NoxInfluencer affiliation marketing supports advertisers to initiate affiliation marketing projects, collaborate with influencers, manage marketing projects, and track affiliation conversion data.

This document will help everyone learn how to link the e-commerce store to NoxInfluencer, generate affiliation links for store products on the NoxInfluencer platform, batch generate and manage discount codes, and track the conversion data of influencer promotions in the affiliation.

Connect Shopify Store

Before launching affiliation marketing campaigns, brands must connect their Shopify store to NoxInfluencer and authorize NoxInfluencer to access the Shopify store admin.

Step 1: Obtain store API authorization information

Authorization Information 1: Shopify store link

• How to obtain: Log in to the Shopify store admin, enter the app settings page: click “Settings” -> copy the store address displayed in the top left corner. (If the store has already purchased or connected to a non-Shopify default domain, you can enter “Settings” -> click “Domain”, and get the default format store link)
• Link format: https://storename.myshopify.com/
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Authorization Information 2: Shopify app API permissions

• How to obtain: Please follow the steps below in sequence.
  1. Log in to the Shopify store admin, enter the app settings page: click “Settings” -> click “Apps and Sales Channels” -> click “Develop Apps” -> click “Create App”. (If you haven’t developed a custom app before, you’ll first need to allow the development of custom apps.)
  2. Click “Create App”, enter the app name, and designate the administrator as the app developer, then click “Create App”. (It is recommended that you directly use NoxInfluencer to distinguish from other apps, to prevent uninstallation of the app by other store administrators by mistake.)
  3. Click “Configure Admin API Scope”, and check the following scopes: ‘write_products’, ‘read_products’, ‘read_orders’, ‘write_script_tags’, ‘read_script_tags’, ‘write_price_rules’, ‘read_price_rules’, ‘read_customers’, ‘write_discounts’, ‘read_discounts’, ‘write_draft_orders’, and ‘read_draft_orders’. After checking, click “Save” and “Install App”. (These permissions will be used by NoxInfluencer to monitor the visits and orders of influencer’s fans in your store, and help you manage your Shopify store’s affiliation promotion projects on the NoxInfluencer platform.)
  4. Click on “API Credentials”, copy the “Admin API Access Token” (can only be displayed once, please save properly), “API key”, and “API secret key”.
     

Step 2: Fill in the authorization information and connect store

Fill in the corresponding authorization information in the link store popup: Shopify store link, API key, API secret key. Click the connect to add.

Possible reasons for connection failure

• Authorization information entered incorrectly
• Incorrect store address format
• API permission miss
• The store already exists in the current account, cannot be added repeatedly 

Create affiliation marketing campaigns

• Log in to the NoxInfluencer platform and enter affiliation marketing: click “Promotion Tasks” -> click “Affiliation Marketing”.
•  In the upper left corner, select the store where you want to create the affiliate project: click “+Create” -> enter “Project Name” -> select or search “Promotion Products” -> set project “Discount Rate” -> select project conversion “Attribution Method” -> click “Submit”.
• Affiliation campaign rules
  1. Promotional Products: the products from your store.
  2. Discount rate: A discount code will be generated for the products selected in the current campaign; For orders of products not selected in the campaign, the discount code will not be valid when users enter the store through the affiliate link in the project.
  3. Conversion attribution method
     • Attribution to all orders: consumers brought in by influencers, buying any products in the store, are counted as the conversion of the influencer’s affiliate link.
     • Attribution to promoted product: consumers brought in by influencers can only be counted as the conversion of the influencer’s affiliate link if they purchase the promotional products set for the campaign.

Add influencers

• Log in to the NoxInfluencer platform, enter the campaign page: click “Promo campaign” -> click “Affiliation Marketing”, click into any campaign.
• Create a “Pending” list: click “+Add Influencer” -> enter the influencer name or channel link “Search Influencers” and select from the drop-down matching results.
• Search and add rules
  1. If the target influencer is not found by searching by name, advertisers can enter the influencer link for a precise search.
  2. In cases where no matches are found when entering a valid influencer link for accurate search, you can go to the “Influencer Search” page, upload the influencer in the lower-left corner of the search results list, and store the influencer. After 10 minutes, try adding again.
  3. Advertisers are allowed to customize to add non-influencer affiliation partners directly: enter any name and click ” add Custom affiliate” at the bottom of the drop-down box.

Edit/Modify Affiliation Content

• In the “Pending” list, select any influencer and click the “Edit” button.
• In the edit pop-up: enter “Basic Commission” -> set “Shares Commission” -> select “Commission span” -> click “Submit” to complete editing or modification.
• Editing rules
  1. Only influencers in the “Pending” status are allowed to modify the affiliation content. Influencers in other status in the “Affiliated” list are not supported for modification(we assume that brands and influencers have reached an agreement and confirmed the affiliation terms once starting affiliate)
  2. Basic commission: the basic payment to the influencer, calculated on the first day of the “commission span”. The amount can be greater than or equal to zero.
  3. Shares commission: three commission methods are by a percentage of sales, a fixed amount per order, and a fixed amount per product.
  4. Commission span
     • Definition: brands and influencers can negotiate and agree to calculate commissions based on sales conversions in specified time intervals only. Sales conversions outside this period are not included in the commission calculation.
     • Commission works when: If the commission start time is later than the “start affiliate” time, the commission time period will be from the start date at 00:00:00 to the end time at 23:59:59; if the commission start time is earlier than the “start affiliate”, the commission time will start at the “start of affiliation” time, and the end time will be at 23:59:59 of the specified date.
     • The commission end date must not be earlier than the “start of affiliation” time.
     • Click “Start Affiliate”, NoxInfluencer will start a 180-day monitoring cycle for affiliation. Therefore, the commission period is limited to the 180 days starting from the current date.
     • Time zone: refers to the current computer’s operating system time zone.
  5. Bulk editing is allowed after selecting, and bulk editing content will overwrite existing affiliation content. 

Start affiliate

• In the “pending” list, choose influencers, then click “Start affiliate” (either in batch-selection mode or the button on the right side of the list).
• Once the influencer starts the affiliate, the system will deem that the brand and the influencer have reached an agreement, and the corresponding affiliation terms, including commission rules and commission span, have been confirmed by both parties. The cooperation content shall not be modified.
• Once starting affiliate, the system will generate unique affiliate links and discount codes based on the products and discounts selected in the campaign for each influencer. Brands can distribute affiliate links and discount codes to affiliated influencers to start the promotion. The system will also automatically start monitoring the conversion of each affiliated influencer.
• Affiliated influencers moved to the “Affiliated” list. 

Frequently Asked Questions

How will my store admin data be used after my store is connected with NoxInfluencer?

During the connection, all data will be encrypted and stored on our server. Only your account can access this data, and no third party will access and view this data without your permission. If you want to disconnect your store, you can uninstall the NoxInfluencer app in the Shopify admin and contact your account manager to properly handle your account data.

Why does NoxInfluencer need access to the store’s admin API scope?

We need these necessary permissions to ensure that brands can smoothly run affiliation marketing campaigns within the NoxInfluencer. Each scope has a specific use. Through these permissions, we will create trackable affiliate links for your products, batch generates discount codes, and track order conversions.

If you have any questions, please contact your account manager or contact us directly.