Shopping Portal Onboarding Guide - Wildfire Support Center
Shopping Portal Onboarding Guide
6 min
Getting Started Getting Started
Wildfire’s shopping portal is a hosted website presence that partners can point their users to - wherein the user will be able to browse and discover savings at merchants they like to shop. Users who shop inside this webpage will earn cash back rewards that can be tracked and redeemed either directly through the partners reward platform, or via Wildfire's hosted earnings dashboard.
Shopping Portal Authentication Shopping Portal Authentication
When a user visits the shopping portal, we need a way to identify the user to affiliate when they activate cash back through the portal, in order to attribute them properly when the sale completes its lifecycle.
Wildfire supports several variations of implementation:
- Partner Pays Users, Partner Hosts Earnings Dashboard, Tracking ID Pass-Through
- Partner Pays Users, Partner Hosts Earnings Dashboard, OAuth
- Wildfire Pays Users, Wildfire Hosts Earnings Dashboard, Wildfire Authentication (Google/Apple)
- Wildfire Pays Users, Wildfire Hosts Earnings Dashboard, OAuth
Authentication details can be found here:
Shopping Portal Authentication Guide
Domain Hosting Domain Hosting
The shopping portal can be hosted on a domain or subdomain owned by the partner, or we can provide a domain for you.
For a partner provided sub domain, please see the CNAME implementation guide below:
Syncing Commission Data Syncing Commission Data
Once your users start generating sales, you'll want your system to sync the associated data so that you can show these sales to your users, send push notifications, etc.
There are two ways to get this commission data: pull them from our API or receive callbacks from our system. In most cases, you'll want to receive callbacks to keep your system in sync as closely as possible, but you'll also want to hit the API to pull batches of commission in case a callback wasn't successful. At this time, we do not re-attempt failed callbacks.
Syncing Commission Data via API and Callbacks
Hosting the Earnings Dashboard Hosting the Earnings Dashboard
In the commission data we provide back to our partners, they will find the user uuid attached to each commission record. If the partner chooses to host the earnings dashboard themselves, they can use the commission data feed to populate earnings data into their own earnings dashboards using the user uuids provided in the feeds to map earnings to each user’s earnings dashboard.
Sample Commission Data Sample Commission Data
If you need a set of sample commission data to test against, there are a few options available:
If you already have a Wildfire Application ID and Secret, you can request sample commissions be created for your application. These sample commissions include a very small set of data with a single record in each possible status.
Alternatively, if you need a larger, more diverse set of data, or if you don't have an application created yet, you can use a sample set of commission data.