Shopping Portal Onboarding Guide
7 min
getting started wildfire’s shopping portal is turn key, fully hosted "discovery hub" that allows end users to browse offers, earn cashback, available coupons, and redeem rewards it functions as a standalone website (subdomain) or an embedded experience within a mobile app user’s cash back rewards can be tracked and redeemed either directly through the partners reward platform or via wildfire’s hosted earnings dashboards 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 wildfire managed authentication (turn key) wildfire authentication (google/apple) wildfire hosts earning dashboard wildfire pays users lightweight authentication partner manages authentication (tracking id (uuid) pass through) wildfire sends json webhook with tracking id partner hosts earnings dashboard & partner pays user partner managed authentication (sso/oauth) partner managed auth partner or wildfire hosts earnings dashboard partner or wildfire manages payout detailed authentication details can be found here https //kb wildfire corp com/shopping portal authentication guide https //kb wildfire corp com/shopping portal authentication guide web domain hosting the shopping portal can be hosted on a domain or subdomain owned by the partner, or wildfire can provide a domain for you ex rewards partnername com 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 partner managed dashboard & payouts 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 more details hosting earnings dashboard & paying your users docid\ bqli4iz nvdhjlbctctfh 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