AllAffiliatePro has been designed to be highly configurable. Because of this there are many configuration variables that you can adjust to tailor this software to your needs.
During installation the core variables are setup. For your convenience the different configuration variables have been split into set groups. From the web based management area all variables can be adjusted at any time after installation. Below is a list of all the configuration variables, by group, with the variable name, which program type it applys to (PayPer Click or PayPer Sale), an explaination of what it does, and how it can be adjusted.
Program details
| Variable name | PPC | PPS | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Company Name | This is your company name that will be associated with this program. It will appear in outgoing emails and messages. | ||
| Your E-mail | This is the email address of yours to be associated with this affiliate program. All emails to affiliates will be from this address, and all administation emails regarding this affiliate program will be sent to this address. | ||
| Signup Style | This variable can be set to INSTANT or QUE. When set to Instant affiliates that signup will be given instant access to your affiliate program to download banners and earn commissions. When set to Que affiliates that apply will be added to a que for approval into your affiliate program, and will not be given access until you have added them from the pending affiliates list in the Management area. | ||
| Required join fields | This value represents the joinup fields which are required for a member to join your affiliate program. The joinup fields can be edited from join.html, joinup.html and joinup2.html. The available fields are:- name, company, payee, address1, address2, city, area, postcode, country, website, email, ssn, username, password, type, u1, u2, u3, u4, paypal, bankname, banknumber, banksort, bankswift. The fields you want to be required must be listed here separated by a comma ','. Examples are "name,company,email,ssn" and "name,address1,address2,city,area". | ||
| Automate affiliate usernames | With this enabled affiliates cannot choose their username and will instead be assigned an id. The box below allows you to choose the pre-text for the ID. Afterward an incrementing number will be appended. | ||
| Affiliate Statistics results per page | This value represents the total number of affiliate statistics results per page. If there are more results than this number the the next results link is displayed. Example is if set to 20 and the affiliate selects statistics for a month, then only the 1st to the 20th will be displayed, 21st and on will be on another page. | ||
| Manager Reports results per page | This is the number of rows displayed per page, for all manager reports and statistics. | ||
| Wipe Old Statistics | This variable can be set to WIPE or KEEP. If set to keep then all statistics from all pay periods will be kept on file. This can eat up disk space, and slow the overall operation of the affiliate program in time. If set to WIPE then only statistics for the current and last pay periods are kept on file. This free's up disk space, and speeds up the overall affiliate program operation. | ||
| Top Affiliate Display | This value represents the number of affiliates that will be displayed in your top earning affiliates list. You may only want to display a list of top earning affiliates once you have had your program running for some time. Example values are 10 for 10 affiliates displayed and 20 for 20 affiliates displayed. This variable can only contain numerical values. | ||
| Date style | This variable lets you choose which date style you want to use. Either US "MM:DD:YYYY" or UK "DD:MM:YYYY". | ||
| Currency | This variable lets you select regional currency settings. Your options are USD style "$", GBP style "£", Euro style "€" or Yen style "¥". Or you can choose to enter one of your own. | ||
| Tier Commissions | This value represents the % commission affiliates will earn on the tiers of the program. Example values are 20 for 20% 2nd tier commissions, and '20,15,10,5' for 2nd to 5th tier commissions. Set this variable to 0 to disable tier commissions. Tier commissions are an amount of the original sale. So if a sale was made for $100 with commissions set to 20, and tier commissions set to '10,5', the first affiliate would get $20, the referring affiliate $10 and his referring affiliate $5. Always be very careful when setting up more than 2 tiers. You are limited to 12 tiers. This variable can only contain numerical values. | ||
| Bonus Commissions | You can enter bonus commissions, so that affiliates get a % bonus on their earnings above set levels. You could have a bonus of 10% on earnings over $500. This would be input as '500=10'. You can input up to 10 bonus levels and commissions. '100=5,150=10,200=15' would set 3 bonus levels. | ||
| Minimum Payout | This value represents the minimum an affiliate must have earned to qualify for a PayDay payout. If an affiliate has earned less than this value then their earnings will be carried forward to the next Pay Period. Example values are 50 for $50 and 100 for $100. This variable can only contain numerical values. | ||
| Commission Period (days) | This value represents the period of time in days that the affiliate will earn commission on a sale. Once an affiliate has sent the visitor to your site, the visitor may return during this number of days and make a purchase, and the affiliate will still earn commission on the sale. Examples are 10 for 10 days and 30 for 30 days. This variable can only contain numerical values. | ||
