Affiliation

What does being an affiliate mean?

The affiliate program allows you to promote our books on social networks, your blog or any other website, and receive a percentage of the sales generated by the links displayed on your various platforms.

Summary of the affiliation process:

  1. You submit your request to become an affiliate and we then approve it.
  2. You retrieve the affiliate link from the book’s product sheet at leslibraires.ca.
  3. You share this link on a social network or website.
  4. A user clicks an affiliate link and purchases the recommended book (or any other book) on leslibraires.ca
  5. You receive a percentage of the sale.

Conditions of eligibility

  1. Be a resident of Canada OR have a PayPal account.

Registration - request to become an affiliate:

  1. Create your customer account on leslibraires.ca (using the “My account” button at the top of the website).
  2. Once you are logged in to your account, go to the “My account” section and click the box next to “I want to participate in the leslibraires.ca affiliate program” under the “Request to become an affiliate” tab.
  3. Enter the requested information in the displayed fields and click the “Submit request” button.
  4. The leslibraires.ca team will validate and then approve your request. You will receive a confirmation email.
  5. You will then be able to start retrieving your codes to refer books.

Retrieve a code to refer a book:

  1. Make sure you are logged in to your account.
  2. Go to the product sheet for the desired book on leslibraires.ca.
  3. Click the “Affiliate options (receive royalties)” button.
  4. You will see a list of integration options:
    • “Create an affiliate link”: copy this link and share it on social networks or paste it onto any element on a website to refer a book.
    • “Create an affiliate product sheet”: select the elements you wish to display on the product sheet and copy the generated code into the source code of your website.

Automatically generate an affiliate link from an ISBN:

  1. Get your affiliate ID:
    1. Generate an affiliate link for any book in our catalogue.
    2. Your affiliate ID is the number at the very end of the link, following the characters "a=". 
      Ex.: http://www.leslibraires.ca/livres/ru-kim-thuy-9782764804636.html/?a=452
  2. Next use the following link model:  
    http://www.leslibraires.ca/ISBN/[isbn du livre]/?a=[id affilié]
  3. You will end up with a link similar to this one:  
    http://www.leslibraires.ca/ISBN/9782892619508/?a=452
  4. This will allow you to generate all your affiliate links without having to visit our website for each book.

Generate several codes from a list of ISBNs:

  1. Make sure you are logged in to your account.
  2. Go to the http://www.leslibraires.ca/creation-liens-affiliations/ page
  3. Enter a list of ISBNs separated by a comma and click “Generate the list”

View the sales generated and your royalties

  1. Go to the “Affiliation” section of your account.
  2. You will be able to view:
    1. the total amount of royalties paid
    2. a complete list of all book referrals which resulted in a sale, and the royalties associated with each of them.
  3. You can also request payment of your royalties by clicking the “Claim your royalties” button when the total of your royalties has reached the minimum amount required ($15).

Claim your royalties

  1. Go to the “Affiliation” section of your account.
  2. Click the “Claim your royalties” button when the total of your royalties has reached the minimum amount required ($15).
  3. We will send your royalties using the agreed payment method, within a maximum period of 15 business days.

Payment methods

  1. The available payment methods are:
    1. PayPal
    2. Bank transfer
    3. Gift card
  2. Affiliates outside of Canada can only be paid through PayPal.
  3. Contact us if you wish to change your payment method.

Royalty percentages per sale:

You will receive 4% of the price of any book a customer purchases after clicking one of your affiliate links. You will only receive royalties on orders that are paid for online.

The royalties will appear in your account once the ordering process has been completed.

For more information:

Please contact us by email at [email protected]