Pre-Sales - Affiliate Module?

Hi -
Is there an affiliate module, so that people can become an affiliate and send people to your our site?

I'm not talking about an affilailte program to sell 68classifieds software - I'm talking about an affiliate program built-in for the site owner.

[Lhotch]

Not at the moment but its a very good idea for a future mod if im understanding you correctly.

[cherubini]

I have been trying to find something like this as well. Not necessarily for a ton of affiliates but right now I have a horse classifieds site that we are working on and have a horse auctioneer that wants to partner up somehow. I would like to offer him a fair cut of the revenue that comes from his site and his promotions.

Would something like thise work?

http://www.idevdirect.com/affiliates...e.php?id=10253

!!!edit: be very wary of that company, I found a ton of negative feedback on them. !!!


Let me know if anyone has any ideas.

thanks.

[Eric Barnes]

A few questions come to mind about an affiliate module.

1. Would it be based off the listings?
   For example they would get commision when a new listing is added with in the cookie expire time.
2. Would it be based off the users?
   For example would it the commision be based off a user account. If a user registered within the cookie period would all the listings that user placed be commision for the referer?

[cherubini]

Originally Posted by suzkaw

A few questions come to mind about an affiliate module.

1. Would it be based off the listings?
   For example they would get commision when a new listing is added with in the cookie expire time.
2. Would it be based off the users?
   For example would it the commision be based off a user account. If a user registered within the cookie period would all the listings that user placed be commision for the referer?

I think it would be based off of listings by user...

I have looked into it before for a different client, I think it sets a cookie (I think you can set duration) then all sales from that user that came from the affiliates site were tracked...

This just came up yesterday so I'm scrambling to see if its possible...Here is what I'm trying to accomplish...We are building a web site for a horse auctioneer and want to blend our horse classified site into his site. We were hoping to I frame it (or show it somehow) into his site so he could promote his own site to sell classifieds in which we would both benefit. The aff program then tracks who came from his site and how much they spent. Then we only have to split the revenue that actually came from him and we can keep the money that comes from our own promotions.

I'm just using the Paypal for now and as far as I can see it say it works w/ paypal but I don't know if you have to use their actual shopping cart or not...

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Thanks Eric.

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[cherubini]

Maybe I'm being too complicated... I would like to have an affiliate program but for now it may be more professional looking going another way.

Would it be possible to either:

• Have a completely seperate template that looks like another site but would use all the info from my main 68 site (i.e. it would look like 2 different sites but is actually one site w/ 2 looks)
• or, install a seperate license of 68 but share the one db?

I am not a coder or a designer.

Perhaps the link url from your associate could pass a variable -- ie. yourclassifieds.com?aff=123 -- that is then set as a session variable which could be passed to Paypal as an "additional information" field if/when a checkout occurs. You could then quickly identify which transactions were his and transfer his commission directly from Paypal. Just a few lines of code, but I'm sure you'll need the developer version to do it. Simple enough if you only need to track just a few affiliates.

for future development consideration... that same variable could be added to the Paypal return url, sending it back to the classifieds script upon successful checkout, where it can be logged in an affiliate tracking script. MOD posibilities?

[civ]

An easier way would be to tack on a hidden field in the add listing form (checkout step 3 comes to mind) that is auto-filled by that aff cookie. Then just sift through all of your paid ads at the end of the month and pull out the ones that have aff ids. Phpmyadmin or a simple custom script could do all of the reporting for you.

And I also agree that commissions should only be paid per initial listing, not future listings (per user).

[cherubini]

Thanks.

I still haven't found a good choice yet. I did however find some info on idevdirect.com. Avoid them.

http://www.alexa.com/data/details?ur...idevdirect.com for some fine examples of how not to do business.

Makes me even more happy w/ 68c!