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Steven Grant
Posted: 08 July 2010 08:13 AM   [ Ignore ]
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Hi guys,
Couldn’t see anything in the docs.

I wonder how easy it would be to have an affiliate system? I have a digital download store of fonts (ZenCart based at present, just trying to find the time to integrate EE & CT). Anyway, I would like other websites to be affiliates of my products.

May already be in the pipeline?

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Chris Newton
Posted: 08 July 2010 10:25 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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We actually have an affiliate system built into Vegetarianwellness.com. At the moment it’s not an included feature, but it’s something we’ll add as time becomes available.

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Steven Grant
Posted: 08 July 2010 12:18 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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Excellent - that’s good to know. Any rough ETA available?
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Chris Newton
Posted: 08 July 2010 12:25 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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No ETA yet.

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Florian Auckenthaler
Posted: 09 November 2010 09:30 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]
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I saw this post and wanted to follow up to find out if this feature will be available in the near future? If not, I’d be interested to see what (and how) you did for the vegetarianwellness.com site?
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Chris Newton
Posted: 09 November 2010 09:46 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]
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No eta.

Vegetarian wellness takes urls like site.com/ref/123(the id)/the/rest/of/the/link

1. racks up the affiliate hit,
2. sets a cookie with the affiliate id for 30 days,
3. redirects to rest of URL.

On purchase:
1. add affiliate id to completed orders in affiliate field if set in the cookie.

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Florian Auckenthaler
Posted: 09 November 2010 09:56 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]
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Chris. that sounds pretty doable!
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Florian Auckenthaler
Posted: 12 November 2010 11:59 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]
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so every month, would you have to calculate the affiliate payout per hand and send out payment manually?
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Chris Newton
Posted: 12 November 2010 12:47 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]
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{exp:cartthrob:order_totals search:your_affiliate_id_field="=123" year="2010" month="01"}
Total: {total}
{/exp:cartthrob:order_totals} 
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shinemktg
Posted: 20 April 2011 06:34 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]
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I’ve been having a poke round for an affiliate solution since writing a blog post in response to a question from Michael Boyink
http://stephenpratley.com/implementing-an-affiliate-programme

The best low-cost solution I’ve found so far is Affiliate For All
http://www.affiliatesforall.org/

I’ve used this on a couple of Magento sites as there’s already a bridge included, and it works quite nicely so I thought I’d have a play about with EE also.

The implementation relies on some hooks when order statuses are changed though so it will need a different implementation for each EE Ecommerce solution, although if it can be written to use changes in entry statuses it might have more widespread application.
More info here if anyone is interested   http://forums.affiliatesforall.com/showthread.php?tid=83


I hope this helps a few people along the way, sorry my own php skills aren’t up to the last hurdle!


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Chris Newton
Posted: 20 April 2011 11:02 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]
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I’ve actually written an affiliates module for CartThrob2 (beta). If anyone wants to test it, and request features, now would be the time to ask.

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shinemktg
Posted: 20 April 2011 12:43 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 11 ]
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I’d like a peek grin

One immediate concern would be that by using the url structure you have, unless the redirect is done with a 301, you’re going to end up with tons of duplicate content links.

An in-house affiliate programme is one of the ways we attract more SEO links so this is quite a big deal for us.
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Chris Newton
Posted: 20 April 2011 01:00 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 12 ]
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by using the url structure you have

What URL structure are you referring to specifically? *We* don’t have a url structure. EE has a URL structure.

The way the affiliate system I wrote works is like this:

http://yoursite.com/three/?ACT=25&ref=the_id&p=YWZmaWxpYXRvci9oaXRz
Under the hood it works like this:

<?php
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://www.yoursite.com/page");
exit();
?> 

So, that said, what would you LIKE the affiliate link to look like?

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shinemktg
Posted: 20 April 2011 01:03 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 13 ]
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I meant the site.com/ref/123(the id)/the/rest/of/the/link example you have above

Anything with a 301 should be fine, in fact it probably avoids people maliciously stripping the referrer data as happens sometimes when it’s a parameter at the end of the link.

Best idea I’ve seen is to use an anchor name, but that can get screwed up if clients are using the same method for their Google analytics too.

[ Edited: 20 April 2011 01:07 PM by shinemktg ]
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Chris Newton
Posted: 22 April 2011 06:40 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 14 ]
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Best idea I’ve seen is to use an anchor name, but that can get screwed up if clients are using the same method for their Google analytics too.

Could probably make that an option pretty easily.

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Chris Newton
Posted: 25 April 2011 01:18 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 15 ]
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Current Features:

[*]  Add, edit, delete affiliates in backend
[*]  Add, edit affiliates in frontend
[*]  can view affiliate list on front end
[*]  view affiliate list on backend
[*]  set specific commission percentages
[*]  Integrated with CartThrob (adds commissions upon order completion) May add BR support if people have interest
[*]  Applies commissions only for specific statuses
[*]  Statuses are not preset, you can make them whatever you’d like
[*]  Can notify admins of new affiliate sign ups
[*]  Can email affiliate welcome email
[*]  Can notify affiliates of new commissions
[*]  Using PayPal masspay, you can pay one or all affiliates their current commission
[*]  system tracks completed payments
[*]  on front end can list completed payments to one or more affiliates
[*]  generates links for affiliates that can optionally contain a specific page redirect
[*]  All affiliate links redirect with a 301 for SEO purposes.
[*]  Control length of time the affiliate cookie is saved in the browser


I need to finish some bug testing, but it’s pretty polished at this point.

Still working on pricing. If you have any suggestions (other than *free*) let me know.

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