eCommerce Suite allows you to integrate third party sites for generating affiliate commissions. To do that set the following settings in Settings > Marketing > Tracking.
- Allow External Commission Generation – Set this option to Yes
- Commission Tracking Key – Set an alphanumeric key.
You will also need to take down the $amount and $order_id variables that is used on your third-party site.
To integrate it, you would call it using a few options.
Generic Pixel Tracking
Add your hidden image tag using an image tracking pixel:
<img src=” https://www.domain.com/sale/generate/sub_total/$amount/trans_id/$order_id/key/$your_tracking_key” border=”0” height=”1” width=”1” />PHP Script
Use PHP code and the file_get_contents function to call the script:
<?php
$jrox_url = 'your_ecommerce_suite_url'; //yourdomain.com
$jrox_aff_cookie = 'your tracking cookie name'; //in your application/config/config.php file
$jrox_tracking_key = 'your_tracking_key';
$cookie = $_COOKIE[$jrox_aff_cookie];
$amount = '10.00'; //the sale amount variable
$trans_id = '123456789'; //the transaction or order ID for this commission
$data = array($jrox_aff_cookie => $cookie);
$url = $jrox_url. '/sale/generate/sub_total/' . $amount . '/trans_id/'.$trans_id. '/key/' . $jrox_tracking_key;
$url .= '?' . http_build_query($data);
$a = file_get_contents($url);
?>