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Posted: Thursday Jan 24th, 2013 at 6:21 am #39368
Brian Bennis
Username: thumz

Thanks Ronnie.

I have it pointing to the ‘Welcome To The Members Area’ page from the drop down list, as it has been for months, but when someone logs in now, it goes to the profile page.

Any other thoughts?

Brian

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Posted: Monday Jan 7th, 2013 at 5:52 am #36441
Brian Bennis
Username: thumz

OK, I understand. Thanks.

Brian

Posted: Saturday Jan 5th, 2013 at 11:47 am #36276
Brian Bennis
Username: thumz

Dear Cristián

Thanks for the pointer. However, as I’m not a programmer, I have no clue whether to use the code referred to in the post (or whether I need to modify it in some way for my site), or where to put it.

When you have a moment, perhaps you’d be kind enough to help me with this.

Thanks.

Brian

Posted: Saturday Dec 22nd, 2012 at 4:27 pm #35363
Brian Bennis
Username: thumz

OK, I’ll send a final message to iDevAffiliate though, as I feel you should be paid. Hey ho!

Thanks again.

Brian

Posted: Saturday Dec 22nd, 2012 at 5:32 am #35304
Brian Bennis
Username: thumz

Dear Jason

Thanks for the revised code and the privacy point. The username came through perfectly. So we’re done. Brilliant once again.

Regarding the affiliate commission on my purchase, I’ve been having a running debate with iDevAffiliate. It appears they’ve paid the commission to an affiliate I know nothing about. I’ve been asking the support team about redirecting the payment to you and the net result is that they’d like your personal contact details to discuss it with you. This is what they’ve said…

“Brian since we are the vendor for the affiliate program and S2 is our affiliate, we will contact them directly. Please provide your point of contact’s email address. We have a few contacts but when we’ve tried contacting them in the past we don’t get replies.”

I don’t think it’s appropriate to display my conversation with iDevAffiliate on this thread. If you’d like to email me your contact details, I will copy the email conversation I’ve had with the iDevAffiliate support team so you can hopefully be correctly paid for the referral.

In case you’re reading this after the Christmas break, I wish you and your fab team a jolly time off.

Brian

Posted: Friday Dec 21st, 2012 at 2:13 pm #35265
Brian Bennis
Username: thumz

Dear Jason

Thanks for the detailed advice. You are indeed right. I’m not charging anything. I’ve done as you’ve said above and it did identify the WordPress user under Order# in iDevAffiliate as you can see…

However, what it’s recorded is the WordPress User ID. Unfortunately, in WordPress, it’s not possible to search on User ID, so if possible, please would you be kind enough to amend your URL statement above to display either the user’s email address or username, as both are searchable. And then we’re done ;)

Thanks.

Brian

PS I’ve sent a message to iDevAffiliate asking them to credit you with the commission on my purchase.

Posted: Wednesday Dec 19th, 2012 at 9:10 am #35041
Brian Bennis
Username: thumz

I’ve done as you’ve suggested, as you can see below, removing the code on the ‘thank you’ page, and putting the URL in the Signup Notifications box. I’ve used a different email address to sign up, and I’ve used a completely separate browser, which is logged out as a customer. Once again, with the URL in Signup box, it does not register on iDevAffiliate and I get no email from S2Member. Only when the code is put on the ‘thank you’ page does it add to iDevAffiliate, but Order# is shown as %%payer_email%%.

It appears that none of the API pages in S2Member do anything. As long as the code is on the ‘thank you’ page, it gets recorded on iDevAffiliate, whether or not there’s anything or nothing in the boxes on the API pages.

Sorry.

Posted: Tuesday Dec 18th, 2012 at 8:56 am #34916
Brian Bennis
Username: thumz

Dear Cristián

Thanks for your email.

I had already been through the trouble-shooting tips.

I’ve just tried adding the URL to the API/Notifications > Signup Notifications box (having removed the full HTML img tag from the ‘thank you page’), but it didn’t register the affiliate lead at all. I’ve also tried adding the URL to the API/Tracking > Signup Tracking Codes box, but that didn’t register the affiliate lead at all. A lead is only registered when it’s put on the ‘thank you page’.

It’s a mystery.

Brian

Posted: Monday Dec 17th, 2012 at 4:25 am #34822
Brian Bennis
Username: thumz

Dear Cristián

Thanks. I’ve just completed the form.

