JVZoo allows a seller to have JV Partners for their products.  These partners will share in the profits of all sales made by the seller.

In order to create a JV Contract, the seller needs to click on the "JV's" link found on the header board on the sellers dashboard.  That will open up a set of form fields where the JV Partner's information is entered.  Simply enter in the JVZoo Account ID of the potential JV Partner.  Fill out the remainding information and click save.

Once a user has created their affiliate account (see article here:  http://support.jvzoo.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/3/3/how-to-sign-up-and-be-an-affiliate ), they are set to become a JV Partner.  Just give the account ID to the seller, and the seller will enter that into the appropriate field.  That is all that needs to be done.  The JV Contract is created automatically.

In order to set your Paypal account to accept USD sales, you will want to log into the Paypal account you have set to collect sales.  You will then click on the “My Account” tab.  On the submenu that comes up, you will click on “Profile”.  When the next page comes up, click the link on the left side of the page that says “My Money”.  This will open up a menu on the right.  Go down to section that reads “Balance” and click on the “More” button.  This opens up a dropdown menu, where you will want to select “Currencies”.

On the “Manage Currencies” page that comes up, you will see a dropdown box.  You will want to choose “US Dollars” from that dropdown menu, then click the “Add Currency” button right next to it.

Once you have completed this, your Paypal account is now ready to accept payments in USD.

You may want to promote in many places, such as websites, the Warrior Forum, Facebook, and an email list.  Because JVZoo keeps track of clicks but not referral pages, you may want a way to tell where those clicks are coming from.  This is where your Tracking IDs (or TIDs) become invaluable.

The best way to implement tracking IDs is to use them as short (up to 24 characters long) descriptions.  TIDs can have only letters and number (no punctuation or symbols).  These IDs will then be reported back to your JVZoo listing/seller dashboard.  These numbers are only visible to you, and are not available to your sellers (or affilates as the case may be)

As an example, if you have a link being sent out from Twitter in the first week of your sale, you could create a TID called twitterweekone  You would then add that to the end of your hoplink, so your affiliate link might look something like http://www.jvzoo.com/c/3522/3665/?tid=twitterweekone.  You would then be able to see how many clicks came from the first week of your Twitter campaign.

*Tracking ids must be in lower case only.

Here is how it works. There is nothing to hide...

As an affiliates, you get the commission % you are quoted WITHOUT paying any PayPal fees on every transaction.  This saves you HUGE money in fees and is something unique with our system.

How is the possible?  Because the vendor pays all PayPal fees upfront for you and then gives you the whole % of the sale.  So the vendor is paying your fees and giving you more of each payment (without fees) - this is a very generous model.

However, when commissions start to approach 100% one of two things must happen since the vendor is paying your fees for you.

1. The vendor can pay you 100% (PayPal fee free money) and they would lose money on every single sale - because of paying your PayPal fees for you.
2. The vendor can pay you 100% of what is left after they pay the PayPal fees for you.

JVZoo.com decided that it would be wrong to force vendors to lose money on 100% commission products.  So in that case, the PayPal fees (which have to get paid either by you or the vendor) are paid for you and then you get 100% of what is left without paying any additional fees.  This approach is saving you money as the affiliate.

Also, the vendor can opt to pay JVZoo 5% of each sale or pay an up-front flat fee for their listing.  If the vendor opts for the 5%, then that is also taken out before the affiliate is paid.

That is why it appears you are not getting 100% of the money, but you ARE getting 100% of the money that PayPal doesn't take.

If you are an affiliate, you have to wait for the vendor to approve your commission payment.  Once the approve you, the money will be paid and the transaction will go to COMPLETE. This can take up to 60 days.

If you are a product vendor, this transaction will remain INCOMPLETE until you approve the affiliate and JV portions to be paid OR until you refund the transaction.  You can do this at any time, but must be done within 60 days of the transaction.

If you are an affiliate and do not want to be on delayed commissions, contact the vendor's and introduce yourself, explain how you are going to promote and build some trust with them.  They can release all your payments and set you to instant commission at any point they decide.  You relationship with them will decide when you get paid and how fast.

Permission: Issue a refund for a specific transaction.

JVZoo uses PayPal's high end payment system known as Adaptive Payments. In order for PayPal to approve JVZoo to use their Adaptive Payments services, the JVZoo system must be able to process refunds for all transactions that it processes.  Payments are processed using Chained Payments where multiple people are getting paid on each purchase.  In order for all parts of the Chained Payment be refunded, the system must have refund access to your PayPal account.

NOTE - We can ONLY refund transactions or moneies that we have put into your account and there is no way to do double refunds.  You account is completely protected. 

Permission: Obtain information about a single transaction.

When orders are placed, vendor's want the JVZoo system to notify their software of purchases and refunds.  This allow for user accounts to be created instantly and without human interaction and also disabled on refund.  This is great for the customer because they get instant access to their purchases without any delay. 

In order to pull this information, we must be able to pull the purchasers name and the product name from within PayPal.  To do that we need the ability to obtain that information from the transaction we placed in your PayPal account. 

NOTE: We can ONLY pull transactions for transactions that we have the PayPal transaction Id which again is ONLY the transactions that we put into your account.  It is impossible for us to see anything that we did not put there and have the transaction id for.  We CANNOT see or search your history or anything about your account.

Permission: Access your PayPal contact information.

You are granting us these permissions because they are required for JVZoo to be safe and secure for buyers and sellers.  However, the only way to verify that you have granted these permissions is for us to be able to poll your PayPal acount for your name and PayPal address and compare it to what we have on file.  Yes, this is a very weird way to verify the permissions, but you can ask PayPal - it is the only way.

So this permission allows us to verify that you have given us these permissions.  This is required so we can validate that every single user on the system is following the rules and allowing for the system to work as designed.

NOTE: We can ONLY pull your name, PayPal email address, business name, country code and payer id.  NOTHING else.

Granting permissions like this is sanctioned by PayPal and required on our part in order to use their Adaptive Payments system.  This can be verified with PayPal and many customers have done just that.  They will not allow any abuse of your account or they would not allow these services to be used.  They built this system just for these purposes.

We hope these explains the permissions we are requesting to your PayPal account.  You can see the access is very limited and specific.  However, if you are still not comfortable with this and you do not trust that PayPal will verify everything stated here, then please do not use our system.  We are processing 1000s and 1000s of transactions a day for our users, but they must trust us for us to do this for them.