You can get your affiliates excited and motivated to drive more traffic and sales by running affiliate contests for your funnels. Set up a leaderboard and reward the top performers who bring in the most sales.
With Explodely's live leaderboards and easy customisation options, managing affiliate contests has never been simpler.
In this article we will cover how to:
I. Create a contest
II. Edit a contest
III. View the Leaderboard and Stats
IV. Displaying the Contest Leaderboard to Affiliates
V. Adding Affiliate Teams in Your Funnel Contest
I. Creating a Contest
To create a contest for your funnel, log in to your account and go to Seller Hub → Funnels.
Locate the funnel where you want to set up a contest. Under the Settings section of that funnel, click on Create Contest.
Once you click on Create Contest, you’ll be redirected to the Contests page. On the Contests page, click on Create Contest.
A pop-up window will appear — fill in all the required details like Contest Name, Type, Funnel, Products you want to run the contest for, Description, JV Page URL, Start and End Date with time.
Your are also required to fill in the details for the following fields:
Max Winners: The Maximum number of winners for this contest.
Max Display: The number of affiliates to display on the Live Leaderboard.
Hide Affiliates: Affiliate IDs of the affiliates that are not eligible for this contest. For example, if some of your private affiliates already have a higher commission rate, you can add their IDs here so they cannot participate.
Allow Affiliate Teams: If you want to make teams of some affiliates for the contest, you can select "Yes" in this.
After entering the information, click Create Contest to finalise it.
Your new contest will now be active and linked to the selected funnel.
II. Edit an Existing Contest
You can update or modify your contest details at any time.
Go to Settings → Edit under the same funnel.
Make the necessary changes and save your updates.
This ensures that your contest remains flexible and can be adjusted as needed during its active period.
III. View the Leaderboard and Stats
To track the contest performance: Go to Settings → Leaderboard.
Here you can view contestants, their ranks, sales performance and stats.
This leaderboard helps you keep an eye on top-performing affiliates in real time.
IV. Displaying the Contest Leaderboard to Affiliates
To make the contest more transparent and engaging, you can embed the leaderboard on your own web page so affiliates can monitor their progress.
Here’s how:
1. Click on Embed under Settings.
2. Copy the iframe script provided.
3. Paste the script into your own web page’s HTML code.
Once you add the iframe script to your own page, it will look something like this.
This will allow affiliates to view live updates and their ranks and encourages healthy competition.
V. Adding Affiliate Teams in Your Funnel Contest
With the affiliate teams feature, you can form teams of affiliates within a contest. Working together increases their chances of winning, as team performance is calculated collectively. When a team wins, the reward is distributed among all its members.
You'll get the option to add teams if you selected Add Affiliate Team as "Yes" while creating the contest.
To add a team to your contest:
1. Go to the Add Team section under Settings.
2. Enter a Team Name and select the affiliates you want to include.
3. Click Add Affiliate Team to save the group.
This feature is useful if you want to promote team-based competition and collaboration among affiliates.
And that’s it! You’ve successfully created a contest for your funnel.
Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns at sellers@explodely.com.