Clickbank button to work with affiliate?

I think I am on the right tracks, but it seems that my question is slightly different to ones mentioned in related posts – such as this one http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/how-do-i-integrate-clickbank/#post-12265

The problem seems to be 2 fold:

1. I want to be able to sell my product through affiliates on click bank – however, it seems that in order to re-direct customers following their purchase through clickbank to my sites ‘register’ page (and thus onto membership level 1); I must use the clickbank short code? How would one work around this issue?

2. I would like to have some text such as “buy now” or my own customised button image, link to the purchase page at click bank, however, in testing I notice that doing this, causes a breakdown in the registration process after purchase, leaving all customers with no way of accessing the level 1 membership area. I have noticed some ‘hack’ that has been posted in the kb, but I am unsure if this will solve my problem?

Hope you are able to help me out with this….. (I do not know coding, but am competent with copying and pasting :-) )

Thanks for a great product, I am so close to launch, but seems I have one rather high last hurdle to overcome….

Thanks.

1. I want to be able to sell my product through affiliates on click bank – however, it seems that in order to re-direct customers following their purchase through clickbank to my sites ‘register’ page (and thus onto membership level 1); I must use the clickbank short code? How would one work around this issue?

See: Knowledge Base » ClickBank buttons outside the site with s2Member

You can set your success attribute in the Shortcode you’d replace with the example.

2. I would like to have some text such as “buy now” or my own customised button image, link to the purchase page at click bank, however, in testing I notice that doing this, causes a breakdown in the registration process after purchase, leaving all customers with no way of accessing the level 1 membership area. I have noticed some ‘hack’ that has been posted in the kb, but I am unsure if this will solve my problem?

s2Member allows you to change the image that is displayed by the ClickBank button, or create a URL that you can create a Button with. You can check out the image and output attributes here:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› ClickBank® Buttons -› Shortcode Attributes (Explained)

I’m unsure what behavior you’re talking about that is problematic here. Could you elaborate? :-)

Excellent – thanks – I was not aware that I could change the image using shortcodes – the image side of things is fixed! Thanks.

Regards the affiliates – I just want to get this straight, and I may need to re-read some info in the clickbank ‘manuals’, but what I am understanding is:

If a registered affiliate on click bank wants to sell my product, they would create a link to my sales page – using the HOP Link? Do they need to make that happen within their clickbank account? If this is the case and they do so, without me making any adjustments, then will I be faced with an issue of a customer not being re-directed to a register page, meaning they will not be recognised as a level 1 member?

Meaning: That I must follow the guidelines in http://www.s2member.com/kb/clickbank-buttons-outside-the-site-with-s2member/ before it will work properly?

If so, I understand that I must put the full short code for the button in to the coding, but what must I place in the

set output = "url"

?

Hope that makes sense? Thanks for your prompt response!

If a registered affiliate on click bank wants to sell my product, they would create a link to my sales page – using the HOP Link? Do they need to make that happen within their clickbank account? If this is the case and they do so, without me making any adjustments, then will I be faced with an issue of a customer not being re-directed to a register page, meaning they will not be recognised as a level 1 member?

They shouldn’t need to do anything within the ClickBank account.

Are you planning on sending members to your Membership Options Page, or straight to ClickBank?

They shouldn’t need to do anything within the ClickBank account.

The product would be registered on click bank, which opens up my product to a collection of affiliate sellers. People should have access to my product and the ability to sell it on their sites without ever coming to mine. I will figure that side out separately thank you.

Are you planning on sending members to your Membership Options Page, or straight to ClickBank?

My membership options page will be my sales pitch – the only option on that page will be a ‘buy now’ (click bank) button. They will then make payment and then be directed to my ‘register’ page, followed by the ‘login’ page followed by the S2 member ‘login welcome page’. So I am hoping that when an affiliate wants to sell my product via clickbank that they simply direct their customers to my sales page (membership option page) allowing them to click my buy now button and therefore organizing the commission to my click bank affiliate seller.

My membership options page will be my sales pitch – the only option on that page will be a ‘buy now’ (click bank) button. They will then make payment and then be directed to my ‘register’ page, followed by the ‘login’ page followed by the S2 member ‘login welcome page’. So I am hoping that when an affiliate wants to sell my product via clickbank that they simply direct their customers to my sales page (membership option page) allowing them to click my buy now button and therefore organizing the commission to my click bank affiliate seller.

Okay. So you’ll need to set up your affiliate program to redirect to your Membership Options Page after an affiliate referral link is clicked. That seems like the easiest way to accomplish it to me.

Ok – so a little more on the ‘anchor’ topic:-

I have created a custom order form – the click bank site says the following:-

Adding the Custom Order Form to the Purchase Process
There is one step left to making your Custom Order Form active. On the My Order Form page, to the right of your existing order form template(s), you’ll see a column called URL parameter.
This parameter will look like: cbskin=#
You’ll need to copy that URL parameter, and then locate any Payment Links on your Pitch Page (for example, if you have a “Buy Now” button).
Payment Links have the following format: http://1.NICKNAME.pay.clickbank.net
You’ll add a question mark and then the cbskin parameter to the end of each Payment Link you have. The resulting Payment Link should look like this (your cbskin number will vary): http://1.NICKNAME.pay.clickbank.net/?cbskin=1

How do I implement this into the short code? I see this in S2 member –

output=”anchor” Output Type. Possible values: anchor = ClickBank® Button ( anchor tag ) URL w/ ?query string, url = raw URL w/ ?query string.

am I on the right tracks?

output=”anchor” Output Type. Possible values: anchor = ClickBank® Button ( anchor tag ) URL w/ ?query string, url = raw URL w/ ?query string.

am I on the right tracks?

