- Have custom tracking systems
- Automate everything
- Create custom affiliate links.
- Monitor your affiliates and optimize in real-time
In this section, we’ll discuss 5 things:
- How you can enable and setup affiliate program for your online academy
- How your affiliate system looks like for your users
- What are the general terms of the affiliate program for users
- Additional affiliate tooling for your academy
- How affiliate payouts work
Setting up affiliate marketing
Fermion offers you a built-in affiliate system without letting you spend a minute building anything. You can leverage this tooling to get started quickly and save time that you may have otherwise spent building a custom affiliate program.Step 1:
Affiliate System for your online school isDISABLED
by default. Head over to the Settings
page in the Affiliate Marketing
section from your Fermion dashboard, to configure and setup your program. In case you do not have an account, free to schedule a call with me here, and I’ll set it up for you.

Step 2:
TheAffiliate settings
is the area from where you can manage your affiliate marketing program data.

- Clicking on
disable program
will completely disable the program. This means that if you have any existing affiliate links, they will stop working. - Clicking on
unlisted program
will partialy disable the program. You would not be able to create any new links but the existing affiliate links will keep working as expected. - Clicking on
public program
means that your program is public for your users.
Save changes
to save the settings you have configured.
Once you click on Public program
and Save changes
your affiliate program will be live for your users!
How your affiliate system looks like for your users
Every user will be able to see an option -Refer and earn money
inside their course dashboard once your affiliate program is public. This is how it will look like:

Affiliate dashboard
. This is how their affiliate dashboard will look like:

- The user affiliate dashboard shows data for all the courses and sale which they are an affiliate partner of.
- Every product has an associated affiliate link which is unique to every user.
- Additionally, with every product and affiliate link, data such as: the comission %, amount earned, new sales, valid sales, and refunded sales are also visible (refer image below).
- The data is updated in real-time.

Affiliate terms of service for users
Below are the terms of service we notify to every user who is a part of the affiliate program under your school on Fermion:- When a user shares their affiliate link with someone and they purchase, it will add as to “New sale” in your dashboard.
-
Once 15 days have passed, the new sale becomes
verified sale
. -
At any point, if the sale is refunded for some reason, it’ll move to
Refunded sales
section. - Minimum balance to withdraw is ₹1000 if the user is based out of India, or $150 (or equivalent) if the user is based outside of India.
- User’s affiliate payout will only be done via bank transfer and no other means.
- If a user is based outside of India, there would be additional SWIFT bank transfer charges applicable.
- Payouts will be done at most once every month.
- Affiliate commission will be rewarded for one-time sales for now.
- In case any user needs more help, they can contact their website administrator (you).
Additional affiliate tooling for your academy
Monitor your affiliate sales
There are various functionalities available for your school inside the Affiliate Program. Click onSales dashboard
inside the Affiliate Marketing
tab.
The Affiliate sales dashboard
is the area where you can view and monitor your recent affiliate sales. It shows the name of the affiliate user, the product name of the sale they helped you make, the commission they earned as well as the date of the sale.

Create custom affiliate links
Head over toCreate a new link
section, from the left sidebar.


Search for users
, once you find the user, click on their name.

Create Affiliate Link


Monitor all custom links
Head over toList all custom links
tab from the left sidebar. This is the area which lists down all the custom affiliate links you have created so you can view and monitor them at one glance.

How affiliate payouts work
- Fermion manages and dispatches payouts to all affiliates who are a part of your school minimising your hassle to manually calculate and share payments.
- Minimum balance for the user to withdraw their payments is ₹1000 if they’re based out of India, or $150 (or equivalent) if they’re based outside of India.
- All affiliate payouts will be done via bank transfers.
- If affiliates are based outside of India, there would be additional SWIFT bank transfer charges applicable.
- All affiliates would be able to add their payment information to receive payouts, from inside their user affiliate dashboard.
-
Fermion charges 1% fee on every affiliate sale to process the sale for you. For example: if your school is under the basic (free plan) and you have set a 10% commission for your affiliates, here’s how the payout structure would look like for you:
- Affiliate commission: 10%
- Fermion commission : 10%
- Fermion affiliate fee: 1%
- The invoices for affiliates will also be accounted for by Fermion.