Shopping Portal Onboarding Guide

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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 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, simple authentication 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 https //kb wildfire corp com/shopping portal authentication https //kb wildfire corp com/shopping portal authentication 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 https //kb wildfire corp com/cname implementation guide https //kb wildfire corp com/cname implementation guide 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 https //kb wildfire corp com/article/kfgi syncing commission data via api and callbacks https //kb wildfire corp com/article/kfgi syncing commission data via api and callbacks 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 https //kb wildfire corp com/public commission sample data https //kb wildfire corp com/public commission sample 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