ShopWindow v3
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What is ShopWindow?
ShopWindow is a shopping comparison service that allows your audience to compare over 6 million products from 800 retailers, all on your own website. ShopWindow operates on the Cost per Acquisition (CPA) model. This means that each time a sale is made through your shop; you receive a generous commission (based on the basket value of the sale). Through this model, you have the ability to develop a strong relationship with our advertisers and develop an additional revenue channel.
ShopWindow v3 Community Edition
This is our base product which is given to affiliates that apply for the service through the proposed application process for ShopWindow. A minimum revenue threshold must be met in order for continued use of this service, so existing affiliates should read the criteria used by Affiliate Window to decide if continued use of the client is allowed.
V3 Community Performance Criteria
To ensure the quality of affiliates using the latest version affiliates will need to significantly develop upon the client, innovate and drive sales to have continued use of the service. The initial criteria we will be using are below.
Affiliates are required to:
- Apply individual branding to their installation of the client
- Not use the default page titles
- Apply a unique design (noticeably different from the default template)
- Add additional editorial content
When your site has successfully passed review based on the above basic criteria, your account will be put into Probation or Live mode as applicable. We will then upgrade you to the appropriate number of maximum daily quota calls.
The following three month period will be a key time for affiliates to promote their site and start getting traffic. After this another review will take place which measures the ongoing use of the ShopWindow platform. In the first three months of use, Affiliate Window requires an affiliate to have generated at least £75.00 worth of commission. In subsequent months affiliates are required to generate an average of £65.00 in commission per month based on the most recent three months. Affiliates that don't reach these requirements will cease to have access to the Community Client Software. This is a necessary requirement to ensure performance is maintained for those affiliates who use the Client as a core part of their affiliate strategy to generate revenue.
ShopWindow v3 Enterprise Edition
This is our premium product aimed at Brand Partners on a contractual basis. It boasts significant improvements over the Community Edition such as unlimited daily quota and access to ShopWindow Vertical developments, present and future. For more information about this please contact our Sales team by phone on 020 7553 0425 or by email at sales@affiliatewindow.com
ShopWindow v3 Enterprise Edition includes:
- Unlimited Daily Quota
- Access to core ShopWindow Vertical Developments (current and future)
- ShopWindow Mobile
- ShopWindow Gifts
- ShopWindow Entertainment
- ShopWindow Support
- Development Support
The ShopWindow v3 Enterprise Edition comes as either a Client Software package or as an API. Upon signing onto this platform you will have access to both for your preferred development method.
Features of ShopWindow v3
The v3 platform brings with it a host of improvements and benefits, many of which came directly from affiliate round-tables, which were put in place to help guide the product onto further success. Such features include:
Separate Quota System
- Each new version of ShopWindow will have a separate quota system; therefore v2 installs use a separate quota to v3
- If a new version is released, then this would use a separate quota to previous installs
- When an affiliate migrates to v3, their v2 installs remain live and not affect their v3 quota
Improved Adult Filtering
- Allows better filtering of products from merchants who have incorrectly categorised their feeds
- Further prevents the opportunity of any adult content appearing on a clean content site
Tag clouds Adult Filtering
- Prevents any obscene or derogatory words appearing in the ShopWindow tag cloud element
Similar product functionality now more intelligent
- Allows for a better user experience when searching for products that are similar to one another
Multiple refine definitions allowed
- Allows a user to refine by multiple options at any given time
- E.g. you can now search by merchant X and merchant Y as opposed to the previous release which limited a user to merchant X or merchant Y
Random sorting option added to search results
- This was an original v1 feature, removed from v2 but brought back on the request of users
Added voucher codes
- Allows you to pull relevant merchant voucher codes through the API
Boolean/Phrase search added
- Allows a better methodology of returning relevant search results to a given search term
Performance increases across multiple functions
- Improves the overall speed of the service
Performance upgrades
- Improves the speed and efficiency of the platform ensuring a smoother operation
- Also leads to a reduction in the necessary API calls and thus quota limits last longer