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ryannagy
Aug '08

I am thinking about how to best use E-Junkie to sell other people's products on my website and the best way to share revenue and use affiliates. Any input is welcome.



To be clear, I am taking people's CD's converting them to MP3 and using my store, e-junkie account, and blog to sell their products. I will be taking a 50% cut. What's the best way to do this?



***Perhaps I will just sell their items and at the end of each month download the transaction logs and manually send them (via Paypal) their 50% share. I want to automate the process but don't see how.



I could also set them up as affiliates, but then other people could be affiliates and I don't want the give those other people 50%. I only want to pay affiliates 25%.



Perhaps, I could create an affiliate program for others - say 25% - and again, just manually do a revenue split at the end of the month for my partners?



What do you think?



cheers - Ryan

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simplifun
Aug '08

I have the same biz model (not cd to mp3) but sell other product at my site.

I have a sell # assigned to each person. When I create the item ID in ejunkie; I include the seller number ie:

006seller:mypartnumber:theirpartnumber



then I extract the log each quarter; sort by the seller# (006seller) and total all amounts, then determine the amounts. Since I also have an affiliate sales I have to subtract that amount before calculation. I do this in access and excel.



I experimented using the e-junkie affiliate and it caused problems for me. Don't recall the ins and outs on why I couldn't use it.

1 year later
ryannagy
Mar '10

It's been well over a year since I posted this, and still I have not finished the project. What a slacker!



I'm curious if anyone else is doing this using only e-junkie. I'm very much a fan of automation. Would love to know how to track affiliate sales, and also pay the individual owner using only e-junkie.



The only thing I can think of is to create an affiliate button for each person's mp3 so the owner can get credit. But then how would I pay affiliates who are not selling their own products? Essentially, I can have two people on any given sale who need to get paid.



May not be possible.



Is anyone using another system that is capable of this?



- Ryan

simplifun
Mar '10

If the ejunkie transaction log would contain the information we add about the product and include the ID of the affiliate then it could be automated.

ryannagy
Mar '10

Thanks Lou Anne. I see what you mean. I'll just have to hire someone to pull together a script. - Ryan

ryannagy
Apr '10

I'm starting to realize that what you are doing is the way to go. I have found that some other systems have the functionality built in, but they are invariable 3-4 times as expense as my current E-Junkie plan, and I have no interest in learning another system.



Thanks - Ryan

simplifun
Apr '10

Shall we talk about what we each need and maybe we can figure a way to make this work. But last I worked on it, there was a missing field in the ejunkie transaction log so I couldn't automate the process. Honestly I don't recall the exact information it was lacking. I would have to remember my implementation plan and I only want to do that if I can move forward.



Send me a private message with your phone number from this link: http://www.e-junkie.com/bio/18167.php