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Old 04-03-2017, 04:47 PM  
sarettah
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I don't think you are going to find any kind of plug in for what you are wanting to do.

So, you are probably going to have to hire someone if you want it done right.

If your sponsors allow a tracking code on the url then you can accomplish a lot of what you are trying to do by appending a tracking code to a url, unfortunately your sponsors will NOT all be using the same scheme for their tracking code and not all sponsors offer the option of a tracking code.

For example: to attach a tracking code to a Chaturbate url you would add a query string of track=xxxxx (where xxxxx iis the tracking code) to the chaturbate url.

If you assign each of your affiliates a unique tracking code and you assign that tracking code to the url going to the sponsor then you should be able to get sponsor reports that show that tracking code and what activity is attributed to it, you could then use that information to pay your affiliates.

I do not know of any plugins that would do what you need to do so you are probably looking at a custom solution.

Your solution needs several pieces:

1. A place for your affiliates to sign up. This piece would be where you would assign a tracking code to the particular affiliate along with collecting the info needed to pay them. It is also where your affiliates would go to look at the various reports that would show them their activity with each of your sponsors or however you plan to structure that presentation.

2. A mechanism on your site to recognize the incoming tracking code that the affiliate sends to you and then assign that tracking code to each outgoing link that is active in that session. That piece would need to know the scheme for each sponsor so that it can properly structure the outgoing links.

3. A mechanism to periodically collect the various sponsor stats and break them down by tracking code/affiliate for presentation to the affiliates and for paying affiliates.

You are probably going to want a database for this to keep track of everything.

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