Affiliate program is normally offered by consumer product suppliers. For an industry product like Mifare cards, it is very rarely that suppliers will offer any affiliate program.
Recently, it is getting very popular for suppliers to market their products through popular consumer portals like Amazon and they get free ride on the portals’ affiliate program.
However, consumer portals have limitation on the flexibility of offering such as add-on services (barcode, UID, name, and ID printing or automated key formatting). Here are a summary:
1. Amazon:
Affiliate Program: one time commission with affiliate link
Commission: 3% to 7%
Flexibility of order quantity: No ( come in a pack of 100, 500)
Printing: Yes
Other Add-on services: No
2. AliExpress:
Affiliate Program: one time commission with affiliate link
Commission: 3% to 7%
Flexibility of order quantity: No ( come in a pack of 100, 500)
Printing: yes
Other Add-on services: Yes*
* but pricing and detail needed to discuss with supplier which can take few days to exchange chats or mails.
3. Alibaba:
Affiliate Program: one time commission with affiliate link
Commission: 3% to 5%
Flexibility of order quantity: No ( come in a pack of 100, 500)
Printing: yes
Other Add-on services: Yes*
* but pricing and detail needed to discuss with supplier which can take few days to exchange chats or mails.
4. BuySmartCard.com:
World 1st Mifare card portal since 2002
Affiliate Program: Affiliate Discount Coupon** , repeat commission
Commission: 5%
Flexibility of order quantity: Yes, from 1 pc to millions
Printing: yes
Other Add-on services: Yes***
** Customer can get 5% on purchase using the coupon and affiliate will earn commission of 5%. It is very likely that customer will use the coupon for discount and the affiliate can enjoy repeat commission.
*** The add-on services can be selected and the add-on pricing will be added to the cart automatically.