Affiliates and external sales page

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So I want to make sure I'm doing this correctly. I currently have a capture page http://www.CraigslistAdPower.com as an opt. When they optin, it's a fixed link inside aweber's capture form. This is fine for my personal sales but not my affiliates. Which URL (dynamic variables?) should I use so that the affiliate ID gets passed on to the following ...



As that URL gets carried over after optin to a the sales letter page which is http://www.CraigslistAdPower.com/letter.php. When they press the add to cart button, again I want to make sure that button is giving credit for the variables that were passed over from URL for that affiliate. I'm guessing I may have to use some PHP to set the affiliate ID that was passed from the Aweber optin.



Am I correct in my thinking here? Or is there an easier way to do this within ejunkie. I want all the sales to be done

via my capture pages. Thanks.



Cesar

[E-junkie_Guru]

Provided that you're using E-junkie purchase buttons, and that affiliates join your E-junkie-managed affiliate program and obtain the hop link code we provide in their own E-junkie Affiliate Admin, those links should properly credit them for any sales they generate from referrals via their hop link. This process does not depend any any URL variables getting passed, nor any in-page scripting, nor does it depend on which page the buyer arrives at after clicking the link nor any other pages they may visit before finally making their purchase.



When a buyer clicks an E-junkie affiliate's hop link, that sets a cookie for your E-junkie affiliate program in the buyer's browser, set to expire in 6 months. During the lifespan of that referral cookie, the referring affiliate will earn a commission on any product with affiliate sharing enabled which that buyer purchases from you by using your E-junkie-issued Cart or Buy Now buttons.



The page you linked does not appear to be using E-junkie purchase buttons, so any other buttons you have there currently would not work with our affiliate system. You can set up your E-junkie buttons to use PayPal for checkout, and you can replace the standard E-junkie button images with your own custom button graphics if you wish.



In case you haven't seen it yet, this help page provides more details about our affiliate system, how it works and how to set things up:

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



This help page for affiliates explains how our affiliate system works from their perspective:

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

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Thank you so much. I think that was my biggest confusion. I modified the links.



So if I was to shoot a tutorial to explain what they have to do,



what are the steps?



Can you verify the links please, I want to make sure I did it correctly. They now all point to buy through E-junkie.com



http://www.CraigslistAdPower.com/letter.php

http://www.CraigslistAdPower.com/special.php

[E-junkie_Guru]

Hm, it looks like you're using the PayPal Cart version of our button codes, which unfortunately don't quite work properly anymore due to changes at PayPal's end which we have been unable to work around, so those codes will be removed from the next version of Seller Admin we've been working on.



The standard E-junkie Cart or Buy Now button codes we provide will still allow PayPal checkouts. If you only expect buyers to purchase one item at a time (rather than adding multiple items to an order), and if you don't need to use our cart's tax, shipping or discount calculation, then you could just use our Buy Now button codes for PayPal, which will bypass our cart entirely and take the buyer directly to instant checkout with PayPal, and these will also work with our affiliate system.



As for tutorials, I'm not aware of any video tutorials for affiliates, but this page provides a visual walk-through with screen shots:

http://www.ejunkie-video.com/tutorial-home/join-e-junkie-merchant-affiliate-program/



BTW, the step mentioned there about searching for an affiliate program would only be relevant if an affiliate were looking to discover new programs they might be interested in joining. If they're interested in a particular merchant's affiliate program, typically they would simply click the sign-up link that merchant had posted to their own site, which should automatically join them to that merchant's program without needing to search for it.