[unioman]

Has anyone tried to use the Affilate module to track repeat sales for affiliates? In other words - once a customer creates an account after coming via an affiliate's referral links, is it possible to link them to the affiliate for as long as the affiliate is an affiliate?

I believe the way things are working now - it only links the customer to the affiliate for the current session. So if the customer decides not to purchase then, but later comes back to the main site (not using the affiliate's links) - the affiliate won't get credit for the sale.

I would think one could add a new field in the customer table to hold the affiliate username/login so the customer would be linked to the affiliate forever. However, I'm not sure where in the code one would pull this info to update commissions due whenever the customer makes a purchase.

Any ideas?

Thanks.