Tracking Affiliates from 'Site A' to checkout elsewhere?

  • Resolved stuevo

    (@stuevo)


    8 years, 10 months ago

    Let’s say I have 3 different WP sites (all selling downloads).

    Site A sells Knitting Patterns
    Site B sells Magic Tricks
    Site C sells Stock Music

    Instead of having a cart and affiliate manager plugin installed on all 3 websites individually, what about if I create a fourth WP site (called something like stuscart.com) that is purely used as my checkout, and it holds all my products for all my sites.

    So all 3 download sites have their own product pages, but on those pages the payment buttons links to stuscart.com and adds the correct item to the cart, ready for checking out and paying on stuscart.com
    (similar to 1shoppingcart or clickbank, you have your own site but link to the cart elsewhere to complete the purchase).

    I know the setup would work, but my question is how could I track affiliates? I mean, the affiliates would need to be signed up on stuscarts.com, right? Their login would be on stuscart.com, not the individual websites.

    So if an affiliate wants to send traffic to Site A for example, how would tracking the customer work? (bearing in mind ultimately the customer will land on stuscart.com to complete the checkout).

    I’d really appreciate your thoughts and suggestions on this.

    Thank you, and thanks for a great plugin!

    -Stu

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/affiliates-manager/

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  • Thread Starter stuevo

    (@stuevo)

    8 years, 10 months ago

    I’m guessing the answer to my original question above is either not easy or impossible at the moment. So i’ve had a think about how it could be done myself, and want to ask if you think this would work…

    The question: How do we make sure an affiliate gets credit for a sale if a visitor that lands on Site A, checks out and buys on Site D (where the checkout and aff program is hosted)?

    How about this:

    1) Setup a blank page on Site D called ‘redirect2siteA’ that simply redirects a visitor to Site A (either the homepage or a specific product page on Site A)

    2) Affiliate signs up on Site D and gets their affiliate link.

    3) If affiliate wants to promote products on Site A, they simply have their affiliate link point to the ‘redirect2siteA’ page on Side D.

    I’m guessing as soon as that affiliate link is clicked, the visitor gets sent to Side D, which instantly records the referral, and then the visitor gets redirected immediately to Site A.

    If that visitor then clicks a buy now button on Site A, they get sent to Site D to complete the purchase and download their product.

    Side D remembers they were here before and who the affiliate was, and awards the affiliate their commission for the sale.

    Would this work?

    Would love your comments please, thank you!

    Thread Starter stuevo

    (@stuevo)

    8 years, 10 months ago

    Would an admin kindly comment on this for me please?

    I don’t want to waste my time testing this if you know of an obvious reason why this wouldn’t work? Just need your expert opinion… thx.

    Plugin Author affmngr

    (@affmngr)

    8 years, 10 months ago

    Hi, I understand what you are saying. Unfortunately we don’t have any option in the plugin to handle this type of setup at the moment.

    1) Affiliate link needs point to the domain where Affiliates Manage is installed. That means the link needs to point from affiliate site -> Site A and Affiliates Manager needs to be installed on site A.

    2) The e-commerce plugin (which will process the order) also needs to be installed on the same site (where affiliates manager is installed). Otherwise, Affiliates Manager has no way of knowing if the sale was referred and it wouldn’t be able to award commission.

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