Building an Affiliate Marketing site with Hikashop

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10 years 1 month ago #211618

-- HikaShop version -- : 2.5.0
-- Joomla version -- : 3.3.0
-- PHP version -- : 5.4.3

Hi there,
1. I would like to know if hikashop provides the functionality for setting up an affiliate store (I will only be marketing the products i.e catalog mode and the products will typically link to an external url from the product page). If this is possible, please explain to me how to go about it as I am having some difficulties.
2. I will also like to customize the product page so that the product title links to the external url of the seller's site, but the product image still links to the product details/description page on my own site.

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10 years 1 month ago #211630

Hi,

1. Sure. You can create a custom field of the table "product" via the menu Display>Custom fields with the Essential or Business edition and then that link can be displayed automatically on the product page if you turn on the frontend display option of the field and enter the external URL in the custom field.
2. You can edit the file "listing_img_title" of the "product" view via the menu Display>Views for that. You can change the code:

<a href="<?php echo $link;?>">
	<?php }
		echo $this->row->product_name;
to:
<a href="<?php echo $this->row->FIELD;?>">
	<?php }
		echo $this->row->product_name;
where FIELD is to be replaced with the column name of your custom field.

Last edit: 10 years 1 month ago by nicolas.
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10 years 1 month ago #211660

Thank you so much.
I also wanted to ask in addition, is there any module for hikashop that offers automatic email notifications on product updates?
So for example, I want a customer to be able to subscribe to get an alert on a particular product if the price is change i.e there is a sale on that item.
I will get back to you in case I run into any other problems. I just want to test out the free version of hikashop for my affiliate store at the moment and then I will certainly be buying the full version once my store starts generating some income.

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10 years 1 month ago #211675

Hi,

There is an email notification systems but it is limited and won't allow you to do that:
It is called "waitlist" and allows you to subscribe to notifications when a product is out of stock so you'll get notified when stock is added.
If you're a developer, or if you can hire one, it could be possible to take example on that plugin to create your own email notification system in order to do what you need.

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10 years 1 month ago #211691

Oh I see. I have seen the waitlist feature in action. Thank you very much, I will definitely take a look at the plugin. To finalize, where can I get the code for the waitlist plugin? Is it included in the source files for the business edition of hikashop?

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10 years 1 month ago #211709

Kaos wrote: ... the waitlist plugin? Is it included in the source files for the business edition of hikashop?


Yes. See the documentation here: www.hikashop.com/support/support/documen...ml#features_waitlist
where among other notes it says

This option is available in all commercial versions of HikaShop.

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(Don't forget to turn on "E-mail notification of new messages" )
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10 years 1 month ago #211694

Hi,

The waitlist feature is provided by HikaShop essential and HikaShop business.

Waiting list to which users can subsribe for out of stock products

www.hikashop.com/extensions.html

Regards,

Jerome - Obsidev.com
HikaMarket & HikaSerial developer / HikaShop core dev team.

Also helping the HikaShop support team when having some time or couldn't sleep.
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