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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:

If you are adapting our Affiliate program to reimburse your suppliers 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 instant-checkout Buy Now buttons -- this will not work with Affiliate Hop Links and Add to Cart buttons.

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 code for the relevant product. 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. 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 can set a general commission percentage on that product for regular Affiliates, then use your Admin > View/Edit Affiliate screen to grant the supplier-Affiliate an extra percentage. 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.

Whoops, forgot to post the link to that forum post describing our Affiliate link types:
http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/2690#post7025