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whistlerdan
Mar '13

Two part question:



1. If you took product specific affiliate button codes from several different sellers could you implement those buttons onto your own site and have buyers add products to one cart even if the products were from several different sellers ?



So when the customer pays the total for several products from different sellers, e-junkie would divide the paid amount up between the different sellers?







2. If that is possible, and the seller did not want to offer affiliate cart button codes to all affiliates, would it be possible for them to turn on product specific affiliate cart buttons temporarily to allow me to grab the necessary code and then turn it off again and still have those codes be working ?



In other words, does the little check-box in the product specific affiliate setup page that says 'cart button' simply show/hide the link , or does it actually enable/disable that whole functionality for that product ?

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E-junkie_GuruWebmaster & Support Guru
Mar '13

The type of links you're referring to are what we call Direct Links; these work as purchase buttons the affiliate can place on their own site to sell the merchant's product(s) directly from there, rather than just referring buyers to the seller's site. These buttons only earn the affiliate a commission on each individual sale placed through those buttons, without setting a referral cookie to earn residual commissions on future purchases from the merchant.



Direct Links CAN work as Add to Cart buttons, allowing a buyer to add multiple items to their cart before proceeding to checkout; however, this only works for Direct Links from the same merchant -- i.e., items from different merchants cannot be added to a common cart together, same as with regular Add to Cart buttons. If you placed Direct Links from multiple merchants on the same site, a separate cart would be used for each merchant's items, which would probably confuse buyers.



If the merchant disables Direct Links for a product, any previously-issued Direct Links for that item would no longer function.