Overview
The affiliate program is designed to reward individuals/organizations whose active promotion of ePly’s services result in new clients for ePly.
Commissions
ePly will pay a commission of $150.00 to approved Affiliates when the Affiliate refers a prospective client to ePly and that referral results in a paying client for ePly.
Affiliate’s Obligations
ePly’s Obligations
Lead Tracking
The Affiliate must register referred leads with ePly by submitting the lead via the online referral submission form or by contacting ePly directly. ePly will log the referral in its CRM system to help ensure that leads who become clients are credited to the Affiliate.
All ePly staff are trained to ask new leads how they heard about ePly to help ensure that Affiliates get credit for all referrals. ePly staff are not rewarded in a way that conflicts with crediting an Affiliate with a referral.
Marketing Efforts
All marketing efforts conducted by the Affiliate must be to a professional standard and in compliance with all laws and accepted standards including, but not limited to the CANSPAM Act, Google website promotion guidelines and ePly’s own best practices. If an Affiliate is unsure whether their marketing efforts meet these standards, they may email the material to [email protected] for approval.
ePly will provide banner ads, promotional wording, articles, white papers, etc. for the Affiliate to use for marketing purposes. If the Affiliate wishes to develop their own marketing materials, ePly must authorize the use of the materials before the campaign is deployed.
From time to time ePly will monitor the activities of the Affiliate to ensure compliance with this agreement.
General Provisions
ePly reserves the right to:
Expenses – ePly will not pay any expenses incurred by the Affiliate unless authorized in writing by ePly.
Representation – The Affiliate will not represent themselves or allow themselves to be represented as an employee, partner or agent of ePly, or by virtue of this agreement be or become an employee, partner or agent of ePly.
Termination – This agreement will remain in effect until terminated in writing by either party. ePly is not obligated to pay any commission after the termination date.
Governing Law; Enforcement of Agreement – This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the Province of British Columbia, Canada.
Affiliate Terms
- Commissions are not payable if a referred individual or organization has used the ePly system for a previous event or if ePly is already actively pursing an opportunity related to the individual or organization referred.
- Commissions will be paid by cheque, in the local currency of the Affiliate, once per month.
- If an Affiliate becomes a client of ePly for their own registration needs it is not counted as a commissionable referral.
- To actively promote and sell ePly. Providing ePly staff with a suggested contact name or list of contacts is appreciated, but to earn the commission the affiliate must be in direct contact with the prospective client and assist in making the connection between ePly and the prospective client.
- ePly will assist the affiliate by helping to set up demo forms, providing advice on situations, answering technical questions by phone and email, etc.
- Once a sale is made, ePly staff will handle all support, billing, collections, etc. as done with all customers.
- ePly will provide a contact person for the affiliate to contact with questions, support and sales advice.
- allow or disallow individuals and/or organizations to participate in this Affiliate program with no explanation provided.
- change or cancel this Affiliate program at any time without notice.
- make a decision whether to pay a commission and the amount to pay when it’s unclear on the source of a lead, a lead is referred by multiple sources, or any time there is other uncertainly.
- discontinue the affiliate relationship at anytime if in ePly’s sole discretion it feels that the Affiliate has violated any of the terms of this agreement.