NATS Terms of Service Feature

Article Topics: Affiliates, Customization

The Terms of Services (TOS) feature allows you to require affiliates to agree to a terms of service before they are able to receive payments or see any statistics. The TOS system forces the affiliate to either agree upon sign up or, if they are already signed up, forces them to agree in the My Account page of the Affiliate area. Once agreed, the affiliate would then be able to receive payouts and/or view statistics, depending upon your configuration.

Setting up Terms of Service Configuration

Within the Configuration Admin, you would navigate to the "Affiliate" section where the option "AFFILIATE_TOS_AGREE" is found in the "Payment Settings" section. This configuration has 3 possible settings:

• Affiliate does not need to agree - TOS check is Inactive.

• Affiliate can view Statistics and Links but Payout will not be Stored - TOS check is active but allows affiliates to view stats and retrieve links

• Affiliate MUST agree before viewing Statistics,Links, or Receiving payout - TOS check is active and the affiliate MUST agree before viewing statistics, retrieving links, or receiving payouts

When the configuration is set to "Affiliate can view Statistics and Links but payout will not be Stored", active affiliates will see a notification at the top of the affiliate area notifying them that they need to agree to the TOS before they are able to receive payments.

When the configuration is set to "Affiliate MUST agree before viewing Statistics, Links, or Receiving Payouts", active affiliates will see a notification at the top of the affiliate area notifying them that they need to agree to the TOS before they are able to view any part of the affiliate area. This will also prevent the affiliate from receiving payments.

Affiliates attempting to join will see a checkbox where they would need to check to agree before being able to sign up

Setting up Terms of Service Template

With this configuration comes a new template "external_terms" which allows you to design the overall view of the TOS page for the affiliates who have not signed up. The TOS itself can be housed in the "include_support_terms" template and will be used both internally and externally.

Learn more about Templates in our Site Templates article.

Resetting the terms of service agreement

If you change your TOS and require that the affiliates agree to the new terms before receiving payouts you can reset whether affiliates have agreed to the TOS or not.

This is done by selecting the "Affiliate T.O.S." button at the top of the Affiliate Management area.

You can then click the "Reset" button which will require all your affiliates to agree to your new terms the next time they log in to your program.