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1. and then you can add the generated string to the Compact P3P Policy in Settings gt Tracking amp Cookies Only the compact policy is important for cookies the URL to your p3p xml file can be left empty rons can check more about this topic on the forum Spillover forced matrix Forced matrix allows you to limit to the number of referrals of subaffiliates any affiliate can refer It means that every affiliate can have only specified number of children __ fea 888888888 What is the advantage To be done Multiple merchants amp permissions support This functionality is available in Admins and User profiles in your merchant panel You can define multiple merchants admins that can access your merchant panel Add admin EEr of Admins Rows 3 ID Username 7 Name 7 Surname 7 User profile Status Joined Actions merchOol EEE account Default admin profile 2003 08 28 22 22 31 2994603e pp pp com oR PRO Default account 2005 04 76 11 51 54 For every merchant you can specify his own user profile set of permissions It can be good for large organizations that have several administrators managing their affiliate program or if you hire an external affiliate manager to run your affiliate program and you don t want to give him access to everything 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 54 Edit user profile Name Admin view Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentatio
2. ra h an he peo Fan Sue E ues oe Peet apn psp La ly a ee ara tat cee TREH pyree erian EE Ea nad te ri r i Packie al ee mhrs n pet Ad lees Glee da han ea Ehari pce at prm peran ia ranar errain dhr Fima pF LEa h a y a a ai ie pend ele Prorat mi es Comae pa pa ak jj Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Alin oap Hrn Lira T linm B esha E C Prr eman Fiil bar aH Famy ae er Page 17 Bn emirs Unies Shee i Sch Tir eb Faint SCI reais LEA es ee ia rei hiie by Ee keir wa Eiaa rien ri ira tai em iiio bee mpm mli br breg pi erai jg mabe m aren ETa i a ae E E Pie ie Lee Tumi Brat A Prad How to use it simply choose if you want to use standard or automatically generated signup form and then put link to this signup form to your website You can delete or rename the file of the other signup form Customize the look of your affiliate panel You are in full control over affiliate s panel By setting Tools gt Affiliate panel you can add your own descriptive text to every page displayed in panel for affiliates You can also disable some of the pages if you think your affiliates don t need to see it To change colors or skin or upload your own logo go to Tools gt Skin amp Colors Integrate system with your webpage and shopping cart payment gateway Post Affiliate Pro now contains comfortable Integration Wizard which will help you with integration There are
3. clicks sales leads are displayed 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 46 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 47 Ee Summary Total clicks 57284 Total approved sales 860 Total pending sales 4 Total declined sales 238 Total refund chargeback sales O Total approved leads O Total pending leads O Total declined leads O Total refund chargeback leads 0 Total approved commissions 7135 79 Total pending commissions 178 00 Total declined commissions 9094 30 Total paid commissions 37152 53 Total refund chargeback commissions 0 Counts zil Approved Pending Declined Impressions unique all 682753 772403 Clicks D7204 Sales 546 Leads T Refunds Chargebacks multi tier Approved Pending Declined Paid 24 25 3705933 0 37083 56 Paid 0 68 95 0 AEE Approved 0 aa of Pring g Approved 0 24 35 0 24 35 Pending 0 176 00 0 17B 00 multi tier Pending 0 0 0 OF Declined 0 9089 85 0 JARI BG Declined 0 445 0 4 45 9 Refunds Chargebacks 0 0 0 oF Refunds Chargebacks 0 0 0 og Daily Weekly Monthly reports These periodic reports are special type of reports that are sent to merchant and affiliates by email at the selected period They can contain summaries of clicks sales revenues etc To enable daily reports you have to run script affiliate
4. gt lt input type hidden name item_name value Affiliate Program Payment gt lt input type hidden name business value Affiliate_username gt lt input type hidden name cmd value _xclick gt lt input type submit name submit value Pay by PayPal gt lt form gt 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 30 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 31 Add Edit payout method You have to define the code name and language code for new payout method Language code is the PHP constant that should be defined in language file and it contains the name of payout method Code is the constant for this field that can be used in export and button formats The constant is replaced by the value of this field for each affiliate Edit payout field Code MBECURRENCY Mame MoneyBookers currency Language code LG PAYOUTFIELDMBCURRENCY Type select 7 Status mandatary kd Order 2 ok Available values USD EUR BF CAD JP You can use text or select types of fields For selects you should type in the available options that will be displayed in the select list You can also specify if the field is mandatory or optional 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 31 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 32 Communication News News enable you to publish short articles that will be visible to all or only chosen affiliates after login To start usin
5. 00 click 2 paid Summary 58660 62 184392 50 Waiting 178 00 Approved 12100 79 Paid 37267 53 Declined 9094 30 By default also clicks are displayed in this report even if you don t have per click campaign If you don t want this you can change the setting in Settings gt Commissions 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 48 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 49 a s Language amp Currenc Urls amp Directories eo Email notifications Commissions g Communication CO Troubleshooting Fraud protection Affiliate settings Tracking amp Cookies hs Banner Link format Commissions Support commission types _ signup bonus _ per referral jaf CPM cost per thousand impressions _ per click if not supported fdo not display ef per sale do not display per click commissions in reports wf per lead donot save clicks at all it will disable also tracking by IP _ recurring _ refund chargeback Enables disables support for different types of commissions Commission type that is disabled is not visible in the reports transactions list and campaigns type selection box Traffic amp Sales This report displays progress of your traffic and commissions in given period either hourly in day daily in month or monthly in year It also displays ratios like of sales per click clicks per impression etc These ratios show the effe
6. 9px gt lt input type radio value shopping cart gt Shopping cart lt br gt lt input type radio value affiliate system gt Affiliate system lt br gt lt input type radio value Forum gt Forum lt td gt lt tr gt lt tr gt lt td align center gt lt input type submit style font size 9px value Vote gt lt tr gt lt table gt lt form gt this banner will be displayed on affiliate s page as voting form Which of our product do you like the most s Shopping cart Affiliate system gt Forum Vote On your destination URL you should add processing of the voting result as well as the tracking pixel if you use new Banner link URL style NOTE When you define forms in banners always use POST method Also if you use old Banner link URL style make sure you have cURL extension enabled otherwise the form will be not sent to your processing script properly You can check your Banner link URL style in Settings gt Tracking amp Cookies 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 42 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 43 Flash banner Flash banners are in fact special case of HTML banners You can use the following code to define your flash banner lt OBJECT classid clsid D27CDB6E AE6D 11cf 96B8 444553540000 codebase http download macromedia com pub shockwave cabs flash swflash cab version 4 0 0 0 ID ad_banner_example1l WIDTH 468 HEIGHT 60 gt lt PARAM NAME m
7. POMOCE JOU DOOP IT sorser nid epei ERAEN E E E EEE EEEE ME O eara a E E E A se Features description ssssssssssssssssssssnesssnssnsnrsnsnesnsnronensnneensnesnsneensnennenrene COMO SIONS sixxievedenneeccdenneengsenpiavaarsniiedaupsanedeskawadessienecesmaenedensaehecunatetan Signup bonus and referral COMMISSION sndacscatosencavidainataeahin as Available commission typeS s ssssssssrsrsnrsnsnrerenrsrrnnnrrnnrnrnnrnrnnrnrerrnrrnne Tracking of all sales also not referred by affiliates ccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeees FE TCO TECON O ea a E E EAE Option to enable disable click registration cccceeeeeeseeeeeeseennnnnneeeeesnees Performance reEWardS senscissiriisnocei i Oa a PECURI COMS ON A EEE E E E E Poy OURS anaa E A aiaaaneeeit Set minimum payout ptl S rinira EE DEN Fully c stomizaDle payout optioNS sseeraqnacistieeerieeatiasaenna aA COMMON OT naaa E eomeeod crane beseonsendsa Email templates esio aE E E EE Communication IN SUOlY cs csncacccsynsgnssquneaciesencassepunnasseauntaciesuncoaes quae asiaanieanes COMICE US FORM aa E A CUSTOMIZING iaae ELENE IETEN E Design CUStOMIZIUONS seperi E E E A E ES Customizable resources area in affiliate panel cc cece cece cece eee e eee ee eens Customizable VIEWS anviaaccavevenseawaveqxacwisanceadstanciucctancsawsvendissevancsansvanneawees TAC NGG EEE E saree peters A squats E eee T A ET HOW racking WOKS sain sctcvaaansresses sae paiasesanaun tee cyeeusniaaneniieavaensese
8. can be tracked 2 Cookie was blocked by browser or firewall in most cases it will help if you define your P3P policy You can easily check if the reason is in cookie blocking by trying to make the test sale from different browser like Opera or Firefox don t forget to click on affiliate banner in these browsers first cookies always belong only to browser If there is some other error message it tells you what is wrong For example it could be that commission is zero etc 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 57 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 58 Emails are not sent Debugging for emails can be turned on in Tools gt Settings gt Troubleshooting All actions are then logged to History amp error log General problems with emails 1 the mail function in PHP is not configured properly It is quite often and the help is simple ask your web hosting support to correct the configuration for you 2 if you use SMTP instead of mail check that the SMTP server settings are correct 3 email template is not defined if you try to send email but the email template is deleted it will result into an error and email will be not sent 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 58 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 59 Frequently Asked Questions Is source code included and can I modify the code yes full source code is provided for Post Affiliate Pro Y
9. scripts jobs php daily The best is to automatize it using Cron for Unix Linux or Scheduler for Windows Check more about this in Set up cron job You as a merchant can edit the email templates for his and affiliate s daily report in Email templates section You can use these reports as a base for your own newsletter It is important to keep in touch with your affiliates and inform them about their traffic and commissions Periodic reports give you automatized way to do it you set it up once and then they ll run without need of your work 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 47 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 48 Email templates management Language english ha Allowed constants miniHelp You can put those constants into the email and they will be translated into corresponding information All constants are Case sensitive Category Merchant Daily Report Email subject Daily report for Date Email text Sally report for Date Sales approved impressions Flmpression Sales approved ndkier Sales_ waitingapproval Sales_waitingapproval_2endtier Sales declined Sales_declined_ ndtier tC Commissions approved Commissions_ approved _2ndtier tC Commissions waitingapproval Commissions waitingapproval ndtier tC Commissions declined tC Commissions declined _ ndtier Clicks Clicks Approved Piales_approved 2nd tier approved Sales approved 4nctier Wan
10. subdirectory is used because system supports multiple languages So if you use spanish you should put your resource pages translated to spanish also to affiliates resources spanish directory System choose which file to get depending on language chosen by affiliate during login The page test2 html can contain standard HTML so you can create informational pages even forms voting access to file downloads etc Adding new page to resources step by step 1 create new menu item with link to index_res php md Affiliate_Affiliates_Views_Resources amp p your_page_n ame 2 create your_page_name html file in directory affiliates resources english or any other language directory if you use non english language 3 you are done Customizable views Most used lists transactions and affiliates have support for customization of columns you want to see To create custom view of data click on choose view link It will open area where you can create new view Create transaction Export to CS Excel choose view l View Defaut Use view new view 1 IDV Commission 7 Total Cost gt Order ID Product ID Oa51 799d 20 00 173 45 123456 Producti al cise os Tit Selected Hhoose action kd Submit In the view definition dialog enter name for new view and specify columns you want to see 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 37 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentatio
