Many shareware authors use an ecommerce processing service such as RegNow, Plimus, or Avangate. Such services handle all the details of secure payment processing. In addition, these services also give you the option of allowing resellers to earn a commission on the sale of your product, with the ultimate goal of making more sales.

As someone who connects thousands of users with shareware products every day, File Parade is in a prime position to work as a reseller for your product. This page outlines both the benefits and requirements of establishing an affiliate partnership with File Parade.

Please Note: With tens of thousands of listings, it is just not possible for us to establish affiliate partnerships manually. The only way to establish an affiliate partnership with File Parade is by meeting the requirements described below.

Benefits of Affiliate Partnerships

• In some cases, we may be more likely to approve a listing that meets the requirements needed to establish an affiliate partnership.
• We will add a buy-now button directly on our site next to listings of your product.
• When the number of paid Featured Listings falls below capacity, our system randomly select products with which we have an affiliate partnership to be featured that week at no charge. Our featured listings appear at the top of our home page and can significant increase the exposure given to your product. This special listing also includes a direct link to your company website, which may help to improve your site's page rank.
• We are constantly making minor changes to this site and, as we find other ways to promote our listings, those listings where we have an affiliate partnership will be given top priority.

Requirements for Affiliate Partnerships

• Your PAD listing must include valid affiliate information per the Affiliates PAD Extension specification.
• Your order-processing service must support data feeds that allow us to automate the process of obtaining affiliate links. Currently, this includes only RegNow, Plimus, and Avangate.
• Your product must be included in the data feed. This normally requires that you either set your affiliate approval method to automatic, or that you manually establish an affiliate relationship with us. File Parade will provide our affiliate ID upon request. Just contact us and let us know which service you are using.
• The data feed must include at least a buy-now and download link for your product. An affiliate more-info link is strongly recommended. We are a download site. Thousands of our listings do not have affiliate status only because they lack an affiliate download link.

Thank you for your interest in File Parade.