Commission Junction Publisher
Jump start your Clipper coupon site with coupon and promotional data from CJ Affiliate by Conversant (formerly Commission Junction), the number one affiliate marketer in the world. Thousands of advertisers post coupons and promotions on the CJ network and now you can have this data imported to your Clipper site. No more complicated CSV imports! The CJ Publisher Plugin does all the work for you.
Features
- Import coupons from joined advertisers and non-joined advertisers
- Automatically create stores or define store relations
- Automatically create categories or define category relations
- Import coupons on demand or schedule hourly, twice daily or daily updates
- Define number of coupons to import
- Choose from promotion types: Coupons, Sweepstakes, Hot Product, Sale/Discount, Free Shipping, Seasonal Link
Requirements
- You must have a CJ Affiliate publisher account. Sign up for a free account at cj.com.
- The CJ Affiliate Publisher Plugin requires Clipper 1.4 or newer.
What themes does this work with?
Commission Junction Publisher will only work with Clipper (our WordPress coupon theme), version 1.4 or later.
Full install instructions can be found in the Commission Junction plugin tutorial.
Version 1.5
- Fixed inability to import new coupons due to recent CJ API change
- Fixed Stores Relations not saving after page 1
- Coupon code is now imported too
Version 1.4
- Added pagination to stores relations tab
- Added validating terms before returning relation
- Fixed setting stores relations for not joined merchants
Version 1.3
- Added displaying API response errors
- Added displaying quantity of imported coupons
Version 1.2
- Changed API keys test into manual, on user demand
- Clearing dynamic transients on plugin deactivation
Version 1.1
- Checking for coupons all possible result pages
- Added option to choose state of imported coupons
- Added API keys test and notice if keys are invalid
- Suppressed XML parse errors
- Removed unnecessary query args from admin settings page
Version 1.0
- Initial release
4 reviews of “Commission Junction Publisher”
This plugin does okay… It does what it asked to do automatically.. just not too good. My main concerns are as follows:
– In CJ, almost all coupons have an image. this plugin does not include those images. I doubt also purchasing the coupon image plugin would do this either
– Many times I find that the store URL does not include my affiliate link and has to be manually added. If its not there, it defaults to just the regular link without my affiliate link
– Most things are not considered coupons but promotions even if it has a coupon code in the text. But I am assuming that has more to do with how the company classifies the promo
It really has saved me time and made me some money. I just feel like the plugin could do a better job.
It seems to work ok but there are very few coupons on the site.
Great plugin, if you want an easy way to build your coupon site. This is it!
This plugin is ok, seems to work. However, there is still a lot of additional manual tweaking required to get coupons right. I don’t think this tool is adding much value, as it only works for one Affiliate program. I’ve only managed to get about 100 coupons added from CJ, and that’s after applying to hundreds of merchandisers – and most of these have missing or bad data, including missing images, coupon codes, inadequate descriptions.
Perhaps if it interfaced to a broader selection of Affiliate programs, and resulted in a better quality coupon, it may be worth paying for.
Comments (84)
@Eston Swaby & @Andy Martin, you are welcome to submit your suggestions to the AppThemes Ideas Exchange. Thanks.
Hi i would love to but i haven’t bought the script as yet, just ensuring that when i buy i have things to mke me fjncyion how i want to
If i purchase this plugin, can i have specific coupons and deals loaded to it automatically in differet menus? Eg having a menu for free shipping, webhosting etc and coupons or deals that are free shipping etf will automatically be loaded to this area while all others go to the regular coupon area? Would also want deals/promotions offers to go to a specific menu, tht is all offers that don’t have a coupon code
@Eston Swaby, the Commission Junction plugin setup documentation will give you an idea of the setup options available for coupon information coming in from CJ. Thanks.
Thanks just read it. I was eager to buy the cj plugin but think i will reconsider. reason being is of the coupons codes not being where it should be but in the description. WOuld buy linkshare as base on what I see with linkshare when I click on the code I will see the code but there merchants are much less than cj.
can you tell me when you guys will have shareasale? also if I buy the framer for clipper will it show cj codes in the frame?
