How to offer my customer cashback

[alokthakur1987]

Dear All,

Please let me know how the complete system of cashback working..

I am very new to this, gone through documentation but that didn't help me.

1. how do i know that a specific person has purchased something
2. How do i get the list of persons purchased anything.


Thnx in Advance...

[nite]

Cash back has its own complications with tax regulations, IMHO.

I don't think you could know if a specific person purchased an item. All that is known is that your API key and the buyer's IP was involved.

[312k1t]

You have to create database table with users (every users has unique ID). Users ID you use for tracking commissions (affiliate link with parameter SID).

How do i know that a specific person has purchased something?
Query commission endpoints with users ID as SID.

How do i get the list of persons purchased anything?
You can query commission endpoints with parameter HttpHost (your site) and then by SID get users names from database.

[prosperent brian]

The above is correct. It's pretty simple with the commission endpoint. You have to have a user database is all so you can track each individual. We do the exact same thing for theNetPool.

[prosperent brian]

Cash back has its own complications with tax regulations, IMHO.

I don't think you could know if a specific person purchased an item. All that is known is that your API key and the buyer's IP was involved.

What tax issues are there? If a person makes over 600 i na year you send them a 1099. Very unlikely, and not a big deal at all. Any accountant can send those out.

The second part isn't true either. As I explained in the other thread on the subject, all you need to do is have a user database, assign a unique userid to each user and send that to us as part of the SID. This is exactly what we do for theNetPool. We made sure we didn't do ANYTHING you guys can't do on theNetPool. It is literally a 100 percent separate system using the exact same api you guys all have access to. Nothing special anywhere.

Before Prosperent came along, it would have been completely unthinkable and out of reach for your average affiliate to build a cash back incentive site. It took our team of developers 2 years to pull all of the technology and resources together to do it. Now, all you need is a database, the api, and a little additional programming for things like payments. The barrier to entry is almost non existent.

[alokthakur1987]

Thnx all for these valuable comments.

This really cleared many things.

Now a last question, how do I send the sid to you.

and I also having trouble in finding API Access Key. Is this my Api key?

once I used Api key instead of access key, but query returned error message as invalid access key.. Please help me..

Thnx

[prosperent brian]

You need to create an api key in the api interface. Click on api, api keys, new api key. You can then copy and paste your key. For SID's, it's all in the api documentation.

[700]

Hi Brian,
How do we know what percentage to give cash back to customer ?

[prosperent brian]

That's up to you. You know how much your commission is, so just pay out whatever percentage you want from that. There are no set standards.

[700]

For now, I can only track the commission whenever transaction's completed and reported in my prosperent's account.
On thenetpool.com i see, for example, [up to 8% cash back] . So, where is that 8% coming from ?

[AcidRaZor]

For now, I can only track the commission whenever transaction's completed and reported in my prosperent's account.
On thenetpool.com i see, for example, [up to 8% cash back] . So, where is that 8% coming from ?

from the merchant endpoint

[700]

Thanks AcidRaZor,

I found this post .... Very very good post http://community.prosperent.com/showthread.php?573-Code-example-on-commission-sharing-through-PayPal-Api