How to Forecast Your Earnings By Referral Location
As a Shopify Affiliate, your commission earnings are based on the location of each merchant that you refer. Using Impact’s reporting, you can track the country location of your referrals and use that to estimate your potential earnings accordingly. This step-by-step guide will walk you through how to access and analyze your referral data based on location, ensuring you always stay informed about your affiliate commission payouts.
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PRO TIP: Check out this Help Center article to familiarize yourself with how much you can earn depending on your referred merchant’s location. |
Which Impact Reports Reveal the Countries of My Referred Merchants?
To understand where your referred merchants are located and what commission you earn for each referral, you can use these 2 reports from your Impact account:
- Shopify Advanced Action Listing report – This report allows you to see the “Customer Country” for each individual referral.
- Performance by Country (Cohort) report – This report gives you a holistic view of all merchant Free Trials you referred, by Country, over the specific timeframe you select (and the downstream conversions to Paid Trial and Online Sale).
You can leverage the volume and conversion rates in these 2 reports to understand the average performance of the merchants you refer, and forecast future earnings based on the referrals you are making today.
*To view these reports, you must be logged into your Impact account.
How to Enable Merchant Location Data on the Shopify Advanced Action Listing Report?
To apply merchant location data to the Shopify Advanced Action Listing report, simply follow the steps listed below:
- Log into your Impact account and open the Shopify Advanced Action Listing report
- Click on the “columns” icon to trigger a dropdown of fields that can be added to your report
- Check the box for Customer Country to allow the Customer Country field to populate on the report
- You can then cross-reference the ‘Customer Country’ data in the report with the merchant location and corresponding payout listed here.
Note: Impact also has a field available called “Location”. This is NOT the actual merchant location, and has no bearing on commissions. Please always leverage the “Customer Country” field.
Now that you know how to track your referred merchant’s country location, explore this in-depth blog post on the Shopify Advanced Action Listing report and Cohort Reports to discover even more ways to leverage the data and insights!
For more details on Shopify’s Affiliate Program commission rates, check out this blog post.
If you have any questions on your commission rate or any of your reporting made available via Impact, feel free to reach out to our team directly at affiliates@shopify.com.