What is a Shareasale Affiliate
Shareasale is an affiliate network where you can partner up with their advertisers, place links and articles on your site in order to generate revenue from those advertisers. If you are an advertiser and want to expand your reach, you can join Shareasale as a merchant and have have thousands of affiliates promoting your products.
How much does Shareasale Cost to Join?
If you want to sign up as an affiliate to Shareasale, it’s always free for affiliate marketers. For merchants that want to join the network and get that broad reach of affiliates promoting their product, there is a one time $550 fee to join and a $100 deposit required. The split for working with Shareasale is 20% of the commission earned from the affiliate.
How Does Shareasale work with Pinterest
The great news is Pinterest (as of this writing) allows affiliate links on their pages, but url shortners like bit.ly are not allowed so you will need to use the full affiliate link or your own affiliate links (i.e. a php link from your own database). To sign up as an affiliate click here.
How Does Shareasale Pay Out?
Shareasale works by paying you, the affiliate, when you send traffic to merchants that you are partnered up with, they make a commissionable purchase, and once the locked period has passed you will receive payment. The lock period is basically the amount of time the merchant has stated they will allow for returns, fraudulent activity or cancellations. If you are interested in becoming a shareasale affiliate join here.