Subscription ecommerce allows customers to sign up for goods and services that they want regularly. The goods are then automatically delivered to customers weekly, monthly, or quarterly. The main subscription product categories and niches include food, beverages, clothing, fashion, health, personal hygiene, beauty, toys, and pet. Subscription-based online streaming services, including Netflix and Amazon Prime, also belong to subscription commerce. Additionally, Netflix deserves credit as a subscription commerce pioneer. Ten years before Birch Box, it was shipping DVDs to subscribers monthly.

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The affiliate marketing software that a company uses is critical to a program’s success. Affiliate tracking software must register users, generate links, track user/link activity, attribute conversions, produce reports, and integrate with payment solutions such as PayPal. Other features merchants may desire are multichannel analytics, messaging, email marketing, deep linking, fraud detection, and integration with marketing and business tools. Finally, the software should be reliable, efficient, and foster trust between merchants (advertisers) and affiliates (publishers).

An affiliate program with a recurring commission will pay an affiliate a minimum of two commissions for a sale. However, merchants typically issue commissions for as long as the converted customer remains active and paying.

Most recurring affiliate programs function by way of ongoing customer payments; for example, a tech company earns revenue through monthly and annual subscription fees. Alternatively, some merchants pay commissions on recurring customer transactions. For instance, a cryptocurrency exchange pays a 10 percent commission on every client trade.