Affiliate link structure

[stevetcg]

Hi



Forgive me if I'm missing something obvious, but I'm setting up an affiliate program for an ebook and have a couple of questions about how someone signs up for the program.



I have juts one product that I want to set up an affiliate program for, and I've done this through the "Setup product specific affiliate programs" option. That option doesn't give me any link codes or sign-up codes to use for potential affiliates to sign-up, whereas under "Edit Affiliate Program Settings" there's an affiliate sign-up link but it has a hardcoded affiliate ID in the link. How does each affiliate get their own affiliate ID so I/they can track sales and commissions?



Thanks

Steve

[E-junkie_Guru]

First I'll refer you to the help pages for our affiliate system. This page for merchants explains the various settings and how it all works:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.affiliates.htm



...and this page for affiliates explains how to use the system from their perspective:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.for-affiliates.htm



In Seller Admin > Affiliate Program Settings, the sign-up link code you obtain there is for your entire account's affiliate program; you don't really have separate programs to join for each product, so once someone joins your program, they can obtain code for whatever referral link(s) you've set up in common and/or for specific products.



The IDs in that sign-up link are your own E-junkie client ID (to indicate whose program the new affiliate is joining) and a hash value that inhibits certain abuses of our affiliate system by making sign-up link URLs hard to guess or automate, so affiliates can only join by clicking the sign-up link that you post or provide to them.