This presentation will help you to get some basic knowledge about CJ Affiliate by Conversant (formerly Commission Junction).

1. COMMISSION JUNCTION
MERCHANT INTERFACE (Part I)
By Yash Waghela

2. INDEX
 Role of Affiliate Networks
 About CJ
 Merchant Interface
 Home
 Account
 Manage Publishers
 Links
 Report

3. Role of Affiliate Networks
 Affiliate networks play an important role in affiliate marketing.
 It acts as a mediator between merchants and publishers
 The main role of affiliate networks is to track the sales, clicks
and impressions coming through publishers.
 Apart from this, it also acts as a platform through which
publishers and merchants can interact with each other.

4. Some of the Affiliate networks are as followed:
 Commission Junction
 ShareASale
 PepperJam
 LinkShare
 LinkConnector
 ClixGalore
 AvantLink

5. About CJ
 CJ was started in 1998 by 5 students from the university of California
Santa Barbara.
 In year 2000, CJ started CJ University which helped in bringing
publishers and advertisers under one roof from all over the world.
 In 2008, CJ launched the Agency Support Services, this service is a
boon for the OPM and agencies who are managing the affiliate
program for other companies.
 In 2011, CJ brings Pay Per Call services for their advertisers, which
helps companies to transform call center into revenue drivers.

6. Merchant Interface

7.  CJ has one of the most attractive and clean interface as
compared to other networks.
 The simple & transparent view makes it very simple for user to
understand.
 A user can easily access any information from the “home” page
easily and can navigate through different sections.

8. HOME
 Once the user logs into the account, he/she arrives at the “Home”
page by default.
 Advertiser home contains 3 sections:
• Login Manager
• Messages
• Reports
 From this section users can navigate to different sections in the
interface.

9. Login Manager: This section gives the overview of the account.
Viz. Account name, report period, commission paid to the publisher,
sales generated in a current month, number of applications received
for joining the affiliate program, any messages received from
publishers etc.
 It also has the option to download that stats in different formats
like excel, csv etc.

10. Messages: This sections displays the announcements from
Commission Junction team.
 Messages are like any announcement for maintenance work,
updates on new feature or a broadcast for advertisers.
 CJ also conducts some events and competitions on regular basis,
so announcement for such events are described in this section.

11. Reports: This is one of the most interesting section in the
advertiser home.
 It gives a statics of your affiliate program including the Earning
Per Click (EPC) of last 7 days as well as 30 days.
 It also shows where your affiliate program stands in the network
as well as in your category by showing the rank. The lower the
rank, the more popular is your affiliate program on the network.
 It also shows the alerts if your account balance is below escrow
balance (i.e $500)

12. ACCOUNT
 This section gives the info about the account. Which includes
merchant’s and his business information.
 The sub-sections of this sections are:
• Network Profile
• Settings
• User
• Program Terms
• Item Lists
• Order Inquiry Manager

13. MANAGE PUBLISHERS
 This section helps you manage the publishers.
 In this section, you can see how many publisher applications are
pending and how many are approved.
 Apart from this, you can also access the contact details and other
information about a specific publisher.
 You can also search and delete the publishers from this section.
 This section also allows you to group the publishers as per their
performance or other parameters.

14.  The new tool from CJ called “Publisher Recruitment “ is in this
section.
 This allows shows you the list of publishers who can be a best fit
for your affiliate program.
 And the most amazing thing is that, you can recruit them just by
clicking on it.
 Apart from this way, you can recruit a publisher if you know the
Publisher ID (PID), CID or a name of a publisher

15. LINKS

16.  This section allows you to upload to text links and banners for the
publishers.
 You can see the entire creative inventory in this section.
 It also gives you the option to sort the creatives as per their types
like coupons, sweepstake, hot products etc.
 You can view the specific type of banners by simply ticking the
check box on the left hand side of the page.
 CJ also has the facility to upload the text links in a bulk.

17. REPORT

18.  This is one of the most important section in the CJ interface.
 As the name states, this section is responsible for displaying the
reports of the affiliate program.
 Once we enter this section, we can see the performance on a graph.
 Below the graph, it shows the day to day amount of sales or leads.
 It also gives the details about the balance details of the client.
 We can also edit the sales in this section.

19. THANK YOU!