11. two things to integrate Clicks registration First you have to decide if you want to use old or new style of linking New style recommended links are like http www yoursite com a_aid 123 amp a_bid 456 Old style creates links like http www yoursite com affiliate scripts t php a_aid 123 amp a_bid 456 New style of linking is more search engine friendly and it also allows you to use other advanced features such as first party cookies and Flash cookies 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 17 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 18 You can change your linking style in Tools gt Integration Wizard gt Click tracking There you will also get the code that you have to place to your page You should put this piece of code into every page that will be the target of your banners and links Most often it is only your main index php or index html page Sales registration You need to do the following steps only if you plan to use per sale or per lead campaigns For click or CPM campaigns the first step Click registration is Sufficient Sales registration is a way to trigger affiliate system after successful sale so that the system can generate proper commissions for referring affiliate There are various ways of integration depending on which shopping cart or payment gateway you use You will find more about integration for specific shopping cart if you choose it from combo box in Integration W
12. used in the email text These constants are displayed on the right of the email template form You can also create multiple language versions of the templates by choosing the language When the email is used system uses language version which affiliate selected as his predefined If template in this language version does not exist system uses default language set by merchant If template is not found or is empty the email will not be sent Communication history You can see history of all communication emails send by merchants emails sent automatically by the system news in the Communication section 4 Records count Pageifromi b bb IY Createdy Title Messagetext Y Type Recipient V Email Actions 60aasb0a 2005 05 11 09 53 01 Dear 4Ffiliate_name this multiple multiple Feed bb 2005 05 11 09 36 16 New campaign and banners Dear affiliates we would multiple multiple When you click on View action you will see details of every message and the list of recipients For news you will see also if the affiliates checked your news already Type News Title New campaign and banners Message text Dear affiliates We would like to lek you know that we added new campaign and new banners List of users Surname Email Status 2 ike test testitest readed ddd 60de8817 ofha rh com ee2b1497 test2 test com Contact us form Contact Us form in affiliate control panel is a way of communication be
13. versions 1 3 1 4 or 2 0 x Always make backup of your current database and files before making the upgrade Steps for upgrading Copy the new version files to a new directory for example if your current affiliate system is installed in directory affiliate create directory affiliate2 and copy new version files there Leave files of old version intact 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 9 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 10 Copy file settings settings php from old version to the new one This file contains database connection information and you will not need to enter them manually Example Your old installation is in directory affliate Your new version files are in directory affiliate2 You should copy the file affiliate settings settings php to directory affiliate2 settings and overwrite the empty file that exists there Start Installation Program Go to the URL http www yoursite com affiliate2 install index php to start installation Choose the correct upgrade from Post Affiliate Pro X Y option according to your correct version The program will take you step by step through the upgrade of Post Affiliate Pro If there will be any error reported during upgrade very probably the database for new version 3 0 is in inconsistent state and you have to retry the installation again You will have to restore database from the backup and try again Upgrade might fail for severa
14. you will be not able to track referrals by IP address other methods of tracking will remain active This option will increase performance and reduce disk space NOTE Disabling click registration will have positive performance effect only on very high traffic websites thousands of clicks or affiliate referrals per day Usually the highest performance impact is registering impressions not clicks Impressions saving routines were already optimized for top speed and they save data in size efficient manner Performance rewards Performance rewards allow you to give higher lower commissions to your affiliates based on their performance To start using performance rewards you should first define special commission categories Example Normal per sale commission is 10 We will define two more special commission categories Premium with 15 commission and VIP with 20 commission The standard 10 commission category that by default contains all affiliates is called Unassigned users t Edit campaign Product category name Example campaign Complete URL to banners image Commissions type cpm per click if per sale Campaign short description Campaign description Commissions Special affiliates commissions Campaign settings Performance rules Special affiliates commission categories will help you define different commission settings For special groups of affiliates like VIP affiliates or affilia
15. 3 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 14 Don t be confused by so many settings the system will work well also using the default configuration Define your commissions To set up commissions you have to create a campaign You can create multiple campaigns and define different commissions for each of it During the installation there is one campaign created with name Test Sale campaign You can modify this one or create your own campaigns Campaigns are used to group set of products or one product that have the same commission settings For example you can have campaign for Producti where you ll reward your affiliates per click and another campaign for Product2 where affiliate will receive commission per sale Or you can have campaign called Low cost products which will have 40 per sale commissions and another category called Expensive products with 15 per sale commission For every Campaign you can choose campaign type CPM per click per sale per lead etc If campaign is per click then affiliate is rewarded for every click on your banner with fixed commission If campaign is per sale affiliate is rewarded for every sale that was referred by this affiliate You can learn more about campaign types in Available commission types section For per sale per lead types you can also specify recurring commissions those are the commissions that will be generated periodically weekly mon
16. 51 TOD Fefernind URL scania aa O Ai 52 ROULALOP rEDOIT raronirna a aa a aa 52 Non performing affiliates cccreccecvasecconeunsccenvastececsassecenvestececsesscesavesteccscues 52 GNC I e E EE A A E E E 54 POP PONC Y aa E E ee 54 Spillover forced MatriX ssssessssensnrsrsnnsnnnnnnrnnsnnnnsnnnnsnnsnsnnsnsnnnnrnnnnrnnnnnne 54 Multiple merchants amp permissions SUpport ssssesssssrssrensnrnrsnnrrrnnsrenrenenn 54 DEDUCI ener tt er AA ee AA ee er eee ree 55 TROUDIESOOU NG reinii niini E AA E 57 Clicks are not registered sssssssssnsssnnssnsnennsnnensnrnnenrenenrnnesnrnesnrneensnres 57 Sales are not registered ssssssssssssnsnssnsnrsnsnssnssrenesronsssnnessrnrsnsnrensnrns 57 Emails are NOL SEN iccrenccvencstcacecdeseumnnnsesuancuns cee car acussdesavusiomecueameeawieeeens 58 Frequently Asked QuUESTIONS ccccccseeceeeueeesceuseuteeeseuueeuteenseuueeutesneeuueentesnegans 59 Is source code included and can I modify the code cece eee eeeeeeeeees 59 Can I buy it by PayPal payment serirsrisneiriricisiwerieiei nar ann r a 59 Can I set different COMMISSIONS Per productS s sssssssssrsrrerrrrrrrrrsrerere 59 Can I set different commissions per every affiliate cccccceeee eee eeeeeeees 59 Can I customize the look of Post Affiliate Pro cccceece cece eee eeeeeeeeeeeees 60 Will banner link work also IN EMAIIS ccccceceee cece eeeeeeeeeneeeeeeueeuneuneeueeanees 60 What s the difference between ol
17. All Rights Reserved THIS COPYRIGHT INFORMATION MUST REMAIN INTACT AND MAY NOT BE MODIFIED IN ANY WAY By purchasing this software you agreed to accept the terms of this Agreement This Agreement is a legal contract which specifies the terms of the license and warranty limitation between you and Webradev com You should carefully read the following terms and conditions before installing or using this software Unless you have a different license agreement obtained from Webradev com installation or use of this software indicates your acceptance of the license and warranty limitation terms contained in this Agreement If you do not agree to the terms of this Agreement promptly delete and destroy all copies of the Software This program is protected by copyright law Unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this program or any portion of it may result in severe civil and criminal penalties and will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible under the law License to Use You are allowed to use only one licensed copy of Post Affiliate Pro on one web site You are not allowed to distribute the software and or documentation by any means without prior written permission from Webradev com All rights to the Post Affiliate Pro software and documentation not expressly granted under this Agreement are reserved to Webradev com Disclaimer of Warranty THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING BUT NOT
18. LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT INDIRECT INCIDENTAL SPECIAL EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES LOSS OF USE DATA OR PROFITS OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY WHETHER IN CONTRACT STRICT LIABILITY OR TORT INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE THE USER MUST ASSUME THE ENTIRE RISK OF USING THIS PROGRAM IN NO CASE WILL Webradev com OR LIABILITY EXCEED THE AMOUNT OF THE LICENSE FEE ACTUALLY PAID BY LICENSEE TO Post Affiliate Pro IF ANY PROVISION OF THIS AGREEMENT IS FOUND TO BE LEGALLY UNENFORCEABLE THEN THAT PROVISION WILL BE DELETED FROM THIS AGREEMENT AND THE REMAINDER OF THE AGREEMENT WILL CONTINUE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 5 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 6 Installation Clean installation Post Affiliate Pro is distributed as a ZIP archive After downloading the archive you should unzip it into some temporary path The archive contains directory affiliate where all the files are stored There is an easy to use installation program that will guide you through the process of installation in few s
19. Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Last update 21 06 2006 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 2 Table of Contents DCS CHO MOM agageta dhe s E EE EEE EE EE EE EER N Bro CIS aE A E E E E E E E O E A CON a a AE A E cea pancendapaeaces clean INStalatiO sssrin a EE A A E E E Upgrade from version 1 1 x 1 2 X ssssssssssssssrssrsrrsnrnnrnrrsnrrnrenrrnrrnrrnrrnrrn gt Update from versions 1 3 1 4 or 2 0 Xiiier ti tteric eine Anter instalation Ss SS icnieciiciii a a a T Remove install dif ssassssnnssnunnnunrunnnnnnrnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnrnnnnnnrnnnnnnrnnnnnnnn SEUD CON O a A ocsen ese toun aes aptadeseepeaeguuapGeaeagupuuees COMPS your Sy SE cireni Ea a T a T EA Getting started sssssssssssssssssnesronsssenessnnrsnsnesnsnesnsneenenrenesrenesnenesnsneenrnene Pell SCONTO e a Pe VIEW VOU CEN E a R R E T Define your cCoMmMiISS ONS ssssssssssrsrssnrnnrunrnnrnnrnnrnnrnnrnnrnnrunrnnrunrnnrnnrnnrne Create your banners or text linkS ssssssssesssnssssnssssnssronessnnensnnssnrnrsnsnens Set up your emall R fi han iaa a Customize your Affiliate Signup FOrM ssssssssssssrssrrnrsnrenrrnrrnrrnrrnrrnrrnrrnene Customize the look of your affiliate panel ssusnssnssnsnnnsnnsnnenrsnrnnrrnrrenrrrrrsnne Integrate system with your webpage and shopping cart payment gateway Se cR E EL ea ATE E EP E P E A EE E E E ESE a O ea E A O Eee A T E E E T E E A E AT
20. Test page2 lt a gt the result will be EB Affiliate Panel E Test page Menu header EB Test pages E Logout Adding another item is simple array array header Menu header array item lt a class aLeftMenulItem href index_res php md Affiliate_Affiliates_ Views _Resources amp p test2 gt Test page2 lt a gt array item lt a class aLeftMenulItem href index_res php md Affiliate_Affiliates_ Views _Resources amp p test3 gt Test page3 lt a gt the result is E Affiliate Panel El Test page Menu header El Test pagez E Test pages E Logout 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 36 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 37 You can see that we used link to index_res php md Affiliate_Affiliates_Views_Resources amp p test2 in our example Parameter md Affiliate_Affiliates Views Resources tells the system that it should use class Affiliate_Affiliates_ Views Resources that is used to display resource pages You should use this class for viewing the resource pages because it will preserve headers footers and menu defined for resources section If you don t use it you have to handle correct displayment of header menu footer frame by yourself Parameter p test2 tells the system that resource page is named test2 html and it will look for page with this name in the directory affiliates resources english The english
