It's actually quite possible to setup the system with the default configuration. So it's suggested that you familiarize yourself with the Max Affiliate pages and reading about the Login system and the affiliates management, before coming back to configure the system.

System Configuration.

The system configuration is straight-forward. Here’s how you configure the Max Affiliate system:

The first few are all relatively straight-forward.

Note the field called Your Max Affiliates URL. This is the URL where you put the Max Affiliates system. It is incredibly important to get this right, because the email that is sent to an affiliate (when they register) has a link in it, that they must click to verify their registration. And it uses this URL.

Example: If you put Max Affiliates in a folder on your www.mydomain.com website called maxaff, then you'd fill this field with 'www.mydomain.com/maxaff' and the confirmation URL would be sent as: http://www.mydomain.com/maxaff/verify.php?id=etc

Important: Please note that an ending slash MUST NOT BE present.

Then comes "How many transactions per page when displayed in Transaction History?" On the Transaction History page, where all the orders credited to an affiliate are being displayed, this number represents how many orders will appear per page. For example, if the affiliate has gotten you 300 orders, you probably don't want all 300 orders to appear on the page display. Thus, you can set this to a lower number (such as 30) and you'll only see 30 orders per page. Each page will have a Next and Back "button" so you can view all those orders. This same number will be used when managing the Accounts and the Affiliates.

Next on the Configuration page is Header HTML for affiliate system pages. And Footer HTML for affiliate system pages.