Forced Matrix

A forced matrix is a system where there is a limit to the number of referrals any affiliate can refer. It has sense to use this feature only in case you have defined multiple tiers commissions. If you have just single tier commissions, it has no sense to make structure of your affiliates.

Why should I push my affiliates into Matrix ?

Main point is, that you want to keep in your affiliate program not just few best performing affiliates, but all affiliates, which were registered during time. Best way how to keep all affiliates motivated is to give them periodically commissions and notify them about each commission they receive. More active affiliates you will have, more users will try to promote you. You can consider also number of back links to your site, which will just grow. Newbie affiliates can see in Forced Matrix advantage to stay with you, because they can earn commissions even if they will not be so successful in recruiting of new sub affiliates. Forced Matrix is also kind of solidarity of better performing affiliates with newbies in hope, that their sub affiliates will stay motivated and will improve in future (and in fact earn commissions also for performing affiliate, which referred him).

How it works in Post Affiliate Pro ?

You can activate Forced Matrix feature in menu Features.




After activation and reload of application you will see in menu Configuration -> Affiliate signup new section called Forced Matrix:



Matrix width - defines number of sub affiliates allowed for every affiliate. To leave this value Unlimited will deactivate in fact Forced Matrix rules, because new sub affiliates will be always assigned to referrer. If you want to profit from Forced Matrix functionality, set in this field positive number higher as 0. Example: If you will define, that affiliate can have max 3 sub affiliates, it will mean, that on first level he will have max 3 sub affiliates, on second level max 9, on third level max 27, on fourth max 81 sub affiliates and so on.

Matrix height - defines maximum number of affiliate levels filled by forced matrix rules before you send new affiliates to spillover affiliate. Unlimited number of levels will mean, that tree of affiliates will grow and there will be never any spillover.

Send spillover to

• actual sponsor - affiliate will be assigned to current referrer (in such case will be width of tree increased for current affiliate by one and in next spillovers is tree build following existing rules). This type of spillover is for your better performing affiliates the best option. You recompense them of their effort with right to increase of their affiliate tree width.
  
• no sponsor - affiliate will be saved without any parent affiliate
• chosen affiliate - send all spillovers to predefined affiliate (if you selected this option, field next to this option will become mandatory and should contain email of predefined affiliate)

When will be Forced Matrix rule applied ?

Forced Matrix is applied just during registration of new affiliate. If you have any existing affiliates already in your installation, their structure will not change.

Example - Building affiliate tree

Following image shows, how is Post Affiliate Pro building tree of sub affiliates in case is defined forced matrix 2x2.
In our example is John referrer of all his sub affiliates (Mary, Igor, Eva, ... etc) and image shows how are added to this tree his affiliates. As first was referred Mary, which was added as first sub affiliate of John. Next was Igor, which was added still as direct subaffiliate of John. Eva was first affiliate, which was not assigned to John directly, but because width of John's tree is full, she was added as sub affiliate of Mary. Next was MAx, which was added again as sub affiliate of Mary, because John's tree was full. Aron was added to Igor's tree because Mary had full tree already. Last was Neil, which was assigned again to Igor. In this way was built full affiliate tree by forced matrix 2x2. On next affiliates referred by John will be applied spillover settings explained later.

Example - Spillover

Imagine, that we have full matrix 2x2 and new affiliate (Mike) will be referred by John. Following image shows this scenario. Below we will try to show you what will happen for each of spillover settings.

Example - Spillover assign to Actual sponsor

In case you defined, that spillover affiliate should be assigned to actual sponsor, Mike from our example will be assigned to John, because John is his sponsor, which referred him. If we will continue in this example with next affiliates referred by John, we will see, that before adding to John next direct affiliate, will be filled tree of Mike. Joe was not added to John's tree, but Mike's because Mike had no sub affiliates yet. In similar way was added Bill to Mike's tree. If there will be next affiliate again referred by John, he will be assigned again as direct affiliate of John.
This is most effective way of building Forced Matrix tree, because more performing affiliates are still motivated to refer new affiliates even if their forced matrix is full.

Example - Spillover assign to no sponsor

In our example was Mike referred by John, but John's tree is full already. If you selected, that new spillover affiliate should have no sponsor, it means, that Mike will be registered as affiliate without any parent affiliate, what shows following image:

IMPORTANT: In case John's tree is full already, this option will not motivate him to search for next affiliates, because he will have no commissions from Mike's sales.

Example - Spillover assign to chosen affiliate

In case John's tree is already full and you selected, that all new spillover affiliates are assigned to chosen affiliate (e.g. I selected in my example affiliate Boss), Mike will not be assigned to John, but Boss. Following image also shows how we build tree of Boss even if all his sub affiliates are referred by John.

Deleting the affiliate

When deleting, you have two options to decide what will be done with children of deleted affiliate:

• do not move child affiliates
• move child affiliates to parent of deleted affiliate

Here is a sample image:

Option one: Aron and Neil, the children of deleted parent Igor remains parents of their sub-affiliates. John have now only one child - Mary and all his sub-affiliates are Mary, Eva and Max.
Option two: Aron and Neil, the children of deleted parent Igor becomes children of John - the parent of deleted Igor. Now, John's subaffiliates are sub-affiliates of Mary, Aron and also Neil.