Could someone desribe the relevance of creating an affiliate. Ideally I wanted to create multiple affiliates and map then to different price lists.
Thanks!
Pankaj Kumar
Relevance of an Affiliate
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- 1/26/2010
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A year old and no answer? Must mean that there's no relevance for an affiliate?
It seems that there's very little to no support for affiliates in the system. An affiliate can't log into the system and see their customer's orders. There's no reports that an Admin can run to see sales by affiliate. There's no tracking to mark whether you've paid your affiliates, etc...
The stuff that's there is very (and I mean VERY VERY) limited in functionality.
How do you determine affiliate pricing, or what an affiliate gets for driving a customer to your site?
It seems that there's very little to no support for affiliates in the system. An affiliate can't log into the system and see their customer's orders. There's no reports that an Admin can run to see sales by affiliate. There's no tracking to mark whether you've paid your affiliates, etc...
The stuff that's there is very (and I mean VERY VERY) limited in functionality.
How do you determine affiliate pricing, or what an affiliate gets for driving a customer to your site?
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- 10/22/2008
- Armenia
Affiliate Marketing is an Internet-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer. It is basically a web-based pay-for-performance program designed to compensate affiliate
partner web sites for driving qualified leads or sales to a merchant web site. Affiliates are third parties who refer customers to your site.
The nopCommerce software can track those referrals so that the store administrator can determine what commission to pay them. Once a customer is assigned an affiliate ID, every order they place is also tagged with that ID. In nopCommerce, an affiliate partner URL is as follows: http://www.yourstore.com/default.aspx?AffiliateID=N(where N is an affiliate ID).
When this hyperlink is clicked from the affiliate site, the default.aspx looks for an Affiliate ID query string parameter. If one exists, the customer is tagged with that affiliate. The store owner can see a list of all affiliated customers on the affiliate details page, which is the Affiliated Customers in nopCommerce. When an affiliated customer places an order, you can see this order on the affiliate details page under the Affiliate orders tab.
partner web sites for driving qualified leads or sales to a merchant web site. Affiliates are third parties who refer customers to your site.
The nopCommerce software can track those referrals so that the store administrator can determine what commission to pay them. Once a customer is assigned an affiliate ID, every order they place is also tagged with that ID. In nopCommerce, an affiliate partner URL is as follows: http://www.yourstore.com/default.aspx?AffiliateID=N(where N is an affiliate ID).
When this hyperlink is clicked from the affiliate site, the default.aspx looks for an Affiliate ID query string parameter. If one exists, the customer is tagged with that affiliate. The store owner can see a list of all affiliated customers on the affiliate details page, which is the Affiliated Customers in nopCommerce. When an affiliated customer places an order, you can see this order on the affiliate details page under the Affiliate orders tab.
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- 1/7/2010
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Yes... nop provides a way to drill down and get to the affiliate data. It unfortunately lacks any real reporting or payment tracking or percentage tracking for the affiliate.
I guess what I am saying is, nop supports affiliate sales, it severely lacks any real functionality to do the backend tracking, paying, etc for both the store owner and the affiliate.
Imagine having 1000 affiliates. The current implementation would take two full time employees to drill through the numerous screens to get to the data needed to pay those affiliates.
I guess what I am saying is, nop supports affiliate sales, it severely lacks any real functionality to do the backend tracking, paying, etc for both the store owner and the affiliate.
Imagine having 1000 affiliates. The current implementation would take two full time employees to drill through the numerous screens to get to the data needed to pay those affiliates.
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sdblevel33 wrote:
Agree. We should enhance our affiliate implementation in the further releases.
Yes... nop provides a way to drill down and get to the affiliate data. It unfortunately lacks any real reporting or payment tracking or percentage tracking for the affiliate.
I guess what I am saying is, nop supports affiliate sales, it severely lacks any real functionality to do the backend tracking, paying, etc for both the store owner and the affiliate.
Imagine having 1000 affiliates. The current implementation would take two full time employees to drill through the numerous screens to get to the data needed to pay those affiliates.
I guess what I am saying is, nop supports affiliate sales, it severely lacks any real functionality to do the backend tracking, paying, etc for both the store owner and the affiliate.
Imagine having 1000 affiliates. The current implementation would take two full time employees to drill through the numerous screens to get to the data needed to pay those affiliates.
Agree. We should enhance our affiliate implementation in the further releases.