Link Discount

[jschafer52]

I am trying to add a discount to my site if they come from a different site.

let me try to explain.


If i am doing different addvertising i want to offer 10% to some customers from a banner add, and they click the banner add to come to my site can they get the 10%?

and i wnat to do different addvertising on different sites with different amounts like 5%, 10%, or free shipping.

is there anything out there that i can be using for this?

Thanks
JIM

[met00]

I know of no mods, but what you want to do is put an ad code in the various adverts ( <a href=http/www.misite.com/?acode=AB12345> ) and when a person comes in with an acode associated to them you store their OSCID and the acode in the database (new table called ads_payout) Then when they create an account you store the acode in their account and remove it from the temp table. When they go through checkout you validate the acode against a table of ad codes and their associated actions (% off, free shipping, whatever). When checkout is completed you remove the acode from their record (I would store the userID and the acodes in a special database so that they can not go back to that banner and get that offer again (ie: offer to new customers only) and a whole bunch of other checks to make sure that they can't game the system). This module would also allow you to create "internal acodes" as rewards and pass them out to existing customers (just add the acode to the customers record and they get the special the next time they come in).

There are a whole bunch of ways of designing this so that it is for more extensive than what you initially wanted, but would add a whole "marketing" component to OSC that is a heck of a lot more powerful than coupons and discounts....

[jpf]

Just so you know - you can "Add" a reuseable coupon into the STOCK osCMax. You could direct to your site with a specific discount "code" - but they would have to enter that code on check out.