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02-19-2019 12:07 PM #1 minorityslam (Member)
Newbie Here, Question Regarding Trackers

Hi all,

Hope this messages finds everyone well. I’ve been reading up on trackers a lot lately and am struggling to get an answer to the list of affiliate networks trackers integrate with. From what I’m gathering is that networks like Amazon, Rakuten, CJ and Shareasale don’t integrate with trackers. Can someone please help me understand this better. Thanks in advance for your help.

Best,

02-19-2019 12:34 PM #2 matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

Hello and welcome to the forum.

The standard affiliate trackers all use the so called "postbacks" or "conversion pixels" to be able to track the sales. So in order for this to work, the particular networks have to support one or the other.

Basically, it works like this : trackers "mark" each visitor with a unique ID, this ID will be passed to the network and in case of a sale, the network will launch the postback/pixel url with the ID attached, in order to let the tracker know that this particular visitor has converted.

This means that the network has to be able to "grab" this ID and store it in their backend, to have it available for passing back in case of a conversion. For networks that are not built like this, these trackers won't work.

I'm not using any of the networks you mentioned now, so don't really know whether they support this or not. But if you search their FAQs for "postbacks or pixels" you should be able to find that information. Or just ask the support.

And maybe some other STM member will know more about the particular ones, so let's bump this thread

02-19-2019 01:16 PM #3 Mr Baffoe (Veteran Member)

Out of the list you gave, only Amazon is incompatible with trackers.

The rest have a way to pass in a unique subid. You may not be able to use a postback or conversion pixel for all of them, but you will be able to download a conversion report and manually upload into your tracker.

01-03-2020 08:23 AM #4 letsgoglobal (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by minorityslam View Post

From what I’m gathering is that networks like Amazon, Rakuten, CJ and Shareasale don’t integrate with trackers. Can someone please help me understand this better. Thanks in advance for your help.

Best,
To be able to set up tracking with these - more white hat - affiliate networks you need a different kind of tracker.
With https://wecantrack.com you can set up proper tracking of your commission data from affiliate networks like Awin, ShareAsale, Commission Junction and Tradetracker integrating it into online marketing tools like Google Analytics, Facebook Ads, Google Ads and for instance your own database with their API..

It works automatically after installing a script and inserting API key's, that takes about 15 minutes. It detects all your affiliate links and makes use use of unique 'subid's'.

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