I am looking to integrate my membership that gives credit for others on a referral base. I seen a way to pay members on different levels but no referral system, am I missing something. I am looking for somthing like this. http://www.yoursite.com/ref.php=username I would then create my own rewards by using PHP in a protected folder. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
I think hes looking more for anon-financial reward system. aMember has a plugin for 3.x that does that- you reward credits for referrals rather than $s. Contact support as its not listed in the order page. David
I have been looking at the referral system that comes with v4 I think I can make this work. Looking at the database table named am_aff_lead Does anyone know if the leads get deleted if a sale is made or if after a certain amout of time? I have 2 products. One is a free membership that I want everyone to join. Then later on if they want to upgrade they can join the paid version. Bascily I just need to know who refered who. I am creating a 5 tired referral system in one of the protected folders. Also looking at the affiliate program I notice that when I setup a text link it does not seem to work. For example If I setup this redirect url http://www.yoursite.com/amember/signup/index Then use the referral url http://www.yoursite.com/amember/aff/go?r=2&i=1 It redirects to http://www.yoursite.com Instead of the redirect url
1. Leads are not deleted. They are logged for statistical reasons. 2. You know who referred who. There is a field "aff_id" in member profile. aMember itself does not handle more than 2 levels of commission. 3+ levels affiliate programs are considered as MLM and not prohibited by most payment processors. But with custom code, you can follow aff_id -> user_id links in am_user table to find referral of any level. aff_id is saved on customer signup and is not changed anymore. 3. Strange, will check it now.
Ah.. Thanks on the catch from the am_user table. That makes things a little easier. I am still trying to figure things out and where everything is. My referral program is not a MLM because it's only going to have 1 pay level referral. (The one from Amember) and then 5 levels of my own custom code. I have over 100 signup links, each one has a referral of their own. If 1 person does not choose to join a program then it will use the referral above them.. and so and so forth, up to five levels. I have created software to join all 100 free traffic sources, I am in the middle of having my desktop software talk with the Amember data using an API that I am working on. I am just trying to make sure that amember is going to do what I need it to. So far I only found a couple of problems. 1. One is mentioned above with the Referral Url Redirect Problem. 2. The other is listed on your bug tracker. http://bt.amember.com/issues/445 I think a work around would be to create a custom signup page but I am waiting to see if issue would be fixed first. Thanks for answering my questions.