Winter is coming! Oops, it’s already here. And along with it, the stable release of AlterCPA v.23. This release brings: new caps, a new referral program, a new traffic filter, new spend exports, new design themes, a bunch of new little things, and in general — New Year is right around the corner.
Caps
You’ve been asking us for a long time to add caps — a mechanism for counting traffic by offers, affiliates and advertisers. The first version is ready, give it a try.
- Caps count the amount of traffic factoring in the period, lead status, source, recipient, geo and offer.
- Based on a cap, you can distribute traffic across companies.
- In the management section, caps are organized by tags for easy checking of how many leads are still available.
We plan to expand and develop this mechanism in future versions, and add its support to commission payouts.
Referral program
We’ve significantly simplified working with the referral program — added a special “easy mode” for setting it up.
- Access to the referral program can be granted to all network users at once, or to specific people.
- Simplified payouts have appeared. Previously, referral commission was set up separately for every offer. Now it can be set globally, by specifying percentages of payouts and network commission.
- Simplified payouts can be set for specific users, offers, and users within an offer.
Traffic filtering
We’ve radically improved the AlterCPA One cloud traffic-filtering service and carried its useful improvements over into AlterCPA Pro’s filters.
- Simplified the filter setup interface — split it into basic and advanced settings.
- Built a generator for a ready-made filtering file. It supports five insertion methods: redirect, local file, CURL request, iframe, WordPress.
- Implemented an IP whitelist. It comes in handy for testing and analytics.
- Added summary statistics sections by date and by site.
- Wrote detailed documentation on the filter and how it works. It’s now up on the AlterCPA One website.
Spend export
We’ve added automation to the ad spend export process. Spend analysis itself has been around for a while, but it required either specifying the cost per click in the link, or using the API.
In the updated version, you can export spend without third-party “workarounds,” using the built-in ones. Just provide access credentials for the ad network, and we’ll pull everything out ourselves.
The first to get it were our favorites — the MGid teaser network and, of course, Dolphin for Facebook. Now everyone except prime-billers will be able to see their real ad spend on the world’s most popular social network.
Want us to add your favorite tool or ad network? Nothing could be easier — just send us its API documentation.
Skins
In previous versions, we added the ability to style the interface without tedious server-side tinkering. This time we’ve spruced up our standard skins and added a few new design options.
Bootstrap 3
An ancient evil has awoken! No, you haven’t gone back ten years. Yes, we decided to shake off the dust. The result is a great lightweight skin with a horizontal navigation bar. It comes with 17 design variants, including several excellent dark themes.
Brilliant
A classic interface theme with a sidebar. Very similar to plain Bootstrap. But with a sidebar. But almost Bootstrap. That’s how it is.
DiffDash
A beautiful, lightweight design option in the lightest possible finish. Great for styling to match your corporate requirements. Any accent color looks good on white.
Nice and useful improvements
Not every improvement turned out big enough to deserve its own heading, but they’re all worth a mention!
- You can connect Tilda-based sites almost like full-fledged landing pages, with tracking support and a working cart.
- A new integration method has appeared — checking statuses over a date range, ideal for working with financial and crypto offers.
- Any actions on payouts are now accompanied by an email notification. Very handy if your wife requests a payout because you forgot to lock your laptop.
- You can now include additional data columns in statistics reports. We recommend adding CPC and ROI stats there.
- For security purposes, you can enable a proxy for outgoing requests, such as postbacks and ad network statistics export.
- Automatic site archive creation now lets you insert a nice phone number input field with a country code, without jumping through hoops.
- The CRM got updated extended statuses and simplified handling of them in the order list
- Distributing orders by time got simpler — you can set a time zone and not worry about manually adjusting the clock
- Domain parking tools now integrate with the PrivateFlare site protection service. We’ll tell you what this secret product is in upcoming issues.