Question about incentives

[BlueYonder]

One conundrum that got me away from the incentive business model was the problem of giving credit to the correct member who had done the offer. The networks don't track this, so how is it done?

 

[ayzo]

Something called postback tracking Ask your affiliate manager about it, but you need to make sure your incentive script will support it.

 

[Cool1g]

Something called postback tracking Ask your affiliate manager about it, but you need to make sure your incentive script will support it.

that's one way and the easiest.

the other is, when the member clicks on the link at your incent site, the script will add the person's member # to the URL as a tracking ID. so you can see member #123 did the sale in your stats and then go back and credit them manually.

 

[Affiliace.com]

Or you can use SOAP/Webservices if you are of a technical mind!

 

[kingrage]

Or you can just use curl

 

[Shaz07]

Yeah the most popular script is FSRevolution, which has postback built in so you should try that one.

 

[JoeHa]

Some networks provide PostBack. If you have a PostBack feature installed in your incentive site script then it would be easily done.

You can also do it by having an automatic CSV uploader, that seems to work if a network does not support PostBack.. But by now mostly all major networks provide PostBack.

 

[jenzkc]

you could just store the subid with the userid and then give credit to the userid when you update the subids from the network either manually or through their api. that's about 20 lines of code.

i.e on your redirect.php:

db(store email/userid)
redirect_to_offer();

cron_job_api_update.php:

connect_to_api($network)

foreach(converted_subids_from_network)
{
$query = update userid set converted = 1 where subid = converted_subid;
mail_user($email);
}