Good afternoon, 

I am on DN6 and SC5 and am looking at affiliate marketing setup. A person that we are working with sent us a pixel to put in place on the confirmation screen but that method does not seem  to be able to indicate which affiliate referred the sale.

I found that the store setup has two fields under "Affiliate Setup", those are MerchantID and Affiliate URL but these do not appear to be referenced in the documentation. We plan on using ShareASale which you mention in documentation for creating a data feed but no where else.

Is there more documentation on how to enable affiliate marketing with ShareASale?

Thank you,

Scot

Good morning,

I have set up the merchant id and url for shareasale in the buynow module. It does not appear to be working. I ran their test and it reports back that they received nothing from us. Is there something else that needs to be done?  Their instructions indicate to put their pixel code in the confirmation page. If that is unneccessary with this set up then I would prefer not to.

Thanks,

Scot

Okay...what that has to do with the affiliate set up, I don't know, but it seems to have corrected the issue with the system not sending anything to ShareASale.

...next issue... the affiliate URL is supposed to send a few tokens. One of these is [ORDERTOTAL]. Unfortunately, what is being sent is the subtotal and does not include any discounts. Coupon discounts are not being included. Affiliates will never be paid commission on money not received from the customer. If it says it is sending the [ORDERTOTAL], then it should be sending the order total and not the undiscounted subtotal. The amount sent to affiliates should also exclude shipping and tax as those also do not have commission paid. So really, the amount sent should be the product cost totals less any discounts but before shipping and tax.

I seem to recall that this was also an issue with PayPal that was recently corrected. 

Can someone please look at this and get me a fix?

Thank you,