| Manually Confirm Sales | This variable can be set to YES or NO. If set to NO (default) all tracked affiliate sales are instantly recorded to the affiliates account, in real time. If set to YES all tracked affiliate sales are recorded to a log, and added to the affiliates account manually from a list in the management area where you have the option to add the sale or remove the sale. | ||
| Show full commissions (including tiers) | By default affiliate commission displays do not include tier commissions. You can enable this to show the full commission. If you have many tiers of commission this may slow down page load times. | ||
| Affiliate stats date range (days back) | For the detailed stats affiliate lookup, this is the detault date range that comes up in the search box. | ||
| Show affiliate sales details | With this enabled affiliates will be able to view the order IDs and amounts of sales they have sent. | ||
| Show affiliate tier sales details | With this enabled affiliates will be able to view the order IDs and amounts of their tier affiliates sales. | ||
| Default Language | If you have multiple language templates uploaded, you can select the default here. | ||
| Payment Methods | Select which payment methods you want to make available to affiliates. Note that changes here will not be reflected on affiliate signup until the template wizard has been run again. | ||
| Default Payment Method | Default option from the enabled list above |
Sites configuration
| Variable name | PPC | PPS | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Site Number | This is the number of the site you are configuring. You can enter up to 10 sites (more upon request). | ||
| Site URL | This value represents the sites that this affiliate program will be advertising. You must enter a full URL for each site including http://. Examples are http://www.cosmicperl.com and http://www.cosmicsitedesign.com | ||
| Site label | This value represents the corrosponding sites name, such as "AllAffiliatePro" or "CosmicPerl website". | ||
| Sales Commission | This value represents the % commission affiliates will earn for each sale they refer. Example values are 20 for 20% and 110 for 110%. This variable can only contain numerical values. | ||
| Recurring Commissions | This value represents the % recurring commission affiliates will earn for each member they refer. Example values are 20 for 20% and 110 for 110%. You can set up to 10 payment scales for rebill commissions, separate by commas. So '20,15,10' would give 20% on the first bill 15% on the second, and 10% on each rebill thereafter. This variable can only contain numerical values. | ||
| Payment Per Unique Click | This value represents the amount the affiliate will earn for each unique visitor they send to your site. Example values are 0.10 for 10 cents and 0.08 for 8 cents. This variable can only contain numerical values. | ||
| Payment Per Raw Click | This value represents the amount the affiliate will earn for each visitor they send to your site, be that unique or repeat. Example values are 0.04 for 4 cents and 0.02 for 2 cents. This variable can only contain numerical values. | ||
| Payment Per Blind Unique Click | This value represents the amount the affiliate will earn for each unique visitor they send blindly to your site. Example values are 0.01 for 1 cent and 0.005 for 1/2 a cent. This variable can only contain numerical values. | ||
| Payment Per Blind Raw Click | This value represents the amount the affiliate will earn for each visitor they send blindly to your site, be that unique or repeat. Example values are 0.005 for 1/2 a cent and 0.0025 for 1/4 a cent. This variable can only contain numerical values. | ||
| Payment Per Sale | This value represents the amount affiliates will earn for each sale they refer. Example values are 20 for $20 and 5 for $5. This variable can only contain numerical values. | ||
| Make all orders from this site rebills | If fully automated recurring sales tracking is not available, you can enable this option to enable part automation for all tracked sales from this site. All tracked sales will then be classed as recurring and an entry will be added to the "Display memberships" list. | ||
| Rebill amount | If above is enabled, the amount each rebill will be. | ||
| Rebill period | If above is enabled, the period each rebill should take place. | ||
| Commission Delay Type | You can add a delay on commissions, this is the delay type. Options none, days, months, years. | ||
| Commission Delay number | The multiple to be applied to the delay type above. | ||
| Minimum days before next rebill (Automated recurring commissions) | This can help assure automated recurring commissions do not get duplicated. If your recurring billing is monthly a good number here would be 27. | ||
| Maximum order value (0 to disable) | You can limit the value of orders tracked. This will effect the affiliates commission. | ||
| Total number of Active sites | This value represents the number of active sites in your network. So if you have 5 sites setup, but this number is 2, only 2 sites will be available to your affiliates. | ||
| Use Actinic referrer script | Actinic shopping cart users only. You can redirect affiliate links to go through Actinics referrer script as well. | ||
| URL to Actinic referer script | URL for the referring script, required is the above option is enabled. | ||
| Absolute path to web folder (only with Actinic referer) | The is the full path to your public web folder, such as public_html or htdocs. |
Email messages
Message options
| Variable name | PPC | PPS | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Email sale notification | If this is enabled you and affiliates will receive email notification when they generate a sale. | ||