21. acking using 1 party and Flash cookies This brings even more reliability to tracking All these new methods are turned on by default They will work only with new style of links See Tools gt Integration Wizard gt Clicks tracking for this User defined data in transactions You can save your own custom data in clicks sales and leads transactions To do this you need to use additional parameters data1 data2 data3 For example Click http www yoursite com affiliate scripts t php a aid 1 amp a bid 2 amp datai abc amp data2 def amp data3 ghi Sales old style version 2 x http www yoursite com affiliate scripts sale php TotalCost 120 50 amp OrderID 11223344 amp d atal abc amp data2 def amp data3 ghi Or new style version 3 x lt script id pap_x2s6df8d src http 127 0 0 1 a_v svn affiliate trunk scripts sale js type text javascript gt lt script gt lt script type text javascript gt lt var TotalCost 120 50 var OrderID 11223344 var ProductID var Datal abc var Data2 def var Data3 ghi 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 39 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 40 papSale gt lt script gt The additional data are saved for every transaction and you can see it in reports or in list of transactions Permanent redirects System allows you to choose between normal and permanent redirects The redirects are used when you use
22. age There are some default email templates preinstalled but you should change them to match your company name or title Find more about this here Email templates Customize your Affiliate Signup Form From version 3 you can choose between two signup form types First is standard signup form affiliate affsignup php or sample affiliate affsignup_sample php Design of this signup form can be changed by directly editing the file affsignup php and files header htm and footer htm Referrer iD YOu Car choose retera ID Statelercance Country Linited States l ZIP Postal Code Phone number Fax number Tax SSM ireide WEA I agree with the terns of serdice tame of serving Password will be sent to your email address You can change it in Profile after bogin Second is automatically generated signup form affiliate scripts signup php This form is generated according to settings in Affiliate signup For automatic form you can choose which fields are displayed which are hidden which are mandatory or optional you can add your terms of service and description Note that checking for fields in both types of forms are controlled by Affiliate Signup settings So if you want some field to be mandatory only set it up there You can also add up to 5 custom fields which can contain your own data 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 16 Wes eo lir Pd A ee Pe Do A alr Prager hama ben Fissi Qo ard os Harm rinra
23. amp Transactions Create transaction E Recurring transactions All affiliates 6 Approved lS 33 Check for Updates view today s statistics B Payout settings E Pay affiliates E Payout history Pending 0 0 Declined 1 ME i Define your campaigns amp commissions Review and manage your affiliates Getting Started Check and approve your pending E Emel terclates transactions clicks sales leads E Communication Welcome to your new affiliate program E Send message Edit your transactions commissions clicks sales leads Create and modify your banners E Quick report Pay your affiliates E Transactions Check History log E Traffic amp Sales E Top affiliates Tan ramnainns Send email or news to your affiliates Main screen of the program 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 12 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 13 Getting started Brainstorming Think about your affiliate program You should have a plan what you want to achieve How big commissions can you afford to provide Will they be attractive to potential affiliates compared with your competition How do you want to attract your affiliates to join Review your settings Go to the Tools gt Settings in the Merchant Control Panel there are numerous settings that affects the system Y you ll see the description for every setting that will help you decide if you need
24. ampaign How can affiliate recruit new subaffiliates There are three ways how affiliates can recruit new users of affiliate programs in a way that those new users will become their subaffiliates 1 By placing and advertising a Signup subaffiliates link on their page Every affiliate that signs up using this link will become their subaffiliate Affiliates can get this link in their affiliate control panel 2 Automatically when user clicked before on affiliate s banner before and he will Signup as an affiliate later he will automatically become subaffiliate of an affiliate whose banner he clicked before 3 By advertising their own Affiliate ID During signup there is a field named ID of affiliate that told you about our affiliate program When new user fills the ID of existing affiliate he will become his subaffiliate New affiliate can fill this field also later when he logs in into the affiliate control panel Once the ID is filled it cannot be changed Affiliates can get their own id by clicking on Signup subaffiliates link There they will see the link to affiliate signup The parameter pid contains their ID For example if the link is http www yoursite com affiliate affsignup php pid 34 then his ID is 34 Which shopping carts payment gateways are supported Post Affiliate Pro will work with virtually 100 shopping carts and payment gateways From the most known shopping carts it works with the following 2005 Q
25. assword mysql gt CREATE DATABASE database_name mysql gt GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON database_name TO database_user localhost IDENTIFIED BY database_password WITH GRANT OPTION this script must have write enabled access to settings settings php file You can change the permissions with command CHMOD 777 When the installation is finished you can change the settings file permissions back to read only permissions Your Database Type MySql default Database Server Hostname DSN Your Database Name Database Username Database Password Step 3 setting database connection information Q PostAffiliatePro Installation Upgrade Wizard Now the database is being created and populated with initial records It can take few seconds Database was suffesfully created and initialized with startup data The database connection settings were saved to the settings file Please click Next button to continue with setup Step 4 confirmation creating database 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 7 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 8 Q PostAffiliatePro Installation Upgrade Wizard Merchant access configuration Specify your admin username and password below Merchant username Merchant password Verify merchant password Luvext gt eat ato eaten ote enn itt Ss in Step 5 creating admin account Q PostAffiliatePro Installation Upgrade Wizard Now in the ins
26. best affiliates ranked by amount of impressions clicks sales leads and commissions filter Sales PCP CKSekaRj I o O l Top campaigns This report displays ranking of your campaigns by amount of impressions clicks sales leads and commissions 2 Tourist products 87185 Unique E 7e791081 60 day membership i 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 50 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 51 Number of affiliates Displays growth of your affiliate base over time You can see how many affiliates you have how many new signups were every month as well as how many declined affiliates 30 sunl All that month E Signed that month Declined from that month 280 210 140 70 jd Jan Feb Sep Oct Nov months Affiliate Summaries Displays summaries of affiliate transactions in specified time period You can easily sort affiliates by most impressions clicks sales etc Campaign All Time pesiod 21 ta DY Name V Status V will Smith i B approved 8846 7632 r 4475 103 66 57 7bbbabe6 Lizzie Macguire i g Approved 0 0 0 0 0 0 eae76734 CK Selva Raj PCP i 3 Approved 0 0 0 42 0 0 dadOf38e x xxxxsx i g Approved 0 0 0 0 0 0 54023202 Sam Test i B approved 0 0 0 0 0 0 63c3cdf7 Rathna Kumar PCP i Declined 0 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 51 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documenta
27. ccessful or not so you should take care of every cancelled or unprocessed recurring payment and decline the recurring transaction PayPal Subscriptions Except its build in system Post Affiliate Pro has also native support for PayPal Subscriptions recurring payments If you use PayPal and you integrated your system using PayPal IPN call you don t need to set up anything else The system automatically recognizes the first time payment or recurring payment and will apply appropriate commission It can do it because PayPal makes IPN call every time your customer pays also on recurring payments When your customer cancels his subscription the system will not receive any more call from paypal so it will stop generating commissions There is no action needed on customer s cancellation For PayPal recurring payments the system does not use Recurring transactions 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 27 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 28 Payout Set minimum payout options All payout options settings are available in Payouts gt Payout Settings in merchant control panel General payout settings Minimum payout options 499 200 300 400 500 List of minimum payout options thak are displayed to the affiliate It has to be number values separated by semicolon Example 100 200 300 500 1000 1500 2000 IF vou leave it empty minimum payout options will be disabled and the select box to ch
28. clicks and sales Complete URL to signup page http 27 0 0 1 a_wsvniaffiliate trunk affsignup php P TE R E ATY O Complete URL to signup page lf URLis setto wrong path affiliates will see incorrect link and cannot advertise your affiliate program Cache directory cache Complete URL to cache directory ss hittp 127 0 0 1 a_wsynfafiiliate trunk caches System email System email is the email thatis displayed as a Sender whenever you send email from affiliate system This applies also for email notifications Main site URL http 27 0 0 1 powered by Post Affiliate Pro version 3 0 0 generated in 0 162 s DB Requests 0 Step 6 configuring basic system settings 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 8 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 9 Q Posts ffiliatePro Installation Upgrade Wizard Installation finished Congratulations you succesfully finished installation of Post Affiliate Pro Now you can log into your merchant panel and review your other settings set commissions email templates and notifications etc Click here to get to your merchant panel Next steps you should do before you can start using your affiliate system Integrate the system with your shoping cart payment processor Integration with various systems is described in the documentation You can also check our forum or contact us for support Set up product categories and commissions Create one or more product ca
29. commission category for High sales affiliates within this campaign and set the per sale commission to 8 You can also create special affiliate commission category for V I P affiliates within this campaign and set the per sale commission to 15 By default the affiliates belong to standard affiliate category which is called Unassigned users If you want to put some affiliate to V I P commission category or High sales category you can do it in the Affiliates list by choosing action Change commission cat There you will be able to choose affiliate s commission category for every existing Campaign 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 59 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 60 Can I customize the look of Post Affiliate Pro Yes there is support for easy change of headers and footers for signup page and affiliate control panel You have only to edit the header htm and footer htm files in main and affiliates directory Check the documentation about this It is possible to make also more serious changes in design Post Affiliate Pro is template based however changing the templates requires some knowledge of PHP Check more about design customizations in Customizations section Will banner link work also in emails Yes there should be no difference When the user clicks on a banner or link on the email and new browser window is opened his click is normally registered and the cookie is saved on
30. ctiveness of your campaigns The higher are the ratios the more effective is campaign For example Sales Clicks ratio tells you the percentage of people who bought your product from all those who clicked on your banner Data used for this screenshot are taken from our demo version and they do not represent the real numbers and ratios Impressions Clicks Sales Leads Commission Clicks Commission Sales Sales Leads Leads unique all Impressions Clicks Impressions Clicks Impressions Clicks 16922 18101 508 0 178 20 3 00 35 08 0 04 1 18 0 0 17096 18366 0 106 80 1 33 46 84 0 02 1 75 0 0 21988 23620 0 403 80 2 36 77 80 0 06 2 70 0 0 Yo 41616 45279 0 322 20 1 19 64 83 0 03 2 21 0 0 46065 51186 0 355 00 1 35 57 17 0 02 1 61 0 0 14770 15730 0 186 90 4 15 30 49 0 05 1 14 0 0 26480 27849 0 743 80 6 20 45 33 0 10 1 65 0 0 18633 19917 0 628 43 15 85 21 27 0 11 0 71 17745 19824 0 680 80 14 87 25 80 0 10 0 65 18084 21566 0 1248 53 22 24 Yo 31 05 0 22 O 97 25563 33091 0 892 83 19 18 18 21 0 11 0 57 23968 31132 0 1245 99 21 43 24 26 0 25 1 17 Impressions A Unique wi aart Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec months 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 49 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 50 Top affiliates This report displays your
