Virtuemart Affiliate Program for 28$

Hi there fellow marketeer:

It´s been hundres of posts asking for VM Affiliates since its begining.
If you really need this feature, If you really want this problem solved...

There is a solution and it has been discused in this forums several times.

After 3 moth searching for a programmer that would not take all my cash in exchnange...
I have received a good offer at Joomlancers from a developer (850$):
http://www.joomlancers.com/Extensions_Programming/virtuemart_affiliate_program_1186512515.html

A really good price for such a developement, but too much for me to buy it alone, It would take ages until I recover selling ink cartridges ;-(

Now let´s say 20 or 30 people are interested in having it done, my proposal is to split this amount between all people interested...
That would mean a share of just 28 US$. The payment is trougth escrow.
Finally, we will offer the software free to the community under GNU.
Of course, if somone around here is willind to do the programming job for the same or less money, welcome!

We have already founded 740$, we need only 8-10 more people to have it done.

If you have real interest on having VM affiliates solved at last, well... Just do it!
Reply to this post or any of the older posts and state the max amount you would be willing to pay for it.
Also specify what are your needs, which features would you like it to have.

It all started here: http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=34812.0
Actual thread going on: http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=34307.0

Thank you for reading, Yosu.

This is the full feature list we are working on:

This is not a warrant that everything will be implemented, just initial list to work with.
There will probably be 2 or more developement "phases" wich wil start with a very basic functionality and grow over time.
Any new feature request will be taken into account.
VM 1.1 is going to be released inmediately, and an upgrade patch for older versions will be provided, so we wil work durectly for VM 1.1

Affiliate interface under user´s menu:
Affiliate account creation page in user´s menu. for self signup.
Affiliate account creation page in admin area. user´s menu.
Affiliate "banner and text links creation page under user´s menu
Basic affiliate results page to see own sales and cash earned, under user´s menu.
Show page where to get affiliate links and choose banners.

Admin pages:
Approve new affiliate accounts.
Approve new sales & recurring sales.
Upload banners and create text ads.
General list of affiliates with:
Total number of sales, total ammounts of sales. payable and pendant of confirmation.
Detail view of an affiliate with same data plus detailed sales and ammounts for every tranaction.
A page where to specify the rewarded percentage and to set a minimum balance requirement for payout.

Other considerations:
Affiliates can market individual products by pointing to the product url ( no automation on individual products on first version, just direct links or manually aded landing page products)

Standard Features:
MySQL database integration.
Integrated session management.
Unique banner and text linking codes.
Manage unlimited affiliates. Affiliate Marketing
Linking code automatically generated
Set currency type and languaje per user.
Create unlimited text ads, banner, text links (and flash adds?).
Affiliates can view accounts in their 2nd Tier.
Post-sales auto return with page redirection.

Choose Any Payout Styles.
Pay-Per-Sale (Percentage).
Pay-Per-Sale (Flat Rate Payout).
Pay-Per-Click (Unique Visitors Only).
3levels & tier affiliates.

Product Grouping.
Affiliates can market individual products or all products.
Define incoming traffic pages for each product group so visitors are sent directly into selected product pages.

Administrative Center.
Manage affiliate accounts. 2nd tier (% payout & individual reporting).
Upload banners and create text ads.
Approve new affiliate accounts.
Manage sales, pay affiliates.
Approve new sales & recurring sales.
Manage order tracking code.
Set a minimum balance requirement (for payout).
Set an initial "incentive" balance.
Set multiple campains
Review extensive traffic logging for each affiliate.
Optional email notifications on every sales step to both, manager (admin) and affiliate.

Sales Tracking and Integrated Accounting, Reporting & Statistics.
- Session management
- IP logging
- cookies.
View current approved, pending & archived sales. View traffic, sales, ratios, etc. for each affiliate.
Send affiliates an email invoice at time of payment. Review accounting details for each affiliate.
View accounting history for each affiliate with printable reports.

Other features:
Integrated Language files for easy translation.
admin module for paying commissions. (PayPal?)
Time limit delay prevents duplicate sales entries.
Mass Payments - Pay all your affiliates at once. PHP sha1 admin password encryption.
Compliant with register_globals ON or OFF.
Support for other "actions" different than a sale, like signup on Joomla site (not just VM).