Zen Cart and Jrox JAM Per Item Commissions
Per Item Commissions in Zen Cart and Jrox JAM
They said this couldn’t be done. I said bah!
I have it working on a zen cart install at leap movie
You will be able to setup individual commissions on each product, as either a flat per item commission or a percentage per item. Or if you have products that you don’t want to pay out on this can now be done as well.
Screen Capture Below from Zen Cart Admin for Product Setup
So if you sell 10 items at a flat rate of $5 per, the commission is going to be $50.00
And thats not all. The commission is based entirely on the products in the order. So if you have one product that pays a flat fee, and other items that are percentage based, it does the math on the whole order.
Item 1 x 4 @ $5.00 flat
Item 2 x 1 @ 10% ( price is $10.00 )
Item 3 x 5 @ $1.00 flat
== total commission
Item 1 $20.00
Item 2 $ 1.00
Item 3 $ 5.00
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Actual Commission is $26.00
Unlike the default jam config of a commission per order. This is much more appealing to the affiliate. and lot more fair , escpecially if you want to pay them for each item they sell. Not just if the item happens to be in the order.
Once I finalize the tutorial on how to do this. I will be selling the ebook, and custom php code for $49.95 with the option of having me install it for an additional $29.95 or in combination as one fee of $69.95.
If you are interested let me know.
I am also looking for a few beta testers to try this out. ( FREE ) Just post a comment.
Happy zen carting.
Note: This works when you have only one program setup in JAM. Also this only makes sense for stores with products, and not services sites that offer recurring commissions on subscriptions. Because now that the commission rates are setup in zencart all JAM does is keep track of them after they are calculated. All other features of JAM are left intact, paying affiliates, signup etc.
That’s neat, however I’m using X-Cart with JAM and wondered if such a pay per item situation could be applied there?
Should I be sorry I’m not using Zencart?
Hmmm. X-cart , i don’t know that one. I could take a look for you and see if it can be done it you like. And no, please don’t be sorry that you are not using zen cart. I am quickly thinking of moving away from the Zen and to a hosted solution like volusion or 1shoppingcart
That is cool. Have you had any luck integrating google checkout with zen and JROX? I hate the way google does their checkout integration.
Hmm, this was last posted about last year. has any progress been made since then?
Have you been able to beta test this? I’m certainly interested.
Ray
How do I get the mod?
Beta Testing Has finally begun. I have had a few interested parties in the module. So I am going full speed ahead with this.
there are not any reported problems with the code.
in fact it has been improved to also create a report into zencart itself to display the commissions and orders as well.
i am working on creating an additional admin feature to setup a default commission in the admin section to apply to all current producst so that you can just do a mass update on all products.
any other features you might suggest?