Affiliate Program
What is the Best Buy Affiliate Program?
The Best Buy Affiliate Program is a revenue share program that gives you the opportunity to earn commission each time your site or app drives visitors to make a qualifying
BESTBUY.com purchase.
Why Join?
Earn Commission
We like to reward hard work. The more your visitors buy qualifying BESTBUY.com
products, the more money you can earn. It's that simple and it's free to join!
A Trusted Partner
As the world’s largest consumer electronics retailer, we're one of the most recognizable and trusted
brands. Our site is packed with ratings and reviews, buying guides, and other trusted resources to
help customers make smart purchasing decisions. Join us on our continued path of growth and
innovation. We welcome you to be part of the Best Buy legacy.
Tools For Success
We offer a huge selection of tools and rich content to add to your website. You'll have access to a
library of text links, weekly banner ads, widgets and our collection of APIs featuring the robust
Best Buy product catalog.
Getting Setup
The following steps will walk you through signing up for the Best Buy Affiliate Program.
Step 1: Register for Affiliate Program
The following link will gather key data necessary to sign you up for the program. Once you have
completed the form, you will receive an Impact Partner ID that is your unique identifier in the
network.
Join the
Affiliate Program
Step 2: Notify us of your Impact Partner ID
Please submit the contact form with the
following information from your application to complete the registration process.
- Your Impact Partner ID
- Company Name
- Contact Name
- Contact Email
Step 3 (optional): Get a Best Buy API Key
Use our APIs to get the most recent product, price and availability information. If you would like
access to API data you will need an API key. It's easy. Just visit
Get API Key
and sign up with your email address. We'll send you an email with instructions on how to activate
your new key.
For more information about using our APIs, please visit our
Documentation
or
Getting Started
sections.
Step 4: Add Your Impact Partner ID to Your Queries
As an affiliate, you must add the Impact Partner ID to your queries
to receive credit for a customer purchase. Your Impact Partner ID can be found first
by going to the Impact Dashboard interface and looking at your Account information.
Below is an example of a Best Buy Products API query and reference attributes to
BESTBUY.COM including an example IPID=Impact Partner ID
or IPID=1234567
https:
By doing this, you will receive two important attributes in the Best Buy Products API response:
affiliateUrl - This link directs the visitor to the
BESTBUY.COM product detail page and tracks referral sales to your Impact
Partner ID.Example response
<affiliateUrl>https://api.bestbuy.com/click/-/1221963/pdp?IPID=1234567</affiliateUrl>
affiliateAddToCartUrl - This link adds the product to the visitor's
BESTBUY.COM cart and tracks referral sales to your Impact Affiliate Tracking
Code.Example response
<affiliateAddToCartUrl>https://api.bestbuy.com/click/-/1221963/cart?IPID=1234567</affiliateAddToCartUrl>
For more information about using our APIs, please visit our
Documentation
or
Getting Started
sections.
FAQ
What is Affiliate Marketing?
Affiliate marketing is an online advertising channel in which advertisers (online merchants that sell
products or services) pay publishers (independent parties that promote the products or services of
an advertiser on their Web site) only for results, such as a visitor making a purchase or filling
out a form, rather than paying simply to reach a particular audience. This "pay-for-performance"
model is in essence the modern version of the "finders'-fee" model, where individuals who introduce
new clients to a business are compensated. The difference in the case of affiliate marketing is that
advertisers pay their publishers only when the new client introduction results in a sale or a lead,
making it a low-risk, high-reward environment for both parties.
How do I sign up?
You can sign up for the Best Buy Affiliate Program through our partnership with Impact. An
affiliate marketing company, Impact has technology that will allow you to track your BESTBUY.COM
sales and earn commissions on the BESTBUY.COM purchases that you generate through
your links.
What are the Best Buy commission rates?
Please refer to this page to view the latest commission rates by product category.
How will Best Buy communicate with me?
You may occasionally hear directly from one of our team members at Best Buy. To ensure that the program grows, and our affiliates are successful, we may contact you to build the relationship, optimize our placements, or participate in a survey or sales contest. We value our affiliates and want this to be a successful partnership.
What tools are available? (e.g. product catalog, banners, text links, widgets, API)
As a commitment to our affiliates, we have assigned more resources to making the Best Buy Affiliate Program a top program in the Impact network. We have a wide variety of promotional banners and text links, a specific redirect link (so you can link to individual products), a robust product catalog, and open APIs. We welcome you to use all these tools as you see fit. If you have any thoughts or feedback on them, please share it with us.
What is the action referral period?
1 day.
When will I get paid?
Best Buy pays its affiliates monthly. Best Buy extends all transactions each month, so your initial payment for Best Buy sales will come 60 days after your first Best Buy sale (for example, for sales that post in January, you will be paid in late March). The Best Buy Affiliate Program issues checks for total earned commissions at no minimum.
When will Best Buy orders post to my publisher account?
The Best Buy Affiliate Program offers near-real-time reporting where affiliates can view sales/orders that have been placed. Please note that monthly payments may vary from affiliate reporting due to cancellations, returns, and removal of fraudulent orders.
How does Best Buy account for returns or cancellations?
Best Buy batches in returns and canceled orders daily the day after they are processed at Best Buy. The return/cancellation rate is quite low, since Best Buy only submits shipped orders into the Best Buy Affiliate Program.
How does Best Buy handle missing order requests?
Missing orders are reviewed twice a month. Best Buy reviews missing orders that are entered into Best Buy Affiliate Program’s Transaction Inquiry Manager. Per the Best Buy Special Terms and Conditions, Best Buy only reviews missing orders that are 90 days old or newer.
What is the policy for search publishers?
Brand and trademark bidding are not allowed in the Best Buy Affiliate Program. We highly recommend that affiliates make the Best Buy brand (as well as any misspellings) a negative match in search campaigns. When you accept the program term in the Best Buy Affiliate Program, you are also agreeing to our search policy. Please review it carefully prior to accepting the program terms to ensure that you will abide.
Who can I contact with further questions?
Please email us at BBY_Affiliate@bestbuy.com
Will I earn commissions on qualifying orders placed through mobile phones and apps?
Yes. Best Buy pays commissions on qualifying orders placed through mobile phones and apps, and when a customer goes through an approved tracking link.
What do I need to do to use the Buying Options API?
If an affiliate partner would like to use the Buying Options API there are some guidelines they will
want to follow to ensure they receive their affiliate credit. Currently there is NOT a way to pass
IPID into the Buying Options API. This is something we are investigating for the future. An affiliate
can use the Buying Options API to identify available offers but will need to make a secondary call to
our Products API using their IPID to generate the appropriate affiliate Impact urls. It is also
not possible to use the addToCartUrl or affiliateAddToCartUrl with the expectation that you
are adding Open Box product to the cart (as opposed to a new product) without special javascript
added to your page. If you are interested in doing this please contact us
and we can provide examples and guidance.
