Affiliate System

[Kev@Flexi.Net]

Hello,

I am currently developing an affiliate system for our website that will work in an Actinic friendly way.

We had originally planned to enter all the orders manually based on the referer that actinic records. But then I remembered that Actinic had an in-built feature for working with affiliate systems.

After looking at the documentation for this, it seems as though it is only possible to get the order number and order total. This is all well and good where you are perhaps selling products affiliated by someone else, but is not useful at all if you are trying to track the sales of your own affiliates.

Is there any NETQUOTEVAR or equivalent that can be used to obtain the referrer (by that i mean the string that is passed to referrer.pl)? If not, then could someone perhaps provide me with information on the cookie that referrer.pl generates so that I can use this information in some custom scripting?

Any information would be very much appreciated.

Best Regards,
Kevin Ansfield

[cdicken]

Hi there

Take a look at p64 of the latest AUG. It talks about the referrer perl script. This is a script on your Actinic store that you can link to from other websites. When you link to it, you can pass it a text string that identifies which affiliate site the link is on.

The call to the referrer script is tricky to get right, but once you have it set, you can use it wherever you want affiliates to link to your site.

Actinic also has a report built in which will show you all transactions that have come via different referrering sites.

[Kev@Flexi.Net]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your reply, although that was not what I was asking. I was looking for a way to determine the referrer source before the order was downloaded, for an online affiliate system.

I no longer desperately require this information as I have developed my own solution to the problem. I have my own affiliate tracking system in place, but it also calls the the referrer.pl script so that actinic displays when an order is from an affiliate/referrer.

Best Regards,
Kevin Ansfield