Add an Associate

Click this button after filling in the above information. ShopSite will display the Edit Associate Information screen, which includes the URL that the associate should use to link to your store. The link will look something like this:

<a href="http://mystore.com/cgi-bin/ss/ref.cgi?name=Associate-Name
&storeid=Mystore-id">[Your link text or graphic goes here]</a>

(The href should have no spaces, but is shown here on two lines for easier reading.)

Select and copy the complete link and give it to the associate. You or the associate should replace the bracketed area [Your link text or graphic goes here] with your own banner image or the text you want displayed on the associate site for the customer to click. The associate then pastes this HTML code in their site. When a customer clicks on the link, they arrive at your store at the URL you specified in the Default Landing Page field, above.

You can create additional links for this associate that go to different landing pages in your store. After creating the associate link, copy it and paste it into a text editor, and then add a URL parameter that points to a page in your store. For example, to create a link that sends customers to a tshirts.html page in your store, you would add a URL parameter similar to what is shown in bold here:

<a href="http://mystore.com/cgi-bin/ss/ref.cgi?name=Associate-Name
&storeid=Mystore-id&url=http://mystore.com/tshirts.html">[Your link text or graphic goes here]</a>

The value must be a full URL, including http://. You can create as many links for an associate as needed, each one specifying a different landing page in your store. Put in the link text or graphic, and the links are ready for the associate to place in their site.

Name	Enter a descriptive name for the associate. This may be an individual, but is more likely a Web site.
E-Mail	This is the associate's e-mail address. The associate receives e-mail every time a customer that they send to your store makes a purchase.
Commission	Enter the amount the associate should be paid for every order that came from their referral. Check percentage (%) and set a value to have the commission calculated as a percentage of the order subtotal. Check currency and set an amount to have the Commission calculated as a flat rate per sale.
Default Landing Page	Customers will click on a link in the associate's site to arrive at your store. You can have them arrive at the main page of your store, or at any other page. Enter the full URL of the page in your store that you want customers to see when they come from this associate's site. (See below for information on creating multiple links for an associate.) The URL should be of the form: http://www.mystore.com/products.html
Create Link to Store	Click this button after filling in the above information. ShopSite will display the Edit Associate Information screen, which includes the URL that the associate should use to link to your store. The link will look something like this: <a href="http://mystore.com/cgi-bin/ss/ref.cgi?name=Associate-Name &storeid=Mystore-id">[Your link text or graphic goes here]</a> (The href should have no spaces, but is shown here on two lines for easier reading.) Select and copy the complete link and give it to the associate. You or the associate should replace the bracketed area [Your link text or graphic goes here] with your own banner image or the text you want displayed on the associate site for the customer to click. The associate then pastes this HTML code in their site. When a customer clicks on the link, they arrive at your store at the URL you specified in the Default Landing Page field, above. You can create additional links for this associate that go to different landing pages in your store. After creating the associate link, copy it and paste it into a text editor, and then add a URL parameter that points to a page in your store. For example, to create a link that sends customers to a tshirts.html page in your store, you would add a URL parameter similar to what is shown in bold here: <a href="http://mystore.com/cgi-bin/ss/ref.cgi?name=Associate-Name &storeid=Mystore-id&url=http://mystore.com/tshirts.html">[Your link text or graphic goes here]</a> The value must be a full URL, including http://. You can create as many links for an associate as needed, each one specifying a different landing page in your store. Put in the link text or graphic, and the links are ready for the associate to place in their site.