FAQ

-- What is Shopping.com Partner Site script?

Shopping.com Partner Site script is a complete, fully customizable, money-making web site that is 100% ready to make you money. All you have to do is promote your own compare prices engine! Earn money on a pay-per-click basis by driving qualified customers to merchants.

-- How does it work?

Using Shopping.com Partner Site script, you can turn your site into a shopping comparison engine using Shopping.com's Api. This is easy to set up and you don't need to hire someone to customize it for you.

-- How much does it cost?

The price for the Shopping.com Partner Site script is $250 USD per 1 site (one time fee includes one year email support) + $150 USD per each additional site/mirror.
If you cannot install the script yourself or have difficulties, we can do full installs of the script for $20 USD.
To purchase scripts please refer to our Script BuyNow page.

-- Can I use this script for apply to Shopping.com partner program, because they require me an existing site?
If I buy your script, and I put the demo script online is sure than they give me the linkin ID?

If you will use our script in order to apply for Shopping.com partner program - you will not be accepted. The reason is their allication policy:
"We require that your site contains original content, we do not support mirror sites. ".
So our advise to you is setup or use existing site with product blog, customer or professional reviews or something else and apply to Shopping.com's program with it. You will have a lot more chances to be accepted in this case.
After it, when you will have Shopping.com partner IDs (LinkinID, TrackingID, ApiKey), you can buy and setup our script in order to get full functionallity that Shopping.com API have.

-- I would like to create a price comparison site dedicated only to the "Video Games" category. Is this possible?

Yes, it's possible, but it will cost you additional $100. You can see examples of such sites here or here.

-- I would like my site to look like the Best Priced site, but with slightly different header. Would that level of customization be included in the $100 and if not how much do you charge?

If you want just change the header and footer design - yes, we can do it for you for $100. If you need a more complex redesign - please use the contact form to send us your request.

-- I use PHP, and don't want to learn something else. Do you have a php version?

Sorry, we don't have php version of our script.

-- Can I see website uses Shopping.com Partner Site script or Demo site?

Please look here

-- After I install script on my server I get some errors:
   A. The main page comes up but as soon as I click on any link I get an error page.

This can be in two cases.

1. You have widget Linkin ID while to work our script needed API Linkin ID.
2. Your hosting provider ban outbound connections. For example GoDaddy does so.
   Read this: http://jeff-dev.blogspot.com/search/label/WebHosting


List of Known Incompatible Hostings:
1. GoDaddy
2. 1and1
3. Brinkster free accounts

   B. I no see subcategories. I see the message in the side menu: "There are no additional ways to narrow down these results."

The reason of this is that shopping.com not giving you the opportunity to do so for your LinkinID. Contact with Shopping.com affiliate manager and ask him to turn this feature on for you.

-- How shopping.com pays out their affiliate?

It is a PPC (Pay Per Click) program that pays around 80% of the rates they charge their advertisers each time a user sent to shopping.com clicks through to one of their retailers.
The rates they publish on their site start at:

Electronics $0.48 - $1.20 Kitchen $0.30 Computers $0.77 - $1.10 Home and Garden $0.17 - $0.30 Sports and Outdoors $0.06 - $0.63 Video Games $0.19 - $0.31 Garden $0.30 Health and Beauty $0.58 - $0.81 Kids and Family $0.19 - $0.63 Jewelry and Watches $0.24 - $0.78 Office $0.44 - $1.10 Building Supplies $0.30 Food and Wine $0.18 Large Kitchen Appliances $0.36 Clothing and Accessories $0.22 - $0.39 Small Kitchen Appliances $0.18 - $0.72 Flowers and Gifts $0.31 Books $0.06 Movies $0.06 Music $0.06 Travel $0.05 Furniture $0.30 Home Furnishings $0.30 Pets $0.24 Magazine and Subscriptions $0.17 Cars $0.06 - $0.44 Event Tickets $0.33 Appliance Accessories $0.18 Musical Instruments & Accessories $0.06 - $0.63 Home Appliances $0.36 - $0.72 Sports Memorabilia and Fan Shop $0.19

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