Waterstones.com not only provides affiliate partners with a known and trusted alternative to other book sites.
- Publishers will have two commission groups, 4% for new customers and 1% for existing on all print book and stationery, games and toys
- We do not pay any commission on our Click & Collect service
- We do not pay commission on gift cards or e-gift cards
- We don't pay commission on Signed and Exclusive editions unless communicated otherwise
- A 14 day cookie period
- Commission is processed 28 days after shipment date
- 100% validation of sales happens upon dispatch
Validation Payments
Affiliates should be aware that Waterstones transactions are validated after the point that the order has been dispatched and received by the customer. At present, customers can pre-order books – and may need to order products that are currently out of stock. This can cause considerable delays in the validation of these transaction types. Affiliates will be awarded their commission after the point of dispatch. Waterstones will not pay out commission for cancelled orders.
PPC Terms:
- We don’t allow affiliates to bid on terms like 'Waterstones', ‘waterstone’s’ or any derivative or misspellings of the brand name on any search engine.
- We also don’t allow our affiliates to link any paid ads directly to our website or use variants on the Waterstones.com URL.
- We are rather strict about all of this and will exclude any affiliates from the programme that do not comply.
- Any publisher that has been granted permission to run Google Shopping ads must NOT bid on the term Waterstones and must negatively match the brand term Waterstones for any activity.
Voucher code sites:
We do work with select voucher code sites but we reserve the right to decline any sales that have used an unauthorised or exclusive code not attributed to the channel