31. d and new link Style cccceee cece ee eens 60 What is Force choosing commission by product ID setting ceeeees 60 How can affiliate recruit new subaffiliates cc cece cess eeeeeeeeececccceccceccceees 61 Which shopping carts payment gateways are supported eee eee eens 61 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 3 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 4 Description Post Affiliate Pro is a powerful affiliate management system that allows you to easy set up and maintain your own affiliate program and pay your affiliates commissions for CPM cost per thousand impressions clicks sales or leads that they refer to your site Using affiliate system on your site is one of the most efficient ways to achieve more traffic sales and better link popularity without additional costs This book will guide you through the process of Installation how to Get started and it explains all its Features It also contains section Troubleshooting that will help you solve the most common problems Post Affiliate Pro is a product of Quality Unit If you have problems or questions that were unanswered by this document feel free to write to us at support ualityunit com 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 4 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 5 License Legal Disclaimer Software Post Affiliate Pro Copyright 2005 QualityUnit and Maros Fric
32. d declined or deleted Referral commission is reward for referring new affiliate When affiliate signs up his parent receives the specified commission It works also multi tier so parent s parent 2 tier can also receive commission etc Available commission types There are 7 commission types available in Post Affiliate Pro They cover everything you ll ever need in your affiliate program You can choose only the ones you want to use in Settings gt Commissions in merchant control panel 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 21 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 22 Commissions Support commission types i signup bonus if per referral wf CPM cost per milion impressions Ti per click iF not supported do not display per click commissions in reports hd wf per sale wf per lead if recurring miniHelp Enables disables support For different types of commissions Commission type that is disabled is not visible in the reports transactions list and campaigns type selection box Signup bonus is a reward that is given to every affiliate after he signs up It is normal transaction visible in list of transactions so this bonus can be approved declined or deleted If you leave it blank or set it to zero the affiliate will not receive signup bonus Referral commission is reward for referring new affiliate When affiliate signs up his parent affiliate who referred him recei
33. different names For Payout option or Field in different languages by defining different constants in each language file Status enabled hh Order 2 Export format ppeMAlLt Attiliate_amounttlSDt Aftiliate_name rin l ha affiliate payouts You can use payout Field codes of respecive payout option Example PPEMAILICEAFFiliate arnount tUsoitearfiliate namelrin click here for more help Button format form action hittps Mean paypal comicgi binkvebscr method post target _blank lt input type hidden name Ccurrency code yvalue USD gt lt input type hidden name no0_note yalue 1 lt input type hidden name amoaunt value Attiliate_amount lt input type hidden name tem_ number value 1tiliate_Payment_FDate kd miniHelp Button Format allows you to define PayPal StormPay WorldPay button to pay the individual affiliate click here for more help Export format is a specification of format that will be used for exporting the payout data for affiliates It can be used to export information to a CSV file that you can print out and go to bank to pay affiliates manually or to create file in PayPal Mass Pay format as in example above 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 29 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 30 Button format is HTML source code that will be used for creation of button This makes sense only for services like PayPal StormPay WorldPay
34. e com a_aid 2 amp a_bid 2 which is the url decoded value of clickKTAG parameter Note that original parameter value is url encoded to be properly used in HTML code Text banner Text banners allow you to create text links Text link consists of Title and Text where title is by default displayed bold and text is displayed in normal font Customizable text link format System allows you to define your own format the look of text link Using this functionality you can control the look of your text links for example put them into border make them in different color etc Link format can be changed in Settings gt Banner Link format 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 43 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 44 By default the banner format is lt A HREF DESTINATION gt IMPRESSION_TRACK lt center gt lt b gt TITLE lt b gt lt br gt D ESCRIPTION lt center gt lt A gt so the resulting code of link for affiliate to put to his page will be example lt A HREF http www yoursite com a_aid 2 amp a_ bid 2 gt lt IMG gt http www yoursi te com a_aid 2 amp a_bid 2 gt lt IMG SRC http www www yoursite com affiliate scripts sb php a_aid 2 amp a_bid 2 WIDTH 1 HEIGHT 1 BORDER O0O gt lt center gt lt b gt Banner title lt b gt lt br gt Banner description etc etc etc lt center gt lt A gt and banner displayed on affiliate s page will look like Banner title Banner descr
35. e registration this cookie is loaded but it contains only banner s campaign so the commission level from banner s campaign is applied 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 60 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 61 For example You have product A that cost 10 and the commission is 30 Then you have product B that cost 1000 and the commission is 5 When customer clicks on a banner of product A its campaign and also commission level is saved into the customer s cookie Now when customer buys product B the 30 commission is applied instead of 5 which can cause you troubles This is the problem that many banner link based affiliate systems face and normally it is not solved It will not affect you if you have only one product or you are using the same percentage commissions for all products But it will affect you if you have wide range of products and you offer fixed commissions or different commission levels on different products Post Affiliate Pro has a unique solution for this it can force choosing commission depending on the ID of product passed by the sale registration script This solution requires you to be able to pass this information Product ID to the sale registration script Also you ll have to change the default settings in the merchant control panel set Settings gt Force choosing commission by product ID to Yes and specify the list of allowed products in every c
36. ed The messages show the progress of checking for correctness of the script call and some of the messages should tell you what went wrong The usual reasons are nonexistent affiliate id or banner id used in the link 2 No new history messages were logged it means the script for click registration was not called at all or some fatal error occurred Usually this is a problem of integration of the system with your webpage It can really occur only if you use new style of linking because this style requires you to put additional piece of code to your index page If you did not do it or the code is somehow incorrect the script for click registration t2 php will be not called at all and so no click will be registered Check how to integrate your website with new linking style in Integration Sales are not registered Set level of Debugging in merchant control panel Tools gt Settings to debug This will make the system log every action during the click registration to the History amp error log Try to repeat the sale again and check the error log The system will log every action which it will help you to track down the error Most common problem is if there is message like Data Cookie is empty This means the system was not able to find any cookie with referring affiliate This could have two reasons 1 You did not click on affiliate s banner before you made test sale Without clicking on banner there s no referral that
37. er cancels the subscription NOTE In order to make it work you have to run the script affiliate scripts recurring php daily You can automatize it by using Cron on Unix Linux or Scheduler on Windows This script is responsible of generating all recurring commissions that should be generated at the current day If you don t set it or set it incorrectly your recurring commissions will not work You can see the list of all recurring commissions in the Recurring transactions list in the left menu Transactions 3 Recurring transactions Each transaction contains the original date of order OrderID recurring type weekly monthly etc and next recurring date 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 26 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 27 When customer cancels the subscription you can Decline the transaction and it will stop generating commissions for affiliates It is also possible to automatize the decline of recurring commission if you call script affiliate scripts cancelRecurring php with parameter OrderID original order ID it will decline the transaction So to automatize it you should include call to this script could be also in form of invisible image to your cancellation page NOTE Keep in mind that build in system is independent and runs separately from any processing at your payment provider Affiliate system has no information whether the recurring payment was su
38. etc which support this option For both formats you can use predefined constants that will be replaced to their respective values when Post Affiliate Pro generates the export file or button List of allowed constants Date Date_nospaces Time Time_nospaces Affiliate_name contains name and surname SAffiliate_firstname SAffiliate_surname SAffiliate_username SAffiliate_company_name SAffiliate_weburl SAffiliate_street SAffiliate_city SAffiliate_state SAffiliate_country SAffiliate_zipcode SAffiliate_phone SAffiliate_fax SAffiliate_tax_ssn SAffiliate_datal SAffiliate_data2 SAffiliate_data3 SAffiliate_data4 SAffiliate_data5 SAffiliate_amount contains amount of money to be paid to affiliate Export format can contain additional constants that represent codes of payout fields For example if you have field with code PPEMAIL you can use this code in export format and it will be replaced by value of this field given by appropriate affiliate Examples Example of export format for PayPal Mass pay PPEMAILt Affiliate_amounttUSDt Affiliate_namern Example of paypal button format lt form action https www paypal com cgi bin webscr method post target _blank gt lt input type hidden name currency_code value USD gt lt input type hidden name no_note value 1 gt lt input type hidden name amount value Affiliate_amount gt lt input type hidden name item_number value Affiliate_Payment_ Date
39. for choosing Post Affiliate Pro This wizard will lead you step by step through the installation of Post Affiliate Pro Installation Choose your installation method _ clean install _ upgrade from Post Affiliate Pro 2 0 x _ upgrade from Post Affiliate Pro 1 4 _ upgrade from Post Affiliate Pro 1 3 Next gt gt Installation progressbar Step 1 choosing the installation method 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 6 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 7 Q PostAffiliatePro Installation Upgrade Wizard Enter your license Product ID here You can get your Product ID from our members area Purchased Products section see image bellow Product ID 12345 gt Lo eee Purchased Products i E 1 Purchased Producte Post Affiliate Pro rouge eine ID abed123 A powerful download protection system for delivering e goods like software and eBooks gt d Contact Us Form 3 gt pE postaffpro_20 zip 939kb 2005 04 15 16 51 23 Download Step 2 license verification Q PostAffiliatePro Installation Upgrade Wizard Please fill out the database configuration details requested below Note thatthe database you install into should already exist Requirements to complete this step the database must exist You can create the database and user by starting MySql prompt and executing the commands Customize to match your database_name database_user and database_p
40. g news you have to activate it first in Settings gt Affiliate settings miniHelp If set then admin is able to create and edit news and broadcast them to affiliates Affiliates will see the news in their control panel TF unchecked the news are not displayed Display news You can create news using Send message action where you select Create news tab Send mass email Create news Displays your message as News to selected affiliates You can plan the validity of the news or make them inactive After you create news You can edit them in the Communication menu Choose affiliates gt Surname Test testitest test I Mark Marky gt markyigtimark com Smith vill yvwillismith com PENDING lt a0 News status 7 a Active _ Inactive News valid 7 From 30 jun 2006 RA To 30 jul 2006 RA Show to 7 JAll e With selected Insert value to text 7 Current date Date ux insert Subject Message text Submit You can also use predefined constants like Affiliate_name Affiliate_username Affiliate_password in the news text which allows you to create personalized messages The news are displayed in affiliate panel in the main page right after the login 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 32 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 33 view old news 2005 05 11 09 38 16 New campaign and banners Total clicks 0 Total impressions uni
