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iFuseDavid
02-09-2005, 12:37 AM
There have been a couple posts on this in the past but no real good solution. To make this simple, i was just wondering if you guys have use sales reps how do you make sure they get credited for their work.

I know modernbill has a script but as last i heard it only tracks on the signup page instead of the whole website.

So just want your ideas on how to track sales for sales repersentatives.

Thanks for your time,
David

S-Comm
02-09-2005, 12:59 AM
I think you only track sales on signups, because that's the point where the customer makes an order. Or else how do you want to track them? Maybe I didn't get it.

iFuseDavid
02-09-2005, 01:10 AM
yes i only want to track on signups but lets say i refer people to www.xxx.com/affilid=123 and then they look at it but and decide to wait. But then in the next 2 days they decide to go back and purchase a plan, i need a script or something to remember the id.

I am looking for something under 20-30 dollars that can do this. This is only one way to track sales, if you have a better way please post your suggustions

S-Comm
02-09-2005, 01:17 AM
I don't think this is doable. The user can delete his browser cache and return again, then your aff# ID which referred him is lost. Your best bet is making some sort of cookies, and a script that associated the visitor IP with his own affiliate ID so your order form can recover this (but only if the ip didn't change then)

For sales rep. you can just have a simple select function within your order, there your customer can choose a sales rep from the list while ordering and post it with the order details.

iFuseDavid
02-09-2005, 01:18 AM
s-comm,

thanks for your input, changes are we would use a combination of modernbill's script and the select button

If anyone else have any suggustions please feel free to post