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 website! 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 this product please refer to our Script BuyNow page.

-- Can I use your script product to apply to Shopping.com's affiliate program because they require an existing site?
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If I buy your script, and I put the demo script online, will Shopping.com give me a trackingID and ApiKey?

NO. If you use our script in order to apply for a Shopping.com Partner Account, you will not to be accepted. The reason is their affiliation policy:
"We require that your site contains original content, we do not support mirror sites. ".
So our advice to you is setup or use existing site with a product blog, customer or professional reviews or something else and apply to Shopping.com's Partner Program with that domain. For example: An easy way to publish your own original content is use Free BasicCMS(Demo Site). You will have a lot better chance to be accepted with original content than starting with just a demo script.
After being accepting into the Shopping.com Partner Program, when you will have Shopping.com partner IDs (TrackingID, ApiKey), you can buy and setup our script in order to get the full functionality that Shopping.com API provides.

-- 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.

-- 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 price, and if not how much do you charge?

If you want just a change in 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 the script.

-- I received a newsletter from Shopping.com that mentioned that all partners must migrate to API version 3 by September 1, 2009. Does your script support shopping.com API version 3?

Yes, our script has full support for Shopping.com API version 3.

-- Can I look at websites that use the Shopping.com Partner Site script or a demo site?

Please check out the demos here

-- Do you offer this affiliate site script with Shopzilla content instead?

Yes. See it at 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 caused by a few cases.

1. You have the widget Linkin ID instead of the API Linkin ID. You will need the API Linkin ID for our product to work correctly.
2. Your hosting provider has banned outbound connections. For example GoDaddy.
   Read this: http://jeff-dev.blogspot.com/search/label/WebHosting


Some Known Incompatible Web Hosting Companies:
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 for this error is that Shopping.com has not given you permission for subcategories with your LinkinID. Please contact the Shopping.com affiliate program manager and ask him to turn this feature on for you.

-- How shopping.com pays out their affiliate?

Shopping.com 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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