How do the affiliate functions work? Do we need to fill in our affiliate network details somewhere? I see there is a setting for link ads in thread custom fields and I see that we can create ads that add a referral code to the url.
Various affiliate networks we work with have switched to unique tracking URLs though, so this approach unfortunately does not work.
i.e.
Is there a way to support unique affiliate links?
A big issue with affiliate links is that pages go dead or worse; affiliate programs stop while we are still sending traffic. Its really hard to manage.
It would be awesome to have a way to manage dead / inactive affiliate links or automatically deactivate affiliate links if the affiliate program is inactive.
I work with the following affiliate networks:
Are any of these supported?
Please consider implementing these trough API.
Please consider to add support for affiliate fields in
@Bob 's Reviews Management System.
We have an affiliate store in RMS. Users can review products and buy trough the affiliate link.
Users of Bob's addons have interest in these features for RMS, CAS:
- Pay to post (Create/sell promo Items)
- Pay to feature (Create/sell featured items)
- Pay to sticky (Create/sell sticky items)
These would be nice to have.
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