Re:affiliate marketing program

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 16646
interpreted = N
texte = That is the best approach that I have seen -- actually very simple to implement -- do a setheader with the afcode the moment the cart is created ... then just use the afcode header variables in the formulas to even give certian ones discounts etc... >WebCat Gurus: > >Here is an interesting question... we are interested in offering an >affiliate marketing program for our current Go Organic Campaign >(www.go-organic.com/greenmarket/), where other organizations can get paid a >percentage of purchases made by people referred by their website. I am now >struggling with the best way to do this. > >We definitely do not want to have users sign in, so we were thinking that >we could give each affiliate an afcode that would be a unique number that >can be passed as a variable on every page on our website. We would then >build a log of purchases made with the specific [afcode] by adding it as >a database field connected to the info related to the purchase. We then >can easily pull up sales records related to each [afcode] by doing a fairly >simple search. > >How does this sound? Is it too complicated... is there an easier way? >Anyone have any experience with setting this type of system up? > >Thanks! > >-joshJay Van Vark ******************************* Pacific Coast Software | eCommerce (WebCatalog) 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | Site Hosting & Development Suite 453 | http://www.smithmicro.com San Diego, CA 92128 ******************************* 619.675.1106** PGP key available upon request. ** Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re:affiliate marketing program (Jay Van Vark 1998)
That is the best approach that I have seen -- actually very simple to implement -- do a setheader with the afcode the moment the cart is created ... then just use the afcode header variables in the formulas to even give certian ones discounts etc... >WebCat Gurus: > >Here is an interesting question... we are interested in offering an >affiliate marketing program for our current Go Organic Campaign >(www.go-organic.com/greenmarket/), where other organizations can get paid a >percentage of purchases made by people referred by their website. I am now >struggling with the best way to do this. > >We definitely do not want to have users sign in, so we were thinking that >we could give each affiliate an afcode that would be a unique number that >can be passed as a variable on every page on our website. We would then >build a log of purchases made with the specific [afcode] by adding it as >a database field connected to the info related to the purchase. We then >can easily pull up sales records related to each [afcode] by doing a fairly >simple search. > >How does this sound? Is it too complicated... is there an easier way? >Anyone have any experience with setting this type of system up? > >Thanks! > >-joshJay Van Vark ******************************* Pacific Coast Software | eCommerce (WebCatalog) 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | Site Hosting & Development Suite 453 | http://www.smithmicro.com San Diego, CA 92128 ******************************* 619.675.1106** PGP key available upon request. ** Jay Van Vark

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