Are comissions paid for extra added products on the merchant's cart?

[Cobo]

00Hello all,

I'm just trying to get started with the affiliate world and discovered this great forum.

I for now have a simple doubt: when I refer someone to an online shop via an affiliate link, if that user gets to the shop, adds more products and then buys them all (the one I original referred and some more he/she adds), do merchants normally pay comission on those extra products or just the original referred one? Or does it depend on the network and/or merchant?

Thank you very much for helping! Cheers!

 

[djbaxter]

I believe it depends on the product or seller. What you describe is the way it works for Amazon: you get credit for any item(s) purchased within 24 hours of clicking through from your affiliate link.

 

[Linda Buquet]

Hi cobo, welcome.

Normally you get paid for any product. Because many times you are just linking to the merchant's home page not a specific product. Often you get paid even if the customer does not buy today but comes back a week or month later too.

It all depends as minstrels says on how the program is set up and how long the cookies are. Amazon is 24 hour, some are a month, some are even a year. Just depends.

 

[Cobo]

Hello both and thank you for helping!

I know about the cookie length, I didn't know about that bit of sometimes linking just to the homepage and if everything counts or not.

I guess I'll have to do some deep research of my niche to find out what is the standard practice, but it is good to know comission on everything is usual .

Thanks a lot!