User Guide

Affiliates & Referals 263
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2.
Enter the name of the new tag, which is what the affiliate will see on the Change Profile page, into the
box "Field name"
3.
Enter the tag text of the new tag into the box "HTML tag". AShop will automatically add the text "<!--
AShop_affiliate_" to the beginning and "-->" to the end of your tag.
4.
Enter the number of rows of text that the affiliate should enter for this custom tag.
5.
Click "Add" to create the new custom tag.
In the example "Biography" above, the affiliate can now provide a personal biography text of three lines
and you can automatically place this text on your pages by using the codes <!--
AShop_affiliate_biography --> and <!-- /AShop_affiliate_extrainfo -->.
Link codes
Once you have prepared a website or sales page for use with the replication, you should make sure your
affiliates find it and know how to use it. This is done by adding a link code.
1.
Open the page Affiliates->Link Codes in your AShop administration panel.
2.
Enter just a URL into the "URL" box and leave the other fields empty. The URL should look something
like this: http://www.yourdomain.com/salesletter/%affiliateuser%/page.html where the first part should
be replaced with the actual URL to your AShop, the "salesletter" part replaced with the name of the
subdirectory you created before and the "page.html" part replaced with the actual name of your page.
3.
Click "Add" to save the new link code.
The link will now show up on the page Link Codes in the affiliate area and will be automatically converted
into the personal link for each affiliate, which they can copy and paste into their own websites,
newsletters or printed material. When a customer visits the link, the page will be personalized for the
corresponding affiliate.
5.11 Referral Codes and Discounts
Disounts can be created and applied to each order or to each product. The two different types of
discounts are managed in two different places. Per order discounts are set through the Discounts
button, which is at the top right of the Edit Catalog page. Individual product discounts are set by clicking
the Discount button under each product listing in the Edit Catalog page.
Per Order Discounts - Applied At Check Out
Per Product Discounts - Applied To Each Product While Shopping
Per product discounts can be used as incentives to track affiliate referals. One way that this can be
done is by using the Manual Referral Code, which is unique for each affiliate. Each affiliate can be
registered with any number of discount codes by linking the discounts to his/her manual referal code.
To register affiliates with discount codes, go to Manage Affiliates.
Click on the Referral Discounts icon, , to the right of each affiliate to manage discount registration.
To register an affiliate with a discount code, select from the drop down box and click Add.