This shouldn’t be necessary. You’re only going to send Users to your Register/Membership Options Page. So you’ll just need to set up your affiliate program to redirect to this URL after an affiliate directs a User to your site. You shouldn’t need anything fancy with your ClickBank buttons.

I feel that it is necessary….

The standard button code, sends people from my site to a purchase order form. (the standard order form). I have created a custom order form inside of click bank with my logo and such – in order to get this page to display when people click the buy now button, I must in some way get the ?cb=**** into the link…..

Once people have been to that order page, then it should send the person back to the member login page.

How is this possible?

I would be very grateful for your assistance.
Thanks

Thanks for your patience.

The standard button code, sends people from my site to a purchase order form. (the standard order form). I have created a custom order form inside of click bank with my logo and such – in order to get this page to display when people click the buy now button, I must in some way get the ?cb=**** into the link…..

I see. This is what I was trying to understand before. You’re wanting to send Users directly to Clickbank instead of to your Membership Options Page. So what you’ll want to do is use the information provided in this article, and have your affiliate program send Users to the URL that you create with the code.

See: Knowledge Base » ClickBank buttons outside the site with s2Member

That will have Users sent straight to ClickBank via the button code you provide. You can do your customization to the URL there.

Hey Bruce, I am not sure we are on the same page here…. or maybe I am misunderstanding…..?

Affiliate stuff aside….

This is how I feel it should be working for me….

1. I use the S2 clickbank button generator to create a level 1 button that by default, sends people to a purchase page on click bank.
2. Once the payment has been made, clickbank re-directs the user to a register page for my site
3. After registering, S2 member acknowledges that they are now a level 1 member and upon using the password information that was emailed to them, they are able to log in.
4. upon logging in they are sent to member login page where they will find a link to the ‘hidden’ (level 1 member only) pages.

All of this works GREAT. no problem.

The only issue I am currently facing, is that within clickbank I have created a ‘custom’ purchase page that contains my own logo (supposedly I can get to it using the ?cb=*** query that I mention above). The S2 member clickbank button generator only directs people to the ‘standard’ purchase page and not the custom one. If I was using my own links that clickbank recommends, then it WILL send people to my ‘custom’ purchase page, but I am assuming will NOT then send them back to register to my site acknowledging that they are now a level 1 member?

Is there a way to use the S2 button generator to direct people to the custom purchase page on click bank ? If so how do I achieve this?

If i must use the clickbank link from my site to link people directly to my ‘custom’ purchase page in click bank, how do I then make my site recognise the fact that they have just paid to subscribe to level 1?

I hope this make sense, it all works great except i can not direct people to the custom sales page and must direct them to the click bank standard sales page. I look forward to ironing out this minor, yet frustrating issue. Thank you so much for your help.

(I would be willing to give you the links so we can figure this out – but do not want them publicly displayed before I launch – THANKS)

supposedly I can get to it using the ?cb=*** query that I mention above

Alan, you can have the button shortcode output a URL instead of the button, and there you could try adding that variable to test if it shows your customized checkout page. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› ClickBank® Buttons -› Shortcode Attributes -> output[/hilite]

[[s2Member-Pro-ClickBank-Button ... output="url" /]]&cb=123

I am replacing the “url” with the correct link to my custom order form, but it does not direct to it?

The link does work on it’s own however, just not when used as the output in the button short code – this is how it looks…..

[s2Member-Pro-ClickBank-Button cbp="1" level="1" ccaps="" desc="My Product Access / description and pricing details here." custom="mysite.com" tp="0" tt="D" rp="1" rt="L" rr="0" image="http://mysite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/tt-buy-now-button.png" output="http://1.myaccount.pay.clickbank.net/?cbskin=4786" /]

No, “url” is the actual value you’d enter there. It’s the kind of output you want the shortcode to give. So, instead of the HTML for a button image linked to the ClickBank order URL, it’d just output the URL. To that URL you can add at the end your other variable to test if it works.

[[s2Member-Pro-ClickBank-Button cbp="1" level="1" ccaps="" desc="My Product Access / description and pricing details here." custom="mysite.com" tp="0" tt="D" rp="1" rt="L" rr="0" image="default" output="url" /]]&cbskin=4786

You’d use that to link your custom button image, like this:

<a href="[[s2Member-Pro-ClickBank-Button cbp="1" level="1" ccaps="" desc="My Product Access / description and pricing details here." custom="mysite.com" tp="0" tt="D" rp="1" rt="L" rr="0" image="default" output="url" /]]&cbskin=4786" /><img src="http://mysite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/tt-buy-now-button.png" /></a>

wow!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

It now all works fantastically – and your reply could not come at a better time. 7 hours and 45 minutes to my scheduled launch time!

Thank you so much….. frustrations have now been put to bed – I appreciate your perseverance and assistance.

Awesome! I’m so glad. :)

Have a great launch!