Awin

Awin provides a global affiliation network connecting businesses with customers. Using this destination you can implement server-side tracking using the same client-side parameters.

Awin no longer support the use of pixel only implementations due to various browser constraints and limitations.

Key features

The Awin destination provides the following key features:

• Events structure: our Events reference covers Awin lead and sale tracking, meaning that your data is properly bridged to the expected fields in an optimized way.

• Prebuilt mappings: data mapping for event-based destinations happens automatically, which simplifies user inputs.

• Smart mapping: data mapping can be readjusted using your datalayer defined fields.

• Support for multi-item data: information included in the item array is bridged to Awin.

• Commission group: remunerate different products based on your commission groups.

Destination setup

The awc parameter is appended to the landing page URL by Awin to identify the source of the click. This value is mandatory and is retrieved by getting the value of either the Click Id (See Configuration) or the awc cookie, in this priority order.

Configuration

Settings	Description
Advertiser Id	Required Your advertiser programme ID. Consult your Awin account contact or assigned integrator for more information on this value.
Conversion Type	Required The conversion type that is bound with your activity. This can be either Sale or Lead. If conversion type is Sale, only purchase events are sent to the partner, if it's Lead, only generate_lead events are forwarded to Awin.
Click Id	Awin click identifier (awc). If it's not set the cookie "awc" is used. More details are available following this LINK.
Default Commission Code	The default commission code for conversion type Sale . If this is not set, the standard commission group code DEFAULT is used.
Force parts with default commission code and amount	For conversion type Sale, set Awin parameter parts with default commission code and total amount.
Test Mode	This field is available when flagging the Advanced Settings . It's either 0 (default value) for live production or 1 for UAT/test environment: when setting to the latter, the incoming tracking requests will not be processed by Awin.
Custom Event Properties	Map your custom event properties by setting their field names in Awin property name and adding the field name holding the value in Your event property. E.g. if you input size in the Awin property name and items.0.product.size in Your event property, you will have a custom event property in Awin called size with a value based on the content of the field items.0.product.size.

Quick reference

Commanders Act Events	Awin Tracking
generate_lead	Lead
purchase	Sale

Field mappings

Most properties can be remapped using our "Smart Mapping" feature. The following fields are recommended when having more than one commission group code: - items.X.affiliation - items.X.product.price - items.X.quantity

Alternatively, you can Force parts with default commission code and amount . See Configuration for more details. Accepted characters for the commission group codes are alphanumerics and letter in upper case, underscore (_) , point (.) and minus (-).

Commanders Act Properties	Awin Properties
Advertiser Id	merchant [*]
Click Id	cks [1][*]
revenue	amount
channel	ch [2]
items.X.affiliation:items.X.product.price*items.X.quantity Default Commission Code:revenue	parts [3]
coupon	vc
currency	cr
id	ref
Test Mode	testmode
AW:P|Advertiser Id|id|items.X.product.id|items.X.product.name|items.X.product.price|items.X.quantity|items.X.product.price|items.X.id|items.X.affiliation|items.X.product.category_1	bd[X] [4]

[*] Mandatory property. [1] See Destination setup for more details. [2] Default value "aw". [3] Computed amounts are rounded with two decimals (E.g. "DOWNLOAD:551.18|FIX-NC:15302.67"). For Sale conversion type, when the "Smart Mapping" field Item Affiliation is not filled with a proper value, the commission group code is set with the value provided in Default Commission Code . If Force parts with default commission code and amount is flagged the values is set using the Default Commission Code and revenue . See Configuration for more details. When you select Lead as conversion type, it's set with the static string LEAD:1 . [4] It takes into account each product.