Congratulations on becoming a Romantic Blessings affiliate!!!

If you are new to the Romantic Blessings Affiliate Program, below is a quick guide to help you setup your affiliate account and make the most of the resources available to you so you can maximize your earned benefits with our Affiliate Marketing Program.

1. Signing in to your account:

Once your affiliate account has been approved, you will receive a notification email including your affiliate log in link. Sign into your account using the email and password which you gave when you registered to access your affiliate account.

2. Get started with your new affiliate account:

Your affiliate account will look like this when you log into your account:

If this is your first time signing in to your account, please take a moment to familiarize yourself with your account dashboard and options.

Starting from the bottom of the account home page to the top (recommended):

2.1. Click on Guide tab to find help guides, instructions and important updates from Romantic Blessings.

2.2. On Settings, you can complete your personal details so Romantic Blessings can know you better, then click Save changes to save your updates:

In order to get paid, you will need to provide your payment details so Romantic Blessings can process your payments. Click on Payment tab to add payment information:

2.3. In the Marketing tools section, you will find the collection of media assets that Romantic Blessings provides the affiliate in order to help affiliates promote and market Romantic Blessings.

The promotional media provided will be in form of images with link(s) (optional) so you can download, get embed code (to add on your website) and push them on your promotion channels.

2.4. You can keep track of your earnings and payment status on the Commission and Payment tab. 

2.5 On Dashboard, you will find your Affiliate link (which is auto-generated by our system when you are approved), and any Affiliate coupons assigned to your account by Romantic Blessings.

2.6 Affiliate Analytics You can track your overall performance on your Dashboard including Commission amount, Clicks, Orders and Sales.

In addition to your default affiliate link generated automatically when your account is activated, Romantic Blessings can create a custom link for you if requested.

A custom affiliate link is a great way to create a clean-looking URL for you to use with your referrals that doesn't contain or show your affiliate information. (for example https://yourdomain.com/Alex)

Please select the email icon below to email customerservice@romanticblessings.com if you would like a custom link created for you.

Resources Available for Promotion of Romantic Blessings

There are numerous promotion resources that are provided for you to help you increase your commission:

1. Affiliate link

Your affiliate link is shown on your account Dashboard, which is the first thing you see when you log in to your affiliate account.

Whenever a customer clicks on the affiliate link and makes a purchase (or tracked by cookie), you will earn commission based upon your program rules set by Romantic Blessings.

In addition to the auto-generated affiliate link, you can also generate a specific link for a specific product(s).

Also, you have an option to Generate a referral link for a traffic source. You can add this affiliate link with a specific source to track where your conversion is from (for example: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram)

You can also get a shortened link (Bitly link) to make the link more minimalized. Plus, social sharing buttons are visible and super handy for you to share on your social accounts.

2. Coupon code

If requested, Romantic Blessings can create and assign one or multiple discount coupons specifically for your affiliate account that you can share with your referrals.

Once a coupon has been created for you, copy the coupon and insert it on your promotional content. Whenever a customer buys from Romantic Blessings and applies this coupon during their checkout, you will be eligible to earn commission based on the rules of your affiliate program as defined by Romantic Blessings.

Please select the email icon below to email customerservice@romanticblessings.com if you would like a custom coupon code created for you.

3. Social share to reach customers on more channels

To help you reach more visitors on multiple channels Romantic Blessings has provided a way for you to easily share your affiliate link and content on your social media channels.

To use this feature, simply click the social share button right on your Dashboard:

3. Media assets

As mentioned in the quick start guide, as an affiliate you will be provided banners, logos or other images that have been shared by Romantic Blessings for your use in any promotions or posts on your media channels in order to create more appealing affiliate content.

As a Romantic Blessings affiliate, you can add your affiliate link with specific social media or sales channel source.

Adding a link to a specific source will help you track where your conversions are coming from. You can add unlimited links with sources such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google. (you will need to create and add these specific links before you share your general affiliate link on these channels if you want to ensure you can filter your performance by sources later.)

To create your specific source link, click Get referral link with source:

After clicking on this tab, fill in the source box and click Generate:

One your link generates a click or a sale, you can filter the conversion on Dashboard, Commission tab or Payments tab:

The default link will normally direct your referrals to the Romantic Blessings' Homepage, but you can create a link to promote any product/collection that you think would match your customer segments.

To generate a link for a specific product/collection, access your affiliate account and click the button on Dashboard: 

Next, enter product/collection URL link or any link on Romantic Blessings' website that you would like to use and click the Generate button:

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To help make your campaign look and feel more professional, Romantic Blessings will provide marketing collateral to each affiliate. 

You can use this marketing collateral to boost your links/coupons to give your customers more information about the Romantic Blessings brand, the product and/or your promotional campaign overall.

You can create your own media elements* or you can use the ones provided by Romantic Blessings on the Marketing tools tab:

* Marketing Collateral Rules and Options:

1. Romantic Blessings Logos, Brands, Banners

To protect the Romantic Blessings branding, you are not allowed to change, modify or edit any Romantic Blessings logos, banners or marketing content without express written approval from Romantic Blessings.

2. Marketing Collateral Customization

If you need help developing any of your marketing and social media content, Romantic Blessings will be happy to modify, add to or edit any of our marketing content for you as needed for a small development fee. We can add your logos, affiliate links, coupon codes or any other content as requested to our marketing collateral for you.

3. Social Media Scheduling Services

As a service to our affiliates, Romantic Blessings can manage your social media content and posts for you upon request and approval. There will be a monthly fee for this service.

If you have questions or would like to further explore any of these services, please click on the email icon below:

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On your Dashboard, you can see your overall performance with Clicks, orders and sales figures, but what about more helpful Romantic Blessings store information?

As an affiliate with Romantic Blessings, you have access to a product analytics section that will show you the most preferred products in all orders and most referred products by affiliates on Romantic Blessings ecommerce site within the last 30 days.

This table of additional information can help you identify which products are currently trending on Romantic Blessings. This information can help you target your promotions to these specific items.

Also, you will have a chance to review your work overall to see which items are working the best for you and any products where you may want to apply more effort to promote.

After an order is received, paid and shipped, the status of the referral order will be set to "Pending".

Romantic Blessings will review the order to ensure the referral is valid and that the order falls within the rules of the affiliate program.

Based on the review of the order, Romantic Blessings will either approve or deny the order as a valid affiliate order:

Denied (red cross): the commission will be rejected and not be sent.

Approved (green check mark): the commission for the order is validated for the affiliate, and ready to be sent (process payment).

For all approved orders, payments will be made once a month via Paypal to each affiliate. (payments cannot be processed if the affiliate has not completed their payment information)

Once a payment has been made to the affiliate, you will be able to review your payment details on your account Dashboard:

You have the ability to export copy of your invoice of your paid referrals if needed for your financial purposes.

To export a copy of your invoice, click on Payment tab => click details on any transaction and click Download invoice.

The exported invoice will include your payment information along with referral details:

Commission Payment Reversals

If for any reason Romantic Blessings has to refund any purchase from a customer or receives a chargeback from the payment processor for any payment method disputes, Romantic Blessings will create a "refund" transaction that will be also be applied to the next affiliate payment as a negative payment amount.

Reasons for a refund or chargeback could be caused by but not limited to:

1. Customer cancels their order
2. Customer asks for a refund based on the Romantic Blessings 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
3. The order was a fraudulent order and the payment processor has placed a chargeback on the Romantic Blessings account
4. The customer has disputed the charge with their bank and the bank has placed a chargeback on the Romantic Blessings account