Distributor Setup

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   Hi; I have a requirement for a client that needs to setup sales people as distributors. The products need to marked down (fixed price - no across the board discounts).

They need personalized pages for these distrubutors so they can market the product and get credit for the sale.

Is is possible to have (create) this setup in PC?
Also, can the sales be reported for these distributors?

Thanks

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terencef Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 04-May-2008 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote terencef Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Distributor Setup Posted: 21-October-2009 at 6:17am
	Hi; I have a requirement for a client that needs to setup sales people as distributors. The products need to marked down (fixed price - no across the board discounts). They need personalized pages for these distrubutors so they can market the product and get credit for the sale. Is is possible to have (create) this setup in PC? Also, can the sales be reported for these distributors? Thanks

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	Do different distributors get different pricing?

terencef Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 04-May-2008 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote terencef Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 21-October-2009 at 10:06pm
	At this time no - all get the same pricing; but I can forsee this being different! Thanks

Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Guest	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guests Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 21-October-2009 at 11:24pm
	Ok, so then I'm confused by what you mean by "The products need to marked down" At first blush, it seems to me that you could simply use the affiliate functionality in PC for this sort of thing. I'm picturing this: You could use the custom pages functionality in PC to build your distributor's landing pages. (or at a much more advanced level these could be relagated to subdomains), and then any links to shopping include the affiliate ID (or, frankly, having hit that landing page first, it could simply be set as a session variable behind the scenes). Then through the affiliate tracking functionality, you can track which distributor made which sales. If you decided to offer different priciing to different distributors, then a talented developer would be able to merge the pricing level functionality of PC with the affiliate functionality (would take some creativity as pricing levels are based on customer being logged in, but it shouldn't be terribly difficult to bounce that off of an affiliate ID instead -- we've done more complicated things!). Let me know if this makes any sense to you and if it sounds like this is rather what you are looking for.

terencef Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 04-May-2008 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote terencef Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 29-October-2009 at 5:12pm
	Sean; sorry for the long delay - I had a crisis that consumed my days. Thanks for the responses, I'm going to steer the client to the affiliate route only because they don't have a clear use case. If something comes up I know who to call! Terence