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Affiliates
Introduction
The Affiliates system allows you to track inbound traffic and resulting purchases from a
'cooperative' Web site. This is a great way to track special promotions or offer commissions
to ‘Affiliate Web Sites'. If a sale is completed as a result of the link into your site, the origin
Link Code will be provided on the order. Further, you can run real time reports to view clickthroughs and sales for all of your assigned links at any time. Your Affiliates can log into a
page to check their own statistics and commissions in real time as well.
New Affiliate
Create a code or account number for the new Affiliate. In the Identifier field enter the name
of the Affiliate for your own reference. If you would like the system to calculate
commissions for you, enter a whole number commission percentage (i.e. 10% will be entered
as 10, not .1). Below the commission rate, tell the system whether you want commissions
calculated on the net sale before shipping and taxes, or the gross sale. Finally, provide a
password that the Affiliate can use to look up their own statistics.
Provide your affiliate with their code and a URL or URLs to post to your store. An Affiliate
may link to any NON SHOPPING CART page in your store, from your home page through
to any product. Simply provide the URL as you see it on screen for any page of your site,
and append "?linkid=[Link Code]" on the end of the URL. Replace "[Link Code]" with the
Link Code you assigned. For instance, if your store directory was "acme", to link to your
home page the Affiliate might use the following address:
http://www.estorescanada.com/acme/?linkid=10001 if your assigned Link Code was 10001.
View-Delete
This option allows you to view a listing of all your active links. From this list you may
delete or edit any link code assigned. Be careful as once the link is deleted, all statistics
related to that link are also deleted.
Reporting
From the reporting page you may ask the system to provide a report on all, or on a single
Affiliate. You may select the fields you wish to see, the range of dates, and the method of
reporting. If you elect to download the report, the system will build the report, then provide
a download link for you to click on. If the browser reports an error when attempting to
download it will provide you with the option to "Save" the file. Select Save, name the file,
and save it to your computer. You can then open the report in any spreadsheet or text editor.
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Sell Online TM Store Set-up Version 4.5 Last manual update: May 18, 2000