Hi,
I'm in the middle of the discovery process to migrate my store to Shopify. I'm pretty confident I can get it all to do the things I need it to do, apart from affiliate marketing as I have pretty specific needs.
I need 2 things - an XML product feed of my store's products, with a custom formatted link back to each item with an affiliate code. Secondly I need the ability to append a link to a page or product on my site with an affiliate code.
The reason I need this is that I partner with my country's biggest website on my topic - they have an affiliate store that requires a data feed. Secondly they have a popular forum that I derive a lot of traffic/sales from and when I put a link in the forums either to my site or a particular product it needs to have an affiliate code so any sales resulting from those links can be tracked and paid a commission.
Right now I'm on Wordpress, I've had a developer code up the XML feed pretty easily and use a plugin that tracks the affiliates sales - it lets me append any link on the site with an affiliate code ie: http://www.xyz.com/products/best-product-ever/?affiliates=2
I have other affiliates too but I am focusing on the main one.
Look forward to your input.