How does Affiliate Manager track visitors and sales?
When an Affiliate sends traffic to your site, the link they embed into their website is encoded with their unique Affiliate ID. When the user clicks through the link, a cookie is placed on the users machine (providing the user has cookies enabled) that expires after 180 days. If cookies are disabled, Affiliates can still get credit for the sale if the user makes a purchase within the same session. Aff_Manager will attempt to match up the user’s IP address at checkout time. All visits are recorded and are available on the Affiliate Traffic Report (all stats are real time). If the visitor decides to make a purchase, he/she will go through the checkout process. Before the transaction is completed, the application will check if a cookie exists (or via IP matching). If so, the sale is credited to the Affiliate, and their commission is recorded in real time. All sales are recorded and are available on the Commission Report (all stats are real time).
