Affiliate plan for Joomla Membership Site

[Thaddeus]

Hi,

I'm getting ready to launch a Joomla based membership site (relatively painless by the way - use a good template, JUGA, AEC and Community Builder and you get a great, very flexible membership site for not very much money at all)

But I'm getting puzzled when I come to adding an Affiliate plan. Does anyone know of a good Affiliate component for a Joomla site (I'm not using Virtuemart btw)

The other plan would be to use Clickbank. But I can't work out the subtler ins and outs of whether Clickbank is good for membership sites, let alone Joomla based ones.

Can anyone save me three days googling and wading through dodgy review sites?

Thaddeus

[jensrsa]

I've seen a number of sites using iDevAffiliate - Affiliate Tracking Software - Affiliate Program Software

I am setting up which is not a Joomla compenent but runs separately. it's free until you have 50 affiliates Start, Promote and Manage Your Own Successful Affiliate Marketing Program

Jens

[Thaddeus]

Yes, that's where I'm getting to with my research too. But I see reviews of iDevAffliate that are lukewarm.

Apparently it does have the advantage of (theoretically) directly integrating with Joomla and AEC though.

I'm signing people up to the membership site with AEC - do you happen to know whether that would be straightforward to integrate with JRox?

[Sean Donahoe]

I have used IDevAffiliate on many membership sites using Joomla and it works great with the "Account Expiration Control - Membership Manager" component. I have never had any issues with it.

You could also hire a coder to create a module for using ClickBank as a payment module and utilize that as a backend payment / subscription and Affiliate plugin so that you can utilize that whole network but that is kinda a pain in the ass.

Hope that helps.

[jensrsa]

Originally Posted by Thaddeus

Yes, that's where I'm getting to with my research too. But I see reviews of iDevAffliate that are lukewarm.

Apparently it does have the advantage of (theoretically) directly integrating with Joomla and AEC though.

I'm signing people up to the membership site with AEC - do you happen to know whether that would be straightforward to integrate with JRox?

To be honest, I don't know. I am still busy setting it up but it's not a priority at the moment.

As far as I know you will add some hard code to your php pages to pick up the affiliate cookies unless someone has developed a bridge - cannot find one though. I emailed JROX so I'll see

Jens

[Sean Donahoe]

Originally Posted by Thaddeus

Yes, that's where I'm getting to with my research too. But I see reviews of iDevAffliate that are lukewarm.

Apparently it does have the advantage of (theoretically) directly integrating with Joomla and AEC though.

I'm signing people up to the membership site with AEC - do you happen to know whether that would be straightforward to integrate with JRox?

Integrating IDevAffiliate is actually pretty simple for any ecommerce platform including. JRox works in a similar way (IDevAffilite is better in my opinion). To integrate this system is just 1 line added to the last page of the payment process once payment has been made.

[jensrsa]

Originally Posted by Chikira

Integrating IDevAffiliate is actually pretty simple for any ecommerce platform including. JRox works in a similar way (IDevAffilite is better in my opinion). To integrate this system is just 1 line added to the last page of the payment process once payment has been made.

Can IDevAffiliate run as a separate "site"? I am looking at JROX because I want one manager for different affiliate programs and not set up on each site

Jens

[Sean Donahoe]

Yes you can run affiliate programs for several websites from one installation. I use this feature to allow all my affiliates to access all my programs from one place, makes life a lot easier.

[jensrsa]

Must look at it then because of the Joomla integration

Jens

[Simplweb]

Go with idev

IMHO I would actually have the idev seperate and NOT integrated into the Joomla user tables. I have run it that way successfully for a number of projects. You can skin it to look seamless, e.g.

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[Sean Donahoe]

Aye, thats the way I do it too. The Joomla integration is pretty good though. I do like being able to turn every member into an affiliate for my products and services, that makes for an amazing automated sales force.

[Lloyd Lopes]

Yeah - I also vote Idev :-). They fixed it up in version 5 and it works nicley with Joomla and as a standalone simultaneously.

[Thaddeus]

Great information, thanks guys.