Need help pls. Trying incetive offer with my site regisrtation

Hello All,

I need some advice on how to proceed with the following.

I am going to build a site where there is a free service once you register. As part of the registration I would like to have the user be required to complete a registration with one of my affiliate offers that allow incentive traffic.

My question is... how can I automate the process?

I am pretty certain that joomla! will do the job as far as making the membership site, but how can I make the "3rd party incentive offer" be part of the registration process for my site? I have no control over where they are directed after filling out the other site registration. Or have them issue a code...?

Any pointers in the right direction would be very helpful.

I posted this in the affiliate marketer section since I feel it's less of a web programing issue but more of a "how do you guys make it work?" type of question.

Thanks so much in advance.

RT

 

It's not going to be easy for a newbie coder, but you will have to add a redirect code after registration to the offer with the user's email or other thing as a subid, so you can know who exactly completed the offer, and then find a way to allow access to only the user's that complete the offer.

 

Hello, and thanks for the reply.

I'm not a newbie coder at all, in fact I am quite good at php/mysql.

I am not sure what you mean about the subid. Could you elaborate please? Don't be afraid to use "big words"

I understand that I can track which users filled out the form with the subid. but how could I automate my site checking and then validating the registration?

 

OK. You would have to use postbacks, which is just a form of GET variable, it will send information to a specified URL returning the subid (user who completed the offer) and then you would confirm the registration. to get postback just contact your affiliate manager.

 

That sounds like the answer. As long as they will provide me with this postback code.

Thanks for your help.

RT

 

saahil is right about the postbacks. That is how automatic confirmations is done.

I think how affiliate programs do it is that a freebie site sets a cookie or generates a unique id and sends it to the advertiser. It register that id. Once the user does the offer, a postback containing that id is sent to the other site telling them the offer is successfully done.