[ic] Affiliate Program Woes

Peter peter at pajamian.dhs.org
Fri Nov 11 17:20:28 EST 2005


On 11/11/2005 10:22 AM, Matt D wrote:
> I am trying to set up affiliate codes in order to track sales based
> onmy marketing campaigns. One requirement i have is that the
> affiliatecodes must be formatted a certain way, ex: 0001, 0002, 0003,
> etc. Forwhatever reason, affiliate codes won't track in interchange
> if theyare made up entirely of digits, only if there are letters
> involved. Isthere a setting that I have set wrong that is causing me
> to be boundto letter codes? What can I do to be able to use digit
> only affiliatecodes? Thanks.

If you prefix the code with a plus sign (+) in the link it will track, ie:

http://www.mysite.com/chi-bin/mystore/index.html?mv_pc=+0001

...of course the best thing is to make sure that the affiliate code 
starts with a letter, but the above should work.

Peter





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