41. he temporary directory affiliate2 to affiliate After these steps the system is upgraded and ready to use 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 10 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 11 After installation steps Remove install dir It is recommended to remove or rename the install directory to prevent somebody trying to make some action with installer Set up cron job If you want to be able to run periodic tasks such as automatically send daily weekly or monthly reports by email generate recurring commissions etc you Should configure a cron job to be executed daily For Windows systems use scheduler for this Cron job can be configured in CPanel gt Cron jobs gt Standard The cron job should be configured to run every hour every day the command to run it is usr local bin php q home YOUR_ACCOUNT public_html affiliate scripts jobs php Where you replace YOUR_ACCOUNT with name of your directory You can get this directory name also in the installer Standard Cron Manager This is a web interface to the crontab program It allows you to rum commands at any time you specify Enter the command you would like to run as well as running times Please enter an email address where the cron output will be sent OoOo O Enty 1 Command to run fustlocal bin php q home rOUR_ ACCOUNT public_html affiliat Minutel si Every Minute Every Other Minute Every Five Minutes E
42. his computer What s the difference between old and new link style The difference between new and old link styles old http www yoursite com affiliate scripts t php a_aid 1 amp a_bid 2 new http www yoursite com a_aid 1 amp a_bid 2 Note that those are just example links but they can point to the same destination Url The difference is obvious new link style is pointing directly to your page not to affiliate scripts t php This style of links can be better recognized by search engines and can lead to higher ranking of your site However the disadvantage of new link type is that you have to put a simple code that will register a click into every target page For example if your banner link is pointing to www yoursite com product1 htm then you have to add simple code for click tracking into product1 htm page You can get PHP or JavaScript versions of click tracking code in your merchant control panel in Integration section If you use old style of links you do not need to do anything for registering clicks What is Force choosing commission by product ID setting What the commissions level applied depend on It seems to be obvious it should depend on the product bought Unfortunately the situation is more complicated it is actually dependent on which affiliate s banner link customer clicked before It is because of how the system works the cookie is registered only when customer clicks the banner During sal
43. i tier commission settings Normal commission is 10 2 tier provision is 2 3 tier commission is 1 Affiliate A is parent of affiliate B means he referred him and affiliate B is parent of affiliate C When affiliate C refers sale for 1000 he ll get commission 10 which is 100 Together with him affiliate B will get commission 2 which is 20 and affiliate A will get commission 1 which is 10 Create your banners or text links In the menu Banners Links you can add text HTML Flash or graphical banners For every banner you have to specify destination URL which is the URL where the visitor will be redirected after click For graphical banner you should also specify URL of the picture or select image file to upload URL paths destination URL and picture URL should be absolute URLs with http in the beginning for example http www yourdomain com products php productid 13 http www yourdomain com dir1 bannerimage gif Flash banners Flash banners can be created as HTML banners Example lt OBJECT classid clsid D27CDB6E AE6D 11cf 96B8 444553540000 codebase http download macromedia com pub shockwave cabs flash swflash cab version 4 0 0 0 ID ad_banner_examplel WIDTH 468 HEIGHT 60 gt lt PARAM NAME movie VALUE ad_banner_example swf clickTAG CLICKURL gt lt PARAM NAME loop VALUE false gt lt PARAM NAME menu VALUE false gt lt PARAM NAME quality VALUE medium gt lt PARAM NAME bgcolor VALUE FFFFFF g
44. imple steps Steps to install the system Set directory permissions In order to install the system some file and directory permissions have to be changed File settings settings php and directories banners exports and cache have to be writable by PHP To enable this you should CHMOD them to 644 or 666 You can change permissions also using most of FTP clients Installation program will check it and notify you if the directories still don t have the permissions to write Create database Create a new mysql database called postaff Create a new user called postaff Grant access to user postaff on the postaff database Make sure to record the postaff user s password yourpassword Customize to match your db_name db_user and db_pass mysql gt CREATE DATABASE postaff mysql gt GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON postaff TO postaff localhost IDENTIFIED BY yourpassword WITH GRANT OPTION NOTE The database does not need to be named postaff you can choose your own name and username you will specify it during installation Start Installation Program Go to the URL http www yoursite com affiliate_system_directory install index php to start installation Replace www yoursite com with your own website and affillate_system_directory with directory where you uploaded the files The program will take you step by step through the installation of Post Affiliate Pro Q PostAffiliatePro Installation Upgrade Wizard Thank you
45. ion 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 20 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 21 Features description Commissions Signup bonus and referral commission These settings are available in Settings gt Commissions in merchant control panel To be able to set the signup bonus or referral commissions you have first to enable these transaction types Commissions Support commission types ignup bonus per referral a CPM fcost per milion impressions Ti per click iF not oe _ supported do not display per click commissions in reporta 7 wf per sale wf per lead wi recurring miniHelp Enables disables support For different types of commissions Commission type that is disabled is not visible in the reports transactions list and campaigns type selection box After you submit the form you will see the commission settings on the bottom of Commissions screen Signup bonus amp referral commission Affiliate signup bonus miniHelp Signup bonus For user For signing up bo affiliate program Referral commission 5 miniHelp Referral commission rewards parent affiliates For signups of subaffiliate 2 tier 3 tjer 4 tier S tier 6 tier 7 tier o bier J tier 10 tier Affiliate signup bonus is a reward that is given to every affiliate after he signs up It is normal transaction visible in list of transactions so this bonus can be approve
46. iption etc etc etc By changing the link format to lt A HREF DESTINATION gt lt table border 0 style BORDER 0000ff 1px solid cellspacing O cellpadding 2 gt lt tr gt lt td align left gt lt b gt TITLE lt b gt lt br gt DESCRIPTION lt td gt lt tr gt lt table gt SIMPRESSION_TRACK lt A gt the look of banner will be changed to Banner title Banner description etc etc etc Graphic banner Graphic banner is most used and simplest type of banner You can simply use any image that can be displayed in browser Post Affiliate Pro does not restrict you to any size During creation you can either upload the image file or specify URL to the image if you have it on your server already Popup popunder Popup or popunder banner will display small window with advertisement The window can be displayed on top of all other windows popup or hidden in the bottom popunder You can choose to display existing other banner in popup popunder or define URL for your own banner 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 44 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 45 Banner rotator Special banner that can randomly rotate other banners You should first create the banner that you want to rotate and then create a rotator For every sub banner you can define a rank which is probability of how often it will be displayed Banner type Rotator Banner name rotator 1 Hidde
47. it Important settings are Payout methods Payout methods are set in Payouts gt Payout settings You can choose which from predefined payout methods you want to allow for payments to your affiliates or define new one Also you can set the minimum payout options You can find more about these features in section Payout System settings You can set the types of campaigns you want to support how deep will be your tiers whether to support recurring commissions set your system currency default language and many more like e Signup bonus and referral commission e Available commission types e Fixed costs computation Fraud protection You can select some ways to automatize protection against fake sales and clicks Email notifications Choose whether you ll support daily reports you will have to make a special action to really install it check Daily Weekly Monthly reports Also choose which email notifications you would like to receive and set email address for the notifications Communication Here you enter the email address of affiliate program and method of sending emails Affiliate settings Select affiliate signup approval manual or automatic and URLs where affiliates will be redirected after signup or logout Post Affiliate Pro system is very flexible and you can change its behavior using many settings so check them all and decide which of them you want to use 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 1
48. izard If you don t find your shopping cart there try to use General solution All integration methods are only a variation of general integration solution You can also create an in house virtual affiliate account and set it up so that this testing in house affiliate will receive all sales that were not referred by any normal affiliate This way you can control if every sale was registered by the affiliate system You can find more about this feature in article Tracking of all sales also not referred by affiliates Test it When you created your campaigns defined correct commissions and created some banners links you should test the system The best is to simulate the whole process from affiliate s and your point of view 1 Sign up as some testing affiliate after approval you should receive confirmation email with your password and you should be able to log in to your affiliate panel 2 Log in to affiliates panel get the code for banners links and put them onto some testing page 3 Click on the banner and check that the click is registered 4 After the click try to make test sale and check that sale commission was registered in affiliate system only for per sale or per lead commissions If you experience some problems in any of these steps turn on Debugging and look at the Troubleshooting later in this book If everything works as it should the work is finished Affiliate system is running and you ca
49. l reasons if your database is momentarily overloaded with other requests Depending on number of records in previous version of database it may require some time to make a data conversion If upgrade procedure is still failing contact us for support and attach also error message that you are receiving Translate new strings that were added in the new version of your language file This step is only necessary if you used non english language English language file is updated and no action is necessary For older language files older than version 2 0 x all language constant names changed from AFF_G to L_G The language file can be found in directory langs in your main affiliate system directory Check configuration of version 3 by logging to merchant panel After successful upgrade log in to merchant control panel and check all settings Many new settings were added to allow you to configure system even more Their use is optional you don t need to use them if you do not want Copy the design customizations If you customized design of affiliate panel or signup form for previous version you d have to do it again in version 3 You can use the header htm and footer htm files from older version but they will most probably need changes Rename version 2 directory to appropriate name When everything is done backup and delete or only rename your old directory with installation of older version most probably affiliate and rename t
50. lower than 10 the affiliate will be moved to this category during the first sale of every month year because he fulfills the rule condition doesn t matter what category he belonged before So by applying this kind of rule even your VIP affiliate can fall down to basic commissions We are preparing one more kind of performance rules based on amount of commissions number of sales at the time of payment This new set of rules will become available in one of the next versions Recurring commissions Build in system There is build in support for recurring commissions in the system You can set your recurring commissions together with normal commissions in campaign editation When customer buys the recurring transaction is generated together with first per sale commission The system then daily checks the recurring transaction if the date is valid for new commission generation Explanation of how it works example of monthly commissions 1 customer makes purchase on 20 5 2006 and the sale commission for referring affiliate is normally generated 2 at the same time new recurring transaction will be generated it will remember the date of initial order and period 3 on 20 6 2006 the recurring transaction is checked and if it is still valid new recurring commission is generated for affiliate 4 every month on 20th the same as in step 3 is repeated until the recurring commission is declined which you can do manually after the custom
