How do affiliates sign in?

With the same customer account they use on your store. Simple Affiliate has no separate login: when someone registers as an affiliate, the affiliate account is tied to the Shopify customer account they registered with, and from then on they sign in through your storefront's customer-account experience. One account system, on your store's domain.

New versus classic customer accounts

Where the affiliate dashboard lives depends on which customer-account system your store runs.

On new customer accounts, the dashboard appears inside Shopify's customer-account area, and affiliates sign in through the customer-account experience Shopify provides.

On classic customer accounts, Simple Affiliate provides a branded dashboard page on your theme, at a path such as /pages/simple-affiliate, depending on your store configuration.

There's no separate Simple Affiliate login page to send anyone to. Your Shopify customer-account setup decides the location.

What to tell a new affiliate

Say which customer-account experience your store uses and point them at your storefront sign-in. Not sure yourself? Check whether the store is on new or classic customer accounts before writing the instructions.

The rest is short: their storefront customer-account credentials are their affiliate credentials, and they never need to create or manage a separate username or password for Simple Affiliate.