[GreatLakesVacuum]

It appears the affiliate only gets emails about their account (creation/update/approval, etc) and not about orders placed through them.

The drop-down currently would be a list of user numbers which is not much better than typing them in.

What we want to do is NOT allow most of our customers an easy way of giving credit to the affiliate when they shouldn't be (as we would be throwing money away).

Is it possible to somehow have it basically "automatically filled in" for specific users and then they could obviously remove it to not give credit if and when they chose to. I would of course have to go fill it in for the few customers we have right now that *should* have the box filled in.

Thanks for the info on banners, it doesn't look like it is a problem, just extra tabs of useless info until I set it up.

Really it would be nice if the customer referred to the affiliate by its company name. All of our affiliate accounts are businesses not individuals...in fact they really don't even need a first name, last name (but those are ok) and especially do not need a SSN (would like to flat out remove that as it is even a required field). Tax ID number I am on the fence about as I dont think we would be paying them THROUGH x-cart.

Any further input or suggestions?

How would you implement this then to not have it show up in a way that non affiliate customers would not be seeing it as something they need to fill out or select (wrongfully giving the affiliate company commission).