Token and Membership Type Website

For simplicity, we suggest setting up two separate websites. One will be used as a token website and the other as the full Membership site. In this article we will explain how to link the two websites and keep track of where your "full members" came from (i.e either through your token site or directly from your membership site). This technique requires the use of a tracking system called Strack and a specific setting called Unique Member Names.

First, you will want to CREATE BOTH TOKEN AND MEMBERSHIP SITES IN YOUR SITES ADMIN- You will want to change the settings of your membership site so that it is hidden from your affiliates. This just means that all of their traffic, will be directed at your tokens site instead of going directly to your membership site.

While a member is on your token site, you will want to provide an option to become a "full/premium" member which will redirect them towards the membership site.
In order to keep track of who sent the customers signing up for full membership, you must use the Strack feature which will identify the affiliate associated with the new member. (http://wiki.toomuchmedia.com/index.php/NATS4_track_and_strack)

To ensure that the usernames are unique across the sites, you will want to set your configuration: http://wiki.toomuchmedia.com/index.php/UNIQUE_MEMBER_NAMES
The UNIQUE_USERNAMES setting should be set to "Joinform (allow matching emails)" in the Surfer Section of the Configuration Admin:

admin_config.php?tab=surfer

This will allow you to use the same member record in NATS for each token purchase made by the user. You can then pass the same username/e-mail combination to the Membership Site when the user wishes to purchase the Premium Membership.