Several Questions for Developers

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Dwane

I’ve recently had a meeting with our client about the plugin, and they had a few questions I wanted to ask:

– Is there a way to have the Affiliates in a separate database table?
– Can we have a choice between either a fixed price or a percentage on a per product basis?
– – I.E., 1 product gives $50 and another gives %15

– We would like to be able to give out a coupon code at events, and when people submit the coupon at checkout, the associated affiliate will get credit for the sale. How can we do this?

– We noticed an error on the “Edit an Affiliate” page:
– – “If a valid Username is specified and no email is given, the user’s email address will be used automatically.”
– – I think it should be: “If a valid email is specified and no Username is given, the user’s email address will be used automatically.”

– Is there a way to integrate PeachTree, Quickbooks, or another accounting software so that it makes it easier for us to send out payments to affiliates?

– Do top tier affiliates have a way to mass-email affiliates under them?

Thank you for your time on this! We’re loving the plugin so far and haven’t had any major issues getting it setup.

Thanks again!

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3 responses to “Several Questions for Developers”

  1. Dwane Avatar
    Dwane

    Thanks Antonio,

    For some of the programming questions, I just wanted to check to make sure there wasn’t anything in place before we try to build something.

    Thank you again for your time on this!

    1. antonio Avatar
      antonio

      Perfect, if you need help , please let me know.
      Kind Regards,
      Antonio B.

  2. antonio Avatar
    antonio

    Hi Dwane,
    I’ll try to help you:
    – Affiliates are store in the wp_aff_affiliates database table.
    – By default you can set rates, but if you need to set fixed amounts, you can use this custom method. But rates or amounts are for all the products. I would use rates, and if I need to set a fixed amount, I will calculate the rate (if you product price is $150 and you need to set $50, then the rate is (50/150) = 0.33 )
    – You can create a Woocommerce coupon, then editing the affiliate from Affiliates->Manage Affiliates you can add this coupon as attribute. So when a customer uses this coupon, then the affiliate gets a commission. With Affiliates Coupons you can do it easily (but it’s not necessary)

    – Thanks for the notice, but the text is correct, if you want to ‘link’ a new affiliate to an existing user, you only need to set the username. Then the user’s email will be used as affiliate’s email.

    – Really using the Affiliates API this isn’t not difficult, but you need programming skills.

    – This email faeture is not available, you will need to use the Affiliates API to create your own solution.

    Kind Regards,
    Antonio B.

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