UPDATE: Awin API ProductserveV3 Compatible

This site is composed entirely with WordPress and the Affiliate Window Productserve Service wordpress plugin, phew, thats a long name, The Awin WP Plugin, thats better.

This will give you a self-updating website without ever having to touch databases, datafeeds, xml, api, csv, the list goes on.

Forget data, this plugin will do the lot, look at the list of requirements below, see if you fit the bill, and if so, then go ahead and buy it, it will change the way you do affiliate marketing forever.

With access to over 4,000,000 products from the affiliatewindow network, you can build small, tightly focussed sites, or, huge, multi-categoried sites, its up to you.

Sites Using The Plugin

This plugin costs £23 and thats for the actual plugin plus a lifetime of upgrades.

What you need

An affiliatewindow account – if you don’t have one, click hereAffilliateWindow (opens in new window) to set one up, there is a one-off payment of £5 which is refunded with your first commission.

You need a productserve API password, available from affiliatewindow. (please make sure you have one of these before purchasing the plugin its found in your awin affiliate area, and its the V3 MD5 Hash password, if you don’t see it under your account passwords, then you don’t have one, and you won’t be able to use this plugin, however, the free version doesn’t require this)

You need a wordpress blog preferably 2.8+

You Can buy the plugin here if you have all you need.

Buy the Affiliate Window WordPress Plugin Here Link

Currently the plugin is at Version 3.0 and the functionality of it is as follows:

NEW

Changes in this version 2.0

There is a new voucher code addition to the plugin!!!

To use it, just add sc=”y” cp=”b” to your shortcodes sc = showcodes (y=yes, to prevent showing codes, just don’t add the sc=”y”) cp= codes position (t for top, b for bottom, and the really exciting part s for sidebar.)

There’s also a sidebar widget included as well, which will show any discount codes available for the merchants featured on your product pages. (check out the sidebar at the right >>>)

You will of course need to visit your admin panel, go to appearance/widgets and either click to add the Awin Vouchers widget to your sidebar, or if you’re using WP 2.8, then just drag it over to where you want it.

There’s no need to include a + sign in your query any more, just write it as you would normally type it.

A new feature:

If you want to see what products a merchant has, then write a shortcode like this [ awin merchid="1234" no="100" sort="lo"] and you’ll get the first 100 products from that merchant sorted by price ascending.  You can then use the awstart=”101″ in another shortcode to show the next 100 and so on.

NEW

An error checking system that will return a list of hotpicks from awin should your original products no longer be available, as well as sending an email to you to alert you of this fact.

A new shortcode to show an individual product with or without the merchants details (an example)  the shortcode is this [ ap prodid="40730507" sdtl="y"].

Add a site-wide clickref to the admin panel, so you know where your sales are coming from.

Installation: NEW Admin Panel

Unzip the file which you receive after payment and,

Upload the entire affiliatewindow folder to your plugins directory /wp-content/plugins

Go to your admin dashboard and activate the Affiliate Window ProductServe Service plugin.

Look in your settings for Awin WP Plugin and input your api password and your affiliate id, the default size for images, the default number of products per page, and separately, for the homepage, default category id (for sites built in a vertical) and save.

(NEW FOR 1.5.6 define number of columns on the homepage, define length of text visible on the homepage)

WP Plugin 1.4.2

After installation, the following applies:

In your posts or pages, include the following wherever you want to display products

awin id=”139″ query=”adidas” no=”20″ sort=”hi” merchid=”1857″ awstart=”1″ price=”40_60″

a) id is the awin category id, a list of which are in the Categories datafeed found here:

http://www.panfashion.co.uk/05/list-of-affiliate-window-categories-and-ids/

b) query is self explanatory and should have no whitespace, use a + instead of a space.

c) no is the number of products you want to return

d) sort is also self explanatory, here are the possible sort options.

Sort variables:

az – Alphabetical increasing

za – Alphabetical decreasing

hi – By price, decreasing

lo – By price, increasing

popularity – By popularity, decreasing

relevancy – More relevant products to the specified query will appear first

e) merchid is the specific merchant id

f) awstart is the number that you want your results to start from (eg, you could have two pages for the kona shred bike, awin id=”0″ query=”kona+shred” no=”10″ sort=”hi” awstart=”1″ on one page, then awin id=”0″ query=”kona+shred” no=”10″ sort=”hi” awstart=”11″ on the next page.

g) price is a range, eg. between £50 and £100 is written like this 50_100

h) isize is the height and width of the image that you require, it defaults to 200 X 200 pixels

The only required variable is query, the others default to:

id = 0

no = 10

sort = popularity

merchid = none

awstart = 1

price = 0_100000

merchid = 0 (all merchants)

isize=200×200

The anatomy of the query.

You can use anything in the query box like so:

Every query must begin with awin and end with

Eg1. awin query=”platinum+wedding+ring” this will show you 10 products (the default) with the keywords platinum wedding ring from all categories (again, the default) sorted by relevancy (default)

You can add as many parameters to the query as you like:

Eg2. awin query=”platinum+wedding+ring” sort=”hi” this will show you 10 products (the default) with the keywords platinum wedding ring and will sort by price high to low

Eg3. awin query=”platinum+wedding+ring” sort=”hi” no=”25″ this will sort by price hi to low and return 25 products (assuming there are 25 products)

Eg4. awin query=”platinum+wedding+ring” sort=”hi” no=”25″ merchid=”2174″ as above but limited to merchant id 2174 (goldsmiths)

Eg5. awin query=”platinum+wedding+ring” no=”25″ id=”540″ merchid=”2174″ sort=”lo” as above but with the category id added and a different sort option, in this case price low to high

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