people linking into shop from other sites

[web@ack]

hi

We have built an online store for a customer, which works fine.

However, they want to allow other sites to place links from their website to link into our customers shop which also isnt a problem.

The problem is, our customer needs to pay a commission to the other website for directing them to thier website. Is there a way to automatically track this or i shall i set the how did you find our site field as a required field?

if the how did you find our site field is the way to go, is there any way to make this a select box?

Thanks

[Mike Hughes]

Do a search on this forum for "Affiliate" and have a read around the subject. There are lots of posts and suggestions, including software that will track everything for your customer.

Mike

[web@ack]

Thanks

I think ive found a possible solution, well sounds like it does the job i want it to do on the Advanced user guide p 71.

Only problem is when i have tried it, it doesnt seem to work.

this is what i am typing as the linK: -

http://www.cordee.co.uk/cgi-bin/rs000010.pl?SOURCE=123&DESTINATION=canoe4%2ehtml#aCTK307&PATH=%2e%2e%2facatalog&BASEURL=%2e%2e%2facatalog%2f

this

but when i try it, i get the message

Error: The BASEURL is not defined.

Is there something im not doing correctly?

[web@ack]

^^ up ^^

[web@ack]

can anyone help?

[Ianh]

Tracking code

I had this problem a while ago, try this


http://cordee.co.uk/CGI-bin/rs000010...k%2facatalog%2


It clicks through, but gives me a file not found on this server error.




Regards

Ian

[pinbrook]

BASEURL needs to be full url ie http://www.abc.co.uk/acatalog

I think you only have acatalog

[web@ack]

could you post up that link so that it doesnt convert it to a hyperlink

it seems to be missing the end off when i click on it?

[Ianh]

Code is correct

Code is correct if you click on the link, the message board does not show it all unless in speech marks


"http://cordee.co.uk/CGI-bin/rs000010.pl?SOURCE=123&DESTINATION=canoe4%2ehtml#aCTK307&PATH=%2e%2e%2facatalog&BASEURL=http%3a%2f%2fcordee%2eco%2euk%2facatalog%2"


Ian

[web@ack]

I think you only have acatalog

do i need a different version of actinic for this to work then?

BTW, just tried

http://www.cordee.co.uk/cgi-bin/rs000010.pl?SOURCE=123&DESTINATION=canoe4%2ehtml#aCTK307&PATH=%2e%2e%2facatalog&BASEURL=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2ecordee%2eco%2euk%2facatalog%2f

still no luck

[pinbrook]

can you post your network settings excluding password etc so we can see what your paths should be

[Ianh]

tracking code

I use this code on my site which is based on Catalog 6.1.4 and it works fine.

"http://bigbrownbox.co.uk/CGI-Bin/rs000999.pl?SOURCE=1STMOVEINT&DESTINATION=page%2ehtml&PATH=%2e%2e%2facatalog&BASEURL=http%3a%2f%2fbigbrownbox%2eco%2euk%2facatalog%2"

I just swapped the relevant addresses to yours in the code i posted earlier.

Cheers

Ian

[web@ack]

Please find attatched a screen shot of my settings

thanks

[pinbrook]

SOURCE 123
DESTINATION canoe.html#aCTK307
PATH ../acatalog
BASEURL http://www.cordee.co.uk/acatalog


translates to <a href="http://www.cordee.co.uk/cgi-bin/rs000010.pl?SOURCE=123&DESTINATION=canoe.html&PATH=../acatalog&BASEURL=http://www.cordee.co.uk/acatalog">123
</a>

which I have tested and it works

[web@ack]

ah yes, that seems to work.

But..

I think what was causing the problem was the jumping down to the anchor point. which is my next question..

if you put "canoe4.html", it works, if you put "canoe4.html#ctk460" it throws the error up. Now trouble is if im linking to a page that has many products on, its going to be hard for them the find the book.

One way would be to add the book in twice in a seperate section but the way the shop is updated is by doing an impoirt of data from a seperate system which i can see could possibly cause problems.

Any thoughts?

Thanks for your help so far by the way