Cookies and Cashback

[StaceyA]

Hi
Does anybody know if there is a danger of paying duplicate amounts of commission on a sale if you are with more than one cashback site due to the 30 day cookies we have implemented. I know people shop around to get the best offer available and in theory could visit numerous amounts of CB sites each time generating a cookie.
How do we know where the sale actually came from? and is there a way of preventing the occurrence of paying duplicate amounts of commission?

[Barry]

Firstly I am presuming you are a merchant?

Hi yeah you use local tracking to determine what network the last referrer came from.

IE if you are on Network1 and Network2

When a user presses on a Network1 link you set a local cookie saying only to call the callback code from Network1 same with Network2.

You can do this by adding an extra parameter on your links eg ?network=1 or ?network=2

I presume that the networks you are with would help you out with the technology and adding the extra parameter to your forwarded urls.

[StaceyA]

Thanks Barry

Yes I am a merchant, sorry for not explaining myself.

[Barry]

Thats no problems. I am sure your network(s) will be able to help you out, its very simple in theory - just hard to explain!

Just to let you know it is possible and it will mean no more trawling through stats and looking at timestamps to find the last referrer.

Ta