Commissions and Referral Tracking

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Hmmmmm. Okay, I hear what you are saying. But just to be sure then, OptiGold
could be used with cookies to track codes, or manual inputs of codes, but
there really isn't any way to track referral fees to be paid back to the
original referring member. Have you any experience with a client that tried
using you program for the intentions I am describing? Seems that this
feature set could open a new niche market group, and would definitely make
us happy!

Thanks for the time.

James D. Kirk
Where are you @ ?
mailto:iAm@jamesDkirk.com

-----Original Message-----
From: isp-list@optigold.com [mailto:isp-list@optigold.com]On Behalf Of Shawn
Hogan
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 6:47 PM
To: Optigold ISP List
Subject: Re: [Optigold ISP] Commissions and Referral Tracking

James D. Kirk wrote:

> In the process of trying to find the "right" affiliate tracking/referral
> program. Here are the basics:
> 1. My partner owns a web hosting business. Does his business stuff with
> disparate solutions at this time (IIS, Quick Books, some manual work)
> 2. We decided to raise number of hosting accounts we'd create an affiliate
> program.
> 3. Just purchased into the Internet Marketing Center's AssocTRAC affiliate
> asp program. Good affiliate tracking systems, but not set up for recurring
> payments in the slightest.
>
> After getting a word of mouth from one of the OptiGold Real World users, I
> went to the site and checked it out. It looks great to me, and depending
on
> the answers to some of my questions, I am going to actually encourage my
> partner to get his money back for the AssocTRAC purchase and set up his
> entire business with OptiGold.
>
>> From studying your information on line, I think your system is more than
> adequate to do the accounting for the referrals, however do you have any
> type of tracking system in place like the referral software packages are
> using? For example, the AssocTRAC system is using client side cookies, and
> CGI tracking to register a referral (or to track banner ads for marketing
> purposes). Does OptiGold do anything like this, or could it be integrated
> into the system. If that is unlikely, would you have any suggestions for
how
> to use OptiGold and how we could get that other functionality?

You could do it with the offer code system... On an online signup, customers
can enter an offer code which allows them to get discounts, access to
special products if you want, but at the same time, it can track referred
by, referring from, salesperson, etc. So it handles the marketing side on
the backend. Once I did setup a system for someone that had the Optigold
online signup read a cookie from the customer and use the cookie value as
the offer code (they had their web server set it), then make the offer code
a hidden field, so they don't fill it out (or even see it).

> Not having had a chance to check out your software yet, I'll assume just
> based on my reading over the users manual that if someone refers several
> accounts, and is getting paid on a monthly basis the residual incomes,
there
> would be no problems doing a search on a domain name that might decide to
> end its hosting with us? How would the system allow us to adjust that
> affiliate's monthly check (to reduce it by the commissions that he would
no
> longer get)? I suppose a detailed answer isn't really important to this
> question, as long as there is an easy, painless way to remove that hosting
> account and have the referrer's account to be automatically updated (of
> course an auto email to the referrer would be great too! Any chance of
that
> happening?)

Commissions and referrals are only paid out to paying customers. Like
commissions based on invoices are only based on invoices that are paid for
example.

- Shawn

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Shawn D. Hogan
President, Digital Point Solutions
http://www.digitalpoint.com
(858) 452-3696

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