On 8/25/00, Jacob McKee penned:
>I am working on setting up an affiliate program for an ecommerce web site
>and was wondering if anyone had seen any CF apps or custom tags to do this.
>If not, do you have any experience or insight into how to get started, what
>to do and not do, etc.?
>
>Thanks in advance!
I don't know about a custom tag, but I built one into my cart.
The affiliate signs up and I give them a link (in a textarea field)
to the banner they choose with an affiliate id in the query string.
Then they can paste that link into their web page. When someone
clicks on the banner and comes to the cart and buys something, the
affiliate id is written to that customer's record in the database and
then that and every purchase thereafter gets credited to the
affiliate that sent him there. Of course, there is an afid=#afid# or
a hidden input in every link and form in the cart.
Pretty basic. Only one level deep. Of course it took more work to
build it than it did to just write that. LOL But that should give you
a general idea of which way to go, at least one method.
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Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations
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