Brian

Posted: Friday Dec 14th, 2012 at 11:29 am #34668
Brian Bennis
Username: thumz

Hi Cristián

Thanks for the detail. In answer to your questions…

Brian, are the other replacement codes working, giving the values for those variables?

None of the codes are coming through, as you can see from this successfully tracked lead…

What tracking code are you using, the Signup one?

I’m using the standard code given earlier, created in iDevAffiliate.

However, as a non-programmer, your advice is far to complex for me and I’m afraid I have no idea where to put the code you’ve created. Sorry ;(

Brian

Posted: Thursday Dec 13th, 2012 at 4:55 am #34456
Brian Bennis
Username: thumz

Hi Bruce

I’ve been following advice from iDevAffiliate provided in this document http://www.idevlibrary.com/docs/Optional_Variables.pdf but everything I’ve tried doesn’t work. I’ve followed the advice in Jason’s video and in the notes S2Member has put on the page in API/Tracking. I’ve tried putting every option for idev_ordernum into the code (eg subscr_id, payer_email, customer_email, customer_name, email, and a few others), and put it on the page, and in the S2Member box in API/Tracking and both, but nothing works (ie no data comes through to iDeveAffiliate, just the code I input above).

It’s all very frustrating as I feel caught between your company and iDevAffiliate. Any further help would be great. Thanks.

Brian

Posted: Tuesday Dec 11th, 2012 at 4:44 am #34212
Brian Bennis
Username: thumz

Hi Bruce

Unfortunately, it didn’t seem to bring through the email address. I’ve asked iDevAffiliate for some further thoughts.

Brian

Posted: Tuesday Dec 11th, 2012 at 4:07 am #34210
Brian Bennis
Username: thumz

Hi Bruce

Thanks. I’ll give that a go and I’ll let you know if it works.

Brian

Posted: Monday Dec 10th, 2012 at 6:04 am #34113
Brian Bennis
Username: thumz

Hi Bruce

Thanks for your reply. But we’re going round in circles. I’ve seen the video and read the help, but it’s not what’s required. I’ve been told by iDevAffiliate not to use

%%subscr_id%%

but instead, use the email field on the form on this page – http://www.sippclub.com/sipp/join/. Please could you tell me what it is.

Thanks.

Brian

Posted: Friday Dec 7th, 2012 at 5:15 am #33846
Brian Bennis
Username: thumz

Dear Cristián

It’s probably easiest if I start with a new summary.

I’m using iDevAffiliate to record FREE member signups from http://www.sippclub.com/sipp/join/ At a later date, offline, once I’ve sold an investment, I need to go back to iDevAffiliate and manually add commission to pay the affiliate. This is what iDevAffilate has advised…

LEAD STYLE COMMISSIONING…
Trigger a commission on a lead form or other confirmation form that the customer will fillout (that’s the form on the above link). Once the deal closes, login to your admin center and approve that commission. Use the pay-per-lead tracking pixel and set the commission amount to 1.00 (as a placeholder). Then at the time of approval manually change the commission amount from 1.00 to whatever it really should be then hit the approve button.

Here’s the pixel, which needs placed into the confirmation page.

<img border="0" src="http://www.sippclub.com/idevaffiliate/sale.php?profile=44&idev_leadamt=1.00&idev_ordernum=XXX" width="1" height="1">

When a client does business, it’s easy to find them in WordPress. But the only way I can identify them in iDevAffiliate is to have that system record the email address of the person when they first become a member. The XXX in the code can apparently do that, but XXX needs to be replaced with the email address that’s found on the form signup page – http://www.sippclub.com/sipp/join/

Please can you check out the join page I’ve created with extra fields in S2Member and let me know what I need to put in the above code in place of XXX which relates to the email address.

Thanks.

Brian

Posted: Thursday Dec 6th, 2012 at 2:33 pm #33732
Brian Bennis
Username: thumz

Hi Eduan

I’m getting some help from iDevAffiliate, Here’s what I asked them…

I’ve enabled the pay-per-lead tracking pixel and set it to 1.00. The notes suggest I can change the pay-per-lead number to include an email address, which sounds exactly what I need. But I don’t know what to replace XXX with. Here’s the code.

<img border="0" src="http://www.sippclub.com/idevaffiliate/sale.php?profile=44&idev_leadamt=1.00&idev_ordernum=XXX" width="1" height="1">

Please could you help me identify the email address by replacing XXX.

