Affiliates – you probably know all about banners, text links, and other traditional creatives, but what is this business about “datafeeds” everyone is talking about? What are they, and how are they useful? A datafeed is simply a list your merchants provided of their products, in a standardized format. Each row is a product, and […]
Prep Your Blog for Super Bowl Traffic!
The Super Bowl is just around the corner! Are you prepared? Today we are going to cover a few very important steps to prepare your blog or website for the big game day. And on Friday, look for our next Merchant Guide for all your Super Bowl Needs! If you are anxious, feel free to […]
Affiliate API Building Blocks
Many Affiliates could benefit from the ShareASale API’s powerful tools. The API can answer a number of different questions, the most popular being: Who are your best Merchants? What are the new banners, deals, and products among them? Do you have any links that are invalid and should be fixed? You can use the API […]
Merchant API Building Blocks
ShareASale’s API is an often untapped way to save time by automating common or repetitive tasks. Its technical nature, however, can be a barrier to truly tapping into the full potential of our API. In this tutorial, we are going to explore the step-by-step building blocks needed for a successful merchant API request. Step #1: […]
Real world API Example
In my February #Interface blog posts, I discussed our new Get Products, and Merchant Search by Product API calls. How about a real-life example of their usefulness? If you’re a WordPress blogger, check out the quick plugin I made using the Get Products API. It simply adds a meta box on your WordPress admin post menu, where […]
Invalid Links Report
A while back, an Affiliate suggested that we create a report that would show any invalid links in their account. Thus eliminating the need for the Affiliate to search through links for each individual Merchant they partnered with. And so, the Invalid Links Report was born! Right off the bat this report had some great […]
Merchant Search by Product API
Enhance your scripts with our new Affiliate Product API’s – Part II: As mentioned in my Friday post, ShareASale has launched two great new API tools for our Affiliates. Let’s check out the second – merchantSearchProduct. In the ShareASale interface, you may be familiar with our Baskets feature to quickly find Merchants and products to […]
API Product Search
Enhance your scripts with our new Affiliate Product API’s: ShareASale is launching two new and highly anticipated API tools for our platform that tech-savvy Affiliates will love. Today, I’ll cover the first – getProducts. Although datafeeds provide a great way for Merchants and Affiliates to sync up product information, what about querying for specific products […]
Merchant Search API
Hello Affiliate Readers- We are pleased to announce the first in a series of API updates designed to bring ease and automation to your ShareASale experience. We are revolutionizing our API to give you more tools than ever to find Merchants within ShareASale to partner with. With the new Merchant Search API call, you […]
Merchant API Available
The Merchant API interface is available currently, allowing Merchants a more advanced method of interacting with real-time transactions as well as reports. The following are the types of things that could be done utilizing the Merchant API … Real-time voiding or editing of a transaction as it happens on your site. Recurring commissions such as […]