| Email tier notification | If this is enabled affiliates will receive email notication when they signup another affiliate. |
Admin emails
| Variable name | PPC | PPS | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| E-mail Payday Message to You | This is the message that is sent to you for each of your affiliates earnings when a payday is generated. The symbol ::username:: will be swapped for the relevant information. The affiliates earnings and details will be added to the end of the message. | ||
| E-mail Join Message to You | This is the message that is sent to you when and affilate joins your affiliate program. The symbols ::name::, ::company::, ::payee::, ::address1::, ::address2::, ::city::, ::area::, ::postcode::, ::country::, ::website::, ::email::, ::paymethod::, ::paypal::, ::bankname::, ::banknumber::, ::banksort::, ::bankswift::, ::username::, ::ssn::, ::password::, ::u1::, ::u2::, ::u3::, ::u4::, ::type::, ::typer::, ::details:: are available. | ||
| E-mail Info Update to You | This is the message that is sent to you when an affiliate updates their user details. The symbols ::name::, ::username:: will be swapped for the relevant information. The affilates details are added to the end of the message. | ||
| Affiliate Sale Received email to You | This is the message that is sent to you when an affiliate makes a sale. The symbols ::name::, ::affiliate::, ::orderid::, ::orderamount::, ::date:: and ::time:: are available. | ||
| Partner Site Info Update to You | This is the message that is sent to you when an affiliate updates their partner site details. The symbols ::name::, ::phone::, ::fax::, ::mobile::, ::address::, ::city::, ::area::, ::postcode::, ::country::, ::website::, ::email::, ::u1::, ::u2::, ::u3::, ::u4::, ::details:: are available. |
Affiliate emails
| Variable name | PPC | PPS | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Payday Message to Qualified Affiliates | This is the message that is sent to each of your affiliates when a payday is generated who has earnings over the minimum payout. The symbols ::name::, ::revenue:: and ::username:: will be swapped for the relevant information. | ||
| Payday Message to Unqualified Affiliates | This is the message that is sent to each of your affiliates when a payday is generated who has earnings under the minimum payout. The symbols ::name::, ::revenue::, ::minimumpayout:: and ::username:: will be swapped for the relevant information. | ||
| E-mail Join Message to Affiliate | This is the message that is sent to the affiliate when joining your affiliate program. The symbols ::name::, ::company::, ::payee::, ::address1::, ::address2::, ::city::, ::area::, ::postcode::, ::country::, ::website::, ::email::, ::paymethod::, ::paypal::, ::bankname::, ::banknumber::, ::banksort::, ::bankswift::, ::username::, ::ssn::, ::password::, ::u1::, ::u2::, ::u3::, ::u4::, ::type::, ::typer::, ::details:: are available. | ||
| E-mail Join Pending to Affiliate | This is the message that is sent to the affiliate when joining your affiliate program, if you have "Signup Style" set to que. The symbols ::name::, ::company::, ::payee::, ::address1::, ::address2::, ::city::, ::area::, ::postcode::, ::country::, ::website::, ::email::, ::paymethod::, ::paypal::, ::bankname::, ::banknumber::, ::banksort::, ::bankswift::, ::username::, ::ssn::, ::password::, ::u1::, ::u2::, ::u3::, ::u4::, ::type::, ::typer::, ::details:: are available. | ||
| E-mail Join Pending Accepted to Affiliate | This is the message that is sent to the affiliate when joining your affiliate program, if you have "Signup Style" set to que, and you have selected to accept the affiliate to your program from the management area. The symbols ::name::, ::company::, ::payee::, ::address1::, ::address2::, ::city::, ::area::, ::postcode::, ::country::, ::website::, ::email::, ::paymethod::, ::paypal::, ::bankname::, ::banknumber::, ::banksort::, ::bankswift::, ::username::, ::ssn::, ::password::, ::u1::, ::u2::, ::u3::, ::u4::, ::type::, ::details:: are available. | ||
| E-mail Info Update to Affiliate | This is the message that is sent to the affiliate when they update their user details. The symbols ::name::, ::username:: will be swapped for the relevant information. The affilates details are added to the end of the message. | ||
| Affiliate Sale Received email to Affiliate | This is the message that is sent an affiliate when they make a sale (feature must be enabled above). The symbols ::name::, ::affiliate::, ::orderid::, ::orderamount::, ::date:: and ::time:: are available. | ||
| New Affiliate added to Tier | This is the message that is sent an affiliate when they signup a new affiliate (feature must be enabled above). The symbols ::tierusername::, ::tiername::, ::tiercompany::, ::tiercountry::, ::tierwebsite::, ::tieremail::, ::tierssn::, ::tieru1::, ::tieru2::, ::tieru3::, ::tieru4::, ::details::, ::name::, ::username::, ::password:: are available. | ||
| Partner Site Info Update to Affiliate | This is the message that is sent to an affiliate when they update their partner site details. The symbols ::name::, ::phone::, ::fax::, ::mobile::, ::address::, ::city::, ::area::, ::postcode::, ::country::, ::website::, ::email::, ::u1::, ::u2::, ::u3::, ::u4::, ::details:: are available. |
Currencies
| Variable name | PPC | PPS | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Default Currency | This is your base currency. All other tracked currencies will be converted to this one based on the rates input. |
Partner Tracking
The partner tracking system allow live replicated pages for affiliates where they can display their own images and contact details. This needs to be specially setup and configured. Contact us for more information an pricing.
