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Old 08-07-2009, 02:12 PM  
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Originally Posted by Altheon View Post
I think it would be awesome if there was some form of conversion tracking we could set up independently but I think the response from 99% of the sponsors will be: "hell no".
The biggest issue you are going to find is the overhead; even with a relatively simple system this is generating on average one table hit (at least) for any traffic that may not even visit the sponsor.

You're going to see more of a stats counter from this than any actual useful data with the commonly-used systems as they are now; unless the member actually visits the tour or the checkout page, it's mostly just overhead unless you're tracking nested - and that's going to take some decent design.

The other issue will be finding some common ground between the external software and the checkout. You can use a shared UUID set from the pixeltracker which will be read/used for checkout, but that's still not horribly useful.
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