoutWC. P.S. This is not an exhaustive list of spam methods; if we decide that your activity is spam, it’s spam.
• Any illegal activity or activity deemed offensive by us is prohibited
  This may result in referrals being rejected and/or your affiliate account being deactivated. See above for allowed and super cool promotional methods!
• Please do not represent yourself to be professionally associated with CheckoutWC
  Affiliates aren’t employees of CheckoutWC or Clif Griffin Development Inc. and have no employee rights.
• Pretending to actually be CheckoutWC is prohibited
  Cloning our site, copying our site, using our copyrighted site assets, and pretending that a site created by you is an official CheckoutWC site is unethical and prohibited (this includes using services that automatically clone websites, or place them into iframes).
• Again, false promotion to customers that you are endorsed or operated by CheckoutWC is prohibited (and super uncool).

If you’re unsure or concerned that some activity you’re about to proceed with may be considered prohibited, please ask us. 🙂

Consequences of prohibited promotional methods

If your promotional methods step outside of these terms, your referrals may be rejected and we may disable your affiliate account. We reserve the right to do this and may or may not notify you in the instance that this occurs. Please use allowed promotional methods, and help us to help you succeed as an affiliate!

Inappropriate websites

The following types of sites are not permitted to become an affiliate: adult sites, sites that display adult material or banners, sites that promote violence, hatred or bigotry, sites that promote or engage in illegal activity, including (but not limited to), hacking, cracking, nulled, and warez sites. Affiliate applications for inappropriate websites will be rejected, and we reserve the right to choose whether or not to provide a rejection reason.

The Legal Stuff

By accepting these terms and conditions you are providing your nonlegal agreement to abide by them. By registering and being approved as an affiliate in our affiliate program you agree that your commissions are subject to approval before they are accepted and subsequently paid.

The affiliate relationship does not represent a professional or formal agreement, and as an affiliate you are not an employee of Clif Griffin Development Inc. You agree that this is not a legally binding relationship and as a result may not take legal action against Clif Griffin Development Inc. These affiliate terms and conditions are subject to change without notice.