Participate in the WineWeb Affiliate Program to Sell your Wines

WineWeb now has a joint affiliate sales program that is open to all wineries who use our online order processing service. We'll do all the administrative activities, you'll agree to pay a percentage of sales that come through program.

What is an affiliate program? Simply put, an affiliate program is where others place advertisements for your products on their websites. When a visitor clicks on that advertisement, goes to your order form and buys your product, the referring company is paid a percentage of the sale. It's popular because you pay based on results.

A New Option: Currently we offer an Affiliate Sales Management add-on component to our Enhanced Website service, where you can setup your own affiliate program and administer it using our tools. You have total flexibility over the program, but you have to spend the effort to administer the program.

Now, as our new option, we offer the WineWeb Affiliate Program, which consolidates all participating wineries into one program, which we administer. You'll have control over your advertisements, we'll set the program parameters, approve affiliate companies, and handle the payments to the affiliates.

How Does it Work? When you agree to participate, we'll create text ads and banner ads in several sizes (or work with your graphic designer to create them). We'll then load the advertisements to our affiliate program area and create the linking code to point referral visitors directly to your order page (or another page of your choosing). We'll market the program and review/approve companies that register for the program. As affiliates post your advertisements, our software will track the traffic and resulting sales.

At the end of each month, we'll include any fees for affiliate sales on your monthly invoice. We'll then pay the affiliates their share.

How Much Does it Cost? There is a one-time setup fee of $100, which includes the creation of four banner ads. There are no minimum monthly fees. For your sales resulting from an affiliate referral, you'll be charged 15% of the net product cost (after discounts, but before tax and shipping). 10% will go to the affiliate, with the extra 5% to cover the credit card processing fee and our administrative fees. Our normal order processing fees will also apply.

For you accounting types, this would be treated as a Marketing expense and not Cost of Sales. Think of it as a way to promote your wines on a broader scale, and it only costs you when a sale occurs.