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I have found most of the solutions to my affiliate questions searching the forum, but can't find a solution to the following.

I have had to in the past (using clickbank) create a replication of my website inside a folder with hotlinks directed to that folder (thus affiliates avoid the main site with just paypal as an option)

Rather than do this again for e-junkie, I thought it would be easier to just use the affiliate 'add to cart' button on my main site. I assume in doing this any traffic from website searches gives me full price and any sales from hoplink gives the affiliate commission.

If this is possible, I have 35 items and growing and since the hoplink system works for any item sold on my site is it possible to have just one link to the main site (without a product link) making it easier on affiliates so that they do not have to list each item available, they can (like the clickbank system) just link to the website without having to create 35 separate product buttons

Cheers

Andrew

Ok, I have tested some things. I have linked the hoplink add to cart buttons to the main page, so that customers can buy a variety of items from the main website.

However what ever one of my items the affiliates get a code for shows up as the first purchase, even if you don't buy it. Is there a way around this? such as adding an item for a zero value?

Normally, we consider Affiliates to be "independent sales reps" who are either selling your product directly, or referring sales leads to your site, in exchange for a commission; thus, our Affiliate programs are designed to operate with that framework in mind. See more info here on how our Affiliate programs work, with explanations of the different Affiliate link types:
http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/2690

NOT RECOMMENDED - UNSUPPORTED HACK - USE ONLY AT YOUR OWN RISK!

If you are adapting our Affiliate program to reimburse your supplier for a product, or to split revenues for a product with someone but not others, this will only work with Affiliate Direct Links used as Buy Now buttons on your site.

This unsupported hack WILL NOT WORK with standard Add to Cart buttons nor Affiliate Hop Links, and you CANNOT have a regular Affiliate program at all if you are doing this; you can however use the non-JavaScript version of Add to Cart buttons for products which have no share percentage set. DO NOT set any common hop link URL or share percentage (avoid using the Admin > Affiliate Program Settings screen at all).

Also, you SHOULD NOT try to use this hack to calculate revenue sharing with multiple different suppliers, as the calculations can become inaccurate if a buyer tries to click a Direct Link for more than one supplier's product. This is because all of the Direct Linked items would get added to the same cart together, but only the last-added item would set which "affiliate" earns commission for ALL items being ordered.

NOT RECOMMENDED - UNSUPPORTED HACK - USE ONLY AT YOUR OWN RISK!

As the Merchant, you would register for the supplier-Affiliate's E-junkie login on their behalf, stay logged-in as them, and click your own Affiliate sign-up link to join their account to your Affiliate program.

Then you would go into their Affiliate Admin and click Get Affiliate Codes, find your business and product to get codes for, and copy their Direct Link codes only for that supplier's own product(s). Then you would paste their Direct Link code into your own site pages, where the link would function as an instant-checkout Buy Now button. The supplier's own Direct Links should be the only way for anyone to purchase that supplier's own products. Every time someone uses that button to purchase one unit of that product, the supplier-Affiliate would get whatever percentage you had configured for them.

Note that you would set a low general commission percentage (e.g. 1%) on that product for all Affiliates, just to enable Affiliate sharing for it at all but without tempting general Affiliates to sell the product with Direct Links of their own. Do not configure any common or product-based Affiliate Hoplink settings at all. Then you would use your Admin > View/Edit Affiliate screen to grant the supplier-Affiliate an extra percentage or per-transaction bonus amount. The extra percentage applies to all links that Affiliate posts, but if their only Affiliate links in use are the Direct Links for their own products, that should work out fine.

Then after the end of each month, you would still need to go into Seller Admin > Pay Your Affiliates to generate the masspay.txt file you would provide to PayPal Mass Payments to pay out any earned commissions.

So if I set individual percentage on my products it will override the set percentage in the affilate setup menu. So if Business Cards is 25% and the default is 10% my affilate would receive the 25% commision. I dont need to give them the individual button code.

Is there a way to give commision for repeat orders from a customer the originated from an affilate?

When a buyer clicks an affiliate Hop Link, we set a cookie in the buyer's browser that expires in 6 months, so any items with affiliate sharing that buyer orders during the lifespan of that cookie will earn commission for the referring affiliate.

There is no way to make this perpetual (and other factors can interfere, such as the buyer deleting their browser cookies or switching to a different browser program), but the 6-month cookie lifespan starts from the last time the buyer clicked the affiliate's link, so theoretically, if they buyer always clicks thru the affiliate link every time they want to reach your site and buy, the affiliate should keep earning commissions on those orders.