Hi Alex, It would be great if you could add a "campaigns" feature to the affiliate plugin. This way affiliates could create a seperate campaign for each of their prmotins (website, ezine, AdWords) and be able to view tracking statistics for each of the campaigns they create in one account. A seperate affiliate sign up form would also be a great addition - many of my affiliates have mentined that they find the current process (affiliate product $0.00) rather cumbersome. It's a good hack for now, but a dedicated sigup form is really needed! Oh, and one last item on my wish list. Variable comission rates. Example: For your first 10 affiliate sales the commission is 50% After 10 sales you will be at the next level and get 55% After 15 more sales you get 60%.... Thanks for an awesome script and great support Alex! Your willingness to make your customers happy makes doing business with youa pleasure!
We will implement all this in brand new version of aMember Pro. Unfortunatly, I cannot promise it soon, it will take months to complete.
Individual affiliate tracking Alex, Actually, me and my programmer have been working on an amazing plugin to track affiliate stats (and even the search word/phrase used to trigger a pay per click referral) from an individual affiliate referral... ... My question is, since you expect this to take some time (and I've got it ready now), what's the cleanest way to incorporate this into aMember. Please be patient with me... I just bought aMember a few days ago and this might be a silly question (I have a Mac with Safari browser and your manual doesn't display). Finally, do you accept plugins from your customers. I'm not looking to be paid, but is there some sort of "open source mentality" here. In other words, if I offer my plugins gratis, do others reciprocate (or should I keep my plugins to myself)? I must admit, the plugin I'm finishing that seperates new keyword phrase triggers (that creates a new list of search phrases that aren't exact phrase matches in my Google Adwords' campaign) will be quite nifty and profitable... right now I'm manually doing this -- certainly worth the effort but very time consuming. I'd be happy to offer it if there's an "open source" atmosphere here (even though my mentor would kill me for giving it away). To make the already-long-story short, what should I suggest to my programmer on how to link to this (and other similar scripts) so when you offer updates to aMember, it won't require manual tweaks? Can you point me in the right direction.
Markus, it is better if you contact me (Alex Scott) via helpdesk directly. Of course, we accept any code donations and it is very much appreciated, I hope we will find something to give you in exchange. I will be happy to incorporate this code into aMember Pro if it is flexible and reliable enough. To be honest, it is rare case. I can promise that we will not make special profit from this plugin (we will not resell it separately from aMember for additional cost).