Affiliate Platform – Prevent cookies from being overwritten whithin the lifetime

[tjark]

Hi,

I noticed wpAffiliate overwrites cookies, which is undesirable.

Is there a way to prevent that ?

What we need is cookie refreshing if the original referrer is used.

And that a cookie can only be overwritten when the lifetime has passed.

Please let me know what to do to realize that.

[admin]

Open the “wp_aff_advanced_configs.php” file and look for the following line of code:

define('WP_AFFILIATE_DO_NOT_OVERRIDE_AFFILIATE_COOKIE', '0');

Once you find it change it to the following:

define('WP_AFFILIATE_DO_NOT_OVERRIDE_AFFILIATE_COOKIE', '1');

This will make it the affiliate plugin doesn’t override the referrer cookie if one already exists for that user.

[tekt]

Thanks this was very helpful, exactly what I came online looking for.

[kimjcastleberry]

Clarification please…

This particular modification…

In the case where affiliate 1 has cookied Customer A and customer A has bought a prior product, so that affiliate 1 is set in the db for Customer A.

Is affiliate 2 prevented from resetting cookie in the browser? (Yes/No)

or

Is affiliate 2 prevented from resetting the db entry (Yes/No)

or

Both.

So if customer A clears their cookies, then comes back to the site, via affiliate 2’s link… and buys a new product…during the liftime of affiliate 1’s cookie, does affiliate 1 or affiliate 2 get the sale.

I’ll be super happy if you tell me that this affects the referrer ID that’s stored in the DB, essentially giving me a locked referrer for the duration of the cookie, even if the cookie no longer exists… but I have my doubts that’s what this does.

What I’m trying to figure out how to accomplish is to “lock” a customer to their referrer for a specified time frame (in my case, 365 days). I’m trying to figure out how to make this happen.

Kim

[admin]

Hi Kim, It works based on the cookie. So if the cookie is gone then the connection is gone too unfortunately.

[kimjcastleberry]

What kind of financial investment would be needed to extend the code so we all have that sort of optional capability?

[kimjcastleberry]

any thoughts on this?

[admin]

Hi Kim, Sorry I missed your last post. I should be able to create a custom addon for you to handle this. Please fill out the following post with as much details as you can I will give you a quote for it:

https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/need-custom-work-done

[Author]

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