Track a person using my QR

Dolby

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Is this possible at all?

I setup an app/QR code ... customer scans & goes to a 3rd party 'enquire now' webpage ... and 3rd company closes the sale face-to-face ... is there anyway for me to track a sales that used my QR code or not? And thus, I get a fee for the sale though me - or not if they just go to the customer?

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So many variables I'm not even sure where to start but if nobody from the 3rd party is going to inform you of a sale there's really no other way to know if there was a sale - you don't have permission to integrate anything into their system.

But you've given zero information on what system & setup is being used here so it's all just guesses at this point.
 
The QR just contains a URL. You'd need to get the 3rd party website to record a parameter you send in the URL and produce a report based on that.
 
You need some sort of reference ID between the online inquiry and face to face interaction..

that's not going to be an automated thing, since you would need said customer to provide that reference to the sales staff at time of interaction..
 
The QR just contains a URL. You'd need to get the 3rd party website to record a parameter you send in the URL and produce a report based on that.
Exactly what I was worried about.

I hoped there'd be a cookie or something to track somehow.

The way it is above, 50 people *could* use the QR code and a sales is made directly becacuse of it - but there's no way of me knowing whether it comes from the a person just phoning the company out the blue or from the QR.

Maybe QR points to a landing page to take a name or something
 
You need some sort of reference ID between the online inquiry and face to face interaction..

that's not going to be an automated thing, since you would need said customer to provide that reference to the sales staff at time of interaction..
Yea - that would work, but as you say the customer needs to provide the reference.

Maybe incentive the customer by a discount or something to tell the sales
 
Set the QR code to post to a page that grabs browser info, IP etc and logs the "scan" in a DB and then forwards the person to the other URL's of the companies you can't control.
 
Yea - that would work, but as you say the customer needs to provide the reference.

Maybe incentive the customer by a discount or something to tell the sales
Why would the customer want to inform a 3rd party (you) of the sale though? Imo the customer has nothing to do with this. The 3rd party needs to track your referrals and pay your commission.
 
Set the QR code to post to a page that grabs browser info, IP etc and logs the "scan" in a DB and then forwards the person to the other URL's of the companies you can't control.
Would that page be a landing page that the person needs to fill?
Or could the page just 'take' what it can and forward on without intervention from the customer?
 
Why would the customer want to inform a 3rd party (you) of the sale though? Imo the customer has nothing to do with this. The 3rd party needs to track your referrals and pay your commission.
No - the customer informs the 3rd pary company (selling the goods) that he only found the company because of the QR code (me).
So basically - if I set the QR code up and place them stragetically enough to boost the sales of the 3rd party company, I'd want to have a referreal fee. But how does the 3rd part company know where the sale came from?
 
Would that page be a landing page that the person needs to fill?
Or could the page just 'take' what it can and forward on without intervention from the customer?
It depends what you need to prove to the other side that the click came from you.

If you don't need anything specific, a simple log of the user's browser info and IP (they don't need to enter that) can give you a count of who scanned it and how many times etc. But if they want to get sticky, you'de have to include some kind of dynamic reference sent to them. They should they be able to reply with a matching list of redirects to their URL coming from you, and whether or not it resulted in a sale etc.
 
It depends what you need to prove to the other side that the click came from you.

If you don't need anything specific, a simple log of the user's browser info and IP (they don't need to enter that) can give you a count of who scanned it and how many times etc. But if they want to get sticky, you'de have to include some kind of dynamic reference sent to them. They should they be able to reply with a matching list of redirects to their URL coming from you, and whether or not it resulted in a sale etc.
Haven't thought that far yet :)
 
No - the customer informs the 3rd pary company (selling the goods) that he only found the company because of the QR code (me)
then your redirect should submit a referral code to the 3rd party company.
So say your referral code is "BOBBY123" for all sales referred.

Customer scans QR - > Customer goes to your site -> Your site logs the request for your stats and Redirects Customer to 3rd-party+Referral code in the POST/GET so that the site is already aware of it. Then the user doesn't need to enter it.
 
then your redirect should submit a referral code to the 3rd party company.
So say your referral code is "BOBBY123" for all sales referred.

Customer scans QR - > Customer goes to your site -> Your site logs the request for your stats and Redirects Customer to 3rd-party+Referral code in the POST/GET so that the site is already aware of it. Then the user doesn't need to enter it.

The problem is that the customer has a face to face interaction with the company and this interaction is where the sale is concluded, it's not concluded online..

So there's no digital footprint to track here in this instance..

Even if you capture some customer information and the company making the sale does the same and this is compared and collated, it still does not definitively prove that the customer made it to the company through the QR code and the company can on that basis refuse to pay a referral fee..
 
Yea - that would work, but as you say the customer needs to provide the reference.

Maybe incentive the customer by a discount or something to tell the sales
Realistically I think that's your best option, incentive through discount to provide the company a referral code of some kind..

I only didn't mention it because it then becomes a question of who foots the bill for the discount..
 
The problem is that the customer has a face to face interaction with the company and this interaction is where the sale is concluded, it's not concluded online..

So there's no digital footprint to track here in this instance..

Even if you capture some customer information and the company making the sale does the same and this is compared and collated, it still does not definitively prove that the customer made it to the company through the QR code and the company can on that basis refuse to pay a referral fee..
oh is it QR -> Physical store purchase? In that case its different...
 
I only didn't mention it because it then becomes a question of who foots the bill for the discount..
If it comes from me, it's a sale they wouldn't have received anyway - so they can drop margin :p
 
oh is it QR -> Physical store purchase? In that case its different...
So the buying cycle is long ... months actually.

So that's why they can't buy the item online and it needs to go to the Enquire now and then closed face-to-face
 
So the buying cycle is long ... months actually.

So that's why they can't buy the item online and it needs to go to the Enquire now and then closed face-to-face
Is the 3rd party company not willing to implement a referral code / url into their system so your QR-code can point to that referral url? Given that you're driving business their way can't you set up a meeting with the 3rd party and discuss ways to implement this - I mean in the end they benefit from your referrals so they should be open to discussion.
 
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