AbeBooks
AbeBooks rewards partners and fans who send customers to AbeBooks and generate qualifying sales. After joining, affiliates place tracking links on their websites or other permitted promotional properties. AbeBooks identifies price-comparison sites, book-related blogs, and shopping sites among its successful affiliate types, while also welcoming sites that reference books or other collectible items. The U.S. program pays 5% on qualifying books purchased within 30 days of a tracked click, subject to a $500-per-item commissionable-value cap.
Overview
Commission & Conversion Tracking
How AbeBooks calculates commissions and tracks conversions.
- Commission plans
- Multiple commission tiers available based on performance volume. Higher sales volumes unlock better commission rates.
Tracking
Attribution model | Primarily last-click attribution through AbeBooks special affiliate links, subject to Impact Radius tracking and the applicable operating agreement. AbeBooks' public page does not describe a multi-touch model. |
Tracking method | Tracking links/special links, cookies, and Impact Radius transaction tracking. AbeBooks Search Web Services documentation also refers to adding affiliate-network tracking for commissionable traffic. |
Cookie duration | 30 days |
Promotional Tools and Resources
Materials and resources provided to support your promotion efforts
BANNERS | |
TEXT LINKS | Yes |
SUPPORTS DEEP LINKING |
- More info about marketing materials
- Affiliate tracking links/special links, Potential text links to AbeBooks pages, Potential banners, reported by a third-party summary but not detailed on the official page, Occasional authorized coupons supplied directly to affiliates, Impact Radius reporting and payment tools, Search Web Services documentation for eligible affiliate members, Book and collectible product destinations
Program Rules, Approval and Restrictions
Guidelines and limitations you need to follow when promoting AbeBooks
SOCIAL MEDIA ALLOWED | |
EMAIL MARKETING ALLOWED | |
PPC ALLOWED | |
Trademark Bidding | |
GEOGRAPHIC RESTRICTIONS | The U.S. program is presented on AbeBooks.com. AbeBooks also maintains regional affiliate pages for sites such as AbeBooks.de, AbeBooks.fr, and AbeBooks.it, with potentially different currency caps or localized terms. A complete country whitelist or prohibition list was not published on the current U.S. affiliate page. Availability and currency treatment should be checked in the Impact Radius account for the target marketplace. |
COUPON SITE ALLOWED | |
TRAFFIC MINIMUMS | No minimum monthly traffic requirement was found in the official AbeBooks page or the supplied official operating-agreement excerpt. |
- Approval process
- Manual or network-mediated approval approval. Complete and accurate affiliate-program application., Identify the site or sites that will promote AbeBooks., Use permitted special affiliate links and comply with the operating agreement and Impact Radius terms., Promote AbeBooks products or collectible categories through truthful, compliant content., Avoid invalid or unauthorized coupons., Maintain compliant email, advertising, privacy, disclosure, and applicable consumer-protection practices., Network approval is required; no public traffic threshold appears in the current AbeBooks materials.
- Other restrictions
- Affiliates must use AbeBooks special links or approved tracking links. The official operating agreement requires a complete and accurate application and identification of the affiliate's site or sites. Commission applies only to qualifying purchases generated through permitted affiliate activity. Unauthorized or invalid coupons do not qualify for commission. Qualifying revenue excludes shipping, handling, gift wrapping, taxes, service charges, rebates, card-processing fees, returns, and bad debt. Affiliates should not make deceptive claims, use misleading redirects, impersonate AbeBooks, or promote unauthorized offers. The supplied public materials do not establish detailed rules for PPC, trademark bidding, browser extensions, incentivized traffic, or coupon-only properties; those areas require current network terms or written approval.
Payouts and Payment Methods
How earnings are paid out and which methods are supported
Payment frequency | Net30 |
Payout currency | USD |
Minimum threshold | $20 |
- More payout info
- AbeBooks states that payments are made through the independent Impact Radius platform once a month. Sales remain locked for one month and eight days after the end of the month in which the sale occurred. Approved sales are paid 12 days after the locking period, resulting in payment approximately 50 days after the end of the month in which the sale took place. Affiliates can choose a payment threshold or specify a fixed payment day in their Impact account. Returns, cancellations, invalid transactions, and other non-approved transactions may not qualify.; Schedule: Monthly; official timing is approximately 50 days after the end of the month in which the sale occurred. The affiliate may configure a threshold or fixed payment day in Impact Radius.
Payout methods
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