The shops and coupons are automaically imported but i dont see any store images in the coupons? Please fix asap! http://Coupagram.com
CJ plugin not importing a store images. This feature has the iCodes Publisher plugin because their API offer that information, CJ don’t.
Does each coupon get automatically posted, or is there an option to put them in a draft so I can tweak before uploading? I’d rather avoid all of the duplicate content.
There is an ‘Immediate publish’ option, so you can choose, and disable it if you want to review each coupon before publish.
Comission Junction plugin for Clipper should have an option. It support to import only specific category. for example if someone wants to import TRAVEL cstegory so only TRAVEL category coupons import.
Hi the plugin is not currently importing coupons from CJ though last year it worked with my other site on test basis. I tried this now with Clipper 1.6 and later with 1.5. Then I tried the ‘import coupons now’ option and getting this message – CJ 0 coupons have been imported.
I have also tested API access and seems it is valid – Your CJ developer API access keys are valid.
Would you please advise.
this plugin no longer imports coupon code or include coupons in the description of the offers. If there is no update in the future, the plugin can help import offers only.
Need Some help! CJ plugin Store Relation option Setting can,t update or saved?
Hi, I have a pre-purchase question regarding this plugin.
I wanted to know if it can be set to only allow coupons to be posted for joined advertisers and block/not allow non-joined advertisers coupons?
I only want to have coupons that are for programs that I am part of and not advertisers I do not deal with.
Any information will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Hi,
Yes, both plugins “Commission Junction Publisher” & “CJ Affiliate Coupons” has an option to refine importing offers to only from joined advertisers… so only offers that you will receive commission will be imported.
Awesome, Thanks so much for your help.
What is the difference between the two? I’m just trying to figure out which would be best to buy for my needs.
Thanks again
Generally plugins are very similar, so please compare features list… sorry for being not too specific, but I’m the owner of one of this plugins, so saying that one or the other is better would be unfair 😉
Hi can you update your plugin with option for unreliable coupon ? 1 option with make unreliable copuon auto update with reliable
Hi @sirfaheem,
Can you please open a forum thread here: https://forums.appthemes.com/commission-junction-publisher/ and describe your feature request further?
This plugin was working with my coupon clipper site and it now no longer works? Are you making any updates to the plugin? 1 star at this point, doesn’t work.
Hi @9themescool,
You have left the same comment of few different plugins… don’t you think it’s strange all of them stopped to work at the same time?!
Have you changed something recently on your website, or maybe you changed hosting provider, or something else?
Have you reported problem on support forum describing issue, and your current environment in which it isn’t working?
Hi meloniq,
Great Plugin!
would definitely check it out as I joined CJ recently!
Here are some issues I found. Think it applies to the ShareASale coupon plugin too. The issue was fixed though with some help. #1 “There was issue in Language filter. plugin checking with “en” as language and imported data has “English”. as language.” #2 “Plugin was importing whole bunch of data from CJ website. Due to that our database/wordpress was not able to handle all data at one time.”
hi, the plugin stopped working on my site too, i have no change made. the API test pass fine, the loading doesn’t work just sping forever even for 5 coupons
DO NOT PURCHASE THIS PLUGIN. NOT WORKING. This plugin stopped working on my site several weeks ago also. I didn’t realize it had stopped importing coupons for a week or two. It has been 2 plus weeks since I reported the problem. Support has only responded with we will look at it.
Hello!
Plugin was stopped working because of changes in CJ API and no new documentation provided.
We’ve finally found a way to make it work without API docs. Thanks to developer who spent a lot of time on experimenting with requests to their API and its responses.
Now, new version 1.5 has been released, fixed this issue and added ability to import coupon codes.
All Best!
The new plugin fixed all the current issues. Everything is working great now. Thanks for getting it fixed!
I,m using latest version of this plugin! i,m unable to save store relation in cj settings?
Hi @Kasir, please note that support for this plugin is provided in this section of our forums: https://forums.appthemes.com/commission-junction-publisher/. Please do post a thread there with details of your issue and our support staff will be more than happy to assist. Thanks.
Does this plugin work with child themes for Clipper ?