Partnership

partner sales tracking

[omkar]

Dear colleagues:

We are trying to get a few partners for our business. All our partners will get a specific web page (on our server) that will look and feel like their site, but will actually be our pages.

Our products could thus be ordered on our partner's site. I was wondering how we could track all the transactions that take place. Our methodology is similar to an affiliate program but is actually a partnership arrangement.

I would appreciate some direction and expert advise on this matter.

Thanks in advance.

[dmorison]

There are several ways to do it; nothing magic though - it will take coding and DB work unless you want to simply look through logs tying sales back to URL.

One way would be to store the page URL in your database along with your usual sales record information.

Alternatively, create a partner_id field (or something like that) in your sales record and have this as a hidden field on the sales page.

Another way would be different product codes for each partner...

There is no one answer to your question i'm afraid!

Good luck!

[omkar]

Thank you very much. I appreciate the advice.