David has been looking into this recently - eSellerate have been helping him set up a landing page. It should be up any day, although I’ll wait for David to reply with an update.
Best,
Keith
Hello Simon,
After clicking the accept button to your sales affiliate request, the next thing I did was write an email to eSellerate. Excerpt below:
“Have Digital River got anywhere with the server issue yet? Every time a new sales affiliate joins, I wish we were offering them a better landing page!”
We are definitely thinking along the same lines. At present a landing page with more Scrivener information has been developed (cut down version of literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html), but eSellerate are having a problem with one of three servers that are used to facilitate this service. Their technicians have escalated the issue to Digital River. Once everything is okay behind the scenes, and I have learned how to communicate the landing page to sales affiliates, a better solution will be offered.
The best workaround I have seen thus far is this: daveulrich.net/blog/?page_id=2,
with our friend Pablo going the whole hog: scrivener.es/
We hope to provide you with a landing page soon where the only onus on you is to offer a Scrivener button on your website. Thanks for the prompt.
All the best,
David
I see you’ve prompted them into action - much better now.
Now all I have to do is put some traffic your way… hmmmm.
Hello All,
Sales affiliates should have recently received an email (or two) relating to a landing page update. When following the email prompts for each Scrivener licence type, choose ‘Scrivener Landing Page’ under ‘2. Choose Landing Page’ rather than the defaulted ‘EZ Landing Page’. You will notice that the HTML code under ‘4. Paste the following HTML to your web site’ changes. This is the code that you should now use on your website if you would like a page of information related to the Scrivener application displayed when someone clicks on your sales affiliate link:
All the best,
David
Good luck with that traffic Simon! 
Thanks for the reminder, DMJ.
Everything up and running…
Keith I went to the link listed at the top of this post and tried to search for Scrivener to set up the Affiliate program but received the following. What do I do?
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Indeed – how do we find the affiliate link for the 2.0 version?
I don’t think the affiliate link for 2.0 is quite ready yet, sorry. Please drop David a line on sales AT literatureandlatte DOT com - please bear with him it takes him a while to get back to you, though, as he has been inundated with e-mails following the release, as we all have. Thank you for wanting to become affiliates!
Looks like the updated affiliate link isn’t quite ready yet. (Still comes up blank)
Hello,
The affiliate offering for Scrivener 2.0 should have been available since 8th November. I searched for ‘Scrivener’ on the relevant eSellerate webpage affiliates.esellerate.net/affiliates/home.aspx and everything appears to be in order:
I did also notice that we are having affiliate commissions deducted from our sales reports, so I will assume that everything is working correctly. Please do let me know further details if you believe matters are otherwise though.
Many thanks,
David
Hi David - thanks for the reply. When searching, only the 1.X version seems to come up.
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Searching for 2.0 comes up blank. Any ideas?
Actually found it. You need to go to “Available Products,” search and then it comes up.
Odd why it wasn’t the other way, but that way works.
When I go to a coffee shop, I invariably see students grinding away with Microsoft Word to write their papers. About half of those students are using Macs.
At 8-10 dollars commission per sale, students could do pretty well being a local campus representative. And they could help get all of those students a much better and cheaper tool for their writing. Has anyone set themselves up as a local Scrivener expert/advocate at a University this way?
I just registered for the affiliate program, but can’t seem to find the Scrivener links. Can anyone help me out with this process? Thanks.
Hello Suzy,
As detailed above, please go here affiliates.esellerate.net/affiliates/home.aspx, press on View Products and then do a search for ‘Scrivener’. Good luck.
All the best,
David.
Thanks, David. Can you tell me when Scrivener will have the program available in a secure download for those of us who not own MAC’s? I know they have a version of it available, but I’m hesitant to download it to my computer, because of the possible virus’.
The Windows version has been secured; this was remedied some time ago. To be clear there was never a virus in it, but because it was brand new software that hadn’t yet been certified or used by many people, some virus scanners were producing warnings. You can download it from here. When the executable runs, make sure it is certified by Creative HQ in the screen that asks if you wish to allow it to run.
Hi David,
Regarding the W-8BEN form, do you know what the situation is with the ITIN and EIN numbers? Are these needed by esellerate? I was a little confused by the ‘if required’ in question 9b.
If you want to load a book to the Apple iBookstore from the UK you must have an EIN at least.
Regards
Stephen
Hello Stephen,
To be entirely honest (and not too helpful) we never completed the whole sales affiliate paperwork process for eSellerate as there seemed to be little point becoming a sales affiliate for ourselves! I did have exactly the same confusion when recently completing the W-8BEN form for Amazon though. The “if required” got me too, so I left Part I question 6 blank. My tax withholding application got rejected by Amazon, so I then went through the process of obtaining an EIN (completing a SS-4 form), entering the number into the question 6 field and ticking Part II question 9b. The application then got accepted, so I would suggest jumping through the hoops to obtain an EIN. Good luck!
I hope the IRS representative you speak to (if necessary for you) is more cheerful than the one I got!
All the best,
David