Giving Discounts By The URL Your Come In On

Best Software for this?

[vetofunk]

I run a pretty successful affiliate program and have come across many big portals in my industry wanting to be part of it. But they also want to give their visitors and members an exclusive discount to our store.

What we want to work out is a 1/2 and 1/2. The portal gets a commission and the member gets a discount. I don't want to use coupon codes, because they get passed around quite a bit. I would rather use a program where I would give the portal a specific url, which when clicked on, would lead the visitors to our site with a percentage knocked off of every product.

Has anyone run into software like that? Any recommendations? The site is in asp.

Thanks!

[le_gber]

I guess what you would need to do is put an asp cookie on the landing page you give out and then check if the cookie exists on every product page to show the discounted price.

You could make it more 'bullet-proof' by checking the referrer on the landing page to include your partners.

[Morgenhund]

Cookie won't work -- cookie set by a page is only readable from other pages of same domain, and it won't be passed to you.

Instead, you have to implement some programming here. I'd give out some affiliateID (you probably already have that), to include in portal's URL pointing to your site (http://www.yoursite.tld/?affiliateID=123456), and internally associate this ID with a discount.

In a dummiest form without even DB programming, add some code in your .asp like:

if affiliateID == 123456 then Discount = 30%
else if affiliateID == 999999 then Discount = 50%
else Discount = 0

Just a quick hack -- something like this.

If you have a lot of affiliates (hundreds perhaps), and add them frequently you'd better have some form of a control panel, not to have to add new IDs into program too frequently.

[le_gber]

Cookie won't work -- cookie set by a page is only readable from other pages of same domain, and it won't be passed to you.

I did mention the landing page - so that's going to be on their domain ;)

[Morgenhund]

le_gber: sorry, I should have misspelled this :-)

[ByronM]

Ingenuity platform does this out of the box ;) great feature to offer discounts/pricing to specific refers