All the self-isolation measures in Russia are slowly winding down, and out of deep isolation emerges the stable version of AlterCPA v 3.16! This time with no holiday from the IT world to tie it to, but we’ll definitely make up for that next time. In the new version, multi-currency support, direct parking, cloaking, site archives, and a TikTok pixel are waiting for you! We’re a little ashamed of that last one, but we simply had no other choice!
Let’s start, naturally, with the biggest and most important thing. AlterCPA now supports multiple currencies for the user account. You’ll no longer have to convert every ruble payout into dollars and suffer through swings in the exchange rate of that “hard” wooden currency. Just specify the extra currencies you want user accounts generated in, and keep your books in the real currency. The accounting sections will also get every currency neatly sorted out, and in the statistics sections you’ll be able to pick whichever currency is convenient for your calculations. In payouts, you can now set not just the incoming payment currency, but also the outgoing user account that payment will be credited to. Nothing stops you from taking in and booking payments from the advertiser in euros, while paying affiliates out in dollars.
Since we now have several user accounts, we’re adding the ability to create multiple withdrawal methods for them too. And along with that, pre-moderation for user wallets. The withdrawal-processing and user-finance sections have been significantly reworked for ease of use. Both of them now have a withdrawal history. In the admin section, all withdrawals are now neatly organized by wallet type, with a refreshed, clean interface. Users can now exchange currencies internally.
With support for multiple currencies and different withdrawal methods in place, it’s time to start rolling out integrations with payment systems too. As our first integration experiment, the Capitalist service happened to fall into our hands completely by chance. When setting up withdrawal methods, you can immediately link them to one of Capitalist’s mass payout methods and get ready-made payment lists.
Among our projects, there’s an interesting open project — Belizna, aka AlterCPA White. It used to be a light, simple proxy script for creating white sites for cloaking. But we took a file to it a little and turned it into an interesting utility for direct domain parking. Combined with AlterCPA Pro, it lets you park a domain directly onto a smartlink, showing the smartlink’s content right on that domain — something we wrote about recently on our blog. Direct parking will require an extra virtual server; the details are laid out in the documentation.
We’ve also refined the cloaking built into AlterCPA to the point where you can actually use it for more than just experimenting. We’ve equipped it with smart blacklists and additional algorithms for analyzing visits and building blacklists on the fly. Going forward, we plan to keep developing this area by integrating with other cloaking solutions, so you’ll be able to combine AlterCPA’s blazing-fast filters with other cloakers’ extensive blacklists.
To make fans of third-party cloaking software happy, we taught AlterCPA to hand affiliates ready-made site archives with the lead-sending code already built right in. The archive, naturally, isn’t generated automatically — you first need to upload it into the system. But for admins’ convenience, we’ve also whipped up a utility that will try its hardest to turn an existing site into a good, ready-made archive. Just don’t forget to take a file to it yourself before you actually use it.
Besides all the serious seriousness, there’s also a couple of small niceties:
- In the system settings, you can now change the interval for checking orders that are out for delivery. You no longer have to wait a full day between checks — set the interval to as little as one hour and speed up the export for courier deliveries.
- At registration on your network, you can now enable the latest version of reCAPTCHA, which annoys real people the least while still making life plenty difficult for bots.
- Offers now support a working model we’ve dubbed Cash-on-Return. The gist of it: orders in both the buyout and the return status count as paid. Combined with different payouts per status, you can pay affiliates for a buyout and penalize them for an order that wasn’t redeemed.
- When an admin views an offer, two handy buttons have been added — a pop-up statistics window and an offer settings editor. A small thing, but a nice and convenient one.
- You can now add a TikTok tracking code on your sites. Who knew there was even money to be made in that network for degenerates?
Meanwhile, the stable branch of AlterCPA has moved up to version 3.16 with a nice round build 1111, and on the quiet we’ve also launched our hundredth network running on AlterCPA — a real anniversary!