Creating an Affiliate Program in Odoo

How to Create a Web Controller in Odoo

When creating a web controller in Odoo you can use the @route decorator to determine which URL's your application should respond to. In our video example we demonstrate how you can develop a web controller that can respond to a specific parameter.

You begin by creating route decorator and the function that will respond to the URL when there is a match. This is known as URL routing:

@http.route('/page/<page:page>', type='http', auth="public", website=True, cache=300)
def page(self, page, **opt):
     values = {'path': page, 'deletable': True,}
     # /page/website.XXX ---> /page/XXX
     # Your website controller code can now operate on the values
			

Building a web application in Odoo often will require integrating with other services. In our affiliate system we must allow webmasters to embed a unique affiliate account # within the URL so that we can properly credit the commissions for the sale. Fortunately Odoo provides the framework for URL routing that is standard and has plenty of documentation. After you have watched the video and understand the basics, there are several reference resources you can turn to when you need to create more advanced web controllers.

Web Controller Reference Documentation: You can learn more about Odoo's web controller here. While there are not many examples the documentation does give you the parameters you can use when constructing an Odoo web application.

URL Routing Documentation Like much of the Odoo framework, URL routing in Odoo is based on a common library known as Werkzeug. Werkzeug is an HTTP and WSGI utility library for Python. You can learn more about URL routing here.

Integrate Affiliate Marketing Into your Odoo Website

Once you have a product or service attention typically turns to SEO and other methods in order to get traffic to your website. Many successful eCommerce companies however take it a step further. They offer commission to those who send them customers that purchase their products. This creates a win-win situation. Furthermore, affiliate marketing is often performance based instead of per-impression based marketing. If someone is advertising your product but not producing sales you don't have to pay any advertising expenses. Contrast this to banner advertisements in which you must pay for impressions or Google Adwords in which you pay for clicks that may never turn into sales.

In this video you will get to learn how to build your own affiliate system in Odoo. Furthermore, we will be using this same design to implement an affiliate program for OdooClass. This Building OdooClass series will give subscribers behind the scenes look at real Odoo development. Not contrived examples but real-world Odoo solutions that power real eCommerce websites.