Can I do this in my affiliate code?

[cineflare]

I am selling another company's product as a white label on my page. They are signed up with me as an affiliate so that I can give them profit sharing any time their product is sold on my page.



So, can I list a product on my page and add in their ID somehow so that anytime one of those products are sold on my page (as if it were my product) then it gives them the agreed upon share?



Does that make sense?



Tracey

[E-junkie_Guru]

First, we do not automatically pay affiliates their commission earnings; the merchant is responsible for paying out commission earnings to their own affiliates. Typically, you would pay these commissions as a monthly lump sum to each affiliate using PayPal, so the approach you propose wouldn't really automate a split of actual revenue funds.



Also, our affiliate system is not really intended to calculate revenue-sharing with a partner or supplier rather than a "sales rep" affiliate, and trying to set it up to approximate that is so tricky, and potentially unreliable if you have other affiliates, that really it would be far easier and more accurate to just use your Transaction Log to calculate monthly revenue for the relevant product(s):

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



You can go to Seller Admin > View/Download Transaction Log, select the relevant date range and product, then click View Log. You'll see a summary of NUMBER OF TRANSACTIONS, ITEMS SOLD, and total SALE AMOUNT for the selected product during that date range. Then you can simply calculate how much you should pay back to your partner/supplier for those sales of that product.

[cineflare]

I guess what I am really wanting to do is something similar to a direct link rather. ya know, like if I have a product that i created a direct link for, if they want to put it on their page then it will create a cart over on their end without going to my site. Well, I want to do the same thing but have it reside on my site. So it would be the same thing but instead of them putting it on their site it would be on mine and the logs would still show that I owe them a percentage.



Will that work?



T

[E-junkie_Guru]

Bear in mind this would be considered an unsupported hack which we specifically DO NOT recommend, but if you want to investigate it anyway, see this forum post for details:

http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/2802#post7471



Again, note that this WILL NOT pay your partner/supplier automatically. You would still need to either obtain your monthly commission report (masspay.txt file), or get a summary of orders for their product(s) in your Transaction Log, to determine how much you need to pay back to them manually via PayPal or whatever other means you wish. Since you can do the latter without dealing with the hassle and limitations of the Direct Link approach, I don't see any real benefit in using that approach at all.