51. lows you to track sales that were not referred by any affiliate 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 22 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 23 To enable this you have to go to Settings gt Tracking amp Cookies and turn on the checkbox Save not referred sale lead miniHelp If no affiliate referred the salejlead save commission to default affiliate chosen below This can be used to track all the sales not only those referred by affiliates nt e go aig In hous Choose affiliate for not referred commission f 7 Also select an affiliate that will be used as in house account All non referred sales will be registered for this affiliate You can create your in house affiliate manually in Affiliates screen Fixed costs computation If you have some fixed costs like postage or packaging you can deduct it from the total cost of an order before the system computes percentage commission This setting makes sense only for percentage not for fixed commissions You have to go to Settings gt Commissions and set your fixed cost to nonzero value Fined cost miniHelp If you specify fixed cost it will be deducted from the TokalSale before computing commission for this sale It is usable for per saleflead commissions IF fixed cost is given the commission is computed From the value TobalSale Fixed Cost Otherwise the percentage commission is computed Fro
52. lways such affiliates and if you know who they are you can try to motivate them or delete them from your program You can filter out affiliates who logged long time ago or have very little or none impressions clicks sales leads etc 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 52 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 53 Non performing affiliates Last logged before Registered before Impressions Clicks Sales Leads a any any O any D any none none C none none O less or equal C less or equal less or equal less or equal J Sort by Affiliate Apply filter Records 1 4 From 4 Page 1from1 Rows per page b Ae Logins D 2006 06 19 07 44 16 D 2006 06 27 23 45 10 D 2006 06 13 19 53 19 D 2006 06 20 15 14 21 H d Records 1 4From 4 Page 1fromi Rows per page 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 53 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 54 Other P3P policy Some browsers like Internet Explorer use P3p compact policy to determine whether the cookie is blocked or not Browser behavior depends also on Privacy settings For Medium High and High privacy settings the browser requires the cookie to have defined compact P3P policy Post Affiliate Pro enables you to set your compact policy that is sent together with cookie You can create the compact policy for example here http www privacycouncil com freep3pfix ph
53. m ToktalSale value Then the percentage commission is computed using the formula Commission TotalCost FixedCost PercentageCommission instead of standard way Commission TotalCost PercentageCommission Note that some shopping carts allow you to get subtotal price of order without the packaging and postal cost In this case you don t need to use Fixed cost feature and set the fixed cost to zero Option to enable disable click registration By default the system registers each click as a separate transaction even if you don t have any pay per click campaign Clicks can be used to get information about which banners are most clicked and what are the referrers for the banners However you may want to disable clicks registration for some reason Such reason could be also performance saving every click as a separate record can be costly for very high traffic site and it would requite disk space for database Disabling clicks saving is easy method to increase the performance You can disable clicks registration in Settings gt Commissions When you uncheck per click from supported commission types you can also specify what should happen 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 23 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 24 Option 1 clicks are registered normally but not displayed in transactions and reports by default Option 2 clicks are not registered at all If clicks are not registered
54. m to best how ik works In production it should be turned off because it generates multiple history records For each transaction and slows down the system error and dberror levels can be turned on always Log level wf db error error iw debug 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 55 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 56 db error and error options can always be turned on Use debug option to track down everything that is happening when the system registers impression click or sale lead If debug is set the system logs every action during the click or sale registration to the History log You can check the messages there and find out what is wrong NOTE Debugging should be used only when you are tracking errors because it Slows down the system When debug log level is turned on the system generates multiple history records for EVERY click and sale You should turn off debug level in production mode after everything was tested and works 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 56 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 57 Troubleshooting Clicks are not registered Set level of Debugging in merchant control panel Settings to debug This will make the system log every action during the click registration to the History amp error log Try to repeat the click again and check the error log Two cases can happen 1 Some new history messages were logg
55. n Affiliates Accounting wf view modify Affiliates wf view modify Pay affiliates wf view modify Campaigns Banners Links wf view modify Product categories wf view modify Communication Broadcast message wf use Communication wf view modify Email templates wf view modify Reports Mumber of affiliates f view Quick report wf VIEW Top affiliates f view Traffic amp Sales wf VIEW Transactions af view Page 55 Using configurable permissions you can define only a subset of permissions for your affiliate manager so he can for example only view the stats communicate with affiliates etc but cannot make payouts Debugging Debugging is a powerful and unique feature that allows you to track down what is wrong in your system It is most helpful when you are setting and integrating the system You can turn on different types of debugging in Settings gt Troubleshooting System settings Commissions Communication Payout methods Troubleshooting Fraud protection Email notifications Affiliate settings Tracking amp Cookies Banner Link format Troubleshooting miniHelp Enables you to select logging level For the system TF debug log level is checked system vill will generate additional log messages when registering commissions and salesfleads You can use these messages to investigate beh Flow of commands and to Find out what is wrong You can enable it while integrating the syste
56. n Page 38 Fiew name Custom Columni iD Column Commission Column 3 Total Cost Column4 Crested EEE ED Column 5 Affiliate Column6 Actions m Column 7 Data Column 8 Column 9 Column 10 After saving new view you can choose it from the combo box and you ll see only the fields you specified Create transaction Exportto CS Excel choose view 4 1 Records count Page 1 from 1 gt DP 0a51799d 20 00 123 45 2005 05 16 15 34 34 2 Test Surname aeci3od4 gf 2005 05 16 15 54 27 2 Test Surname Selected Choose action Submit 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 38 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 39 Tracking How tracking works When visitor clicks on your link or banner on affiliate s page small information about affiliate is saved to the cookie on visitor s computer At the same time the click is saved into the Post Affiliate Pro database and visitor is redirected to your website Later even few days or weeks later when this visitor makes purchase on your site affiliate system is triggered It checks for the cookie on visitor s computer and if it s not found it will try to find referring affiliate by visitor s IP address If affiliate is found the affiliate system will compute the proper commission and credit it to the affiliate account Advanced tracking From version 3 PAP introduces support for more advanced tr
57. n banner Campaign 1 Test Sale campaign 7 Add Banner text ID 2 Name Test banner Dest http Awww qualityunit com 33 33 Banner List 33 33 0 33 33 Edit Rank Delete Reset statistics Reset rank Note that banners with rank 0 will be never displayed in rotator always put some rank to the banner Self optimization CTR x Submit You can also turn on rotator self optimization which means system will update sub banner ranks so that more successful banners are displayed more often Banners can be evaluated by number of clicks or by CTR click through ratio 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 45 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 46 Reports Banner statistics Basic statistics of your banners give you overview of banner s impressions unique amp all clicks on banner and click through ratio These statistics are displayed for every banner in the Banners Links screen ID 2 Product category Example campaign Destination URL http www webradet com Edit Delete Impressions unique fall Of O Clicks O Clickthroughs ratio 0 0 Impressions unique fall 2206 2358 Clicks 2156 Clickthroughs ratio 97 73 Text text text text Test banner You can optionally check the option to display average statistics of all users to affiliate in Settings gt Affiliate settings Display banner statistics of w miniHelp If enabled sys
58. n start getting affiliates 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 18 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 19 Promote your program After you successfully tested integration of affiliate system with your website everything is ready to start up promoting your new affiliate program so that you ll attract new affiliates to join it It is a must to put link to your affiliate signup form to your own website Name the link Affiliate program Webmasters make money or Affiliates etc This will attract the visitors of your site and can convert them to your affiliates To reach much more potential affiliates submit your program to affiliate directories There are tens of affiliate directories on the web visited by thousands of experienced affiliates every day Do you want to outsource the manual submission work We can offer you our AFFsubmit affiliate directory submission service Check it at http www qualityunit com affsubmit 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 19 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 20 Integration Post Affiliate Pro 3 is compatible with previous versions so all the integration made with your old version will still work PAP 3 introduces also more advanced method of tracking that brings even better reliability You can find description of integration methods in your merchant panel in Tools gt Integration Wizard gt Shopping cart integrat
59. n you define your HTML banner you should use constant CLICKURL or CLICKURL_NOTENCODED to specify the target of your banner Affiliate system translates these constants to proper destination URLs when the banner code is displayed in affiliate screen Don t hardcode your URL into the banner always use constant CLICKURL or CLICKURL_NOTENCODED otherwise the click and referral will be not tracked 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 41 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 42 Affiliate system needs to pass few additional variables to your destination url which will help recognize the referring affiliate The difference between the two constants is that CLICKURL translates to urlencoded string which can be used when you pass this URL as a parameter to another script Example of encoded url is http 3A 2F 2Fwww yoursite com 2F 3Fa_aid 3D2 26a_bid 3D2 Constant CLICKURL_NOTENCODED will translate to normal URL which can be used directly in lt A HREF gt tags Example http www yoursite com a_aid 2 amp a_bid 2 Example of more complicated HTML banner with form lt form action CLICKURL_NOTENCODED method post gt lt table style BORDER 9999ff 1px solid font family Verdana Tahoma Arial cellspacing O cellpadding 2 gt lt tr gt lt td align left style font size 9px gt Which of our product do you like the most lt td gt lt tr gt lt tr gt lt td align left style font size
60. old type of linking and visitor clicks on your banner or link Permanent redirects may have some benefit in search engines ranking You can turn them on in Settings gt Tracking amp Cookies Permanent redirect x miniHelp If checked system will redirect to banner flink destination using permanent redirect This can give major benefit for search engine optimisation 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 40 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 41 Banner amp media types Banner types Post Affiliate Pro allows you to use various banner types The supported types are HTML banner can be used to create complicated banners consisting of tables multiple images forms etc Example Which of our product do you like the most s Shopping cart Affiliate system E Forum Vote Flash banner you can use your flash animation as a banner Text banner classic text link with possibility to customize its look Examples Banner title Banner description etc etc etc Banner title Banner description etc etc etc Graphic banner classic banner for displaying images of any size or Popup popunder banner Banner that displays in a popup window Banner rotator Special banner that randomly rotates other banners HTML banner HTML banner allows you to fully customize the look of your banners You can even define forms tables graphs multiple images as one banner Whe
