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4 years ago submited by Julian Wolf
Lifetime-Commissions
Till now the Commissions are only tracked by Cookies. PAP4 also integrates DirectURL-Tracking, but what about that:
You save the eMail of a customer in PAP4 in the Transactions. So even when the user buys a new computer (or makes a fresh installation), deletes all cookies and signs in from another place on the world ... the lifetime-commissions can still be save as long as he keeps his eMail-adress.
Please think about this: We NEED to save also a second and a third eMail-Adress with one customer. Lots of users use more then one eMail, and when somebody with the eMail customer@web.de is ordering something new, with the eMail private@web.de, but recognized by the cookie, I want to have marked that all the transactions from bouth eMail-Adresses belong to the same customer (and so the affiliate)!
Best wishes, Julian!
You save the eMail of a customer in PAP4 in the Transactions. So even when the user buys a new computer (or makes a fresh installation), deletes all cookies and signs in from another place on the world ... the lifetime-commissions can still be save as long as he keeps his eMail-adress.
Please think about this: We NEED to save also a second and a third eMail-Adress with one customer. Lots of users use more then one eMail, and when somebody with the eMail customer@web.de is ordering something new, with the eMail private@web.de, but recognized by the cookie, I want to have marked that all the transactions from bouth eMail-Adresses belong to the same customer (and so the affiliate)!
Best wishes, Julian!
Lifetime Commission plugin is already done.
4 years ago Andrej Harsani
Lifetime Commission plugin is already done.
I'm not entirely clear
4 years ago Alan Tutt
Andrej, from your response, I'm not entirely clear if you understood what Julian was suggesting. Perhaps you do, but that's not clear from your response.
Lifetime commissions are relatively standard in many affiliate packages, but that's not exactly what Julian means here. He's suggesting a new way of TRACKING the customer, by email address (or even multiple email addresses) rather than by cookie or IP.
The same mechanism that tracks Direct URL can be extended to also track the customer's email address - in the database.
And actually, this could be extended even further to track a customer by any data passed by the ecommerce system, customer ID, mailing address, etc. The system admin would simply define what data is being tracked, and it would be stored in a customer table which stores the customer data and the referring affiliate for which commissions are to be generated.
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Lifetime commissions are relatively standard in many affiliate packages, but that's not exactly what Julian means here. He's suggesting a new way of TRACKING the customer, by email address (or even multiple email addresses) rather than by cookie or IP.
The same mechanism that tracks Direct URL can be extended to also track the customer's email address - in the database.
And actually, this could be extended even further to track a customer by any data passed by the ecommerce system, customer ID, mailing address, etc. The system admin would simply define what data is being tracked, and it would be stored in a customer table which stores the customer data and the referring affiliate for which commissions are to be generated.
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it is made exacly this way
4 years ago Mark
Hello Alan,
it is made exacly this way. There is a table for lifetime referrals (we are still working on UI for this functionality), that defines which customer "belongs" to which affiliate.
The customer can be identified by anything - email address, some member ID, home address.
When LifetimeCommissions plugin is active, you have to pass this customer identifier in the data1 parameter in sale registration.
The tracking system will check if such identifier exists in lifetime commissions tablle, and if yes, it will give commissions to the respective affiliate. It will override any value from cookie or IP.
If you need multiple emails for the same customers, these can be simply created as multiple records of lifetime commissions table.
Next week we will finish our Extras page, there will be description and help for all plugins, existing and planned for development. You'll be able to discuss the functionality for each plugin there.
regards,
Mark
it is made exacly this way. There is a table for lifetime referrals (we are still working on UI for this functionality), that defines which customer "belongs" to which affiliate.
The customer can be identified by anything - email address, some member ID, home address.
When LifetimeCommissions plugin is active, you have to pass this customer identifier in the data1 parameter in sale registration.
The tracking system will check if such identifier exists in lifetime commissions tablle, and if yes, it will give commissions to the respective affiliate. It will override any value from cookie or IP.
If you need multiple emails for the same customers, these can be simply created as multiple records of lifetime commissions table.
Next week we will finish our Extras page, there will be description and help for all plugins, existing and planned for development. You'll be able to discuss the functionality for each plugin there.
regards,
Mark
Thanks for the clarification
4 years ago Alan Tutt
Thanks for the clarification, Mark. That definitely DOES sound exactly like what Julian was asking for.
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yeah, I´ve read it somewhere in the Forum already
4 years ago Julian Wolf
Hi Mark,
yeah, I´ve read it somewhere in the Forum already. But I thought, it looks nices here also. A good benefit: It´s obvious, that you react on Feedback. ;-)
Best wishes, Jul ian!
yeah, I´ve read it somewhere in the Forum already. But I thought, it looks nices here also. A good benefit: It´s obvious, that you react on Feedback. ;-)
Best wishes, Jul ian!