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Open Source Affiliate Tracking Software
by Fernandao Hal (cheatad.com)

Among all Internet marketing channels or how to make money online, we know that affiliate marketing is one of the biggest money maker. Affiliate marketing is basically a referral system. For example, if we are a publisher promoting a specific product or service, either by text, video or image, and we get paid in form of commission whenever someone purchase the product or service based on our referral system. So, there are two side of affiliate marketing: the merchant who needs marketing channels for their product, and the affiliated publishers who seek to earn commission from the sales made.

For affiliate marketing to work, there must be a way to track if the purchase is made based on someone’s referral. That’s where affiliate marketing script comes in play. Some shopping cart scripts (or e-commerce scripts) has built-in affiliate tracking system, thus no additional script required. However, if you need stand-alone affiliate tracking script, the options is not closed on you either. Below we list down some of the best affiliate tracking scripts that are free or open source.

List of Open Source / Free Affiliate Tracking Scripts (in PHP) For Merchants

1. Free Affiliate
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeaffiliate/
   Affiliate management system that is easy to include in the website and allow you manage affiliates and generate reports.On the checkout page, affiliate ID is entered, and affiliate account will be credited based on the volume of sale
2. AffiliatesForAll
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/affiliates/
   AffiliatesForAll is a free affiliate management system. It will track the amount of money you owe your affiliates and make payment simple. Your affiliates will also be able to register online, change their details, and see sales statistics.
3. affmarket
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/affmarket/
   “Affiliate Market” from Indonesia by Arif Hidayat. A web store with affiliate system in PHP side-server language and MySql database, it’s originally form simple open source (post affiliate) that re-concept and many additional feature.
4. OSC-Affiliate
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/oscaffiliate/
   Affiliate System module for osCommerce
5. Symphero: Open Source eCommerce
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensymphero/
   An open-source e-commerce suite for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, supporting multiple databases (currently MySQL and PostgreSQL), distributed object storage (in beta), and advanced marketing and affiliate tracking capabilities.
6. AShop
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/ashop/
   Intended to be a highly automated php/mySQL based webshop system for selling digital products such as ebooks and software. It will include a shopping cart, affiliate marketing, delivery of digital products and more.
7. Max Media Manager (phpAdsNew) Ad Server
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/max/
   Max Media Manager is a fork of phpAdsNew geared toward large and more sophisticated websites. All of the features from Max Media Manager, such as affiliate conversion tracking, adserving for large websites, and additional banner limitations have been included.

List of Open Source / Free Affiliate Tracking Scripts (in PHP) For Publishers

1. Amazon Products Feed
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/apf/
   The Amazon Products Feed script was created to provide a current listing of products on your site using Amazon‘s XML Web Services to provide links for your visitors to purchase these items on Amazon.com using your affiliate code in the URL.
2. AffiliHost
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/affilihost/
   ‘AffiliHost’ is a Affiliate-System. Earn money by klick, lead and sale.
3. Propeller – open affiliate engine
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/propeller/
   Propeller – it is free CMS wich allow you to run your favorite partner programs and help you to get money.
4. nAffiliate
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/amazonstore/
   Microsoft .NET 2.0 project geared towards selling amazon content online via an affiliate interface. This codebase will allow a website operator to setup a niche affiliate website to sell amazon goods online.
5. Free Link Cloaker
   http://www.freelinkcloaker.com/
   Free Link Cloaker gets rid of ugly affiliate links and replaces them with user friendly format. All you need to use Free Link Cloaker is a domain name.