[AccessD] OT: Affiliate Program

Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software bchacc at san.rr.com
Fri Feb 10 09:43:46 CST 2006


Larry:

We use PayPal for ordering.  When they click on the Order Button they go 
to the paypal page where they may or may not complete the order.  Does 
this make the cookie approach problematical?

TIA

Rocky


Lawrence Mrazek wrote:
> Hi Rocky:
>
> If she is constructing the links, could she add a query string to the URL
> (EX: http://www.thesleepadvisor.com/index.asp?AffiliateID=1)? Depending on
> your server model, then you could add code to automatically detect the query
> string and log it to a database/session variable/cookie (using server side
> code). Then on a successful order, your system looks for the db
> value/session variable/cookie and adds it to the order record.
>
> Hope this helps. 
>
> Larry Mrazek
> LCM Research, Inc.
> www.lcm-res.com
> lmrazek at lcm-res.com
> ph. 314-432-5886
> fx. 314-432-3304
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin -
> Beach Access Software
> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 12:54 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: [AccessD] OT: Affiliate Program
>
> Dear List:
>
> I have a web site where we are selling The Sleep Advisor
> (www.thesleepadvisor.com).  Someone with an alternative health site has
> proposed to promote The Sleep Advisor on her site and send folks to our
> site. She asks if we have an affiliate program.  Which we ain't.
>
> I looked into it a bit and it doesn't look trivial. Basically we need a way
> to know if someone visiting our site and buying The Sleep Advisor originated
> from her site.  We're hosted by Affinity and have Urchin statistics but I
> don't see anything there that would be helpful right off.
>
> Does anyone know a slick, quick way to do this?
>
> MTIA
>
> Rocky
>
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