I'm looking for a script that is something like a shopping cart, but instead of buying through this site, it directs you to another site.
Like for the amazon associates thing. I want to create a "catalogue" with all the items i want in categories, and searchable......
Does anyone know of a script like this, or should I write my own?
Thanks
Try searching the forums for "affiliate script" before asking.
sorry, already tried, i couldnt find what i was looking for.........
i'm looking for something like a shopping cart, but when someone clicks on the "buy" link, it takes them to the affiliate's page, for amazon associates or something similar.
This could be a big job (tm)
You want to maintain a catlog of products on your own database and when the shopper chooses to checkout, you want to transfer all of those products onto the retailers shopping cart system. If that retailer doesn't provide an interface for this sort of mullarkey, then you're going to have to geenrate a series to page requests to the retailers site "select product x", "add to cart", "set quantity", "select product y", etc etc... it would be very, very slow and error prone.
What if the retailer changes/drops a product?
What if the retailer changes the price?
What if the retailer introduces some sort of a "3 for the price of 2" promotion?
What if one of your page requests to the retailer goes wrong for some reason?
And so on... and those are just the technical concerns, what about all the customer support. If I start off on your site I'm going to come to you when my product is lost, delayed or damaged.
Amazon allows you to code your own shop, but most retailers don't.
i dont need a shopping cart to be transferred though........when the customer wants to buy something, the click on it and it takes them to the retailers refferal page. Something that would work with systems like Linkshare, all they provide is an image of the product and the link.
Let me get this straight. You want to place only a picture of the product and link it through to the original site?
In that case you can make a table with the fields : id,image, link, category(, sub_category). and from each site you can either copy the picture to your website or just post a link to that image in your table. Same with the link field, just add the link to the right part of the site where it is supposed to go. It is a simple sollution but could work.
Sounds like you just need to maintaina product table in your daatabase. You can then use this to insert the variable values into your linkshare referrer URL's to link to the merchant sites. That much would be easy.
The tricky part would be filling this table and keeping it up to date.
