Time Limit for Affiliate Commissions

Discussion in 'Pre-Sales Questions' started by jbardi, Feb 10, 2009.

  1. jbardi

    jbardi New Member

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    Does aMember's affiliate program allow you to have a time limit for affiliates to receive commissions? For example, we would like to add a service where you can get a certain percentage of commission for the first purchase and all recurring purchases but only for one year on each referrer.

    So if someone signs-up for either a free or paid subscription through an affiliate link, the affiliate will only receive commissions for a year from the sign-up date of that referrer, and then, after a year, their affiliate id or whatever would be removed from the referrers account so they will no longer receive commission.

    If this is not a feature of aMember's affiliate program, would there be a way to implement this easily through these hook things or would it be better to purchase aMember and then use a 3rd party affiliate program.
  2. davidm1

    davidm1 aMember User & Partner

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    No, once the affiliate is in the member info, its there unless you manually remove it with phpmyadmin- dont think your affiliates would be too happy about that...

    David
  3. jbardi

    jbardi New Member

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    Not too happy about that? Receiving commissions for 1 year is a standard with many, many companies. Receiving them forever is not standard. In fact, aMember seems to be the only system I have seen where limiting the length of the commission period per referrer is not a feature. Well, guess we'll have to use a third party affiliate program, most of which have this feature.

    Unless someone can suggest a way of doing this through hooks.
  4. codeispoetry

    codeispoetry aMember Pro Customer

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    Hey jbardi,

    Yes, aMember doesn't have a feature to limit the length of commission period. You might want to contact Alex (helpdesk) with your suggestion, hopefully he will include it in future releases.

    Lee

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