Hi all,
 
I was thinking of using this great tool and wondered if anybody else has used it succesfully.
 
I can't seem to get my head round how I would recruit affiliates. Would it just be all customers given the option of creating an affiliate code when registering for the first time or could a new user type be set up with the settings based around them being an affiliate only and not a customer e.g as well as having normal user types in the user registration form have another user link "become an affilate".
 
Or is this best done in a more manual managed way e.g do not offer the affilate code field to any clients instead actively approach suitable sites to see if they want to become an affiliate and manually generate the account (and code) for them using the model above (dedicated affilate user type)
 
Any help would be most welcome.

Bump anyone using this?

Specifically, can they affiliate tracking code be added to any link?
 
ie: do people have to link to the homepage or can they link to a particular product page and add "?af=CODE" to it?

nevermind, found the answer i was looking for

The affiliate module possibilities are limited in the Viart Shop I think.
 
To make a really good, automated affiliate could be useful some special blocks, widgets:
 
1. custom sizable product widget:
- using iFrame
- get product from viart
- set up randomly displayed products by category, price, date, stc.
- set up for display: images size, Title, Price(s), no/short/etc description
- auto affiliate code placing to the url
 
This could be good to provide a really easy to customize ad code to Affiliates.
Ex:<iframe src ="http://www.webshop.hu/aff.php?size=120240&category_id=1&sortby=date&af=your_affiliate"
width="120" height="240">
</iframe>
 
2. Additionally could be useful a module for users to generate (and test) the above code:
- dropdown / radio buttons to selet from available sizes
- caregoty filter
- display options selection: image no/tiny/small/large, title, description, prices to display
- auto affiliate code add to the URL
- SAVE function - to save defined affiliate codes, and preview it on the affiliate page (this is a very important think: if an affiliates see the result, they will sure on the look of the ad, and will place it)
 
I'll place the above to the support as a feature request to..