It’s the fourth day of an even month again, and once again it’s time for a fresh stable release of AlterCPA. Welcome to the stage, shining in the spotlight — AlterCPA 19! The last TEEN version — after this, it’s serious MILFs only! This release brings you logistics, cost accounting, dropshipping, subid, and a bunch of nice little extras!
Full-featured logistics is back in AlterCPA’s built-in CRM. Once upon a time, back in the distant year of 2014, it already passed through these parts, but the technology of the ancients was lost without a trace. And now, seven years later, we present to you AlterCPA’s reimagined logistics core. What the new logistics can do:
- Unlimited integrations with delivery services, each with its own settings.
- Automatic parcel tracking that updates orders to buyout or return status.
- Sending orders to the logistics service’s personal account via API.
- Printing labels and shipping documents.
- Calculating parcel delivery cost and time.
- Extra fields in the order-processing form — for example, for conveniently picking a pickup point for self-pickup delivery.
At launch, we’re rolling out the main delivery services in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. Kazpost and Nova Poshta support full integration, including sending parcels and printing labels and waybills. Russian Post doesn’t send parcels to your account by itself, but it does generate all the necessary address slips for shipping and calculates delivery times. Belpochta currently only supports parcel tracking. We will definitely keep expanding the list of supported delivery services.
The order cost model has finally been polished into shape. It now includes the cost of delivery and service fees. You can configure it in the “Prices” section of the selected offer. While we were at it, we also added the ability to set delivery price by country there.
Dropshipping! It’s here! With full-featured logistics and cost accounting in place, you can now use AlterCPA as a complete dropshipping platform. The last missing piece was support for dropshipping-model payouts. Now you can separately deduct from the affiliate the service cost for accepted orders, the delivery cost for orders in transit, a double charge for returned orders, and the product cost for bought-out ones.
It turns out some teaser networks can pass the cost per click straight into the link. We couldn’t just walk past such good news, so we upgraded our CPC and ROI tracking system. An affiliate can add their teaser network’s CPC macro and specify the currency used, right in the flow settings. Don’t forget to enable CPC in the offer’s analytics settings and the traffic analysis columns in the statistics tables!
We’ve come to fully grasp that a lot of affiliates are dumber than a sack of hammers — sharp thinking just isn’t their strong suit. They simply can’t wrap their heads around our concept of “AlterCPA has no SubID, you use UTM tags instead.” The ganglion they call a brain can’t manage to swap subid for utm_term in postbacks. That’s exactly why we added support for the subid parameter in the link and {subid} in the postback.
We slightly reworked the concept of management access to the platform and cleaned up the access rights for admins and business users. From now on, admins no longer have access to analytics reports. Their main job is specifically setting up offers, sites, and the system. All analytics and finances are available specifically to business users. And the network owner still combines both of these roles.
As always, there’s no shortage of nice little extras:
- Agencies no longer have to stress about their order IDs. Just send auto as the identifier and we’ll come up with one ourselves.
- We added a little form for sending a lead manually. It’s available to everyone who can add leads via API — that’s affiliates with the corresponding checkbox enabled, and all agencies. It opens from the “Leads” section via the “Add” button.
- Call center teams now support a split by country. Handy if your call center handles several geos at once and not all operators speak the required language.
- You can finally hide old, non-working sites in offers from affiliates’ eyes. Private sites are still not on the roadmap, but at least the regular ones won’t be an eyesore anymore.
- Redirect sites now support trafficback. If traffic from a banned geo starts hitting a site, you can redirect it wherever you like — to a TDS smartlink, for example.
- The order analytics section now breaks down data by the managers affiliates are assigned to. This lets you see which manager motivates their affiliates better and attracts a higher-quality crowd of media buyers.
- You can add arbitrary links to the network’s navigation menu. Useful for linking to your side projects, FAQ, documentation, handy tools, or ads. Configured in the menu items directory.
- Admins can now manage retention periods for various logs: postbacks, API requests, integrations, errors, and admin actions. On top of that, for the fattest and most important logs, you can enable gentle optimization to reduce server load.