You can integrate New Vision with an external affiliate program (referral program) script by passing signup info (e.g. account number, amount, etc.) to an affiliate program script..

How Do Affiliate Programs Work?

Affiliate programs involve four types of players:
- Affiliate Program Company/Server;
- Affiliate Site;
- your New Vision Server;
- Potential New Vision Customer.

This process is as follows:

1. You place a text link, banner advertisement, and/or product link on the Affiliate Site.
2. The Potential Customer clicks on this link. This link sends a request to Affiliate Program Server with an assortment of variables that define the affiliate transaction (such as the unique ID of the exchange participant).
3. Affiliate Program Server sets cookies in Potential Customer's browser about the Affiliate Site and which text link, banner advertisement, or product link was used in the exchange.
4. Next, a new record is opened in the database of referrals. on the Affiliate Program Server. The opened record consists of two parts -- the first one is filled with customer-related data, the second one remains empty.
5. Then, Potential Customer is redirected to your signup (order) page.
6. Once the signup is complete, New Vision sends a request back to the Affiliate Program Server, including some registration data. Depending on the Affiliate Program, this request would have to pass different parameters, which has to be configured in the New Vision interface.
7. When Affiliate Program Server gets this request, the related database record is found, and the received data are filled in its second part. If the info in the second and first parts matches, a new sale transaction is opened.

Your participation in an affiliate program involves the following:

1. Sign a contract with an external affiliate program.
2. Create an 'affliate program link' with the variables required by this affiliate program to be executed on the its servers to accomplish the authentification of a sale transaction. Usually the affiliate system will want you to send the info out to them in an image tag. It should be formatted similar to <img src="http://affiliate_company.com/example/log.cgi?${amount}>. New Vision automatically generates the link as an image tag, so you need to enter the actual URL and not the <img src="... part.

* The commission is based on sales, not visits or clicks.
* In terms of New Vision, a sale transaction is a user signup, even if the account hasn't been moderated (i.e. activated). Trial registration is also a sale transaction.

Create an 'Affiliate Program Link'

Go to Settings -> Affiliate Program. The following form will appear:

Edit the link using the sample on the screen. New Vision allows you to autoinsert the following parameters that are usually required by the affiliate program company into the link: amount, account ID, user name, domain, plan ID, plan name, amount with tax (click on the drop-down box in the Autoinsert field). The parameters inserted will show in the Link field.