| Variable name | PPC | PPS | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enable partner tracking system | Select to enable this feature or not. | ||
| Partner system style | Give the partner affiliates a sub folder or sub domain. | ||
| Partner output folder (after ".com/") | The folder part of the URL to the partners folder. | ||
| Partner output folder (absolute path) | This is where the partner pages are generated. This must be a full path starting with /. | ||
| Sites main public folder (absolute path) | This is the full path to the partner sites template, this might be your main site folder. | ||
| Have partner frameset or redirect? | Framset, landing page or redirect to divert visitors to the partner tracking system. | ||
| Create Sub Domain apache directives | With this enabled apache directive for the affiliate partner sub domains will be generated automatically. | ||
| Apache include filename (absolute path) | This is the full path to the apache include file. You will need to edit your httpd.conf file to load (include) this file. | ||
| Your apache server IP | The IP address the sub domains should be attached to. | ||
| Your apache server port | The port number for the sub domains, usually 80. | ||
| Your apache server name | The main domain name the sub domains will go under. | ||
| Suexec? | Create suexec directives as well? You must select your apache version. | ||
| Suexec username | Username for suexec | ||
| Suexec group | Group for suexec | ||
| Partner image # | An image that the affiliate partners are able to upload to their pages. | ||
| Resize images if wrong size? | This option will resize uploaded images. | ||
| Partner image max filesize | Limit the size of the file partners can upload. | ||
| Extra field 1 - 4 | Extra information fields you want partners to be able to add to their pages. |
Advanced
| Variable name | PPC | PPS | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Server Details | |||
| Mail Program | On Unix/Linux servers this is the path to your SendMail program. This can be obtained from your
hosts technical information. The installation program often detects the path to sendmail on your
server if it is installed at a default location. On Win32/NT/200X servers this is the domain of your outgoing SMTP mail server. This can be obtained from your hosts technical information. It is very important that this variable is set correctly. If set incorrectly then emails to you and your affiliates from this software will not be sent. |
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| URL to Site Pages | This is the URL to where your affiliate program site pages are. These are the pages that explain your affiliate program, and allow affiliates to join. | ||
| Path to Site Pages | This is the server path to where your affiliate program site pages are. This is NOT a URL, and should look something like '../../public_html/affiliate'. | ||
| URL to Documents | This is the URL to where the user guide for this program is kept. These include the page you are looking at now. You should also have a copy of these files on your hard disk. | ||
| Path to Documents | This is the server path to where the user guide for this program is kept. This is NOT a URL, and should look something like '../../public_html/affiliate/documentation'. | ||
| Path to template files | This is the path to the HTML template files. You need to set this if you move the tempaltes files outside of the cgi-bin. Example "../../public_html/affiliatetemplates". | ||
| URL to Privacy Policy reference file | This is the location of your privacy policy reference file. This file is used to enable accurate cookie tracking in Internet Explorer browsers. | ||
| Valid Domains | This value represents the domains with are permitted to call the order tracking script clickme2.cgi. This should include your domain, your secure domain, and your card processors domain(s). You should also include the IP addresses of each domain, but it is not required. Examples are "cosmicperl.com¦63.251.5.139" and "cosmicperl.com¦63.251.5.139¦cosmicsitedesign.com¦ccbill.com". | ||
| Name of Data Folder | This value represents the RELATIVE server path to your data folder. This is the folder where all affiliate statistics data will be stored. You must only use RELATIVE paths and not FULL paths, otherwise no data will be recorded. This folder can also be protected by .htaccess, setup from the management area. Examples are "data" or "../securefolder/data" but NOT "/home/usr/public_html/cgi-bin/data". | ||
| Name of Payday Folder | This value represents the RELATIVE server path to your payday folder. This is the folder where all payday information is stored in spreadsheet form for each generated payperiod. You must only use RELATIVE paths and not FULL paths, otherwise no payday information will be recorded. This folder can also be protected by .htaccess, setup from the management area. Examples are "payday" or "../securefolder/payday" but NOT "/home/usr/public_html/cgi-bin/payday". | ||
