Premium Partner Program: Criteria
LinkShare has established a program to highlight merchants that satisfy specific criteria. The criteria have been selected based on best practices that we have experienced, as well as on feedback from affiliates on what they look for in a program. Using this information, we have distinguished and highlighted those merchants who satisfy the criteria specified below as Premium Partners. Premium merchant programs will be denoted by a red star symbol 
throughout your affiliate interface.
A Premium Partner is a merchant program that:
- Uses LinkShare's check-cutting service.
- Pays affiliates on a monthly basis.
- Pays affiliates based on a maximum $25 threshold.
- Prompt authorization of affiliate payments so affiliates are paid at the end of the following month.
- Seven or more return days (does not apply to merchants with pay per click programs).
- Has supplied valid and complete contact information in their profile.
- Active and in good standing.
In order to be considered for Premium Partner status, each new LinkShare
Merchant must ensure timely payment to its affiliates and to LinkShare
for their first pay period in the LinkShare program.
