Hi there,
I am able to import a merchant datafeed but the feed doesn't contain the affiliate links - only the core deep links to products.
Is there a way I can convert merchant deeplinks into affiliate links somewhere after the import process?
Many Thanks
Stew
Hi David, this is genius - thank you very much for going through that.
Will take a look at the urls when I have them & see how I can append the aff links.
Many Thanks,
Stew
Hi Stew,
Sure - this where Filters can be used. One common scenario is that you have to prefix the deep links from the feed with a tracking link provided by the affiliate network. For example, your feed contains Buy URLs like this:
http://merchant.example.com/product.asp?id=1234
And you have to prefix that with a tracking link like this:
http://affiliatenetwork.example.com/track.php?a=1234&m=5678&url=
In this scenario, after registering the feed (with the merchant's deep links as the Buy URL), click Filters alongside the feed from the /admin/ home page, and add a new Text Before filter to the Buy URL field. In the text box on the configuration page for the new filter enter the tracking URL, and then when the feed is imported the resulting Buy URL should be your complete Buy URL!
There are various other scenarios, Text After can be used if you need to add an affiliate ID to a URL, for example
&affiliateId=1234, or Search and Replace for changing a placeholder such as "YOUR_AFFILAITE_ID" with your actual ID.Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.
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