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Hi,

Hey I'm really impressed with e-junkie, but can't figure out how to use it for my app.

At BuyYourNicheSite.com I sell websites. People can either pay $895 right out, or $395 down and (3) payments of $197 each.

On my blog, I will have multiple sites listed for sale.

What I want to do is pay a flat $100 commission no matter which payment method they choose BUT use a single affiliate link. Affiliates shouldn't need to care which payment schedule is used.

What I was doing was using the ability to add option with the domain name in the <form> code.
So I made 2 products .. Website Full Payment, Website Installment Plan.

A problem I see is that I can't define the affiliate amount by $$$ only by %. So I had to approximate $100 for each product

So when I login to the affiliate panel, there is a global affiliate link and (2) product affiliate links.

Too confusing!

Something else that I was hoping to do was Inventory control where I say there is only 1 for sale, but I don't think that is possible if using a single product with variations.

Hint: If there was a "Duplicate Product" button that would be cool and make it easy to make a new product for each website. It still doesn't fix the multiple affiliate link problem though :-(

Is it possible to do what I need to do, or should I look elsewhere?

BTW... My site uses Wordpress, for what it's worth ;-)

Thanks,

..Mike

Since we don't have any way to support auto-recurring payments like an installment plan, it sounds like you'd want to set up at least 3 products: the $895 "upfront in full", the $395 "down payment", and the $197 "installment". Then customers would click Add to Cart for the payment they want to make. You could use our "Variations which tell more..." setting to add a text field to the Add to Cart buttons, where the buyer could enter their domain name.

I didn't quite follow what you meant about having only 1 of each product for sale? What I described above would be "generic" products applicable to any Web site project; there's no reason I can think of why you'd need a completely separate product for each client? At any rate, you can enable Inventory Control with stock of 1 and also use Variations for that product. Consecutive product additions -- when you add a product and then proceed directly from the final button-codes screen for that product to add another product without returning to Seller Admin first -- will retain the last-added product's settings as a basis for the next product.

We only support setting affiliate commissions on a percentage basis, not a flat-amount basis, although you can manually grant specific affiliates an extra percentage or per-sale flat bonus amount in Seller Admin > View/Edit Affiliates.

In your Seller Admin > Affiliate Program Settings, you can set up a common (default) percentage for all products, and a Hop Link landing-page URL. You can just leave this at 0% if you don't want every product to grant at least some commission, and yet still setup the common Hop Link. Common percentage or not, the common Hop Link will allow affiliates to obtain code for a single referral link that tracks their commission for all/any of your products.

You can override the common default percentage for sales of any specific product(s) by going to Seller Admin > Product-specific Affiliate Programs, select a product and click Edit Affiliate Settings. You can set a percentage only for sales of that product without also having to enable/configure a Hop Link or Direct Link for that particular product; then affiliates would only be offered the one, common Hop Link to make things easy for them.

Clicking any Hop Link (whether common or product-specific) sets a cookie in that buyer's browser that expires in 6 months, so anything that buyer purchases from you during the lifetime of that cookie will earn the referring affiliate the appropriate percentage (i.e., earns them the product-specific percentage for products that have one, and otherwise earns them the common percentage for all other products purchased).

Hi Tyson,

Thank you for your in depth reply.

What I meant by "1 of each product" is that I only have 1 copy of each website to sell, so I was hoping to use inventory control to prevent me from selling multiple copies.

Does inventory control work for variations of a product.
For example, could I make a "Website" product which has 1 variation "Domain Name" and set a stock qty (of 1) for each different domain?

A problem I see with the scenario above is that the person would be required to make a down payment $395 and then since the $197 isn't due until a month later, I don't see how that would work.

It doesn't look like this will work for my application, but thanks for you help!

..Mike

If you already have a set list of domains with pre-built sites you're selling somehow, then instead of Variations, you could use "Variants having individual price/weight/stock/SKU" to define that list of domains for buyers to choose from and assign a stock of 1 to each domain.