We have been working on our website with our website designer/ database specialist. She is unfamiliar with Commission Junction and has been unable to get her technical questions answered by CJ. We are newbies to all of this and cant seem to help her out, especially since we are unfamiliar with language. This may seem like a lengthy thread of questions, but I am going to post what we have been trying to figure out for about 6 weeks now.
If you have an answer to any of them or can guide was in the right direction, we would greatly appreciate it. Thank you!!!!
Here is what she has been asking CJ with no help.
1) How do we get data from their site to ours:
- Do we download or transfer data files and then import the data into our own database?
- Do we use live XML data feeds?
- If both are available (as in Commission Junction) we need to know which is the best (fastest, will give us the results we want)
(see questions below)
2) Do either or both of the methods above allow us to retrieve a list of ONLY the merchants (and just one record for each) we have joined and an example of their rebate/coupon info (with CJ, as you know, the list includes dozens of entries for each merchant; through code, I can make only one instance of each get displayed, but only after we get ALL of the data from CJ -- so it is SLOW)?
3) Do either or both methods allow us to display main product categories, as well as, product sub categories -- from only the merchants we have joined?
4) Do either or both methods allow us to, based on selected category and/or sub category, display products from that category and from only the merchants we have joined?
5) Do either or both methods allow us to link products to the merchants selling them?
6) In any of the situations above, will we have to transfer ALL of the data from the affiliate marketing source (CJ, etc.) and then weed through it on our end? Or can we send detailed queries to the source and get specific data back?
7) Does the source provide TECHNICAL support (not just customer support, but real technical support from people who know XML and know the data we're working with).
If you have an answer to any of them or can guide was in the right direction, we would greatly appreciate it. Thank you!!!!
Here is what she has been asking CJ with no help.
1) How do we get data from their site to ours:
- Do we download or transfer data files and then import the data into our own database?
- Do we use live XML data feeds?
- If both are available (as in Commission Junction) we need to know which is the best (fastest, will give us the results we want)
(see questions below)
2) Do either or both of the methods above allow us to retrieve a list of ONLY the merchants (and just one record for each) we have joined and an example of their rebate/coupon info (with CJ, as you know, the list includes dozens of entries for each merchant; through code, I can make only one instance of each get displayed, but only after we get ALL of the data from CJ -- so it is SLOW)?
3) Do either or both methods allow us to display main product categories, as well as, product sub categories -- from only the merchants we have joined?
4) Do either or both methods allow us to, based on selected category and/or sub category, display products from that category and from only the merchants we have joined?
5) Do either or both methods allow us to link products to the merchants selling them?
6) In any of the situations above, will we have to transfer ALL of the data from the affiliate marketing source (CJ, etc.) and then weed through it on our end? Or can we send detailed queries to the source and get specific data back?
7) Does the source provide TECHNICAL support (not just customer support, but real technical support from people who know XML and know the data we're working with).
