How do you track buy page views?

[Roman Budzowski]

Hi
How do you track buy page views? Is this something that eseller takes care of? We are working with esellerate and I can't find this raport over there. I would like to avoid redirecting my customers from "tracking" page to webstore page.

best regards
Roman

[Mike Boeh]

You should use a redirect page, in case you ever want to switch e-commerce providers. Also, on your home page, you spelled "coming" wrong.

[Roman Budzowski]

You should use a redirect page, in case you ever want to switch e-commerce providers.

What do you mean? If I want to switch e-commerce provider I change a link to "buy now". Do you mean it will be a lot of work to switch it?

thanks
Roman

PS. Coming corrected.

[soniCron]

Do you mean it will be a lot of work to switch it? You'd have trouble changing all the "Buy Now" links in your games. Once they've been downloaded, you won't have control over them.

[ErikH2000]

What do you mean? If I want to switch e-commerce provider I change a link to "buy now". Do you mean it will be a lot of work to switch it?
I think he's just saying that the "buy now" link in your game should go to a page hosted on your site, not directly to a payment processor (i.e. Plimus, BMT). The site on your page could provide a little information before sending someone to a payment-processor-hosted order page, or it could just redirect the customer to the payment processor's page. You can change your hosted page whenever you want, but you can't really change all the links in builds of your game that people have already installed.

-Erik

[Roman Budzowski]

Yes, I get it now. I didn't think of all those "buy now" links in my games. I guess there is some more php coding ahead of me ;-) But now when I know that it is common to redirect I'm not feared to do that.

thanks
Roman

[ErikH2000]

Most people have some kind of landing page with a link to the actual order page. It's a good place to give the customer an orientation on what to expect before sending him to the order page. I'd recommend this instead of just a plain redirection, but I admit I'm basing the opinion on "common sense" instead of testing data. It just seems harsh to get dumped right to an order page.

Other people have more polished and probably better-performing "buy now" landing pages, but here's one of mine to give you an idea:

http://caravelgames.com/buyKDD.html

-Erik

[Robert Cummings]

Well why else would they click buy now if they didn't want to buy it? :) I don't think it makes much difference so long as they are in the purchase area. Speaking from common sense, personally.

[Savant]

Well why else would they click buy now if they didn't want to buy it?
To check the price. Most developers don't list the price on their site so you have no idea what it costs until you click.

[ErikH2000]

To check the price. Most developers don't list the price on their site so you have no idea what it costs until you click.
Yep. And the price of the title is another area you may want flexibility on. So hard-coding it into your demo gives you the same problem as putting a direct-to-processor buy URL--you can't change all the installations out there when you change your price.

-Erik