61. oose minimum payout will be hidden Initial minimum payout 300 Initial minimum payout amount that is set to the affiliate upon signing up It has to be one of the values From minimum pasok options IF vou leave it empty no minimum payout is selected Payout invoice Y You can define how will payout invoice look like Please enter Full html code here Use of user Field codes which will be replaced by appropriate user info is also possible For info on all possible codes use Following link click here for more help Submit Minimum payout options are values that are displayed to the affiliate when he edits his profile He has to choose one of the values Minimum payout 50 ll Fully customizable payout options Except the few most used predefined payout methods Post Affiliate Pro allows you to define your own payout method This gives great flexibility to the system you can add virtually any payment service in the world as a payout method for your affiliates If you want to use new payout option you only need to define its name the fields and export pay button format Payout methods miniHelp You can define your own payout options methods For every payout method you can define unlimited number of Fields text or combo boxi Your affiliates will see all enabled payout methods in their profile editation and can choose the one they prefer For every payouk method you an define export and button Format Add pay
62. ou are also allowed to modify the software for your own use but you are not allowed to resell or redistribute any part of original source code without our written permission However keep in mind that if you make some modification other than design changes it could be more complicated for you to upgrade to new version We also offer customizations of our products so if you have any special requirements you can contact us to make the changes Check the product customizations on our website for details Can I buy it by PayPal payment yes you can use standard ordering form In one of the next steps there will be the list of payment options to choose and PayPal is one of them We are not able to receive direct PayPal payments Can I set different commissions per products Generally yes Post Affiliate Pro doesn t directly support commissions per products but it has Campaigns Campaign is a group of products that have the same or fixed commission settings You set up your commissions for campaign So if you really want to have a different commission for every product you can create one campaign for every product and specify its commissions Can I set different commissions per every affiliate Yes it is possible You can create unlimited number of Special affiliate commission categories in every Campaign For example you can have default per sale commission of campaign set to 5 Then you can create another special affiliate
63. our own custom content For vour affiliates This will display new menu item Resources in the affiliate panel EA Resources El Main page E Profile Product categories cS EB Product categories After clicking on resources affiliate will get to resources area The left menu will change it will contain link back to Affiliate Panel and customizable links to your pages Resources menu You can create new link in the left menu by editing the file affiliates menu_left_resources php Menu items are grouped in arrays Little knowledge of PHP is needed but it can be understood by sample code provided You can create new menu group by adding array array item lt a class aLeftMenulItem href index_res php md Affiliate_Affiliates_ Views _Resources amp p test2 gt Test page2 lt a gt 1 This will create new menu group in the left menu 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 35 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 36 E Affiliate Panel p T _ ail at Format of the subarray is array type link where type is item or header and link is normal lt a href gt link lt a gt tag So you can add header to this menu group by adding new item with first param header instead of item array array header Menu header array item lt a class aLeftMenulItem href index_res php md Affiliate_Affiliates_Views_Resources amp p test2 gt
64. out method Check LOG POYOUTCHECK enabled Edit Delete 4dd payout field Payable to LG POYOUTFIELDPAYABLETO CHP 4YABLETO btext mandatory Edit Delete E Gold egold enabled Edit Delete 4dd payout field Acct Mot egold Egoldpayout btext mandatory Edit Delete PayPal LOG METHODPAYPAL enabled Edit Delete 4dd payout field PayPal Email LOG METHODFIELDPAYPALEMAIL PPEMAIL text mandatory Edit Delete All defined and enabled payout methods are displayed to the affiliate in his profile where he has to choose one of the available methods for him 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 28 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 29 Payout method Check Payable to John Smith _ E Gold Acc Wow _ PayPal PayPal Email Add Edit payout method You have to define the name and language code for new payout method Language code is the PHP constant that should be defined in language file and it contains the name of payout method If such constant is not defined the Name defined in the form is used Using language code enables translating names of payout methods to different languages and always display the correct name according to language selected by affiliate Edit payout method Name PayPal Language code L_G METHODPAYPAL miniHelp Language code is constant that should be defined in the language file IF the constant is nok Found the Mame is used instead Language code enables you bo have
65. ovie VALUE your_banner swf clickKTAG CLICKURL gt lt PARAM NAME loop VALUE false gt lt PARAM NAME menu VALUE false gt lt PARAM NAME quality VALUE medium gt lt PARAM NAME bgcolor VALUE FFFFFF gt lt EMBED src your_banner swf clickKTAG CLICKURL loop false menu false quality medium bgcolor FFFFFF swLiveConnect FALSE WIDTH 468 HEIGHT 60 TYPE application x shockwave flash gt lt OBJECT gt Note the clickTAG CLICKURL parameter that you should pass to your banner file When you define your Flash banner you should use constant CLICKURL to specify where the customer will be redirected after click Affiliate system translates these constants to proper destination URLs when the banner code is displayed in affiliate screen Don t hardcode your destination URL into the banner always use constant CLICKURL otherwise the click and referral will be not tracked Affiliate system needs to pass few additional variables to your destination url which will help recognize the referring affiliate You should customize your banner to use the clickTAG parameter and redirect to the URL passed into this parameter after click The constant CLICKURL will be translated only in affiliate s panel in the text area where affiliate see the banner code For example if the code will be like your_banner swf clickTAG http 3A 2F 2Fwww yoursite com 2F 3Fa_aid 3D2 26a _bid 3D2 your flash banner should redirect to address http www yoursit
66. que fall of 0 After reading the news affiliate can decide if he wants to see the message again later or not He can always access all the old messages by clicking on view old news link 2005 09 77 OSETE Dear affiliates we would like to let you know that we added new campaign and new banners Email templates Email templates are used to define the format of emails that are sent to affiliate or merchant upon some action These are several events when affiliate system sends emails like e affiliate signup e sale notification e daily weekly monthly report etc Each of these events has its own email templates Language english ha miniHelp You can put those constants into the email and Category Affiliate signup confirmation email they will be translated into corresponding information Email subject Thank you for joining 3 a Email text Dear Attiliate_name Thank You for joining our affiliate program 4ffiliate Username Your Username it ATtiliate_ username faffiliate password Your password is FAttilate_passyveord You can log in into your control panel in url http iew yoursite comattiliates predefined constants affiliates sincerely Your Site Team 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 33 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 34 You can switch the event by choosing another category Every event category has its own set of predefined constants that can be
67. remium when number of sales in actual month is between 10 and 20 Edit Delete You can see your list of rules in the bottom The system will check the rules after every approved sale If the number of approved sales matches some condition it will put affiliate into given special commission category NOTE 1 The system tries to apply every rule that is defined If you have two or more rules whose conditions overlap the system processes them all in random order and the results affiliate assignation to special category are unpredictable 2 All conditions number of sales amount of commissions apply only to approved sales not on pending or declined When you have manual sales approval the rules are applied when you approve commission in the Transactions list 3 The commissions are not changed backwards Once the affiliate reaches 10 sales as in our example he is moved to higher commission category and his FUTURE commissions will be higher His past commissions including the first 10 that matched the rule condition will remain 10 4 If you use actual month or actual year period you should realise that the system counts commissions or number of sales only in the actual 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 25 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 26 month year So if you ll have one more rule like Put affiliate into special category Unassigned users 10 when number of sales in actual month is
68. saananaaneas Advanced TSCKINIG cicscvauxsacuvanxsnwevaasscurvansenwevaadenessannenaevaunsanereseansavanksaseie User defined data in tramSactionS ccceeeeeeecccccccccccccccccccccccccccecssscseees Permanent redirectS sssssssssssssnnssnrnssnsresnssrsnssronessnnesnrnesnsnesnssesnenenne Banner amp media typeS sssssssssssssssnssrenesssnssnsnrsnssennesrenessenesnsnesnsnrenenennn BIO FY DCS a E E E E AES Ul DANNO den ceeseuuceteneceweaviecescsrueusanessocua pen ueceeeurseucweeeueieenscdecennsensesesed Flash Danner casseveadaaceraeceequscatanaeveummnanecaeahuawreciearieaneceeddsaeuscetenaenucncases TOXU DOWNED sawessuacaneiaue intine REEE RENS m 11 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 2 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 3 Ga CaN watetoasece tunis nacnd cata deaiess sas tiecseecatunsnonedeeindeniacseorneerac AEE 44 PODU DODUNGED sorcas oone E E E 44 Bainter ESEE a T E A E ATE E A A A A A 45 P POR ea a E E E E E E 46 Banner EaU SiC o 4aarepnnsaqia a a 46 OMER FOPO Eiei i AT AIA AA AAE A 46 Daily Weekly MONtNIY rEDOrES pnsciccerucgiacaiinaineeiuersaucbvegveasvoddeeseamiearcoum 47 TENO EONS aeea EA 48 ie Ce EE E EEE E E E E EEE 49 TOD AA CSS e E EE E ENE EE ENE 50 TOC MO e panes ie nese are pote sune ere sere pores una neta ete pores nts 50 NUMOS OF SNS sui satiaacinaniganenmtes NA T A 51 Affiliate SUMMarieS sessssssssnsnssnnnnsnsrrsnsnnsnsnnnnrnnsnrnnnnnnnsnnnnsnrnnsnnnnrnnnnnn
69. t lt EMBED src ad_banner_example swf clickKTAG CLICKURL loop false menu false quality medium bgcolor FFFFFF swLiveConnect FALSE WIDTH 468 HEIGHT 60 TYPE application x shockwave flash gt lt OBJECT gt Note the CLICKURL constant in the banner code In HTML and Flash banners you can use special constants CLICKURL and CLICKURL_NOTENCODED These constants will be translated to the correct tracking URL when banner code is displayed to the affiliate It is because you cannot use destination URL in banner directly If you do the click will be not tracked Instead use CLICKURL constant and PAP will translate it to your destination URL with tracking parameters The difference between the two constants is that CLICKURL is replacing special characters in URL address so it can be passed as a parameter for example in Flash CLICKURL_NOTENCODED keeps URL plain 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 15 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 16 Set up your email templates System sends some automatic emails for example after affiliate signup which are generated from predefined templates Edit the templates to customize the message and add personal touch In the Email templates page you can modify email templates for all email notifications and confirmation emails that are sent to you or to your affiliates If you want to support more languages you should define email template in every used langu
