How Can I Set Up 3 Items With One Affiliate Link?

[utopiagreenmagazine]

I'm new to e-junkie and I've installed on my site

with the view to running an affiliate program for

the services I sell.



I’ve set up the affiliate program, not problem:

http://www.freewebdesignservices.com/affiliates.php



Here’s my challenge:



I sell 3 different hosting/support packages at three

different prices on this page.



http://www.freewebdesignservices.com/hosting-packages.php



How can I create my cart, so that my affiliates only need

to use one link to promote all three services which are

listed on the same page?



Also, I want it so that any traffic that goes

through my affiliates' links goes to my homepage,

not the product page.



How can I do all of this? Any feedback would

be appreciated.



Thanks

[E-junkie_Guru]

You can use the Hop Link method to configure Affiliate sharing for all your products and, if you wish, configure all of those links to point to the same URL (e.g., for your homepage, or for your all-in-one product page).



The Hop Link refers buyers from the Affiliate's page over to your site for all their actual online shopping, while setting a cookie in the buyer's browser that will calculate shares due back to that Affiliate for every Affiliate-eligible product that buyer purchases from your site within the next 6 months (or whenever the buyer or their browser deletes that cookie :^).



To make things simpler for your Affiliates, you can configure Affiliate sharing percentages for all products but only enable the link for one product (disabling the Hop Link for the others and disabling Direct Link for all of them), so your Affiliates would only see one item to choose from when getting their link codes.

[utopiagreenmagazine]

Thanks Tyson,



I understand the theory, but I'm having challenges putting

it into practice.



In the "Edit Affiliate Setting" window, what combination of those

tick boxes do I select?



My homepage is: http://www.freewebdesignservices.com



This is where I want to send all my affiliate traffic



My all in one products page, with three different prices is

here: http://www.freewebdesignservices.com/hosting-packages.php



Based on what I said above, which of the urls do I place in the

"Hop Links" field?



And which corresponding tick boxes do I select.



Bare in mind, my ultimate goal is that my affiliates can use just

one link to promote all three of my products.



I hope I'm making sense and you or any other helpful person can

give me a step by step on this.



Thanks in advance

[E-junkie_Guru]

The Hop Link URL you specify should be the URL where you want buyers to be directed by your Affiliates' links. If you want those links to direct buyers to your homepage, then specify the Hop Link URL as http://www.freewebdesignservices.com/ .



You can configure Affiliate sharing for any/all of your products but, to make things simple for your Affiliates, only checkmark offering an Affiliate link for just one product. Regardless of which product offers an Affiliate link, that product's Hop Link would send buyers to your site and credit that Affiliate for ~any~ product the buyer purchases which has an Affiliate sharing percentage configured.

[utopiagreenmagazine]

Excellent!



Now I get it. Now my affilitaes can only generate one link, instead of three, which is exactly what I wanted. What would be perfect would be the possibility to not have the other two options not show up at all inside the the affiiate admin area, thus eliminating any..



"Why can''t I get a link for the other two products?" questions.



Thanks all the same. This is looking like I'll be around for a long time.