FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How does the 4Checks.com Affiliate Program work?
What do I need to become a 4checks.com Affiliate?
Are all persons/companies eligible to become affiliates?
Can anyone from any country sign up as an affiliate? Or is this limited to US residents only?
When and what commission will I be paid?
What is a 2nd Tier Sale?
How much money can I expect to earn by promoting your affiliate program?
Why has your commission total dropped today from what it was yesterday?
Why would a customer cancel their order?
How are we tracking your sales?
How do I create links to 4checks.com?

How does the 4Checks.com Affiliate Program work?
Membership is free! All you have to do is complete the online registration form. Once approved, we will send you instructions on how to install specially tracked links from your site to ours.

What do I need to become a 4checks.com Affiliate?
All you need is a web site that is up and running.

Are all persons/companies eligible to become affiliates?
We do not accept affiliates whose sites promote SPAM as outlined in our terms & conditions. Your site should:

• Generate sufficient traffic to our website(s)
• Attract a customer base that may be interested in our products
• Not promote violence
• Not promote pornographic material
• Not promote discrimination based on race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age
• Not promote illegal activities
• Not violate the intellectual property rights of our company

Can anyone from any country sign up as an affiliate? Or is this limited to US residents only?
The affiliate program is open to residents of all countries and is not limited to US residents only. However, only products specifically available for the US market are offered on our sites. Payments will be made in US dollars.

When and what commission will I be paid?
Earn 25% commissions for each sale generated via your website.

Recruit others to join our program. Once they sign up to be a 4checks Affiliate via your link, they become members of your 2nd tier, and you can enjoy 5% commission on the sales they generate!

Affiliates with a commission of $25 or higher are paid on a monthly basis. Any commissions totaling less than $25 will be carried over to the next month and paid at the month's end if total commissions generated are $25 or over.

How much money can I expect to earn by promoting your affiliate program?
It is difficult for us to give a definitive answer. It ultimately depends on what extent you are successful in promoting 4checks.com. The more work put in, the more money you can expect to earn. It also depends on the quantity of traffic your site enjoys, if you produce a newsletter, how many subscribers your newsletter has and how extensively you promote our products.

4checks.com offers higher commission rates than our competitors, so if you are willing to put in the work necessary to be a successful affiliate, you can expect a substantial increase in your income.

What is a 2nd Tier Sale?
When you are a 4checks Affiliate you have access to a personal administration page. On this page there is the option to e-mail your contacts that have web sites that you believe would be a good fit for the 4checks program. If any of these contacts are accepted onto the program you are credited for each sale that their site generates with an additional commission rate of 5%. So, the more 2nd tier affiliates you have, the more commission you're eligible to receive!

How are we tracking your sales?
When a potential customer clicks on the 4checks.com banner, text or link located on your site, they will be directed to the 4checks.com homepage. The affiliate software will set a cookie with your affiliate ID number within the customer’s browser, set at 60 days. Once this cookie has been placed, it cannot be overwritten by another 4checks affiliate cookie if a customer happens to click through from another site within the 60-day period.

When customers make a purchase, you will automatically be credited with the sale and your commissions will be updated. You can view your account activity at any time via a password-protected area on our Affiliate Program tracking site.

Why has your commission total dropped today from what it was yesterday?
This is because at least once a month we receive information on the number of cancelled orders placed via 4checks.com. When an order is placed via your web site, and this order is later cancelled, we will need to charge back the amount of commission you had initially been credited for on this order. The sale was not completed, and therefore, we cannot award your site with commission on a cancelled order.

Why would a customer cancel their order?
There are several reasons for this, a customer may change their mind about the order placed, but usually the reason for the cancellation of an order is due to security procedures.

When orders are taken over the web by the sites featured on 4checks, AVS - Address Verification is performed. For security reasons, the companies featured on 4checks cannot produce an order if the personalization, shipping and billing addresses don't match. When they receive an order that fails AVS they attempt to verify ownership of the account by checking their database for previous orders and calling the bank for verification. If still unable to verify, the customer is contacted and asked to provide proof of ownership. A high number of customers never respond to this request, and if proof is not received within a period of 20 days the order is cancelled. The companies featured on 4checks cannot afford to allow fraudulent orders to be processed.

Cancelled orders affect an affiliate's commission total as any cancelled order will show up on the affiliate's account as having been charged back. (See above for further information on charge backs)

How do I create links to 4checks.com?
We provide you with banners (headers and footers, skyscrapers, smaller right/left skyscrapers, pop-ups), text links and other creatives to place on your website or in your e-mail messages and newsletters that link back to 4checks.com. Affiliates may choose an image specific to their site, or choose several images to display. The link can point to any page on any of the 4checks sites.