single installation being fed by multiple external sites

[RS 🏴]

Hi Matt,

 

I intend on installing WHMCS on a single generic company domain and then having a number of separate brand sites (my company trading as xxxxxx brand) with the intention of selling to particular markets more effectively. Is it possible to track which external sites are referring the orders?

 

 

Cheers,

Robert

[easyhosting]

Hi Matt,

 

I intend on installing WHMCS on a single generic company domain and then having a number of separate brand sites (my company trading as xxxxxx brand) with the intention of selling to particular markets more effectively. Is it possible to track which external sites are referring the orders?

 

Cheers,

Robert

 

Hi

Yes you can do this, all you do is create your products/services in your WHMCS and then place the order URL on whatever website your want to advertise the product, so when the item is ordered it will direct the buyer to your WHMCS order form.

[RS 🏴]

Hi easyhosting,

 

I was already sure it was possible to have the external sites feed the site with WHMCS installed on it, but I was asking if it were possible to track the referring site with each order? Is there some kind of affiliate system? If there is, can I set up multiple kinds of affiliates? In this case I'd like to have an affiliate which doesn't earn anything from the commission because they'd all be my own sites anyway.

 

 

Cheers,

Robert

[easyhosting]

you can use the built in affiliate system and just set the commission to 0

[altomarketing]

why dont you integrate goo analytics ? it will show and filter your sales even by refering site,campaign, ...

[RS 🏴]

I'm going to use Google Analytics but I want to know which site made the referral on an individual order basis when the order is made, GA won't tell me that.

[disgruntled]

Hi easyhosting,

 

I was already sure it was possible to have the external sites feed the site with WHMCS installed on it, but I was asking if it were possible to track the referring site with each order? Is there some kind of affiliate system? If there is, can I set up multiple kinds of affiliates? In this case I'd like to have an affiliate which doesn't earn anything from the commission because they'd all be my own sites anyway.

 

 

Cheers,

Robert

 

 

In all honesty, if your looking at this i would say your WHMCS installations is in a location that would not be public? why not just use the API within WHMCS and submit orders from the website instead? in this way your can track everything you need to easily.

 

Failing that, give each site a an account, (and affiliate it) the affiliate settings can be set per client/client group to whatever you want, EG: 0 commission required here.

[WHMCS John]

Hi,

You could also look at using the Link Tracking feature, probably more straight forward than the affiliate system: http://docs.whmcs.com/Link_Tracking#Link_Tracking