Fraud protection
Affiliate Marketing is a wonderful tool and a trending marketing tactic to bring more sales to your store. Nonetheless, it also carries several risks like affiliate fraud, referral scam that may cause loss to your business. Understanding that, we have developed a tool that can help detect and prevent spam signups and sales. Let's take a glimpse at this feature to see how it works.
1. Detect multiple signups from an IP address
This option allows you to detect if there are multiple registrations from a specific IP address within a period, which you can set an amount to. After detecting these signups, you can choose to Don't save these accounts or still Save but deny to review these affiliates later and decide whether to keep them or remove them for good.
Note: The preventive action will be taken from the second account that registers within the set period. The maximum value for Period is 31536000 seconds (1 year).
If you choose Save but deny as an option, the system will automatically add a yellow warning next to the affiliate's name to inform you that this affiliate is detected as spam one.
2. Block specific affiliates from signup
In case you want to block certain affiliates from joining your program when you have their emails, you can make use of this feature to do that. For multiple emails at once, you can insert email addresses and separate them by commas. Please make sure to press Save changes to completely block it.
The blocklist can be viewed again anytime and you can also unblock certain affiliates if you find them qualified or block them by mistakes.
3. Regional limit
This function allows you to select certain countries that only affiliates from these countries/regions can register for your affiliate program.
4. Hide registration form from search engine
If you do not want affiliates to find your program on search engine (Google, Bing, etc.) and register without your awareness, you can enable this option to hide the registration form from search engine.
Note: All functions in the Affiliate signups tab will block registration from all sources (Registration form, Marketplace, Post-purchase popup, Customer referral), except for Convert signed-up customer. It will only help block registration from Signed-up customers if you block them specifically by email.
1. Detect duplicate referrals from an IP address
This function also helps prevent suspected sales from an IP address that you can set a period for the system to automatically detect if there are repeated sales from an IP address and choose to Don't record those orders to still save but Flag order so you could review them later.
Note: The preventive action will be taken from the second order that the affiliates refer within the set period. The maximum value for Period is 31536000 seconds (1 year).
In case you choose Flag order as an option, the system will automatically add a yellow warning next to the referral ID to inform you that this referral is detected as a fraud one.
2. Block sales from IP addresses
In case you know the IP address that brings suspected sales to your store, you can always block sales from this IP address for good. Please make sure to press Save changes to completely block it.
The blocklist can also be viewed again by clicking Here and the blocked IP address can also be unblocked at any time.
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