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Manage Your Affiliates

manage your affiliatesEasily set up affiliates signup form, or even a signup mini-site with more information about your program. After the signup, affiliates get access to their own control panel where they get promo tools, banners, links and see their statistics.

You as a merchant can manage your affiliates in your own control panel, where you can review and approve/decline your partners, watch their performance and communicate with them.

  • Unlimited affiliates (max 50 in Starter edition)
  • Fully configurable affiliate control panel
  • Configurable signup form
  • Signup mini-site (optional)
  • Manual or automatic new affiliates approval
  • Add/edit/delete affiliates
  • Import/export affiliates in CSV file
  • Powerful searching and filtering
  • Unlimited affiliate tiers
  • Various plugins to extend affiliate functionality

Set up Commissions and Promo Materials

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PAP allows very flexible setup of commissions. You can create unlimited number of campaigns, each with different commission settings (per click, per sale, etc.) and amounts.

Fixed and percentage, multi tier, recurring – all commission possibilities are supported.

Promo materials include image banners, text links, Flash banners, HTML banners, etc. etc., all these can be defined and managed through your control panel.

  • Unlimited campaigns & commission settings
  • Unlimited banners & promo materials
  • Commission groups – possibility to define different commissions for different affiliates
  • Public & Private campaigns (Pro edition)
  • Create / Edit / Approve / Decline or Delete affiliate commissions
  • Detailed information about referral in every tracked commission
  • CPM commissions (Pro edition)
  • Per Click commissions
  • Per Sale commissions – flat rate or percentage
  • Per Lead commissions – flat rate or percentage
  • Per Action, Per “Anything” commissions (Pro edition)
  • Multi tier commissions – unlimited tiers
  • Recurring commissions (Pro edition)
  • Recurring commissions support – weekly, monthly, quarterly, biannually, yearly period (Pro edition)
  • PayPal recurring payments support (Pro edition)
  • Signup bonus, Per Referral commissions (Pro edition)
  • Image banners, Text links, Flash banners, HTML banners, Viral PDFs, Promo emails
  • Affiliate needs only to Copy & Paste banner code
  • Banner rotators (Pro edition)
  • Customizable banner formats
  • Possibility to hide banners from affiliate

track-affiliatesTrack Referrals and Sales in Real Time

PAP uses very advanced tracking that ensures the maximum possible reliability.
For every tracked commission it gives you a detailed information, including first and last click that led to the commission, IP address, page from which user came to your website, and so on, all in real time.

  • Unique tracking system combining normal cookies, Flash cookies and IP address ensures maximum reliability
  • Unlimited impressions, clicks, commissions
  • Full history of all transactions
  • Configurable cookie lifetime
  • Powerful automatized Fraud Protection module
  • Detailed tracking debugging – for troubleshooting
  • Refund & Chargeback management (Pro edition)
  • Track multiple commissions in one call
  • Support for tracking in multiple currencies (Pro edition)
  • Manual or automatic commissions approval
  • Lifetime commissions (plugin)
  • GeoIP tracking (plugin)
  • Various other plugins to extend tracking

Search Engine Friendly Links

Affiliate links should be search engine friendly, otherwise their potential is wasted. With PAP, it is not a problem. You can choose from different linking types and customize the link format exactly how you like it.

Plus, our unique DirectLink technology gives you the best possible linking method – your affiliates link to your site without any additional parameters in the URL.

  • Search engine friendly links
  • Four types of links to choose
  • Customizable link formats
  • Affiliate link is clearly visible in their panel
  • DirectLink linking – with no parameters
  • Link cloaker/protection for affiliates

DirectLink Technology

DirectLink is unique feature of PAP. With DirectLink, affiliate links don’t contain any additional parameters, only address of your website. This is the most search engine friendly way of linking.

How it works? A simple description – PAP recognizes from which page the visitor came to your site. So if he came from affiliates’ site, our system knows he was referred by that affiliate.

Why it is so good? Because DirectLink links have many advantages, both for you as a merchant (SE friendliness) and also for your affiliates (link cannot be damaged, nobody knows it is affiliate link, etc.).

Commissions Payments & Invoicing

pay affiliatesPAP automatically computes earned commissions and gives you balance for each affiliate. You can pay them using ANY payment method, for example PayPal. System keeps full history of all payments for you to review.

Invoices and VAT handling are also supported (for EU merchants).

  • Fully customizable payout options allow you to support any existing payment system
  • Preconfigured options: PayPal, Moneybookers, Check, Wire transfer
  • History of all payouts
  • Easy to add new payment system
  • Export data to CSV (Excel) format
  • Support for affiliate invoices
  • Flexible VAT support for payouts, configure VAT % and computation

Keep Track of the Performance

affiliate sales chartPost Affiliate Pro gives you real-time reports of all aspects of your affiliate program, allowing you to see how well everything is performing, every day, week, month or year.

  • Rich set of reports for both affiliate and merchant
  • Quick report with daily impressions, clicks and sales
  • Trends report showing you where you are heading
  • Raw clicks report
  • Commissions report
  • Subaffiliate Sale statistics report
  • Banner impressions, clicks and CTR ratios
  • Top Affiliates graphical report (plugin)
  • Top Campaigns graphical report (plugin)
  • Top Referring URLs graphical report (plugin)
  • Non performing affiliates report (plugin)
  • Affiliate Summaries (plugin)

Reward The Best

With Commission Groups feature you can give higher commissions to your best affiliates. You can create different groups of affiliates, with different commissions for the same product(s).

Performance Rewards feature allows you to do this automatically – if affiliate meets certain criteria (for example level of sales) he’ll get higher commissions.

Communication with Affiliates

affiliate communicationCommunicate with your affiliates and allow them communicating to you. With PAP you can send mass emails to your affiliates, to let them know about news of your site and affiliate program.

Affiliates can also contact you conveniently using web form, or any contact method you specify.

  • Mass emails to affiliates
  • Full history of all email communication
  • Customizable email templates
  • Extensive automatic email notifications
  • You can define which notifications will be sent
  • For merchant: after sale, after affiliate signup, affiliate contact, etc.
  • For affiliate: before approval, after approval, after sale, after payout, after subaffiliate signup, after subaffiliate sale, etc.
  • Followup emails – newsletter functionality (planned plugin)

Customizable interface

interface for affiliatesAffiliate control panel interface is fully customizable. You can control virtually everything, from logo, to menu, control panel contents, design. You can even write your own pages that will be a part of your affiliate panel. Design can be also easily changed by selecting a theme.

Themes

affiliate themesFirst thing you’ll notice in the new version is it’s new revolutionary user interface. Our Blue Aero theme looks and behaves like a desktop application, with support for Start button & menu, sidebar, gadgets and quick launch.

It takes a while to get used to it, but it brings better productivity.
Of course, you can choose another theme that looks more like standard web application.

Endlessly Extendable

Plugins support makes PAP almost endlessly extendable. If you are missing some functionality, you can add it by installing a plugin from our growing plugins database.

This way you can add new ways of tracking (Lifetime commissions, Path to the sale, GeoIP tracking, Site Heat map), new banner types, commission settings (Subsequent Sales commissions), virtually anything.

We are continually developing plugins for you, and we do it also on request. If you are missing some functionality, just ask us to make a plugin.