While chaos caused by the coronavirus reigns across the world, we’re trying to keep our composure and keep working on AlterCPA! And today, on International Affiliate Day, we present to you AlterCPA version 3.15! In this version, we took our first steps toward dropshipping and added a bunch of useful little things.
Six years after our first launch, we finally decided to rewrite the built-in CMS for landing pages and pre-landers from scratch. Of course, with backward compatibility preserved — you won’t need to redo thousands of existing sites. The new CMS’s headline feature is automatic price updates on sites. Now, any price tags you change in an offer’s or a nested product’s settings instantly update on the linked sites too.
Now that we’ve learned to update prices on sites straight from the core platform’s data, why not let affiliates set their own product prices? You can enable price-setting in the offer’s settings, and the affiliate will then be able to specify whatever prices interest them in the Flow settings. That’s essentially how dropshipping works from the affiliate’s point of view.
In an affiliate’s lead statistics, you can now show the customer’s details, an extended status, and the order contents. These are also available to resellers with extended access. Don’t forget — showing this data to the affiliate needs to be reflected in your privacy policy!
Payouts on offers got a rather interesting tool — tying them to order statuses. This lets you set up, say, an accrual scheme with an extra bonus for every redeemed order. Combined with negative payouts, this comes in handy for simulating a dropshipping-style commission.
The new on-site CMS now supports additional analytics tools. In the Flow settings, the affiliate can set a Facebook conversion ID and Google conversion data. The MailTarget counter is now available for use. The list of available analytics systems can now be configured both globally and for each individual offer.
The order and delivery analytics sections for admins got new breakdown options. When viewing statistics for a specific offer, the analytics now shows a breakdown by that offer’s goals. When viewing statistics for a country, the analytics shows a breakdown by the regions of the selected country.
The new CMS has also picked up a talent for self-monitoring. Even cooler than self-isolation! Admins got two extra sections — a full list of every site in the network with the ability to search for a site by address, and a site error log. It’ll show problems with site availability, their API, server responses, and update errors. A sort of little built-in Zabbix for every site in the network.
On top of that, the release adds a bunch of nice, useful little things
- The utilities now have a section for recalculating payouts on orders. If for some reason you’ve set up payouts incorrectly, you can recalculate them for a selected offer and company over a selected period.
- The utilities got a tool for wiping orders’ personal data in compliance with GDPR. You can clear the entire data history by phone number or email.
- Domain parking is no longer split up by site type. With the new CMS, a single domain is now parked for use with landing pages, pre-landers, and TDS all at once.
- Price tags on offers are no longer tied to a currency — now they’re set on a per-country basis. On top of that, we’ve added «Old price» and «Discount» fields, whose values you can use in the CMS on your sites.
- When working with withdrawal requests, the admin can now add comments to them. We don’t know why you’d need that, but sure, let’s have it.
- The API log now has search by error code. Now it’s a lot easier to track down problems with broken postbacks.
- Arbitrage teams got an access management tool. Now you can grant a team access to every offer in a selected category, or to a specific list of offers, without having to dig into the offer’s own settings.
Meanwhile, we congratulate all the affiliates and creators of these internets of yours on your professional holiday! We wish you a single unified browser, a gigabit channel, and the chance to shove your goddamn multi-megabyte JavaScript up your ass!