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Is an invoice required in order to receive payment?

Friday, March 20th, 2009

Shopzilla does not expect you to provide an invoice in order to receive payments. You will be paid automatically if you have earned the minimum payment threshold of £50.00. If you are not located in the UK and are not VAT registered, then no VAT is payable by Shopzilla for Shopzilla’s Publishers’ earnings.

However if you are located in the UK and are VAT registered we will need you to send us an invoice.

Once your account balance has reached the minimum of £50, Shopzilla will send you a final earning report* during the first 3 days of the following month. You as a Publisher then have 10 working days to send us a valid invoice. Please issue a UK-VAT invoice in accordance with UK-VAT invoicing requirements. This invoice should show the net fees earned (provided by the final earning reports send by Shopzilla Publisher program) plus the applicable amount of VAT.

The invoice address is the following:
Shopzilla Ltd.
111 Buckingham Palace Road
London, SW1W 0SR

Invoices can be send by post, email or fax. Only on receipt of the VAT invoice Shopzilla will remit the Shopzilla Publisher earnings plus the VAT charged to your account. If in doubt you should verify the exact invoicing requirements with your local tax office or with your tax adviser.


*Publisher earnings are subject to validation and adjustments. Portal reported earnings should only be considered as an estimate, which is why Publishers that are VAT registered in the UK will receive a report with final earnings amounts once they have reached the £50.00 threshold. Publishers should consult the Shopzilla, Inc. Publisher Program Terms & Conditions for more information.

Understanding earning reports in our affiliate program

Friday, March 20th, 2009
Using our affiliate program, you make earnings when Shopzilla traffic, which is generated by your website, results in revenue for Shopzilla. Earnings typically depend on how the Sponsored Shopping Content is integrated into your site. Make sure it is contextually linked to your own content. It will also depend on the nature of your user’s activity on Shopzilla.
The Shopzilla Publisher Earning Reports can be shown for any date. It can be filtered by day, week, month or placement ID. Then, it can be secondarily filtered by day, week or month. You can also sort the reports by any of the columns presented, ascending or descending.
The illustration below shows what you might see if you created a earnings report (here for “Last 7 Days”). The different columns, consisting of Impressions, Clicks, Click thru Rate, Earnings, eEPC (=effective Earnings per Click) and eCPM (effective Commission per Mille - Impressions), are explained in detail.
Shopzilla Publisher Program - reporting

Shopzilla Publisher Program - reporting

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In order to receive feedback on how to increase your earnings, please feel free to contact our Shopzilla Publisher team. Just click on the “Contact Us” link located at the right top corner of the Publisher portal. We will get back to you within 48 hours and provide you with helpful tips and suggestions on how to earn more.

Also, click the “Contact Us” link if you have general questions regarding your earnings report in our affiliate program.

Important note: It is entirely possible to generate clicks to Bizrate.co.uk with NO revenue. This occurs when the clicks you direct to Shopzilla do not result in revenue generating activity.

Providing your payment information

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Shopzilla Publisher program - payment information

Due to the fact that the UK Shopzilla Publisher program is still under construction, there are still some minor pitfalls on the way to the perfect portal.

For instance, providing us with your payment details can be a bit confusing. What you can see at the moment is a text tailored to an US audience only, because we are temporarily using features of the US Shopzilla Publisher program. Please ignore it and just select “Non U.S. Resident”, as shown below:

payment information

Shopzilla Publisher payment information

On the next screen, “Are you a U.S. tax payer?” please select “No”.

payment information

Shopzilla Publisher payment information

The next step will allow you to provide us with your PayPal account details.

payment information

Just type in your information and click on “Submit”. That’s it.

As soon as this feature is fully adjusted to the UK, we will notify you here!

At the moment, we are just able to provide PayPal as a payment method. However we are going to offer alternative payment methods such as wire transfer in the future.

best regards,

Your UK Shopzilla Publisher team

p.s.: in case you are VAT-registered in the UK, please get in touch with us!

Your money - it’s only two clicks away!

Friday, January 30th, 2009

How does the Shopzilla Publisher UK Program work?

In order to help our publishers understand how the program works, we have illustrated the steps involved in generating earnings - the important part!

How do publishers make money?

How do publishers make money?

1. You place Shopzilla Publisher UK Program banners or links on your website. A visitor comes to your website, sees a product they would like to compare prices on.
2. They click on one of the Shopzilla Publisher UK Program banners or links (*on your Portal report, this represents a ‘click’). This takes them to BizRate, our sister website, where they see a list of relevant products and prices.
3. Once they decide which product suits them best, they click on a link that takes them through to the website of the Merchant selling that product.
4. The Merchant pays Shopzilla for valid, CPC-monetized leads and celebrates the sale of a product from the quality traffic you, the Publisher, sent to their website.
5. Shopzilla shares the revenue generated from this quality traffic with you, the Publisher.* Now YOU celebrate!

Should you have any questions, please post a comment since another Publisher may be wondering something similar. The Shopzilla Publisher Team will be sure to reply.

* All publisher earnings are subject to validation and adjustments. Portal reported earnings should only be considered as an estimate. Publishers should consult the Shopzilla, Inc. Publisher Program Terms & Conditions for more information.

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