Manager Area

AllAffiliatePro management area allows you to administer your entire affiliate program, or affiliate network, from one powerful web based location.

The management area is where you can configure and administer your program. To login to the management area type the following URL in your browser:-

http://www.cv-writers-affiliate.org.uk/cgi-bin/manager.cgi?want=admin

The default username/password combination to access the admin area is:-
Username: admin
Password: adminpass

The management area is split into 6 sections. These are:-

Affiliate Statistics

Accuracy stats
If you have enabled accuracy tracking, then the accuracy statistics will also be displayed here.
Affiliate Search
Search for affiliates, this is useful when your affiliate program get big or you want to go straight to an individual affiliate.
Display Affiliates (#)
This will display a list of all the active affiliates in your program. You can see the number of active affiliates you have between the brackets. Each affiliate displayed will show current earnings (of which are bonus or tier commissions), sales recorded and clicks sent. There are options to view affiliate sales for this and last payperiod, view affiliate information, view referring url's, email affiliate, suspend and remove. When viewing affiliate sales history you have the option to remove affiliate commissions on an order (this adds a new -'minus' order). When viewing user information you can edit and save changes. You can also set specific payment rates for that user (i.e. give him 25% commission instead of the standard 20%). This is also used to force a webmaster onto a commission or pay per sale program if their conversion ratio is low (i.e. set the pay per click rates to '0', and change the affiliate program type to commission). To return any payment rate to the standard value from the configuration variables, the value must be set to nothing ''. You can set individual rates for each site on your network, by using commas. Such as ',,10,20' to set the first two sites the same and then the third site to have 10% and the fourth to have 20%. When viewing the referring pages, you can see on exactly which pages the affiliate has your banner hosted, and which are sending you the most traffic. Some of these will show as 'Referrer blocked', this means that the visitors browsers privacy settings prevented the software from tracking what page they came from.
Affiliates Pending (#)
If you have configured the variable "Signup Style" to Que, then this will display the list of affiliates who have applied but have not yet been accepted into your program. You can see the number of pending affiliates you have between the brackets. You have the option to view the affiliates signup information, email the affiliate, and choose between adding the affiliate to your program (accepting the affiliate) or removing the affiliate.
Affiliates Suspended (#)
This will display the list of affiliates of whom you have suspended from your program. You can see the number of suspended affiliates you have between the brackets. You can view the affiliates signup information, email them, and choose to reinstate or remove the affiliates.
Affiliate referrers
This will display a toplist of all the URL's that are referring traffic to your site. Clicking on any of the URL's will open the page in a new window. Some of these will show as 'Referrer blocked', this means that the visitors browsers privacy settings prevented the software from tracking what page they came from.
Display dead Affiliates
Input the minimum number of clicks an affiliate must have had over the last 2 months, all affiliates will less clicks will be displayed (not including new affiliates). You are shown the date they joined, and have the options to view their information, email them, and suspend or remove them.
Bad conversion affiliate
Input the minimum number of clicks within which an affiliate should have generated at least one sale. You have the options to view their information, email them, and suspend or remove them.

Orders

Affiliate Orders
You can choose to display all affiliate orders for either this payperiod, or last payperiod, by selecting This or Last respectively. Displayed are the order number, order date, amount with currency (this is not the affiliate commission, but the order total), the affiliate commission with currency, the affiliate who the order was referred by, their email, the option to remove the order (adds a - minus order, with todays date and the order number suffix R), the site the order was tracked from, the url the orginal click came from (if available). If you are running a recurring commissions program then any rebills will be displayed below the standard sales.
Confirm Order list
This displays a list of tracked affiliate sales. When the 'General Settings' option 'Manually confirm sales' is set to 'YES', sales are only added to this list, and not directly to the affiliates account. You have the option to add the sale to the affiliates account or remove the sale.
Add Order to Affiliates account
This can be used to manually add orders to an affiliates account. You need to enter the affiliates username, the amount total of the order, the site, the date, the unique order number and choose if this is added as a pending sale or not.
Display Orders error log
This will display the orders error log. This helps you to debug any order tracking problems you may be having, and can also show any attemped hacks by hackers. You have the option to wipe the log as it may get long.
Find Order
If you receive a chargeback then you can check to see whether that customer was referred by an affiliate. You need to enter the order number and the date the order was originally received (format MM:DD:YYYY). You can then remove the order from the affiliates earnings (we strongly recommend you email them informing of the problem).

Configuration

Configuration
This will display all of the configuration options split into 5 sections. You can view/edit and save the changes. For detailed information on configuration options view the section "Configuration".
Configuration Wizard
This will display the basic configuration variables.
Template Wizard
This will open the template wizard allowing you to quickly and easily setup the look and feel of your affiliate program.
Template Editor
This will display the template editor allowing you to customize individual pages.

Utilities

Display Memberships
This will display all semi automated recurring affiliate commisions that are currently active. Fully automated recurring commissions do not appear in this list.
Email all Affiliates
This will display an email form where you can input a message, or newsletter to be mailed to all your affiliates. You have the option of text or HTML emails.
Signup Affiliate
Link to the affiliate signup page.
User Guide (help)
A link to this guide.
Generate Payday
This generates the affiliates earnings data, sending emails to affiliates and to you. Also creating a CSV spreadsheet file with all the members details and earnings. You need to select this option the day AFTER the end of your payperiod. (i.e. If you want your payperiod to end on the 16th, then generate the payday on the 17th.)
Protect Data Folders
This uses .htaccess (on Unix based systems) to password protect and restrict access to the data folders.
Database Backup/Restore
Backup or Restore your affiliate database. You can download the backups by FTP.
Change Login details
Enter your current username/password, to be able to input a new username/password combination.

Link code Generator

Image Banners
Standard graphical banners that you have available to affiliates
Text Links
Standard text links that you have available to affiliates
HTML Banners
Special banners, such as search boxes, that you have availble to affiliates
Flash Banners
Flash banners that you have availble to affiliates
Deep Page Links
Pages within your sites that you've made available for affiliates to link directly to
Upload Files
Displays a list of uploaded graphics/flash files with the option to remove or upload more

Please continue to the next section Affiliate Area