affiliate program

-- HikaShop version -- : 2.6.3
-- Joomla version -- : 3.5.1

Hi. I noticed that every time user ask he become a partner automatically. But before i want moderate the request. How can i do?
And also i noticed that there isn't any check field to accept the conditions and terms of affiliate program. It must have.
Let me know.
Thanks
Best regards

Hi,

1. Then, instead of enabling the option "Add a 'become a partner' checkbox on the registration form", create a custom field of the table "user" and of the type "checkbox" so that the customer can cechk that checkbox during the registration.
It won't add him to the affiliate program and you'll have to do it yourself in the backend, by editing the user.

2. You can create a second custom user field for that if you want via the menu Display>custom fields.

Hi. Never i enabled the field "Add a 'become a partner' checkbox on the registration form". I set as NO.
If i create that custom field is there an easy way to see the users checked it?

Hi,

You can edit the user and you can see it there.
There is also the possibility to see the value on the listing of users in HikaShop if you activate the corresponding option of the custom field.

Ok, but no any notification mail if user check that field? So admin knows that someone ask that?

No. But you can activate the notification of new user registration in the settings of the Joomla user manager.
Then, you'll get notified when someone registers and you'll be able to check the value of the field.
You can even edit the user account admin notification email via the menu System>Emails with the Business edition and add such code:
echo $data->user_data->XXX;
where XXX is the column name of your custom field and that will add to the email notification the custom field value selected by the customer in that field.
That way, you can just open the email to see if you need to do anything without having to check on the website each time.

Hi. You talk about registration, i suppose you refer Joomla registration. But i am talking about when user click on "access to affiliate program" button in the control panel. In this moment user is already registered. So?
I don't want show the fields you suggested me in registration form but when user click on the above button to access to affiliate program before he access to.

Hi,

Ah yes, for that there is no email notification in place.
If you need to have one, you would have to develop a small custom plugin which would implement the onBeforeUserUpdate trigger of HikaShop and send you an email based on the value of the affiliate checkbox and reset that value in $user and display a message to the customer telling him that he needs to wait for an administrator to validate his request.
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/6...r-documentation.html

Honestly it is incredible that your affilate program doesn't have these 2 features that every affiliate program must have. When there is a terms and conditions to accept a required check field must have to force user must to check so to accept it.
And the request of affiliation can be moderate by admin, it is normal too.
Really i don't understand why you didn't add these features.

Hi,

Then why not use a third party contact form system so that users that want to become partners can go through that to contact you and then you add them to the affiliate program.
The affiliate program was made to be used either with the administrator adding the partners from the backend, or the partners registering themselves to it automatically.
No one asked us to have a system whereby the partner wouldn't be activated immediately and the system would instead send an email to the administrator so that he could do it, and I didn't thought about that when I developed it 6 years ago either.

Only i tell you that this feature lacks of something necessary. In this way it is not so useful. If you didn't think before it doesn't mean that you cannot improve it now (honestly i am very surprised that you never thought to improve it in 6 years). For every country law if user don't accept the conditions and terms expressly can be a big problem for admin of website (the "conditions and terms" field of Joomla user profile plugin works in this way and every other conditions and terms field in Joomla world too).
And about the moderation feature i think it is logical add the option to moderate or not the new request. So every admin choose how to act, who wants moderate simply enable it who doesn't want don't (like affiliate tracker component). However i told you what i think according my experience only.
No need to add more.
Thanks.
Best regards

Hi,

Only i tell you that this feature lacks of something necessary. In this way it is not so useful.

It might not be useful to what you want to do, but many merchants use it like that without problem.
I was just trying to explain why it is like that since you were surprise that what you wanted wasn't possible right now.

l. If you didn't think before it doesn't mean that you cannot improve it now (honestly i am very surprised that you never thought to improve it in 6 years)

I appreciate your feedback. And no, we did improve the affiliate system in the past 6 years. We've added many options to it that didn't exist before. I didn't say that we didn't change anything in the affiliate system, but that we didn't thought about the features you were talking about.

For every country law if user don't accept the conditions and terms expressly can be a big problem for admin of website (the "conditions and terms" field of Joomla user profile plugin works in this way and every other conditions and terms field in Joomla world too).

I don't see the link with the rest of your message ? HikaShop does allow you to have a T&C checkbox for the registration and for the checkout.

And about the moderation feature i think it is logical add the option to moderate or not the new request. So every admin choose how to act, who wants moderate simply enable it who doesn't want don't (like affiliate tracker component). However i told you what i think according my experience only.

Yes, and I thank you for your feedback. We'll take that into account for future improvements.

The problem is that T&C checkbox must be shown in "begin affiliate program" and not in the registration of user. No all users want be affiliate but for sure who click on the above button want be.

Hi,

That's why I recommended you to use a contact form in a previous message:
www.hikashop.com/forum/install-update/88...-program.html#244748
Even the contact form you can use in HikaShop can have custom fields and thus you can add a checkbox with your T&C to it.
That way, when they fill in the contact form, you are sure that they already validated the T&C.