
How to add an affiliate referrer in PrestaShop 1.5
Kicking off our course on managing affiliates and referrers, we begin by showing you how to add a new referrer to your store. A referrer is another website that sends you visitors. This referring website does so by featuring a link on their site somewhere. Having a lot of affiliates can generate a lot of traffic and, ultimately, a lot of sales and profit. Below are the steps for accessing and creating a new referrer for your PrestaShop 1.5 store.
Creating a new referrer in PrestaShop 1.5
- Log into your PrestaShop 1.5 admin dashboard.
- Using the top menu bar, hover over the Stats tab and click on the Referrers option.
- You are now on the Referrers page. Click on the green Add New button in the upper right hand corner to begin adding your new referrer.
- From here, you will see several fields to fill out for your new referrer.
Affiliate Section Name Account name of the affiliate Password Affiliate account password Commission Plan Section Click Fee Amount of payment based on clickthroughs Base Fee Amount of base payment as flat fee Percent Fee Amount of payment as percentage of order amount Technical Information Section HTTP Referrer Include Website the visitor will be coming from (domain.com) HTTP Referrer Exclude sitename, or portion thereof, to ignore as a referrer Request URI Include Special query string (example: ?referrerID= ) Request URI Exclude String that, if included, will ignore as a referrer
- Once you have entered all the information for your new referrer, simply click on the green Save button to finalize their creation. You will be brought back to the Referrers list page. Your new affiliate referrer should now appear in the list at the bottom of the page.
Now that you know how to add a referrer to your PrestaShop 1.5 store, continue on with the course and learn how to edit an affiliate referrer.
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Section 2: How to edit an affiliate referrer in PrestaShop 1.5
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2016-07-29 5:21 pm
Hi im not sure if this topic is still active.i having trouble about ng referrals my current referrals is set up to 10% for every products purchase the problem is, it includes the shipping fee on the total amount.I need to reward my referrals from products purchase and exclude the shippiung fees. how to edit that in codes? thanks.. |
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2016-08-01 3:26 pm
Although you can change the amount of percentage to give affiliates, the section does not provide the ability to alter how it determines that. If it includes shipping fees, then they are not able to be removed from the equation. You would need to know how to alter the code code (not recommended) to do that.
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2014-10-29 1:46 am
How can i get that referral module also? because i do need it |
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2014-10-29 9:40 am
Hello Ronnie,
Thank you for yor question. I could not find a default PrestaSHop module that gives you more control of the referrals. This means you would have to custom code a solution, or use a 3rd party addon such as the Advanced Referral Program Module. Thank you, John-Paul |
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2014-10-28 2:13 am
Hello, Thanks for your tutorials on the referral program/module. But i would like to know how to make the 10% or less comission be given only to the person reffering some one to join and not sharing with the new customer who signs up and orders for a product.
Your help will be highly appreciated
Thank you Ronnie |
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2014-10-28 8:39 am
Could you clarify a bit more of what exactly you are trying to do?
The purpose of the feature explained within this article is to provide a commission for users that click on a link from an external website and onto your PrestaShop store. |
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2014-10-28 2:51 pm
Hello, Thanks for your reply. But what am trying to achieve is that, currently the referral module does things like this; when you say 10% is to be given out when you refer some one and orders for a product, the system devides the 10% into 2 and get shared by both the person who has purchased a product and the person who had reffered the buyer. Meaning that each person gets 5%.
But i would like it to be in a way that the 10% is ONLY given to the person who had referred some one to join and buy a products. But not sharing it the 10% with the buyer.
Your help will be highly appreciated
Thank you Ronnie |
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2014-10-28 2:59 pm
Currently, the affiliate referral module will provide the commission defined to the referrer and does not perform any changes to the purshaser. These instructions will only apply to the individual who refers the trafficl. Any other functionality would need to be custom coded.
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2014-10-28 3:41 pm
I enabled the referral module and also happen to configure it and also tested it. But after testing it, i noted the 10% supposed to be given to the referrer, was divided into two and got shared between the referrer and the purchaser of which i do not want. Wahat i want is the WHOLE 10% to go direct to the referrer account. Let me hope you have good my issue right. Is there anyway to overcome it or is there away to customise that module in a way that referrers keep getting comission whenever the reffered person renews his or her account. |
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2014-10-28 4:00 pm
What is the specific link that is being used for the referrer? It sounds like you may be passing both a referrer and additional affiliate link which would cause this.
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2014-10-28 9:08 pm
The referral module does not give a link to users but rather tells the new person to enter the referrer's email address while signing up. By the way is the module you are giving tutorials on your module or the default prestashop module? with me am using the default installed prestashop referral module. If you have another module, please send it to me
Thank you Ronnie |
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2014-10-28 9:42 pm
The module referenced in this article is used to provide a commission to users who post a link on their site and refer customers to your store. This module is a stock PrestaShop module.
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2013-12-07 1:00 am
in domain name must be bounded by % symbol
for eample if you domain name is blogentry.in just add %blogentry.in% this will work if you post http://blogentry.in dear admin don't remove this message as your tuts don't work without this otherwise please add this thing in article |
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2013-08-05 4:20 pm
Hello Juanmlg,
Thanks for the question. This is a little tough to explain, but I'll try my best. Please let me know if you get lost in my explanation and I will try to clarify it a little better. The main thing to keep in mind here is that these settings are used to identify if a referrer is generating traffic for your store. You are basically stating to your affiliates what MUST be included in the link in order to be identified. The EXCLUSION allows you to eliminate what should NOT be used to identify the affiliate in the URL. The HTTP referrer is basically looking at the website that a customer is coming from and identifying it based on the URL. The main problem though is that a person can look at the affiliate's website, and decide to type in the direct link to your Prestashop website thereby bypassing the affiliate. They would not get any credit. The other way that you can identify affiliates is to use the REQUEST_URI - which is the direct URL that customers arrive at your website. This is the method that you're using. Basically, you're creating a code or iidentifier that can be used by a specific affiliate to identify them. So what do you put in the fields? HTTP Referrer INCLUDE: This would be domain of the affiliate. For example: %affiliate.com%. EXCLUDE: This would be the exclusions in the URL to help isolate the affiliate identity: For example: If your domain is prestahopdemo.com, then you can setup an exclusion like "%prestashopdemo.com% Request URI Allows you to create an identifier that can be used in the links that refer to your PrestaShop site. INCLUDE: For example affil1356794 - this would identify a specific affiliate EXCLUDE: You can exclude your URL. For example: %demostore.com%?" This code would mean to include all characters before the "demostore.com" and everything up to the "?" on the other side of the URL. However, you would tell your affiliates to use the link like: http://demostore.com/music-ipods/1-ipod-nano.html?affil123456789abcde This would identify the affiliate and allow PrestaShop to identify it as a legitimate affiliate accessing your store. There are further examples of this in the PrestaShop interface. Click on the HELP button right above the Technical information-Simple mode identifier (or right below it), and you'll see an explanation of this topic. Remember that this section is KEY in identifying your affiliates, please make sure to create an identifying code for them (or add their website url if you're using http referrers), and then you can see how much traffic you're getting based on their referrals. I hope this helps to further explain the issue, please let me know if you still require any further assistance. Regards, Arnel C. |
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2013-08-04 1:07 am
Thanks for the tutorial, but I cant configure it in my Prestashop. I add the Request_URI "?referrerID=1" and then wich is the url y must use to this referral? Something like www.mydomain.com?referrerID=1" ? I am not sure.
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