2) Your visitor decides to become a paying member. Your visitor is transferred over to your content provider's website and makes payment by credit card.
3) The content provider accepts payment from your visitor and provides them access to the requested content or service. You receive a commission from the content provider / merchant for referring a paying customer.
4) Your referred customer remains your referral. If the customer makes another purchase with your affiliate partner-whether it be through your website or their's-you receive another commission!