Comments on: Commission Junction Web Services

By: Sol Orwell

Sol Orwell — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:19:47 +0000

FYI they now include date ranges – up to 31 days.

Thanks for the code, it made life a lot easier for me.

By: Alwin

Alwin — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:02:44 +0000

Thanks Eric…

Actually I have checked it . But all of them needs one or other kinds of payments or call. But as I am outside USA it is not valid for me. I have checked with some in the site. it is also not seems to b working. So it will be a great help if you can send me one sample response of ‘Daily Publisher Commission Service(SOAP)’. I am using it because we can specify the dates there. As you have used it before , you may the sample report. I don’t need any valuable data. Just the response so I can work on the code for entering the data into database. Please help.

By: Eric Nagel

Eric Nagel — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:31:24 +0000

Alwin,

Find a merchant who pays a $0 commission (for a free trial download, for example) and then you’ll be able to see the commission in your account, without actually paying for anything.

However, looking through the available services, I don’t see anything for just clicks.

By: Alwin

Alwin — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:17:21 +0000

Hi,
I am also working with an affiliate site and has used the SOAP. But it is not returning any data. So I googled and find this blog. Please note that I only had the Clicks inormation. So I have given the action-type as ‘click’. But it is not returnung any data for both the APIs. Do we need to have commission amount to use services..? then does anyone know is there any Sandbox avialable..? or selse how can I test the working without making purchases..?

By: Tracking CJ Commissions with Prosper202 | Eric Nagel

Tracking CJ Commissions with Prosper202 | Eric Nagel — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:17:36 +0000

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By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:55:43 +0000

Until they can give us the date parameter in the REST request, I cannot move off of SOAP. I don’t have a preference for one over the other; except I prefer the stability of curl over the PHP soap client and I like the “ease of use” of the PHP soap client over curl (not that curl is THAT hard — I am specifically talking of having curl talk SOAP; otherwise curl is cake). There is also the HTTPRequest PHP object which I have not played much with: http://usphp.com/manual/en/http.httprequest.php

Just my 2 cents.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:50:34 +0000

So, it should be noted that I basically removed all I could from the filtering:

$results = $client->findPublisherCommissions(array(
‘developerKey’ => $developerKey,
‘date’ => $date,
‘dateType’ => ‘posting’,
‘countries’ => ‘all’,
));

By: Eric Nagel

Eric Nagel — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:31:42 +0000

Hi Jason – interesting idea… and it worked! Nice find!

However, after I wrote this, Alex from CJ reached out to me and told me to use the REST method. “Some consideration has been put into an eventual migration off SOAP.” Which is fine with me – I like REST better.

Thanks for the tip!

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:04:57 +0000

Hey Eric,

I would be interested to see if changing the “countries” parameter in the soap call to “all” fixed it for you. It seemed to fix it for me. I had the exact same issue, basically I was only getting back 1 result when I should have been getting back 3. I changed it from “US” to “all” and it returned all 3 results for me.

Let me know your results if you would not mind.

Cheers,

Jason

By: Scott Jangro

Scott Jangro — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:05:50 +0000

Good stuff Eric. I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for months now. I’m glad to see that there’s a second person in the world who has looked at their API.

If my memory serves, they’re moving toward REST and away from SOAP. I’ll see if I can check in with someone there on their plans to support each.