Commission eligibility requires a customer to click through the Associate's Special Link, with the session window closing after 24 hours or upon a new Special Link click. Cart-completion purchases must be completed within 89 days of the initial click, and the product must be shipped and paid for within 180 days.
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These attribution windows define the outer boundaries of commission eligibility and determine which referrals generate payable revenue. Associates whose audiences frequently delay purchasing decisions beyond 24 hours without adding items to cart may see materially lower conversion rates under these terms.
This provision establishes the time-bound conditions under which a referral from an Associate's site generates commission income, including a 24-hour session window and an 89-day cart-completion deadline. Under these terms, purchases made outside these windows do not qualify as Qualifying Purchases regardless of the referral relationship.
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Compare across platforms →"a customer clicks through a Special Link on your Site to an Amazon Site; and (b) during a single session, which is measured as beginning when a customer clicks through that Special Link and ending upon the first to occur of the following: (x) 24 hours elapse from that click, (y) the customer places an order for a Product... the customer purchases a Product by adding a Product to his or her shopping cart and completing the order for that Product no later than 89 days after their initial click-through of the Special Link... within 180 days of the purchase, the Product is shipped to, streamed or downloaded by, and paid for by the customerExcerpt from Amazon Associates's Program Policies
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision is a commercial performance-tracking mechanism and does not directly implicate consumer protection regulations; however, the FTC's endorsement disclosure guidance is relevant to how Associates must disclose the affiliate relationship that …
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These attribution windows define the outer boundaries of commission eligibility and determine which referrals generate payable revenue. Associates whose audiences frequently delay purchasing decisions beyond 24 hours without adding items to cart may see materially lower conversion rates under these terms.
This provision establishes the time-bound conditions under which a referral from an Associate's site generates commission income, including a 24-hour session window and an 89-day cart-completion deadline. Under these terms, purchases made outside these windows do not qualify as Qualifying Purchases regardless of the referral relationship.
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