Affiliates will have links to your home page and course landing pages in their profile that they can share. If you prefer that they use a link that goes directly to your course checkout or another page on your site, you can create one!
How to Find Your Affiliate's Referral Code
First you will need to copy the referral code for this particular Affiliate: How to Find an Affiliate Referral Code
How to Create an Affiliate Link
Once you locate your affiliate referral code, it can be added to the end of any URL on your Thinkific site using the following format:
?ref=XXXXXX
This is the format you see in your course landing pages for example:
https://mysite.thinkific.com/courses/mycourse?ref=08bd3c
The only exception to this rule is if you are adding an affiliate code to a URL that includes a question mark (?). If there is already a question mark in the original URL, then you will need to follow the Ampersand Method that is included in the checkout link example below.
Common pages that Affiliate referral codes can be added to include:
How to Create a Custom Page Affiliate Link
How to Create a Direct to Checkout Affiliate Link
How to Create a Custom Page Affiliate Link
- Copy your custom page link
- Paste this in a text document where it can be edited
- Append ?ref=XXXXX to the end of your URL
- Replace ref=XXXXX with your referral code
For example, if your referral code is ref=08bd3c and your custom page is https://thinkdemo.thinkific.com/pages/custom-page, the final URL would look like this:
https://thinkdemo.thinkific.com/pages/custom-page?ref=08bd3c
How to Create a Direct to Checkout Affiliate Link
- Copy the checkout link for your course
- Paste this in a text document where it can be edited
- Check if your link includes a question mark (?) in the URL. Here is an example of a link that already includes a question mark:
https://mysite.thinkific.com/enroll/336493?price_id=348234 - If your link already includes a question mark, see Ampersand Method below
- If your link does not already include a question mark, append ?ref=XXXXX to the end of your URL
- Replace the ref=XXXXX with your referral code
For example, if your referral code is ref=08bd3c and your checkout link is https://mysite.thinkific.com/enroll/336493, the final URL would look like this:
https://mysite.thinkific.com/enroll/336493?ref=08bd3c
Ampersand Method
If the checkout link for your course already includes a question mark (?) in the URL, there is a slightly different set up to make sure that your affiliate code is applied.
- Copy the checkout link for your course
- Paste this in a text document where it can be edited
- Check if your link includes a question mark (?) in the URL. Here is an example of a link that already included a question mark:
https://mysite.thinkific.com/enroll/336493?price_id=348234 - If it includes a question mark, append &ref=XXXXXX to the end of your URL
- Replace the ref=XXXXXX with your referral code
For example, if your referral code is ref=08bd3c and your checkout link is https://mysite.thinkific.com/enroll/336493?price_id=348234, the final URL would look like this:
https://mysite.thinkific.com/enroll/336493?price_id=348234&ref=08bd3c