Any CPA website hosted by CPA Site Solutions has the option to add a Quickbooks affiliate page. When you do this you can make money off of the sales of Quickbooks to your clients.
Recently Quickbooks has sent out an email making sure that every affiliate is aware of recent FTC guidelines regarding product endorsements. Here is a breakdown of what that means if you are an affiliate or planning on becoming one.
If you have an existing affiliate page on your website hosted by CPA Site Solutions you don’t need to do anything. There is a pre-existing banner that should be updated soon with the required badge guidelines.
New badge. Quickbooks now has an “Authorized Quickbooks Affiliate” badge for you to post on your website. The badge needs to be “somewhere prominent on your site to inform your audience.” The home or landing page is a great place to consider putting this badge.
Getting the badge. You can get the badge by logging into your “Quickbooks Affiliate Toolkit.” Once logged in go to the “get links” section and then click on the “Quickbooks Authorized Affiliate Logo.” There should be some code available to place this on your website. You can email support@cpasitesolutions.com with this code and where to place it on your accounting website.
Message from the FTC. The FTC has an information section that seems to indicate that the laws around this haven’t changed. They have indicated they are now highlighting the already existing laws to get people to be more aware.
If you get the memo. If you get a memo from the Quickbooks affiliate team don’t follow the link from the email (it won’t be long before someone tries to spoof this, see previous post on computer security). Instead go from the link you have in your records for logging in to the Quickbooks Affiliate tools page.
Once logged in, get the badge code and place it on your website. Alternatively you can email support@cpasitesolutions.com with the code if you want it placed on your home page instead of just on your affiliates page.
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Hello,
I have an inquiry about the topic above. I am a designer of a CPA’s site and she is wants a link to the page where a user would purchase Quickbooks software. My questions are is this about putting a badge that an accountant is affiliated with Quickbooks? Also how would I go about getting permission to add the Quickbooks link on the website to purchase the software?
Thank you,
Jason Runyan
It is very easy for websites with CPA Site Solutions to add a Quickbooks page by simply entering their QB affiliat ID. If the site you are asking about is not with CPA Site Solutions, you might try the Help link on Inuits site for better instruction on how to add it to your site.