This is the reply.

Whoever created the lead form should be able to assist you with retrieving that email address variable for the tracking pixel inclusion. Since we didn’t write the form, working with that form will be hard for us. My suggestion would be to contact whoever made that form for you and ask them to setup the email address in the form of a variable on the confirmation page where you have the tracking pixel call located.

Here’s the page – http://www.sippclub.com/sipp/join/

The form is created in S2Member with additional Registration fields added. Please can you tell me what the email variable should be.

Thanks.

Brian

Posted: Tuesday Dec 4th, 2012 at 9:12 am #33433
Brian Bennis
Username: thumz

OK, thanks for letting me know.

Brian

Posted: Tuesday Dec 4th, 2012 at 6:16 am #33422
Brian Bennis
Username: thumz

Dear Eduan

If possible, please could you ask Jason to provide a view, or someone else who’s familiar with iDevAffiliate.

Thanks.

Brian

Posted: Monday Dec 3rd, 2012 at 4:53 pm #33372
Brian Bennis
Username: thumz

Hi Eduan

Thanks for the success code for the shortcode. That works perfectly.

I’ve followed Jason’s iDevAffiliate video for free membership (using 10.00 rather than %%initial%%) and put the Generic Tracking Pixel into the box in API Tracking > Signup Tracking Codes as follows:

<img border="0" src="http://www.sippclub.com/idevaffiliate/sale.php?profile=72198&idev_saleamt=10.00&idev_ordernum=%%subscr_id%%" width="1" height="1">

I tried it with salemt=0 as well.

But it hasn’t worked. Any ideas?

Brian

Posted: Tuesday Nov 6th, 2012 at 11:46 am #30777
Brian Bennis
Username: thumz

Dear Raam

Actually, the theme owner got involved and helped write some code using your conditionals and it’s now working absolutely perfectly.

So thank you all for being so helpful once again.

Brian

Posted: Tuesday Nov 6th, 2012 at 9:40 am #30769
Brian Bennis
Username: thumz

Dear Cristián

Thanks for that. Actually, without programming knowledge, I wasn’t able to edit the link with the widget being displayed on the page. So I reformatted the page, allowing me to use it as a sidebar widget, and the editing worked perfectly.

So once again, thanks for all your help. Brilliant service, as always.

Brian

Posted: Monday Nov 5th, 2012 at 4:19 am #30621
Brian Bennis
Username: thumz

Dear Cristián

Thanks. I should have looked harder, for I just couldn’t see it in the long list of fabulous options. It works really nicely. Just one thing though.

When you’re logged in, and you hit the login button, you get this list…

Clicking the ‘My Account’ link takes you to the ‘welcome page’ – ie the page you arrive at when you first log in to the members area. I would have thought it would have taken you to the ‘edit my profile’ screen. Is there any way I can amend the title of the first link from ‘My Account’ to ‘Welcome To The Members Area’ – or better still, simply remove the ‘My Account’ link?

Brian

Posted: Saturday Nov 3rd, 2012 at 11:30 am #30557
Brian Bennis
Username: thumz

Dear Raam

Thanks for your reply. I have been in touch with the theme owner and they’re still considering a way to achieve it.

If I can’t find a way to make this work, could there be another way to achieve this? Perhaps when a person logs in, they go to a completely different site – say members.sippclub.com (the main site is http://www.sippclub.com/). The disadvantage here is that there will be quite a lot of duplicate pages, which is not a great idea.

Is this something that you’ve seen done, or that works?

Brian

Posted: Saturday Nov 3rd, 2012 at 6:31 am #30536
Brian Bennis
Username: thumz

Dear Raam

The good people at the theme have shown me where to alter the tabindex, so I’m sorted on this point. One final thing though, please.

Thanks to your help, the registration form is now nicely integrated on the page – http://www.sippclub.com/join/

In S2Member, is there a similar way to integrate the login form into the page, rather than the standard WordPress form like this one – http://www.sippclub.com/wp-login.php

Thanks.

Brian

Posted: Friday Nov 2nd, 2012 at 6:49 pm #30514
Brian Bennis
Username: thumz

Dear Raam

Thanks for the PayPal clues. I’ve now sorted that out. Fab.

The contact form in the footer is a widget with the theme. How do I get into the tabindex to alter the fields to something much higher?

Brian

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