Does anyone run an affiliate scheme with their actinic software? If so you might be able to help.
At the level of business I am talking about its not really worth subscribing to an external company to run the scheme for me, so I was planning to write some basic code myself, and end up with all the affiliate orders in an access database where I can run the reports I need. So, all I want is a list containing order number, date, amount (ideally only prods and not delivery, but I'll take what I can get) and the affiliate ID.
So how do I do it in the simplest way?
I can create links that use referrer.pl to contain an affiliate ID and that should come through in the order, although the links do look a bit complicated for affiliates to use. I guess I can then access the orders table and extract it from there.
But, I was reading the section in the AUG (p63) on supporting an affiliate program and they show examples going to an outside company - they log just the amount and order ID. I wondered if I could rite a log.asp routine that takes the info and writes it into an access table that I can then download. However, they don't seem to use the affiliate ID anywhere and I would have thought that this was necessary for an affiliate scheme.
So, several questions here -
1) does anyone run an afiil scheme and if so, how do they do it.
2)Should I just use referrer.pl and extract the affil id from the actinic orders database?
3) Is the affiliate ID available in a netquotevar to send to a logging routine in the way the AUG describes?
4) Can I get users to tell me who referred them using a dropdown list box and store that information somewhere - ideally so it comes down in the orders download
Any help appreciated, I'm nearly there now and once I've sorted this out I will be launching soon.
Cheers
David
At the level of business I am talking about its not really worth subscribing to an external company to run the scheme for me, so I was planning to write some basic code myself, and end up with all the affiliate orders in an access database where I can run the reports I need. So, all I want is a list containing order number, date, amount (ideally only prods and not delivery, but I'll take what I can get) and the affiliate ID.
So how do I do it in the simplest way?
I can create links that use referrer.pl to contain an affiliate ID and that should come through in the order, although the links do look a bit complicated for affiliates to use. I guess I can then access the orders table and extract it from there.
But, I was reading the section in the AUG (p63) on supporting an affiliate program and they show examples going to an outside company - they log just the amount and order ID. I wondered if I could rite a log.asp routine that takes the info and writes it into an access table that I can then download. However, they don't seem to use the affiliate ID anywhere and I would have thought that this was necessary for an affiliate scheme.
So, several questions here -
1) does anyone run an afiil scheme and if so, how do they do it.
2)Should I just use referrer.pl and extract the affil id from the actinic orders database?
3) Is the affiliate ID available in a netquotevar to send to a logging routine in the way the AUG describes?
4) Can I get users to tell me who referred them using a dropdown list box and store that information somewhere - ideally so it comes down in the orders download
Any help appreciated, I'm nearly there now and once I've sorted this out I will be launching soon.
Cheers
David