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Integrating Ultimate Affiliate with Paysystems.com

Paysystems.com has a very flexible system and integrating it with Ultimate Affiliate is fairly simple. In the end, it will be much like integrating it with paypal.com (see tutorial).

PART ONE: Setting up your paysystems.com order buttons

Here's where the trick lies. You will NOT be creating products through the paysystems admin page. That way is less flexible since you put in all the info at their admin page and then the purchase link looks something like this:

http://auth.paysystems.com/sale.asp?pd_info=7978A7886EDA2281FB8D64C9D4DE471C8A62317A5

This will not work with the affiliate program because you're only sending a product ID to paysystems and you can't send along the referring affiliate's username.

So, in order to integrate with Ultimate Affiliate you need to use their TTP-Pro ordering buttons. This way of creating order buttons is MUCH more flexible and works out-of-the-box with Ultimate Affiliate. Here is a link to their TTP-Pro instruction file: CLICK HERE.

Here's is the code for an example button:

<form action=https://auth.paysystems.com/cgi-v310/payment/onlinesale-tpppro.asp method=post>
<input type=hidden name=companyid value=94830>
<input type=submit value="Click here to purchase access">
<input type=hidden name=product1 value="groundbreak.com membership">
<input type=hidden name=total value="200.00">
<input type=hidden name=redirect value="http://www.groundbreak.com/thanks.html">
<input type=hidden name=option1 value="AFFILIATEUSERNAME">
</form>

Or here's a direct link:

<a href=https://auth.paysystems.com/cgi-v310/payment/onlinesale-tpppro.asp?companyid=94830&product1=groundbreak.com+membership&total=200.00& redirect=http://www.groundbreak.com/thanks.html&option1=AFFILIATEUSERNAME>
Click here to purchase access</a>

Click here to purchase access

Notice that in each order link/button you can include an extra field called option1 (you can add option2, option3, etc...) where you will include the referring affiliate's username.

On the page with your orderr buttons you will put this javascript code in the top of the page between the <head></head> tags:

<script>
function getCookie (name) {
var dc = document.cookie;
var cname = name + "=";
var clen = dc.length;
var cbegin = 0;
while (cbegin < clen) {
var vbegin = cbegin + cname.length;
if (dc.substring(cbegin, vbegin) == cname) {
var vend = dc.indexOf (";", vbegin);
if (vend == -1) vend = clen;
return unescape(dc.substring(vbegin, vend));
}
cbegin = dc.indexOf(" ", cbegin) + 1;
if (cbegin== 0) break;
}
return null;
}
affiliatecookie = getCookie('COOKIENAME');
</script>

Make sure to replace COOKIENAME with the name of the affiliate cookie you set at the main admin.cgi configuration page.

Then, in each order link/button you will place the bold javascript tag below:

<form action=https://auth.paysystems.com/cgi-v310/payment/onlinesale-tpppro.asp method=post>
<script>
document.write("<input type=hidden name=option1 value="+affiliatecookie+">");
</script>
<input type=hidden name=companyid value=94830>
<input type=submit value="Click here to purchase access">
<input type=hidden name=product1 value="groundbreak.com membership">
<input type=hidden name=total value="200.00">
<input type=hidden name=redirect value="http://www.groundbreak.com/thanks.html">
</form>

or

<a href="#" onClick="window.open('https://auth.paysystems.com/cgi-v310/payment/onlinesale-tpppro.asp?companyid=94830& product1=groundbreak.com+membership&total=200.00&redirect=
http://www.groundbreak.com/thanks.html&option1='+affiliatecookie+'',
'cartwin','scrollbars,location,resizable,status');">
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Click here to purchase access</font></a>

Click here to purchase access

PART TWO: Modifying your paysystems account

In order to trigger commissions, at the paysystems admin page you need to turn on and configure their 3rd party affiliate program tools.

Log into your paysystems admin page and go to: Settings & Options -> 3rd Party Affiliate System

1. Add a new affiliate setting
2. Activate it, and choose a name
3. Set the url to http://www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/sale.cgi (the sale.cgi script)
4. Set the "method" to "post".
5. Most importantly, in the "post" fields you will need to change a couple of these:
          Check the "order id" and change the name to "goods"
          Check the "product price" and change the name to "cashflow"
          Check the "option value 1" and chang ethe name to "affiliate"

PART THREE: Changing settings in the affiliate script

There's not much to do outside of the initial setup of the affiliate script to get this to work with paysystems. Make sure that you have the IP tracking after a sale turned off as well as the referral checking. Sale.cgi should be set to execute as a script and the secret word should NOT be set.

As extra fraud protection, you should rename sale.cgi to something else - and make sure that change is reflected in the url to sale.cgi that you put in at the paysystems affiliate program settings page.



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