MALLCOM-NATS MODULE FAQ What is NATS? In a nutshell NATS runs your affiliate program from top to bottom with the exception of the actual processing of the financial transactions (NATS is integrated with over 30 processors for transaction handling). NATS allows your products, member based websites, services, and/or tangible goods to be marketed by affiliates who will be paid a commission for sales they generate. NATS handles the affiliate signup, affiliate stats, traffic and sales tracking, administration functions, administration reporting, fraud detection, and all of the other various needs of an online affiliate program. NATS has hundreds of features large and small which allow you to easily run an efficient and profitable affiliate program. What is the Mallcom module? The Mallcom module is essentially a plugin that is installed and enabled on your NATS. This will allow your NATS to display your generated Mallcom sales data. How do I setup the Mallcom module up? First you must have an account with NATS. If you do not, visit http://toomuchmedia.com. in order to set up your account. Submit a help ticket requesting the Mallcom module to be activated for your account. After that, contact the Mallcom Affiliate team to have the installation reviwed. You can email us at webmasters@mallcom.com. Below is an example of how it all plays out. Affiliate Program: Hi, I had a few questions about using the Mallcom Module. Affiliate Manager: Sure, go right ahead. Affiliate Program: How the heck does this whole thing work? I’m a bit confused on the whole setup. Affiliate Manager: Not a problem at all. More then happy to explain it to you. Do you already got NATS setup with the Mallcom module? Affiliate Program: Yup, really easy. Affiliate Manager: Cool. You’re more then half way done already. So what happens now is this. We would sign you up with an account as well as a co-branded store with us. For example check out http://moviemonsterstore.com or http://teamtushystore.com. You would end up with something similar with your own co-brand. Once that is done, you could have your affiliates push your co-branded store on their sites with their own unique tracking code. Now we would be offering you, the affiliate program, XX% commission. You can in turn offer your affiliates their own specified commission rate. So for example you could offer 10%, 20%, or whatever else rate you would like to set up. So in effect, you have hundreds or thousands of affiliates pushing your store for you. Affiliate Program: So wait, would they also be signing up through you then? Affiliate Manager: Uh no, they would sign up through your affiliate program. Pretty much as far as they are concerned they signed up through your affiliate program. Affiliate Program: Ok, that’s cool. But wait, am I going to have to give you access to our affiliates information? Affiliate Manager: Not at all. It is a secure backend which you can log into and access all of your information as well as the information for all your affiliates that push your co-branded store on their sites. Affiliate Program: Nice, I like that. And what about payout? Are you going to send out a big fat check to me as well as to our affiliates? Affiliate Manager: Well we’d be sending you one big check with a total amount of all sales made for your account. You would then be responsible for redistributing the appropriate amount to all of your affiliates. Affiliate Program: That makes sense. Well it all sounds great to me. Let’s do this! Affiliate Manager: Cool.