An affiliate program that pays you a commission when you refer a visitor to a merchant's site and they then buy a product or service from the merchant. Affiliates usually get paid a percentage or a fixed rate of each product or service they sell.
The most common ways to get paid in affiliate programs. When you send someone to a site and they buy a product, eBook, download, or membership, you get paid a percentage of the gross on it.
Online ad payment model in which commission based on each sale it generates, as opposed to each click or each lead; pay-per-sale programs have lower conversion rates than pay-per-click or pay-per-lead (as not every person who clicks ends up buying) pay higher commission rates.