70. tallation program you ll set only the most important system settings All settings will be available for you in the Tools gt Settings section after you log on into your control panel Requirements to complete this step export and banners directory must be enabled for writing by PHP You can change the permissions of these directories by CHMOD to 775 or 777 The complete URLs should be given to both directories Ifthe URLs are not correct uploading of banners and exporting files will not work C Dark Menu Top Default design with menu on the lett Skin with blue top menu You will be always able to change your skin and system colors in your control panel Export directory exports Directory for export of CS Excel files Default is Jexports it should be relative path from affiliate merchants directory Complete URL to export directory hittp 127 0 0 1 a_wisvniaffiliatettrunk exports Click Here to test the url Birocimyin itannoreupioad on aaam Directory where the banners will be uploaded it has to be relative path from affiliate merchants directory Complete URL to banners directory http i 1 27 0 0 1 a_visvniaffiliate trunkibanners Click hereto test the url Complete URL to scripts directory fittp 1 127 0 0 1 a_wsvn affiliateitrunkiscripts Click here to test the url Complete URL to Vaffiliate scripts directory lf URLis set to wrong path program will be not able to register impressions
71. tegory specify type of commissions and upload your banners Customize email templates that are sent to your affiliates Customize the headers and footers on signup page and affiliate panel not mandatory For customizing headers and footers for signup page edit the header htm and footer htm files in your main program directory For customizing headers and footers for affiliate control panel edit the header htm and footer htm files in your affiliates directory Product code Specify database Database creation Merchant account Step 7 confirmation screen installation finished After these steps the system is ready for operation Now you should set up your campaigns commissions and banners Before running for real you should perform more testing by trying to signup as one test affiliate set up the banners on testing affiliate page and check clicks and sales registration There is also Start with your affiliate program section after you log in to your merchant panel which contains description of first steps as well as periodic maintenance of the system ireak wj eT steps and periodic tasks First brief help PAP 3 User s Guide download Complete documentation Getting started info installation integration with shopping carts and setup i Upgrade from version 1 1 x 1 2 x This upgrade is possible only using installer of version 1 4 If you have version older than 1 3 contact us for support Update from
72. tem will display impression click and CTR all affiliates to affiliate statistics For banners using data From all users in affiliate panel This enables affiliate to choose banners links with best CTR and compare his own performance with average TF unchecked affiliate will see only his own statistics If this setting is checked there are also global statistics for all affiliates displayed for every banner In merchant panel it is visible only if you filter Statistics for affiliate Global statistics may be helpful for new affiliates who want choose banners with best CTR ratio or to compare affiliate s own performance with average ID 2 Product category Example campaign Destination URL http www webradey com Edit Delete Statistics for all affiliates Period Impressions unique fall 0f 0 Clicks O Clickthroughs ratio 0 0 Impressions unique f alli 2206 2358 Clicks 2156 Clickthroughs ratio 97 73 9 Statistics for chosen affiliate Period Impressions unique alli O70 Clicks O Clickthroughs ratio 0 0 All Impressions unique f alli 2203 2355 Clicks 1721 Clickthroughs ratio 78 12 Text text text text Test banner Quick report This report is available for both affiliate and merchant You can filter it by campaign affiliate only merchant and date It gives you quick overview of all transactions and summaries of counts and commissions for given period Only the transaction types allowed in settings CPM
73. tes with high number of sales After vou define new special commission category you can assign affiliates to this category in the Affiliates list By default all affiliates are assigned to default commission category Category Clickcomm Salecomm of affiliates Actions O emm O O l s o Ce oo o o o o Now we can define rules that will move affiliates to some category when amount of their sales reaches some limit First we will define rule that will move affiliate 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 24 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 25 to Premium category with 15 commissions if the number of sales in actual month is between 10 and 20 Commissions Special affiliates commissions Campaign settings Performance rules Put affiliate into special category pPremium When number of sales 7 In actual month _ Is higher than e ls between 10 and 20 List of Rules We will add one more rule that will move affiliate to VIP category if number of sales is higher than 21 Commissions Special affiliates commissions Campaign settings Performance rules Put affiliate into special category p ha When number of sales nad actual month Is higher than 21 O ls between Save rule and List of Rules Put affiliate into special category VIP when number of sales in actual month is higher than21 Edit Delete Put affiliate into special category P
74. thly quarterly biannually yearly at the day of order You can find more about it in Recurring commissions section Another setting for campaign is cookie lifetime default is 0 it means that doesn t matter how long time ago visitor clicked on affiliate s banner affiliate will still get the commission from visitor s sale if the cookie was not deleted If you want to limit this period enter number of days into Cookie lifetime field If you want to have special commissions for different affiliates you can create more Special affiliate commission categories within the Campaign For example you can have default per sale commission of campaign set to 5 Then you can create another special affiliate commission category for V I P affiliates within this campaign and set the per sale commission to 8 By default the affiliates belong to standard affiliate category which is called Unassigned users If you want to put some affiliate to V I P commission category you can do it in the Affiliates list by choosing action Change commission cat You can also set performance rewards that will move affiliate to higher or lower commission category depending on the volume of his sales Find more about this in Performance rewards 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 14 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 15 Multi tier commissions allow you to automatically reward affiliates connected in tiers Example of mult
75. ting for approval iales_vraningapproval 2nd tier waiting for approval Sales vrartingapproval_2ndtier Declined Piales_declined 2nd tier declined Sales declined _2nctier Transactions Transactions report displays all transactions for given period of time A d Records 1 20 From 10009 Page i from 501 Rows per page gt bb ID Commission Total Cost Order ID Created Type IP Status Datal Data Data 0 25 2004 05 02 00 00 00 click paid 2000 123 45 CC U12345 2004 05 02 14 26 38 sale 195 166 130 6 B paid 20 00 69 00 CC_U11905 2004 05 02 15 45 29 sale 195 168 130 56 paid 20 00 63 00 CC U11907 2004 05 02 15 55 51 sale 195 166 130 356 B paid 20 00 69 00 CC_U11909 2004 05 02 15 56 58 sale 195 168 130 536 paid 20 00 693 00 CC_U11911 2004 05 02 16 01 22 sale 195 166 130 356 B paid 20 00 693 00 CC_U11913 2004 05 02 16 04 28 sale 195 168 130 356 paid a 0 2004 05 03 00 00 00 click H paid 2004 05 03 00 00 00 click B paid a a 2004 05 03 00 00 00 lick B Faid 0 a 2004 05 03 00 00 00 click H paid a a 2004 05 03 00 00 00 click B paid 0 a 2004 05 03 00 00 00 click 8 paid 20 70 693 00 nee UNL Reber 2004 05 03 12 57 19 sale 195 168 130 120 H Faid 0 o 2004 05 06 00 00 00 click 2 B Faid 0 0 2004 05 07 00 00 00 click 14 B paid 0 o 2004 05 08 00 00 00 click 9 B paid 0 oF 2004 05 09 00 00 00 click 2 B paid 0 0 2004 05 10 00 00 00 click 6 H paid 0 OF 2004 05 11 00 00
76. tion Page 52 Top referring URLs This report displays the URLs that sent traffic to your site using affiliate links You can identify which URLs perform the best you can even look at them to try to find out why and make some recommendations to your other affiliates Top referring URLs Time period gt a all O ff ef Janne BE ft Apply filter Faltunit comipostatiliatepraclick test htimn S02 4 f Records 1 20 From4 Page id from3 Rows per page 20 gt bt bps tideroo gualityunit conypostaffiliateproiclick kest htm 7502 hkkp idemo qualityunit comipostakFiliakeprotsale test hkm 4350 No UEL 239 E htep iidemo gualityunik comipostaffiliateprotaffsignup ph 39 E btto wow winelkedaq nl signup php 59 Rotator report Displays detailed impressions and clicks statistics for every sub banner of each banner rotator Rotator banner 2d040fb9 rotator 2 Banner ID Banner type Destination URL Impressions Clicks Unique All 38399F72 tet tte trendmovecom O Ooo o 5357dcea HTMLFlash beepawwtestinet oo oaa O i O b4acizff graphics tt testice o ceSbib9s HTMLjFlash att fgooglescom do o oo d i Rotator banner 5didi3Te cf Unigue All Oo Omida graphics Ci O O D O OOO abez O O O O O TL Flash O O O O bttipastherbecon O ojo O Non performing affiliates This report allows you to filter out affiliates that perform poorly or do nothing at all There are a
77. tween affiliate and merchant or affiliate manager When affiliate fills in some message and hit Send button the text is sent to the system email address The text of email is generated using the Affiliate contact us email template so you have to define this template if you want to receive emails from your affiliates 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 34 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 35 Customizations Design customizations Whole affiliate system is template based so it is relatively easy to change the look of the system Templates are placed in merchans templates and affiliates templates directories There is support for easy change of affiliate control panel and affiliate signup form look by editing header htm and footer htm files in the main directory for signup form or in affiliates directory for affiliate panel Changing header and footer is sufficient for most of the design customizations for more serious ones you would have to edit the templates Customizable resources area in affiliate panel The system enables you to create your own pages documents with tutorials resources promotional materials and display them on affiliate s page To do this you have to enable displaying the Resources section in Settings gt Affiliate settings Display resources a miniHelp IF enabled system will display Resources in the left menu of affiliate panel Resources area enables you bo create y
78. ualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 61 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 62 PayPal WorldPay StormPay 2Checkout PaySystems osCommerce snscart com Miva shopping cart with use or 3rd party module Just because your cart is not in the list it doesn t mean it cannot be integrated As said above almost every shopping cart can be integrated If you want to be sure before you buy send us an email or check Integration in this help 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 62
79. very Ten Minutes Every Other Hour Every Four Hours Every Six Hours 0 12 4M Midnight Delete Wednesday 2005 QualityUnit All rights Reserved Page 11 Post Affiliate Pro 3 User s Manual amp Documentation Page 12 Configure your system You can find more details about this in Getting started section Generally the 10 simple steps you should do 1 Brainstorming 2 Review your settings 3 Define your commissions 4 Create your banners or text links 5 Set up your email templates 6 Customize your Affiliate Signup Form 7 Customize the look of your affiliate panel 8 Integrate system with your webpage and shopping cart 9 Test it 10 Promote your program Logged Ovana Yoga Q PostAffiliatePro Edt mesile Logout Affiliate applications Transactions to approve masiy Total clicks Total impressions unique all E BannersjLinks Total approved sales Total approved leads Total pending sales Total pending leads Start with your affiliate program How to start with the system first 10 steps and periodic tasks First brief help Total declined sales Total declined leads PAP 3 User s Guide download Today commissions Total approved commissions 0 Total pending commissions 0 Total declined commissions 0 Complete documentation Getting started info installation integration with shopping carts and setup A E Affiliates E Affiliates in campaigns
80. ves the specified commission It works also multi tier so parent s parent 2 tier can also receive commission etc CPM cost per thousand impressions is reward for thousand impressions displaying of banner link by affiliate Per click also known as Pay Per Click PPC or Cost Per Click CPC is a commission given to affiliate for every click the visitor makes on a banners link on affiliate s web page If you don t want to use per click commission you have also option to disable displaying click in reports or don t save clicks at all Per sale is a commission given to the affiliate when visitor referred by him makes a purchase on your website The referral and purchase is tracked by various methods the most widely used is cookies followed by tracking by IP or PHP sessions Per lead is very similar to Per sale but it is used for rewarding affiliates for leads not for purchases They can be used when you want to reward affiliates for referring new members to your site etc Recurring support is used to support recurring rewards for your affiliates For example when you have website where you are selling service that is charged periodically like subscription or webhosting you can reward your affiliates for every payment your customer makes This does not make sense for websites selling normal goods only for sites selling recurring services Tracking of all sales also not referred by affiliates Post Affiliate Pro now al

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