If you are using an external affiliate network/software (like Cake or Tune) to manage your affiliates, you can still use the CRM’s affiliate system to track clicks, lead and sales. You can also place the pixels within the affiliate profile for easier managementwhich will send the conversion to the external affiliate network.
First, follow this article to create an affiliate profile named as the affiliate software you are using.
Next, edit that new affiliate profile and set one of the Passed Values to be the publisher value (and another to be the sub affiliate value if needed for internal tracking). You can add up to 5 passed values allowing you to use the other 3 for other tracking values, such as transactionId, clickId, etc.
For more information on Passed Values, please view this article!
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