We built and we built, and at last, we built it! Our beloved AlterCPA has reached stable version 3.12, and one of its new features came as a surprise even to me, the platform’s lead developer! But first things first. So what’s new waiting for you in this release?
The first pleasant surprise was the mobile version. We all know perfectly well that an AlterCPA-based CPA network and a mobile version are incompatible by definition – there’s no way to cram those enormously wide stats tables onto a narrow phone screen. But we did everything we could so the mobile version of AlterCPA wouldn’t make you recoil. If your filters suddenly vanished after the update, remember – Shift+F5 and Cmd+Shift+R save the day!
The staff management sections also got a thorough combing-over, both within a company and across the network as a whole. We’ve stopped administrators from shooting themselves in the knee — you can no longer pull off risky moves with users, like sneaking an ordinary affiliate into an agency. Safety first!
And in case one of your administrators decides to screw up, every move is now on the record. The system now has an admin action log that tracks practically any change made to the system’s entities.
And those entities keep multiplying, shamelessly ignoring every principle behind Occam’s razor. You can finally set up a list of withdrawal methods for affiliates. Right now withdrawal methods are nothing more than a plain list of options, but in the next version we’ll cook up something with payment-service integration.
Integration with external offers and services can now boast support for iframe pixels and tracking codes. Though they’ll work just as easily on system sites too. For how to set up your own tracking code on your sites – check the documentation.
Documentation for companies, in turn, now includes a description of the stats and analytics export API. Want to pull financial data from every system involved in your business? From now on, AlterCPA’s income and expenses are right there in plain sight, broken down by offer, date, geo, and any other parameters you need.
And now, time for the cherry on top. It looks like we’ve added our own built-in cloaking solution to AlterCPA. Out of nowhere. It’s just that the lead developer, meaning me, got a little lost in thought one weekend and wrote up the first drafts of a cloaker. Just under five thousand lines of code in three days. By accident. Could happen to anyone. The cloaker itself is still in its infancy, but we’re planning to develop it further.
On top of that, we’ve made a few small improvements to our handy mini-CMS for cloaking white pages. You can read about it and grab a copy here: gitlab.com/altervision/altercpa-white – that’s a far better deal than the built-in white-page solutions offered by today’s cloaking products.