[ic] affiliate tracking & foundation

[scott d medlock]

Found it!

Just for those of you that may have a similar situation....  On the previous (4.8.2)
Interchange it did track affiliate ID's that were pure numbers (i.e.
http://www.someserver.com/interchange.cgi?mv_pc=12345).

The 4.8.3 version DOES NOT track affiliates unless there is an Alpha somewhere in the
ID!  Although I do believe (after alot of digging on the website) that it was
advertised previously that pure numerics wouldn't work..  It apparently did..  But now
does not (as advertised).

So, the fix was easy enough...  Just recreated the affiliate databases with a
prepending A in front of all the IDs (i.e. A12345).   Although not the prettiest (as
the affiliate IDs are our affiliates code numbers for nearly everything and cannot
have Alphas in them)..  It does work.




scott d medlock wrote:

> Well Kevin... That's the rub...  Foundation isn't doing it.
>
> It is the current version 4.8.3 that is an upgrade from 4.8.2.   The
> upgrade appeared to go just fine.  It was tracking.
>
> Then I enabled PGP order sending and SSH on the checkout and the
> tracking vanished!
>
> Any ideas?
>
> > Kevin Walsh wrote:
> >
> >    > Have been working with a new installation based upon the foundation demo...
> >    > Have it 100% with one notable exception....  Affiliate Tracking.
> >    >
> >    > It is a generic foundation template with only html changes (colors, etc.)
> >    >
> >    > Have affiliates in the database...
> >    >
> >    > The goal is to:
> >    >
> >    > 1) Have http://www.whatever.com/store.cgi?mv_pc=10301  style URL's.
> >    > 2) Track All order by affiliate # No timeouts, No coupons.
> >    > 3) Have affiliate # show up in PGP emailed orders.
> >    >
> >    > Has anyone done this with foundation?  Have a simple set of what to edit and
> >    > where?  I'm a decent enough code jockey if I know what I'm looking for and
> >    > where.
> >    >
> >    You said you are using the Foundation demo, so this should all
> >    be built in.  The order email sent to you will have what's
> >    referred to by default as a "Lead Source".  This is your mv_pc
> >    (affiliate ID) number.  This ID will also be saved in the
> >    transactions table in the "affiliate" column.
> >
> >    You can use the [data session source] tag if you want to use this
> >    ID elsewhere.
> >
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