# Member Blaze, affiliates & the mobile app > Member Blaze referral milestones and giveaways, the Affiliate Center where affiliates promote offers and get paid, and the community's mobile app. Source: https://support.estage.com/community-add-ons Part of the ESTAGE Support help center (https://support.estage.com). Full knowledge base: https://support.estage.com/llms-full.txt --- Three extras that sit around the community itself: **Member Blaze** turns members into recruiters, the **Affiliate Center** gives your affiliates a home inside the community, and **Mobile App Setup** puts the community on phones. ## Member Blaze **Member Blaze** is a referral program for your community. Every member gets a referral link; reaching a number of referrals earns them a reward, or an entry into a prize draw. It's an add-on, under **Settings → Add-ons → Member Blaze**. > **Note** > > The tab appears only when the community owner's ESTAGE account holds a Member Blaze licence. A > one-hub licence works in one community; an unlimited licence works in all of them. ### The dashboard **Member Blaze - Dashboard** shows: - new members over the last 7, 14 or 30 days, or a **Custom Range**, and cards for today, this week and the last 30 days; - **Top Referrers** — who brought in how many, their milestone and latest activity; - your draws — title, prize, draw date and winner; - your **Milestones**. ### Creating a milestone or giveaway 1. Click **Add New Milestone**. 2. Choose the **Type**: - **Milestone** — a reward for reaching a number of referrals. Set **Number Referrals Needed** and, under **Add Tags To User Profile**, the CRM tags the member receives — use them to unlock the reward. - **Giveaway** — a prize draw. Set **Referrals Needed Per Entry** and the **Qualifying Date** range. 3. Add a **Title / Headline**, **Description**, an image and your own promotional message. 4. Click **Create**. The pencil edits a milestone, and the bin deletes it. ### Running a draw When a giveaway is due, click the play button (**Run draw**) next to it in the list. The draw window lists the participants — **Username**, **Referrals** and **Entries**, with **Search Users** and the total. - **Referrals** counts the people who joined through the member's referral link within the qualifying dates. - **Entries** is their referrals divided by **Referrals Needed Per Entry**, rounded down. A member with fewer referrals than one entry needs isn't in the draw. Click **Spin Now** to pick the winner at random — every entry is one ticket, so more entries mean a better chance. The winner shows in the draws list. > **Caution** > > **Spin Again** draws again and replaces the winner you had. Announce a winner only once you're done > spinning. ### What members see Members see **Invite People**, **Your Referral Link**, **Milestones & Rewards** and **Active Giveaways** — turn on the **Member Blaze** sidebar widget so they find it. The widget is added to the feed only on the Business Plus plan. Members who joined through a referral link also show in [Analytics → Growth](https://support.estage.com/community-analytics#growth). ## Affiliate Center If you run an affiliate program in your [CRM](https://knowledge.estage.com/commerce/affiliates/), your affiliates can work from inside the community. Add **Affiliate** to the menu from **Navigation → Quick add**. Members who belong to a program get the **Affiliate Center** with **Dashboard**, **Offers**, **Earnings**, **Payouts** and **Referrals**. Members without a program are sent to the program's landing page instead. Admins can always open it. Programs, offers, commissions and payouts are all managed in the CRM — see [Affiliates](https://knowledge.estage.com/commerce/affiliates/). ### What an affiliate sees **The agreement comes first.** If the program has an agreement the affiliate hasn't accepted yet, it opens over the Affiliate Center and can't be dismissed. They read it, tick **I have read and agree to the Agreement** and select **I agree to these terms**. Afterwards the **Dashboard** says *"You've signed the Partner Agreement"* — select **Partner Agreement** to read it again. | Tab | What the affiliate does there | | --- | --- | | **Dashboard** | Their program (*"Your status is"*), visitors, unique visitors, referrals, sales, commissions and refunds over a date range, the **Last 5 Referrals** and **Latest Activity** | | **Offers** | The offers they can promote. **Open** goes into an offer; an offer for a higher program shows **Upgrade to …** and leads to that program's page; a switched-off offer shows **Closed** | | **Earnings** | Each commission — date, name, product, commission and activity — with totals for a date range | | **Payouts** | Where they're paid, and what has been paid | | **Referrals** | The people they referred — date, name, email and products | Inside an offer, the affiliate finds: - **Your Commissions** — what the offer pays them, or **Non-Commissionable**; - the offer's referral links, each with a copy and an open button; - **Reporting** — the same numbers as the dashboard, for this offer; - **Creatives** — **Banners** (pick a size, then **Download Banner**), **Videos** (**Download Video**), **Email Creatives** (a **Subject Line** and **Email Body** to copy) and **Social Creatives** (copy for social posts), each grouped by the categories you set up. ### Getting paid Each community pays its affiliates from its own Stripe or PayPal, so an affiliate sets up payouts separately in every community they promote. On the **Payouts** tab, under **Payout account**: 1. If the community offers both, the affiliate answers **How do you want to get paid?** — **Stripe** (*"To your bank account, via Stripe"*) or **PayPal** (*"To your PayPal email"*). The community's default is marked **Default**. 2. **Stripe**: they pick the country of their payout account — it sets the account's country and currency and can't be changed later without disconnecting — and complete Stripe's verification. The card then shows **Stripe account connected**. 3. **PayPal**: they enter their **PayPal email** and select **Save**. The card shows **PayPal connected**. A payout to an email with no PayPal account isn't delivered; it's returned after 30 days. **Change method** switches between Stripe and PayPal, and **Disconnect** removes the payout account — commissions can't be paid out until a new one is set up; the earnings history stays. Below the card, **Pending** (commissions still maturing), **Available** (ready to pay out) and **Paid** sum up the money — plus **Debt** when there are outstanding chargebacks, which are deducted from payouts — followed by **Payouts over time** and the list of payouts. If the community hasn't connected Stripe or PayPal for affiliate payouts, affiliates have nothing to set up here, and admins see **Set up affiliate payouts** with a link to the payment settings. ## Mobile App Setup **Settings → Add-ons → Mobile App Setup** opens ESTAGE's app deployer in a new tab, where you set up the community's iOS and Android app. Members who install it use the same account and see the same community, with push notifications. ## Things worth knowing - The Member Blaze dashboard is visible to people with the **View analytics** permission; running a draw needs **Award points & badges by hand**, and editing milestones **Edit levels, badges & reward rules**. See [Community roles & permissions](https://support.estage.com/community-roles). - Mobile App Setup is available to administrators only.