Using WordPress? Here’s how to create a partner center that lets partners access promo tools, track their own commissions and more.
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Create a partner center
- How to turn on the Partner Center feature in PilotPress (Ontraport’s WordPress plugin)
- Instructions for setting your login redirect for partners
- The importance of adding a partner membership level in Ontraport to share login details
- The way to give partners access to your Partner Center
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A partner center is where your partners log in to see their referrals and commissions and grab their affiliate links. The quickest way to build one is the Partners app, right inside Ontraport. You can also build your own, or use a WordPress site with the PilotPress plugin. One quick note first: if all you want is to give partners their affiliate links, you don't need a partner center at all.
Like every app in the App Marketplace, the Partners app needs a Dynamic CMS package. You can add one from your Account Details page. Then click your profile icon, then Apps, and toggle on the app. In the marketplace, it's listed as Partner Center. The app turns on the features it needs for you.
When you install it, you choose a domain, and that sets the URLs for all your partner center pages. Pick an existing membership site's domain to connect the pages to that site, or pick a new domain to create a new membership site for your partner center. Either way, the pages are protected, so only logged-in partners can see their stats.
The app gives you a registration page. When someone fills it out, they get access to your partner center, and an automation emails them their login details.
There's also an automation that adds every new contact to your partner program. They'll still need to fill out the registration form to get their login.
Inside the partner center, the Home page shows each partner's current referred subscribers, the commissions you've approved but haven't paid yet, and their commission history. The Promo tools page gives them their affiliate links. And on Payment info, they can update their PayPal address. A partner with no leads or sales yet lands on Promo tools, because Home has nothing to show.
To finish, edit the style of the app's five pages to match your brand. Add your commissionable products, because those are the only products partners can earn on. Add your promo tools. Then invite your customers and fans to register.
If you want full control, build your own partner center with an Ontraport page or a dynamic template. This also needs Dynamic CMS. A page gives every partner the same URL. A template gives each partner their own URL and extra security. Dynamic blocks pull in each partner's referred contacts and commissions. Protect the page in your membership site, and add a Partner Program display condition so only partners see it. The "Create a partner center" article in the Support Center has step-by-step recipes, from commission history to contest leaderboards.
You can also host your partner center on WordPress. You'll need a partner program in Ontraport and a WordPress site connected to Ontraport with the PilotPress plugin. There, partners can see and export their earnings and affiliate reports, update their PayPal email and login, and get their promo tools, links and SubID code. And if you want banner, lightbox or email promo tools, you'll need a WordPress partner center.
In WordPress, go to Settings, then PilotPress. Under Ontraport Integration Settings, check Enable Partner Center. Under Post Login Redirect Settings, set Partners Redirect to Partner Center. Then click Save Changes.
Back in Ontraport, create a membership level for your partners. Click your profile icon, then Administration, then Integrations, then WordPress Website. Under Membership Levels, type a name, like "Partner," click Add, then click Save.
Then open your partner sign-up automation and add the Give WordPress Membership Access action. Choose your site and the partner level. Put it before your welcome email, so partners have their login before the email goes out. In that email, add the WordPress website merge fields for username, password and the login page URL.
Now, when partners log in, they go straight to their partner center.
So: install the Partners app for the quickest partner center, build your own with dynamic blocks for full control, or use PilotPress on WordPress. Next up: creating links and promo tools for your partners.
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