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Re: [mv] Partner/affiliate programs
****** message to minivend-users from "Mr. Christopher F. Miller" <cfm@maine.com> ******
On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 03:43:18PM +0200, Reuven M. Lerner wrote:
> ****** message to minivend-users from "Reuven M. Lerner" <reuven@lerner.co.il> ******
>
> I know that MiniVend comes with support for working with partners (or
> affiliates, as they're also known). However, this support seems to
> extend only so far as getting the affiliate's ID from the URL.
>
> If I'm not mistaken, implementing an affiliate program will thus
> require the following:
>
> (a) Affiliate database (ID and affiliate info)
> (b) Purchases database (affiliate ID, product ID, and date/time)
> (c) Registration form for affiliates
> (d) Modification of checkout.html to add a row to (b) for each item
> purchased,
> (e) Report forms for the client (to see how many checks to cut each
> month) and for the affiliates (to see how much money they're
> owed).
>
> Am I missing anything obvious? And before I start to implement all of
> this, does any or all of it exist already?
They're all different.
>
> Also, how do affiliate programs handle refunds? We now use CyberCash
> for purchases, and I can easily see the affiliate database falling out
> of synch with CyberCash if and when the vendor handles refunds.
>
> Reuven
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