Referral program - become an Affiliate

Affiliate programs involve three types of players:

• Your Affiliate Site potential customers are referred from;
• Our H-Sphere Hosting Server;
• Potential Hosting Customer.

This process is as follows:

1. You place a referral link (text or banner) on an Affiliate Site.
2. The Potential Customer visits the affiliate site and clicks this link. It sends a request to Affiliate Program Server with an assortment of variables that define the affiliate transaction (such as the unique ID of the exchange participant).
3. Affiliate Program Server sets cookies in Potential Customer's browser about which Affiliate Site, text link, banner advertisement, or product link was used in the exchange. This cookie will identify the open transaction.
4. Next, a new record is opened in the database of referrals on the Affiliate Program Server. The opened record consists of two parts -- the first one is filled with customer-related data, the second one remains empty.
5. Then Potential Customer is redirected to your signup page.
6. Once the signup is complete, H-Sphere sends a request to each of the Affiliate Servers (if you have more than one). Only one of them (depending on cookie) will start the affiliate program; the other servers will ignore the request. For each Affiliate Program, this request would have to pass different parameters, which has to be configured in H-Sphere interface. At the same time, Affiliate Program Server reads cookies from the customer's browser.
7. The affiliate program finds the related database record using the cookie information and fills it with the received signup data. Then, it opens a new sale transaction.