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Affiliate + Cart IntegrationPosts in the Maian Affiliate forum by tbutts
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tbutts 17-06-2020 15:22:29 I have Cart and Affiliate installed and working perfectly on my domain, but integrating Affiliate with Cart is not working. Specifically, I am trying to send commissions to Affiliate from Cart when a sale happens. There are a few confusing pieces in the docs. In Cart: Store CP/ Settings/Settings Menu/Maian Affiliate Integration/Affiliate Product ID. What is the Affiliate Product ID? Is this some kind of KEY? Also, the information on this How-To: https://affiliate.tbengineering.design/docs/api-commissions.html. It says you have to add this code into some file to make it work. It doesn't say which file, or where. I am going to buy the commercial for both Cart and Affiliate as a start, but I need to make sure it works as needed, before that happens. Thanks. P.S. Your product so far is wonderful! Very clean, and easy to use so far. Great work! |
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tbutts 19-06-2020 14:45:36 I have been through the help links, many times. The problem I have narrowed it down to is that no products in Cart are linked to an Affiliate in the Affiliate site, so it doesn't know where to go when a sale happens. In Affiliates, I only have one Affiliate for testing, and his affiliate ID is maff-01. In a product in Cart, there is no place to put maff-01, so it knows where to go, unless I am missing that part. It makes sense logically. Edit: How would a sale from cart, know where to send the commission information to the Affiliate database? Then I was thinking, maybe the Affiliate system does not work how I was thinking it should work. Is Promotional items the only way it works? Promotional to me means special, not all sales. Correct me if i am wrong, but ALL sales should ping the Affiliate system, and store information about sales to the Affiliate database. Nothing is getting to that database right now. |
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tbutts 20-06-2020 23:15:30 maiandavid wrote: maff-01 is the affiliate code, so if you log into the affiliate account you should see how the affiliate would use that code. I do. It's just a URL with their unique Affiliate code. Simple. maiandavid wrote: Why would 'maff-01' go against a product in Maian Cart? It logs against the sale if it is set. Because one affiliate would sell a product, and another affiliate would sell a different product. maiandavid wrote: Affiliate run through: maiandavid wrote: ============================================================ maiandavid wrote: 1. Visitor logs into their affiliate account for linking info. They add this to their site. Links will be to your cart installation with the affiliate code. Yup. maiandavid wrote: 2. Someone then clicks the affiliate link. Maian cart recognises the affiliate click. Here is another issue. There is no specific affiliate link to click on, when your a customer looking at a product. It's no where. maiandavid wrote: Did you log into the affiliate account to see code usage? It only shows their unique link. https://eshop.mysite.com/?maff=maff-01 maiandavid wrote: Once you realise how it works you will see how you have been over complicating things. Of course it would log for all sales. Hard to do when it doesn't work. maiandavid wrote: You have the affiliate url set in the affiliate settings in Maian Cart? That is how it knows which url to ping. I do. Ok, I guess we're thinking differently. Here is a scenario, and tell me if your products will do this. Wait, are you saying that an affiliate is specific to their own eShop? If that's the case, then what I want to do, wouldn't work. Basically, I want to have one eShop, with many Affiliates. When I finish a sale on my Cart installation, there is nothing in the affiliate database, and no commissions are getting to the affiliates. Maybe, send me an email or PM, and you can log into the cart, admin of the cart, affiliate account, and the admin of the affiliate site, to check things out, or better yet, are the demos connected (cart and affiliate), so I can create a sale, and check the affiliate site to see if they got the commission. I did look at the admin for both demo sites, and my sites have the same information. |
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tbutts 20-06-2020 23:43:07 ok, well, I got it to work. All products sold on an eShop, is specific to an Affiliate. I was hoping that, I can have one eShop, with many products, and each product is linked to different affiliates. Now I can see how you weren't understanding what I wanted to do. Sorry, I guess I didn't explain that. Thank you for the help! I can now figure out what I have to do. |
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tbutts 21-06-2020 03:44:40 maiandavid wrote: I don't know of any affiliate systems that work that way. You might need something custom building. You obviously know what your doing. There is a need for this, trust me. Think of Amazon. I know it's setup differently, but the concept of what I need is the same. |
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tbutts 22-06-2020 14:06:37 Not sure I would say for more complex, but if your saying in order to change Cart, to make it work for what I was talking about, then yeah, that would be ideal. I really like your product, so I am trying to figure out a way to make it work. Really, it wouldn't be that hard, possibly adding a dropdown list selecting an affiliate under products, so it adds that affiliate ID to the product, so when a sale happens, affiliate picks it up. Easier said than done, I am sure. Just a thought for future additions, or a new product of yours calling it Cart Plus or something. If I knew PHP, I would work on it, but I don't. I only know VB. |