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Merchant Programme Setup Guide
This guide will show you through the process from a New Merchant perspective. This will be from the initial Setup Guide through to steps to completing the tracking.
Merchant Integration Summary
This page displays all the technical aspects that we require you to consider when launching onto the network. We may discuss other emails via email also.
Technical Tracking Guide
You can view the technical documentation that a merchant will need in order to successfully track on Affiliate Window. This guide contains the latest tracking technology, using 1st party cookies, as well as a FREE Analytics tool.
Click Append Guide
The Click Append guide contains possible solutions to remove leakage from your site, for affiliate traffic. This will help to ensure that traffic converts online only.
Datafeed Guide
The Datafeed guide will provide information on how a merchant can format their feed for affiliates to us. This contains information on data types to include as well as example structures.
Banners & Links Guide
The Banners & Links guide will provide information on how to add banners into your programme. This also include information on what to add for Flash creative too.
Branded Content Widgets
The Branded Content Widgets guide will explain the step by step process of designing and supplying branded content widget designs to be used by your affiliates.
Batch Validation
You will require this guide if you would like to automate the validation process for your affiliates. We suggest that this is done so we can ensure that validations occur frequently. The jobs run on two frequencies, either daily or weekly. Please add in a Support Ticket if you require any more information.
Offline Tracking
The Offline tracking document provides instructions on how to implement the Offline Tracking method. This is only advised for particular merchants so please contact Affiliate Window, either by your account development/manager or Support Ticket.
Merchant API Guide
This guide is required if you would like to have activity reports automatically created. The reader should be familiar with 'web services' and with the programming language that will be used when integrating the reports into your own system.
Upgrading to Analytics
This short 3 step instruction guide will help you to upgrade to your FREE Analytics software package.
3rd Party Ecommerce Packages
A collection of integration guides which we hope will help you to integrate on your ecommerce package.
Have a technical question?
If you have a technical question about Tracking, Datafeeds, Commission groups, Analytics or anything else, feel free to add in a Support Ticket, or speak directly to your Integrator.