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Mark Allen

This isn't exactly an FP question I know, but hopefully someone here can
help me with this since you've all been helpful to me in the past.

I use FP2000 and have a BCentral shopping cart for a client. He has worked a
deal with another web store to put our link on the their site. In return, we
will pay 7% of any sales referred thru that link on his site.

How can I track where sales came from so there is no disagreement on how
much he earns from us.

Thanks again,
Mark Allen
 
You would have to write a server-side application using ASP, or some other
server-side technology to do this. Basically, what is needed is a database
with a table for affiliate information and a table for tracking "hits." How
it tracks them is dependent upon how you want to handle it. In other words,
you can track users that come to the site, track where they go, track
whether they buy something, and/or track the amount and/or number of sales,
etc.

The basic principle is this: Your affiliate(s) would have an affiliate id,
which would correspond to their record in the affiliates table, and they
would append a Query String to the URL of the hyperlink linking to your
site. Your Session_OnStart Sub would grab the affiliate id, and create some
variables in the user Session that would track the things the user does on
your site, and update the database with the information gathered.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
http://www.takempis.com
Complex things are made up of
lots of simple things.
 
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