Sales Free course · Certificate included
Discount-Code & Affiliate Sales Mastery
Choose products, build offers, track codes, reconcile payouts, stop fraud, disclose properly and scale with AI
- Intermediate
- 5 h 1 min
- 12 lessons in 6 modules
- 1 h 41 min of video lectures
- Updated Sep 2026
About this course
Discount codes and affiliate links are how many creators and micro-entrepreneurs earn on Optimize All, but the difference between occasional sales and dependable income lies in the details. This course explains how code and link programmes really work, from code types, attribution windows and UTM tags to validation, reversals, clawbacks and payouts.
You'll choose products that fit your audience, design honest offers, and use content formats that convert. You'll place codes where buyers decide, calculate conversion, EPC and reversal rates from your own data, report sales with privacy-safe proof, and reconcile commission statements. You'll learn how brands detect fraud and leaked codes, disclose affiliate income under FTC, ASA/CAP, CMA, UAE Advertiser Permit and Saudi Mawthooq rules, build repeat-buyer systems, and use AI tools to research, pitch and translate at scale without breaking consent or platform rules.
Tools you’ll use
- Shopify
- WooCommerce
- Google Analytics 4
- Google Sheets
- impact.com
- Awin
- PartnerStack
- Amazon Associates
- TikTok Shop
- YouTube
- WhatsApp Business
- Payoneer
- Wise
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Python
Skills
- Affiliate marketing
- Offer design
- Conversion content
- Sales attribution
- Sales reporting and payouts
- Advertising compliance
- Customer retention
- AI-assisted outreach
What you’ll be able to do
- Explain code types, attribution windows, validation, reversals and clawbacks in code and link programmes
- Score campaigns for product and audience fit and design honest, margin-aware offers
- Place codes where buyers decide and calculate conversion, EPC and reversal rates from your own data
- Report sales with privacy-safe proof and reconcile commission statements and payouts
- Recognise fraud, self-dealing and leaked codes, and how brands detect them
- Disclose affiliate income under FTC, ASA/CAP, CMA, UAE and Saudi rules
- Build repeat-buyer systems with opt-in communities
- Use AI for research, pitches and translation within consent and platform rules
Curriculum
Syllabus
- Modules
- 6
- Lessons
- 12
- Reading time
- 3 h
- Assessment questions
- 20
Understand the mechanics, economics and terms of code and link programmes, and choose products that genuinely fit your audience.
- The mechanics: codes, links, commission and cookiesVideo lecture, 9′Video · 14 min
- Choosing products your audience will actually buyVideo lecture, 8′13 min
Design compelling, honest offers and use proven content formats — reviews, tutorials, comparisons, bundles and genuine limited-time deals.
- Creating offers people wantVideo lecture, 9′13 min
- Content formats that convertVideo lecture, 8′14 min
Put your code and link where buyers decide, understand code types, UTM tags and attribution, and calculate conversion, EPC and reversal rates yourself.
- Link and code placement that worksVideo lecture, 9′13 min
- Tracking and attribution: what the numbers meanVideo lecture, 8′15 min
Report sales accurately with proper evidence, understand payouts, statements and tax basics, and avoid or detect fraud, self-dealing and leaked codes.
- Reporting sales correctly: order IDs and proofVideo lecture, 8′13 min
- Payouts, commission statements and tax basicsVideo lecture, 8′15 min
- Avoiding fraud, self-dealing and policy violationsVideo lecture, 8′15 min
Disclose affiliate relationships correctly under FTC, ASA/CAP, CMA, UAE and Saudi rules, handle consumer-protection basics, and grow sustainable income through repeat buyers.
- Affiliate disclosure and consumer protectionVideo lecture, 9′15 min
- Scaling with repeat buyersVideo lecture, 8′14 min
Use AI to research brands, draft pitches, replies, scripts and translations at scale, while staying within consent, messaging, platform and consumer-protection rules.
- AI-assisted outreach, pitching and content at scaleVideo lecture, 9′16 min
- Final assessment
Your certificate
Finish with a credential anyone can check
Earn the Certified Affiliate Sales Specialist badge: The holder can run profitable, compliant discount-code and affiliate campaigns: selecting well-matched products, designing honest offers, placing and tracking codes, analysing EPC and reversals, reporting sales and reconciling payouts, detecting fraud and leaked codes, disclosing under UK, US and Gulf rules, building repeat buyers and using AI for outreach responsibly.
Completed all lessons and scored at least 80% on the final assessment.
- A public verification page
- A PDF certificate to download
- An Open Badge you can share
- One click to your LinkedIn profile
Final assessment
- 20questions drawn from a larger pool
- 30 mintime limit
- 80%pass mark
- 3attempts per 24 hours
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