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In version 2.0 of the plus templates we added an
affiliate program. This enables you to run a complete
affiliate suite from your site - potential affiliates
can sign up and enter their information and password,
and you can view the orders they generate through the
online admin section. How the affiliate program is run
is completely up to you - you decide on the percentage
that will be paid out, how often and by what method -
all the partner needs to do is place a link on their
site including their partner code to earn commission.
By default the affiliate cookie is set to 30 days - this
means that if someone vists your site through an
affiliate link one day and buys on another the partner
will earn the commission as long as 30 days haven't
passed since their first visit. You can change how long
you want a cookie to stay active in the file vsadmin/includes.asp,
and there's more information
here.
How to set it up
Basically everything is in place for you to get
started immediately - each template comes with a file
called affiliate.asp/php - this will be where the
partner can sign up and also log on to their account.
The partner can choose to be notified by email of each
affiliate sale that is made and the store owner can
check the status of the account through the online admin.
You may want to make a page or two previous to
affiliate.asp explaining the procedures etc. for earning
commissions and also a disclaimer.
Important information
The referring URL will typically be in the form of
http://www.ecommercetemplates.com/default.asp?PARTNER=name
- you can ask affiliates to link to individual pages or
sections by changing the URL before the question mark,
for example http://www.ecommercetemplates.com/products.asp?PARTNER=name
but it's very important that the page
is linked to is a .asp page and includes the following
lines of code:
<!--#include file="vsadmin/db_conn_open.asp"-->
<!--#include file="vsadmin/includes.asp"-->
<!--#include file="vsadmin/inc/languagefile.asp"-->
<!--#include file="vsadmin/inc/incfunctions.asp"-->
...most .asp pages already include those lines but if
you're linking to the home page, you'd have to change
your home to default.asp and add those lines above. |
