There are, at the moment, over 2,500 merchants plugged in to the ShareASale Community. Each one of these merchants has a different form of merchandise that he’s promoting – and each is ready to commission you on that sale, if you provide a customer to them.

The concept and the implementation is pretty straight forward. You choose which merchants to advertise and how to enhance them; and when commissions are created, you can see your stats in real-time. All bills are consolidated from the programs you participate in, and are paid out with one check or direct deposit by ShareASale.

ShareASale has a strict “No Software” policy, which means you won’t have to cope with affiliates utilizing Adware, Toolbars, or other desktop applications.

What does the word “affiliate” mean?

“Affiliate” suggests an individual or business creating their particular traffic and, therefore, rewarded pertaining to legitimate sales, prospects, clicks, or other measurable action. Affiliates use Shareasale.com to aid associations with merchants, as well as gain tracking, confirming, and receipt of commission payment.

Rules and regulations:

There are certain rules and regulations that, as an affiliate, you must practice. So before signing up with ShareASale.com as an affiliate, carefully read these terms and conditions.

The following terms and conditions are the same as on ShareASale.com:

• You may place our merchant banners anywhere on your site as you see fit, or within non-spam emails.
• We may email you concerning new merchant programs.
• We might change the service here and there.
• Adult, Hate, or other related sites are not allowed.
• You will be paid your commissions, at such time as your account balance is $50 or more.
• All statistics are collected and calculated by ShareASale.com, and will be the only valid stats used for determining commissions.
• Any page that contains ShareASale.com links, banners, or codes must be written in English.
• As an affiliate, you can only have one account. You can list multiple domains in one account, but only one account is allowed. Self-referrals for affiliate or merchant accounts are strictly prohibited.
• International affiliates (those with addresses outside of the 50 U.S. States) are paid via Direct Deposit where possible.
• Your physical address listed for receiving checks MUST be your actual address. Mail forwarding services, for the purpose of avoiding network demographics, is NOT allowed. For example, if you choose USA as your country, you must be in the USA. If you choose Russia as a country, you must be in Russia.
• You won’t hold us liable for anything, a link to a non-ShareASale.com web site does not mean that ShareASale.com endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content or the use of such web site.
• You cannot SPAM. You cannot SPAM. You cannot SPAM. We will terminate your account on the first offense of SPAMMING. Do not send email to lists or groups that you do not have permission to send to. We cannot stress this enough, we WILL terminate your account on the first offense.
• You may place banners or links within your newsletters, in content of your web site, or within other web related content.
• Affiliate accounts that are left inactive will be removed from our system if their balance is equal to or less than $25. If an abandoned affiliate account has a balance between $25 and $50, a $25 fee will be assessed once per calendar month, until the balance is equal to zero dollars – and is closed. At no time will an affiliate ever owe monies to ShareASale.com, Inc. based on fees – the account will simply be closed. An abandoned affiliate account is defined as any account that has not been logged in to for a period of 6 months, nor have any transactions been posted to that account. If one or the other of those conditions is true – the account will remain in an active state.
• NOT ALLOWED: All other uses of banners or links, such as newsgroups, chat rooms, ICQ, message boards, banner networks, hit farms, counters, or guest books, etc. are NOT allowed.
• NOT ALLOWED: Any placement of creative in a “Desktop” advertising scheme. This includes any and all third party advertising platforms that use a desktop application to display ads in any form.
• NOT ALLOWED: Any display of a merchant window that isn’t the result of a direct click by the end-user.
• Failure to abide by these rules could mean termination from a given merchant program, or fromShareASale.com completely with a complete forfeit of commissions.
• Fraud is a serious offense, and will be treated as such. Fraud is defined as any action that intentionally attempts to create sales, leads, or click-throughs using robots, frames, iframes, scripts, or manually “refreshing” of pages, for the sole purpose of creating commissions. ANY ATTEMPTED FRAUD OR FRAUD WILL RESULT IN MEMBERSHIP TERMINATION AND VOIDED COMMISSIONS.
• If you run or utilize an incentive website, you MAY participate in ShareASale.com’s pay-per-click and pay-per-lead programs, ONLY IF you receive specific written (fax or email are okay as well) permission from the merchant. You must also copy this specific permission to us, and that permission must detail exactly what kind of incentive your users have to click the links. Without this permission, your commissions may be voided. You are allowed to participate in any pay-per-sale programs without any special permission.
• At Shareasale.com, there are two levels of membership: Full and Limited. All affiliates begin at the Limited level, and can participate only in pay-per-lead and pay-per-sale programs. Your status will be changed to “Full” at the time of your first payment sent to you. You must also be participating as a top-level domain name, i.e., no generic free website services allowed. Only Full members can participate in pay-per-click programs.
• You cannot refer yourself as a Merchant with ShareASale.com and receive commission. Sorry.

Affiliate Payment

You will obtain a commission for sending merchant-approved sales, leads, and/or clicks via your links. In order to place links, you need to initially be approved by a vendor to become an affiliate of that merchant’s program. You recognize that the payout amount may be changed at any time. This information is made available to you at the ShareASale.com Member’s Area. You are accountable for determining if the payout for a link you have put on your site has changed or been terminated. You receive the commission from ShareASale.com. Payments are made automatically on the twentieth (20th) day of each month when your account balance reaches $50 or more for the previous months’ transactions. Money credited to your account does not accrue interest. In the event of a void by a merchant, ShareASale.com may recover from you the corresponding commission previously credited to your account. The void commission will be immediately deducted from your account balance. In the event that your account balance is less than the void commission, the void commission will be deducted against your future earnings. You will never be asked to send money to ShareASale.com.

For other service and link placement rules, you can surely visit www.shareasale.com for more details.