How can I track affiliates thru squeeze/optin page and salespage/store funnel ?

[Taika]

Hi,

Sorry for my limited english, I try to explain as well as I can. I have eStore and Affiliate Platform intsalled (have WP eMember as well), is there any way I can track the sales for affiliates that comes thru optin page – salepage funnel ? I have both standalone optin/squeeze html page (integrated with aweber) and optin box on sidebar widget in WP page, both capturing emails and then redirecting to the same standalone salespage (which is already integrated to eStore). Is there a way to set it up so that I can track affiliate ID with the optin page and carry it over to the salepage (and even to OTO and/or upsell) after that and award the affiliate if there will be sale(s) ?

Also, if that is possible, can I capture the affiliate ID in optin page and “have the system to remember it” so that if the visitor buys something later on from the store the affiliate gets comission ? (even if the visitor did not buy anything from immediate salapage/OTO) Hopefully I was clear enough. Thank you.

Taika

[admin]

By default it works like that anyway. Whenever a visitor lands on your site following an affiliate link, the affiliate will be rewarded if this visitor purchases something from this site (in that visit or at a later time). As long as all these pages (squeeze, opt-in and sales page) are part of your WordPress page it will work like that.

If you want to capture a lead for when someone submits the eStore’s squeeze form then enable the following option:

WP eStore Settings -> AddOn Settings -> WP Affiliate Platform Specific Settings -> Capture Lead on Squeeze Form Submission

[Taika]

Ok, so can the page be anything in my domain like

[www.mydomain.com/store/product]

[www.mydomain.com/squeezepage]

etc. in which the visitor lands and the affiliate platform will add the visitor data (IP?) to its “database/memory” for “later reference”

“As long as all these pages (squeeze, opt-in and sales page) are part of your WordPress page it will work like that.”

again, the opt-in box is in WP page in sidebar widget so I guess it will work then, but the seperate squeeze page as well as salepage are stand alone HTML pages under the same domain , but they are NOT WordPress custom page templates (or any part of the WP pages). The product on the salepage is integrated to eStore tho. So do I need to change those stand alone HTML pages (squeeze and salespage) to a wordpress custom page templates so that the affiliate platform is able to track visitors/affiliates ?

(before I set up them as standalone HTML pages I tried to make them WP custom page templates, but that lead to another problem, which was not being able to display custom buy now button on those pages

Can you also please explain cookie life (days) for me (or should I create a seperate topic for that?)

If I set cookie , for say 60 days and visitor buys a product on day 50, does it “reset” the cookie life so that now the visitor has 60 days (from the day he/she bought) to buy a second product and the affiliate will be awarded for that too. Or does the affilite get comissions “for life” as long as the visitor bought his/her first product within 60 days, even if the visitor makes a second purchase years after first one. Or, does the 60 days cookie mean that the affiliate gets comissions only from the first 60 days, and never after that (from the same visitor) ? Or, something else, what ? Probably a silly question, but “you dont know until you know”.

Thanks,

Taika

[admin]

A WordPress plugin can only work inside a WordPress system. Advanced users can do hacks for making them work on standalone HTML pages but we don’t support these kind of integration so it is best not to try those.

When you are using WordPress you shouldn’t need to use standalone HTML pages anymore as you can achieve the same result by using custom WordPress page template while keeping the page part of WordPress so plugins can have access to it. This tutorial might be helpful:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/how-to-create-a-custom-wordpress-page-template-video-tutorial-3918

Cookie life = The number of days since the customer clicked on the affiliate link. It will only get reset if the customer clicks on another affiliate link (doesn’t matter how many times this customer buys items in the mean time).

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