Hi,
Just wondering how the Ubercart integration works? Would the affiliate get commission if the user he/she referred to buys a product? I tried referring a user, had it signed up, and had it bought a product though it didn't seem to make a change on the affiliate user.
Thanks
Hi,
Thanks for the quick reply!
Yeah, seems to be working now. I had to change if ($arg2 == 'payment_received') { ... } to have it include 'completed' though. I am also looking at hook_order and can't seem to figure out how referrals take effect. It seems that the way it works is if only the $_COOKIE['affiliate'] is set, that would be the time it would assign an affiliate id to the order. Not sure if I understood the workflow correctly though.
I also looked at hook_init to see how the cookie is being set and it looks like it's being set only upon the affiliate urls so not sure how it's set when the user logging in is an affiliate to another user.
Does the referral get marked as being referred by the affiliate?
Yeah, I can see the referral listed under Referrals tab of the affiliate user.
Thanks
Interesting...
It may be that different Ubercart payment modules use different order status updates in hook_order, and that may be the problem. I'll make a note to provide an option in the affiliates module to let you choose the payment_received or completed status to act on.
Sincerely,
Leighton Whiting
That would be great. Though it looks like I've missed a setting for Ubercart so all is good. Thanks again! Will come back if I have other questions... :D
Hi there,
just to clarify - to intergrate ubercart products, the only thing i need to do is go ito "/admin/moneyscripts/ms_affiliates" and under 3rd party integration enable the "turn on ubercart integration" ?
I am using drupal 7 and ubercart 3 latest dev.
Thanks,
Simon
simon,
Theoretically yes, but the Ubercart Integration is untested on Drupal 7, so it may or may not work. Not sure if there were any API changes that Ubercart made when going to Drupal 7. Post back if there are any problems.
Drupal Commerce is, of course, not supported in this way, since it has a very different API.
Sincerely,
Leighton Whiting
It doesn't seem to work, at least this way:
With a user (not #1 but with admin rights), i created a new user with user "simon" as an affiliate
- I created a new order in ubercart for this newly created user, and changed the payment to "received" and order competed.
On the user Simon, the commission history is still at zero. Clicks counts work tough, when entering the website with an affiliate link. It looks like the system doesn't realize when ubercart has made a payment - or is it because i made the order manually?
I really hope this system can work with ubercart 3, because it is the only reason i purchased this module..
The other possibility would be to change all my ubercart products into MS - but does it handle attributes like ubercart does?
You can see my site at http://www.swiss-hopper.com - do you think such a store would work on ms module?
Simon
Ubercart is still best when it comes to a store that sells actual physical products, as opposed to services and intangibles like MS modules do.
I did some searching and it looks like Ubercart 3 changed all of it's hooks to properly be namespaced (a longstanding bug in Ubercart that contrib modules had to work around). I therefore went in and changed the hook_order implementation in Affiliates Suite for Drupal 7 to hook_uc_order. Hopefully this is enough to get it working. I will be releasing the new version today.
Sincerely,
Leighton Whiting
That is great news! I am looking forward to try out the new version!
Cheers,
Simon
Ok, i have updated the modules (ms_core and affiliates) to the 11th july's version and did update.php
Things are still not working, but could it be because of the manual order procecure i have made?
Since i offer only paypal as a payment option, the only i can validate orders without actually paying for real is to make a manual order.
Could it be a reason why the sale does not get recorded in the affiliate system?
Simon
Can you check the Recent Log Entries (and make sure that the MS Core setting 'Log Debug Messages' is turned on)? There should be an entry or two for MS Affiliates that will help debug the issue. You can open a support ticket if you'd rather not share it publicly. Or send me an email at support@moneyscripts.net
Sincerely,
Leighton Whiting
i wrote you an email at support@ with the log entries.
We were able to get the Ubercart Integration working in Drupal 7. Will be in the next release of Affiliates Suite this weekend.
Sincerely,
Leighton Whiting
I confirm the integration works nicely, thanks to Leighton's top notch support!
I am sorry Leighton, i meant to report to this forum to let other users know the issue was fixed, but i totally forgot.
Thanks again!
The integration is supposed to do just what you described.
Does the referral get marked as being referred by the affiliate?
Sincerely,
Leighton Whiting