| Database DSN | This variable contains the location of the 'data source name'. This usually looks like - 'DBI:mysql:database=NAME;host=localhost;' where NAME is the name of the MySQL Database. | ||
| Database username | This is the username for the above database. | ||
| Database password | This is the password for the above database. | ||
| Tracking Details | |||
| Gateway option | Here you can select whether to use a gateway or not, and what the gateway applies to. The gateway options can be complicated, and are explained in more detail in the Features Explained section. | ||
| Gateway style | Here you can select the style of gateway to use. The gateway options can be complicated, and are explained in more detail in the "Features Explained" section. | ||
| Gateway page | This is the path to the html template page for the gateway page. Default is gateway.html, and an example file gateway.html is provided. As with all html templates in this affiliate software, special editing rules apply, as special symbols must be used on the page. The editing of this file, and other html template files is covered in detail in the section "Templates to match your site". | ||
| Valid Gateway Domain | This value represents the domains with are hosting the gateway pages. This should include your domain and your secure domain. You should also include the IP addresses of each domain, but it is not required. Examples are "cosmicperl.com¦63.251.5.139" and "cosmicsitedesign.com¦63.251.5.139¦cosmicperl.com". | ||
| Post Style | This variable can be set to GET or POST. Default is Get. This setting depends on your style of integration with your ordering system. This is explained in more detail in the section "Integration". | ||
| Post Price Variable Name (POST only) | This variable is set the name of the POST price variable. This setting depends on your style of integration with your ordering system. This is explained in more detail in the section "Integration". | ||
| Post ID Variable Name (POST only) | This variable is set the name of the POST id variable. This setting depends on your style of integration with your ordering system. This is explained in more detail in the section "Integration". | ||
| Order Tracking Type | This variable can be set to COOKIE TRACKING, IP TRACKING, or BOTH. This decided the method used to track which affiliate has refered the customer. It is recommended that you select Both. Cookie tracking is useful for tracking the referring affiliate days, or even months after, but not all browsers accept cookies. IP tracking is useful if the customers browser will not accept cookies, but is not good for tracking over days or months, as most surfers do not use a fix IP address. Selecting Both will favour cookies, but check the IP logs if no cookie is found. This is explained in more detail in the section "Features Explained". | ||
| Secure cookie tracking required | This variable can be set to YES or NO. Only set to YES if instructed to do so in the section "Integration". | ||
| Secure URL | This variable is only applicable if "Secure cookie tracking required" is set to YES. It's value is the URL of the folder where the files click.cgi and click2.cgi. No trailing slash. Examples are "httpS://www.yourhostsdomain.com/yourusername/cgi-bin/affiliate" NOT "httpS://www.yourhostsdomain.com/yourusername/cgi-bin/affiliate/". | ||
| PayPal multiple domain cookie tracking required | This variable can be set to YES or NO. Only set to YES if instructed to do so by our support department. | ||
| PayPalClick URL | This variable is only applicable if "PayPal multiple domain cookie tracking required" is set to YES. It's value is the URL of the folder where the first paypalclick.cgi file is installed. No trailing slash. Examples are "http://www.yourhostsdomain.com/cgi-bin/affiliate" NOT "http://www.yourhostsdomain.com/cgi-bin/affiliate/". | ||
| Block invalid domains on sales tracking? | This variable can be set to YES or NO. Default is YES. This is the error you get when an order comes through, and AllAffiliatePro cannot find the URL where the order call came from. This warning is in place to stop hackers from calling the sales tracking script with fake orders and only allow calls from your card processor/shopping cart. If you keep getting this error when testing sales tracking without it displaying a domain to add to your valid domain list, you probably have security software on your computer which is blocking your referring URL data. Try setting this to NO and putting through an order. | ||
| Add non affiliate sales to an affiliates account? | Non affiliate sales can be attributed to an affiliates account. | ||
| Affiliate Username (only if above selected) | Make sure the affiliate username matches correctly, case sensitive. | ||
