Using Magento Commerce as an affiliate site.

Posted by Danpereda in Blogging, Business, Programming, Tech, Webmaster Aug 5th, 2009 | 15 responses

I am now running 3 Sites with Magento. Two are Traditional Shopping cart sites, but the my newest one had to be an affiliate style site.

What I mean by an affiliate site is that when you click on the buy it now button you are taken to a 3rd party website to complete the sale. Magento does not do this out of the box, it took a long sleepless night for me to figure out how to do this. Not too many people are willing to share how they did this either. I have to thank Platinumtackle.com for their help.

I will be releasing the template that I created to do this very soon. I need to test it some more and finish building my new site.

Please Leave a comment if you are interested in this template.



15 Responses to “Using Magento Commerce as an affiliate site.”

  1. bagsey mcfee says:
    August 16, 2009 at 10:51 am

    Just to say I’m looking for exactly the same thing so just an encourage to let you know that this template is wanted and needed.

  2. Oliver says:
    September 7, 2009 at 7:18 pm

    I’ve been scouring Magento Connect for a solution and it looks like I’ve found it.

    Can’t wait till you release the code and instructions on how to set this up.

    Much appreciated
    Oliver

  3. Jay says:
    September 7, 2009 at 11:37 pm

    Hi Danpereda,

    Thank you for your willingness to share.

    Let me know when you finish your template.

    Cheers,
    Jay

  4. Andrew says:
    September 10, 2009 at 2:48 pm

    Please can you let me know when it is complete. I would love to check it out.

    Thanks.

  5. Chris says:
    September 14, 2009 at 2:18 pm

    I did that in OS Commerce but I am looking to move to Magento for its flexibility. I would be interested in your template.

  6. Alton says:
    September 24, 2009 at 8:48 pm

    Dan, I’m definitely interested in this. Please let me know when you have an update!

    Thanks.

    Alton

  7. Devan says:
    October 13, 2009 at 1:05 am

    Would love to see it

  8. Eric says:
    November 16, 2009 at 10:36 am

    Has anyone found a solution for this? I’m also looking to do the same thing.

    Thanks.

  9. Loran says:
    November 18, 2009 at 9:48 pm

    I am equally interested in helping to create this code. I would, in fact, like to have some products purchasable from myself while others would be affiliate links.

  10. Jeff says:
    November 25, 2009 at 12:13 pm

    I am also interested :-)

  11. David says:
    December 14, 2009 at 6:40 am

    Hello Dan
    This is just what i’m looking for,
    Could you please let me know when it’s up a running and where i can get it from.
    Great work
    David

  12. Nancy says:
    January 4, 2010 at 11:19 am

    I am software developer and I have been trying to set up something similar and have been trying to decide what software to use. I would be interested in your solution as well as helping to enhance or provide development assistance.

  13. Platinum Fishing says:
    January 11, 2010 at 4:12 pm

    Dan, give me a shout. I want to discuss some more changes I have made and also want to discuss your template you are creating.

  14. michaelh says:
    January 18, 2010 at 3:59 am

    Hi Dan, i am coming around since i want to integrate affiliate, too.

    my plan so far: having affiliate and own products in one shop. this way the shop merely becomes kind of product search database.
    product with deeplink show no basket but “shop now” link which leads to affiliate partnershop. each klick needs to be counted.
    products without deeplink can be taken to basket normally magento way.

    i would appreciate your templates as a basis to start off.

    thanks for contributing

  15. Andy says:
    January 28, 2010 at 6:13 am

    Been looking for something like this, got anymore info about the magento affiliate template?

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