It’s finally happened: the calendar has flipped to a new date, and we’ve released the stable AlterCPA v.22! In this release: time zones, simpler parcel handling, new additional fields, broker traffic, buyout rate analytics by operator, product sets, and various nice little things.
Time zone support has landed in every significant part of the system:
- Users can pick a time zone that suits them in their profile. All stats and analytics reports get recalculated based on the selected time zone.
- You can also set a time zone at the level of the whole advertiser company or an individual operator team.
- The lead processing page shows the customer’s time zone. You can set the date of the next call either by the operator’s time or by the customer’s time.
We’ve had additional fields on offers for a long time, but they used to be text-only. That wasn’t always convenient. The new version adds dropdown fields, numeric fields, email fields, and fields with length and value restrictions. But the most important part — you can now upload files directly to a lead, both from the site and during manual submission.
Manual lead submission also got a serious overhaul. You can create offer sets united by a common theme and a shared lead submission form. The application gets sent to every offer in the set at once. This comes in handy when working with broker and agency traffic in the banking and financial verticals.
The CRM also got a new type of set. You can set up ready-made purchase “baskets” for offers, with a fixed composition and price tags. For example, this is handy if your product ships as a month-long course, with a discount built in for buying four cans at once.
Working with delivery services got a bit easier, because we added three small improvements:
- Parcels can now be handed off to the delivery service automatically — for example, right after confirmation. Handy if you work with a fulfillment center or a courier who picks up all the ready parcels themselves.
- For cases automation can’t handle, you can use bulk parcel sending. Just check off the orders and click “Send”. The selected orders go to the delivery service and get a tracking code.
- Once they’re sent, you can just as easily get and print the documents and labels in bulk. They’ll be bundled into a single PDF or archive.
Delivery analytics got a new version of its report. You can break down delivery performance by call center team and by the operator who confirmed the order. Handy for rewarding your best operators and catching dishonest employees who steal orders.
As always, this update has a few more nice little things:
- Added new CIS delivery services: KetLogistics and IDcourier.
- Added the ability to integrate with the Likee social network and its ad pixels.
- Reworked the API samples page inside a Flow and added a ready-made webhook link there. You can drop it into Tilda and get leads directly.
- Changed the admin home page — it now shows stats for the whole network at once.
- Tinkered with the navigation menu: it now has offer categories for quick search.
- Improved the site archive generator for affiliates and got rid of a bunch of annoying little bugs. Forgot to add new ones.
- Discovered that the maps in the call center were linking to Yandex. Fixed it to Google for most countries.
- Changed how orders work for offers that support hold. Split instant and delayed confirmation into two separate blocks.
- Gave advertisers the ability to set their own discounts and markups on orders.
- Added the ability to specify countries as a plain list of ISO codes in offer and goal settings. Seems like a small thing, but users liked it even more than the time zones.