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Hi,

You have three ways:
- You can create a banner in the menu Affiliates>Banners to add instructions to the affiliate page of the partners, like we do on our website:
www.hikashop.com/my-account/affiliate-program.html
- You can just tell them to provide to their customers a link to your website with the partner_id parameter, as we explain here on our website:
www.hikashop.com/affiliate.html
- You can create a coupon in the menu Orders>Coupons and activate the "force affiliate" setting to a specific user. That way, when a customer purchase something using that coupon code, the order will be linked to the partner selected in the coupon. And the corresponding affiliation fee will be calculated automatically.

Note that you also need to configure sales fees:
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/5...l#features_affiliate
If there are no affiliate sales fees configured, none will be added to the orders and the partner account.
Once the affiliate partner get affiliation fees on his account, you can see them if you edit his user account in the backend. And there will be a button to mark the fees as paid. And you'll be able to pay via PayPal, or bank transfer or something else based on what you want to do.

Hi,

There is no ready-made mechanism, but you can make one.

First, you want to turn off the "Add partner to user account during registration", "Add a 'become a partner' checkbox on the registration form" and "No self affiliation" settings of the HikaShop configuration:
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/5...l#features_affiliate
That way, users won't be able to become affiliate partners by themselves.

Then, you can create one or several custom fields of the table "user" via the menu Display>Custom fields so that the user can request to join the affiliate program during his registration, and you can potentially ask extra questions to him if you need extra information to make your decision:
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/4...shop-field-form.html

Then, you can create a mass action via the menu System>Mass actions:
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/167-massaction-form.html
You can make it of the type "user" with a trigger "after a user is created" and a filter on the custom field where the user can choose to become an affiliate so that users that choose not to will be filtered out. Also, you can have an action "send an email" so that you'll be notified by email of the request to join the affiliate program.

Once you receive such a notification email, you can log in your backend, check what the user filled in the fields, and activate the affiliate setting for him.