Where does your business come from?

[The Right Invite]

An essential part of running a marketing campaign is being able to establish if it works or not! Agreed? So please can we have a field on checkout where we can ask our customers where they heard about our web site? It would involve a simple, customisable drop down list and I guess an on / off function (for those merchants who choose not to use it and are obviously happy to throw away their advertising dollars!) It would be good to be able to select whether it is mandatory for the customer to make a selection or not too.

[j0anne04]

I think this would be a really good feature. Is there any chance of getting it included in v4? After all the money we all spend setting up an online store you really need to know which mode of advertising is working or your wasting money on methods that for all you know - are getting you no customers at all!

[dferguson]

Yes, we have discussed such as feature and while it wont be ready for the initial release of V4.0 it will follow quite quickly.

V4 will have other ways to track clients - promotion codes. You can specify a promotion code in your advertising which qialifies a client for a special discount.

For example:

You could create a promotion code which gives readers of a magazine a 5% discount - the code could be somthing like 'cleomagmov06'

Whenever a client uses that code to get a discount you know where the customer came from by the code they used. :p