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This onboarding guide is best suited for publishers who intend to programmatically create links to populate their sites or apps, as well as find additional information such as Transaction level Reporting data, merchant data, product data, and account data programmatically. This guide will walk through the following steps (and you can skip to a specific step by clicking an icon below)
Registration ➡️ Installation 
Generate Clicks 
Get Approved 
Next Steps
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Registration
Sign up for a free account here. You can use an email and password, or choose to use your Google account to sign up.
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Once you sign up, and confirm your email, you'll start on the Welcome tab in the Platform. From here, you can click Get started under Affiliate marketing or click Commerce on the left-side navigation bar. This'll take you to the Getting Started page for Commerce.
You'll be able to return to the Welcome tab anytime to learn more and get started with other products.
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You'll also need to read and accept terms and conditions at this point.
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Installation
You're making great progress! Next, you'll need to add Sovrn's affiliate links to your site. Our API suite offers a host of options to customize your Sovrn Commerce experience. You can find the full Sovrn Commerce API documentation here.
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Once you've created your Sovrn affiliate link through either of these methods, you can add these links to your site!
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Generate Clicks
Once you've implemented Sovrn Commerce through our APIs, we will need to see a few clicks routing through these links. This allows us to check on your installation and ensure that we are receiving traffic successfully. We recommend sending a few test clicks through these links, or having your users click on the links that you created.
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Warning: You won't be able to monetize on this traffic yet - so don't send through too many clicks! You won't see this traffic on your Sovrn dashboard. Clicks, Sales and Revenue will only begin to appear if you are approved. Here are some tips on how to drive high quality traffic to your site/page.
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Get Approved
You've gotten through our implementation process! Now that you've generated a click, your site has been added to our team's list to review. We'll review this site as quickly as we can, but it may take 5 business days before you receive an email with your approval status.
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If you have not received an update with your site's approval status, and you are not seeing clicks in your Sovrn dashboard after 5 business days, please reach out to support@sovrn.com.
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Tip: Please display your Sovrn affiliate link in a clear, easy to find location on your site. We need to see an example of this link to complete our review. Make sure you adhere to the Sovrn code of conduct. Please review it here. Laws and regulations require the use of using disclosure statements in your content. Review what a disclosure statement is, and how to use them Sovrn Commerce Disclosure Statements. Want more info on our approval process? You can find more information here.
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Next Steps
Congratulations! You've successfully onboarded your first site onto Commerce. Here are some next steps to finish entering your account information, and to set you up for success moving forward.
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Sovrn has a variety of other useful APIs that you may want to add to your custom integration! You may be interested in one of our Reporting, Product, or Merchant APIs:
Transaction Reporting - For each revenue event, retrieve relevant data about the transaction, including click date, merchant information, commission ID, order value, and net revenue. You can also find CUID values here, if you included these via the Building Monetized URLs API.
Product Metadata Merchandise - Retrieve metadata about a product from a product URL, including brand, SKU, UPC, price, description, and image, if provided to us by each merchant.
Merchant StatusApproved Merchants - Retrieve your approval status for individual merchant programs (such as each approved program that we offer with Macy's), along with the merchant's estimated commission, industry, domains and accepted countries. Merchant Metadata - Retrieve metadata about a merchant from a query, including merchant names, domains, logos, descriptions, and even products, when available. Campaigns - Retrieve a list of your campaigns (or "sites") that you have submitted in your account.
You can find full API documentation here.
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Tip: You only need to submit unique locations for approval (such as your Website, Facebook group, Instagram page, and App Store link). You do not need to add individual pages of a site for approval (such as website.com/page1 and website.com/page2). |
You can add additional sites, profiles, or softwares to your account here.
For example, someone with multiple social media accounts and a website, a Settings page with correctly segmented traffic would have separate sites submitted for:
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Sovrn Blog
Find the Sovrn blog here. Successful affiliate marketing requires an active strategy, a good understanding of data, and, of course, high-quality content. Sovrn posts industry trends, recommended holiday promotions, and deep dives into our product offerings on the Sovrn Blog. Improving your understanding by learning more about these topics (to name a few) will help you in this area:
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As always, please feel free to reach out to publisher support with any questions, concerns, or feedback here. We're happy to help with any questions you have!