Amazon Associates

[AJWhite1970]

Please move if this fits in a better forum...

 

The school has signed up as an Amazon Associate site and has received it's tracking ID. The finance department gave me a url to put on our website to direct parents through with the intention that the school gets a small percentage of each purchase back but after 3 months the school has raised 0.00p

 

The link I was given to host was

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1234&creative=1234linkCode=ur2&tag=OurTrackingID

 

Has finance got how Associate works wrong or are we missing something? How do other schools who are associates go about raising funds?

 

Many thanks

Andrew

[Arreks]

I assume you've changed the OurTrackingID bit..

[AJWhite1970]

I did...

[Arreks]

In that case it should work I believe, maybe test it yourself? buy something cheap that the School needs then get finance to reimburse. It may be that the parents just aren't using it.

[hardtailstar]

In that case it should work I believe, maybe test it yourself? buy something cheap that the School needs then get finance to reimburse. It may be that the parents just aren't using it.

 

I was going to suggest this.

[sidewinder]

Yup, probably just no-one using it. Virtually no-one is going to remember to go through a specific link for Amazon, I know I wouldn't.

[Arthur]

Has finance got how Associate works wrong or are we missing something?

I read somewhere the cookie that is added to the browser after visiting the affiliate link only lasts for 24 hours so if they do not make a purchase within that timeframe the school doesn't get any money from the sale.

[AJWhite1970]

Hmm, all very interesting. AFAIK finance have tested this and also claim a few parents have tried as well. I'll have a go but at least I'm reassured that I've done nothing wrong with the setup of the link

 

Andrew

[Steve21]

I don't know if it's a specific item or something but shouldn't it just be tracking? Not sure what the rest of that is.

 

e.g. http://www.amazon.co.uk/?tag=Associates_ID

 

Also is it actually an Amazon product? As I know sometimes the "on behalf of" ones don't count for referrals (not sure amazon wise though)

 

Steve