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Brief Overview of Oscommerce

Self-hosted with great tools is the name of the game of this particular brand. They give you the right ingredients to create your own online store with open source licenses. This way you’ll set up a good team to help you reach your goals. They provided great service for over a decade. In this time, they’ve created a community of over 280,000 store owners, 13,300 registered sites, and even 1.6 million forum postings. There is a lot of activity in their community. Here are some of the features to show you why this company has reached a vast audience.
Main Features of Oscommerce

Since this service is more open source, the design allows you to make changes that are easy and adaptive. You can support more dynamic images in case your store is based more on a fashion or food point of view. There’s a simple process for adding products, manufacturers, customers, etc. From a customer’s perspective, it’s easy to see their order history and statuses. You can create a temporary shopping cart for guests, so that they don’t feel the need to create an account to make a one-time purchase. The checkout procedure is secure with the SSL encryption, and your storefront will be well optimized for navigating.

How it’s Compatible with OSI Affiliate Software

Sign up for an OSI Affiliate Program plan if you haven’t already. Add the code for your landing page by going to your script and replacing it with your actual URL where the the software is installed. Go to checkout_success.php (located in the Oscommerce source files) and implement the sale tracking code. Test the program by going to “Link to Promote” and make a test order with your credit card. For full details, go to “How to Setup an OSCommerce Affiliate Program.

Oscommerce OSI Affiliate Software Step by Step Instructions

Step 1 Start the Getting Started Setup

Click "Start Setup" shown below:

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Step 2 Add Referral program Name and Description
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Step 3 Select the Type of Referral program and add additional Details

You may select to reward your affiliates a percentage of a sale, a fixed amount or a custom reward.
Additionally if you do not want to reward users, you may also just use the software to track referred leads.

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Step 4 Select where you want affiliates to send people

You may select to have your affiliates send people directly to your site or to a coupon page.

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You have now created an affiliate program for your Oscommerce. It is time to add affiliate tracking software to your Oscommerce.
Step 5 Click on Getting Started -> Setup Software
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Step 6 In the pop up window click "I want to get code to insert on my landing and thank you page" shown here:
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You are now on the Integration page where you can select the shopping cart that you have to get the code for the thank you page.
Step 6 In the pop up window click "I want to get code to insert on my landing and thank you page" shown here:
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You are now on the Integration page where you can select the shopping cart that you have to get the code for the thank you page.
Step 7 Get code for Thank you page

Select Oscommerce from the list of shopping carts. You will see the Oscommerce instructions like these:

Open wp-content/themes/name of your theme/Oscommerce/checkout/thankyou.php and place the code that is shown at the bottom below this line of code: do_action( 'Oscommerce_thankyou', $order->id );

Congratulations! Once you add this Oscommerce affiliate tracking code you have completed the setup and integration of the Omnistar Affiliate Software into your Oscommerce Store.