| Add non tier new affiliates to an affiliates tier? | New affiliates not referred by anyone can be attributed to an affiliates tier. | ||
| Affiliate Username (only if above selected) | Make sure the affiliate username matches correctly, case sensitive. | ||
| Use Customer DataBase | Customer IDs can be tracked on sales. Then if they return to order later the referring affiliate still gets commission even if the customer wiped their cookies and changed IP. | ||
| Wipe Customers from DataBase after commission period | It's generally a good idea to wipe this information. On a busy site the tracked customer list can get very long. | ||
| Move repeat customer orders to site | Orders that are tracked from previous customers can be attributed to a different site. This allows you to set different commission rates on the different site. | ||
| Use ENC password for sales tracking | With this enabled a special password must be included on sales tracking, otherwise the sale will be rejected. | ||
| ENC password | Secret ENC password. | ||
| Use AdServerPlus extra advert tracking | With this enabled extra advert tracking information is recorded for the AdServerPlus. You must have the AdServerPlus installed to use this feature. | ||
| AdServer program folder URL | URL to where the AdServerPlus is installed. | ||
| AdServer tracking password | Password for AdServerPlus tracking. | ||
| Limit the number of affiliates one can refer | This option will limit the number affiliates that any affiliate can have on the tier beneith them. | ||
| Setup Details | |||
| Sale only stats? | With this enabled affiliates will not be able to see any click statistics and instead be taken straight to the sales info page. | ||
| Sensible usernames? | With this enabled usernames are limited to the characters a-z0-9_ | ||
| CRON username | Cron is used for part automation of recurring billing, it's protected by a username and password. | ||
| CRON password | Cron is used for part automation of recurring billing, it's protected by a username and password. | ||
| Extra Fields 1 to 4 | You can input the names on the extra fields if you intend to use them. | ||
| Next Results link HTML code | This is the HTML code that will be displayed if there are more affiliate statistics results than set in Affiliate Statistics results per page. The URL must be set to "::url::", apart from that you can use whatever code you want. Examples are "<a href="::url::">Next results</a>" or "<a href="::url::"><b>Next results</b></a>". | ||
| Japanese support | Enable Japanese character support with jcode.pl? | ||
| Session Timeout | Session timeout in minutes. | ||
| Error Handling | |||
| Invalid affiliate username warning on sales? |
This variable can be set to YES or NO. Default is YES. This is the error you get when an order comes through, and AllAffiliatePro cannot find the affiliates username to add the commission. This warning is in place to help you debug problems in setting up order tracking with your card processor/shopping cart. Once affiliate sales are being recorded properly then you should set this variable to NO, to prevent repeated warnings for non affiliate orders. | ||
| Missing referring URL warning on clicks? |
This variable can be set to YES or NO. Default is YES. This is the error an affilate gets when they don't link correctly from a html page, (i.e. inputting their linking code directly into their browser address bar). When set to YES clicks that get this warning are not tracked to the affiliates account. When set to NO the warning is not displayed and clicks are tracked to the affiliates account although the referring URL information is "". Resulting in odd referrer statistics. | ||
| Invalid referring URL on sales? | This variables can be set to YES or NO. Default if YES. This is the error which is displayed when a sale is logged but no domain can be found for calling the script. This is either because the script is being called directly or the customer has software hiding their referring URL. If you have confirmed that sales are being tracked then you should det this to NO. | ||
| Enable accuracy tracker for HTTP_REFERER | Turning on the accuracy tracker saves each time the HTTP_REFERER is blocked, and each time it is available. These stats can be viewed from the management area. | ||
| Enable accuracy tracker for Cookies | Turning on the accuracy tracker saves each time the HTTP_COOKIE is blocked, and each time it is available. These stats can be viewed from the management area. | ||
| Reset Accuracy statistics | Reset accuracy statistics to 0. | ||
There are also extra cgi scripts included such as index.cgi, index.php, index.asp, paypalclick.cgi, click.cgi and click2.cgi. Which require special editing and configuration. Some of these files are specific to the setup of Pay Per Sale affiliate programs, and are described in detail in the section 'Integration'.
Please continue to the next section Features Explained