Affiliate coupon codes

Is it possible to create coupon codes to help track word-of-mouth affiliates with s2member? Do you need any additional plugins to do this?

Thanks!
Jeni

I am not 100% sure of this, simply because i never had the need to use it, but s2Member Pro has pro-forms that allow you to create and use coupons. Since you create your own coupon, i think that you can give them prefixes to help you track where they got the coupon.

Hope it helps, and maybe a more advanced support person can be more specific.

Thanks, cassel – I need to know before I purchase this for a client; we’re looking for something similar to Dreamhost’s system, which allows affiliates to create a discount code and subtracts the discount from the affiliate’s commission. It’s a great incentive for both affiliate and purchaser. I hope to hear from someone with definitive info –

Thanks!

Hi Jeni.

Cassel is right about you being able to create suffixed coupon codes for affiliates, but they can’t be created by the affiliates, and it won’t adjust commissions based on their discount either.

s2Member doesn’t manage the affiliate program, it just sends some information to the affiliate solution you integrate with, e.g. iDevAffiliate.

If the aff script can do that adjustment to the commission based on a var you pass to it, then you may be able to do it. The affiliate coupon codes can also be with the aff script, here’s a screenshot of the interface (click to enlarge):

I hope that helps.

Thanks! Just the info I needed.

Cool. :)