Hi David,
I am getting someone to add a members section to my website. This is so users can track how much money they are donating to charity for free by purchasing products online via my website.
Therefore to track individual sales I will be using the extra url parameters available from affiliate networks. Such as EPI from tradedoubler and clickref from affiliate window.
My problem is how to use this so the information from the sales (userid and purchase amount) can be communicated to my website. Are you familiar with this and do you know of a script?
I know im going abit off the PT topic here. I tried to post this on your personal forum but there doesn't seem to be any register option :-/
Thanks, steve :-)
Hi Steve,
Sorry about the other forum, I've been having some spamming issues so have had to temporarily disable registration - will try and get that back up and running ASAP. There are obviously some bots that look for Drupal installations - which is why I had to modify this forum to require a Price Tapestry registration code in order to sign up!
Anyway; with regards to using clikref, epi etc. this is not something I've got any experience of. Ideally, you would be able to obtain reports from the affiliate networks automatically (this may be possible of course); and then a script running on your server obtains the reports; perhaps daily; reading each commission line item and then updating a users "account" based on the clickref or epi value on that line.
Script wise, that is straight forward and something your developer will be able to incorporate. With regards to obtaining reports automatically (you would want to be able to request them once per day and specify exactly what period you want covered so that nothing is duplicated); I would contact technical support at each of the networks to see if this is possible - instead of having to download the reports manually...
Cheers,
David.