I am trying to understand the affiliate program. First, where is the admin affiliate page? There is an admin page which gives a list of the affiliates. I have one signed up. But where do the affiliates get their affiliate link for the shop and/or for each product? And where do i assign commission percentages? And where do we organise payment etc?

This help page does not give me the information: https://www.ecommercetemplates.com/help/affiliate_program.asp

Thanks for your help.

From the page you link there -

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Basically everything is in place for you to get started immediately - each template comes with a file called affiliate.asp or affiliate.php - this will be where the partner can sign up and also log on to their account. The partner can choose to be notified by email of each affiliate sale that is made and the store owner can check the status of the account through the online admin. You may want to make a page or two previous to the affiliate sign up page explaining the procedures etc. for earning commissions and also a disclaimer.

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If the page does not exist on your site, then you can clone an existing store page to create it.
in your html editor, open products.asp and save as affiliate.asp.
In the content area find the include line
<!--#include file="vsadmin/products.asp"-->
and change it to
<!--#include file="vsadmin/affiliate.asp"-->

That will get the page for the front end working. You can link to that from your menu.
That page will have a bit of info on how to form up their link, but as the instructions say, you can create an intro page to explain how it works, how you payout, etc...

For the back end, there is just the one page there that you mentioned.
You can create new affiliates yourself (typically site visitors do this themselves), you can view reports, and you can download a report.

More relevant info on the links

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Important information ASP Version

The referring URL will typically be in the form of https://www.yourstoreurl.com/categories.asp?PARTNER=name - you can ask affiliates to link to individual pages or sections by changing the URL before the question mark, for example https://www.yourstoreurl.com/products.asp?PARTNER=name but it's very important that the page linked to is a .asp page and includes the following lines of code:

<!--#include file="vsadmin/db_conn_open.asp"-->
<!--#include file="vsadmin/includes.asp"-->
<!--#include file="vsadmin/inc/languagefile.asp"-->
<!--#include file="vsadmin/inc/incfunctions.asp"-->

...most .asp pages already include those lines but if you're linking to the home page, you'd have to change your home to default.asp and add those lines above.

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Once you get the front end working, I think you will have a better grasp of how it works.
It's up to you to determine how much, how often, and how you pay your affiliates.
For my site, I have it going for a while, but in the end I just found that most customers used it for themselves to get a discount.
Then there was the genius the ran ads targeting our company name.
So it turns out that many customers just enter your name in the search each time, rather that visit from a bookmark, so regular customers were hitting this guys ad and he was earning commission on our repeat customers.

When we ran it, we paid out on the second month (gives time for orders to complete with no return) and we paid via paypal to their email address.

Hope that helps
David