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Sunday, February 8, 2009

Magento Open Source Shopping Cart with Affiliate Program

 

 

Are you looking to setup your own Affiliate Program for something that you are selling online? Well if you are willing to use the new and slick Magento open source shopping cart,  there is a free and open source solution for you for creating your own affiliate program. It’s a component for Magento called Affiliates For All and it’s completely free and open source.

Affiliates for All is highly configurable. You can set:

    * a fixed commission rate or a percentage,
    * the affiliate cookie lifetime,
    * the currency, and
    * whether commission is paid for the life of a customer or just for the first order.

Some other really cool features to take note of are:

   1. Affiliates for All will (optionally) email affiliates with details of new orders and approved commissions.
   2. Affiliates for All provides your affiliates with many reporting features. They can see graphs of orders and revenue over time. They can view and download lists of orders. If you want to, you can pass customer names and email addresses to the referring affiliates, allowing for further marketing efforts.
   3. Affiliates for All has a user interface similar to Google Mail. Just like Google Mail, this is achieved with AJAX, but you can use Affiliates for All without understanding the details.

This is a really cool open source application, similar to which you will not find anywhere! There just is not really any good open source affiliate applications out there. And this one appears that it could eventually stand head and shoulders above the rest.