Anyone know how to manage affiliates for an ecommerce business?

[ErioE]

Hey everyone,

I've been reading here for a long time, but finally have something I couldn't figure out from reading.

A good friend of mine runs a pretty successful ecommerce business. He's never worked with affiliates before, but we worked out a deal and I'm going to be his first affiliate marketer.

He is using Volusion for his sites and is having trouble figuring out how to pass an additional variable (subid) along with my affiliate ID.

For example my link from him is

http://www.hissite.com/?myID=

However, for tracking I need to add a subid, but his system currently can't add another variable. I am currently just putting a postback pixel on the confirmation page, but this pixel can't pass the actual commission total, it only registers a sale.

Anybody know what I should tell him or have software I can recommend to him so that we will be able to start doing things right?

BTW, I'm using P202 if that helps.

 

[xmcp123]

If you can code: append an unsupported one. so if you add hissit.com?myID=1234&subid=300134
Drop a cookie with that value when they hit whatever product page. Then on the completed order page:
if(isset($_COOKIE['mycookiesubidname']))
{
echo "<img src=\"http://www.yourtracker.com/yourpixel?subid=".preg_replace("/[^0-9s]/", "", $_COOKIE['mycookiesubidname'])."\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">";
}
That should fire the pixel. Though the code is off the top of my head, so it may not be perfect.

 

[ErioE]

Thanks for that. I've never coded something like that before, but I'm pretty sure we can figure it out. Hopefully he can add it to the confirmation page.