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Have you ever wanted to host your own affiliate program? Post Affiliate Pro is software created by a company called Quality Unit. We will do our best to fully outline the benefits of this robust program. We have implement PAP into all of our sites. It allows us to completely control our affiliate program without having to pay any fee to sites like ClickBank, PayDotCom and such.

Saving fees paid to 3rd parties is not the only advantage, you also can build tons of links pointing to your site thus building your PageRank. Sites like ClickBank format all of their links similar to http://AFFILIATE.PUBLISHER.hop.clickbank.net. Notice that the affiliate link points to ClickBank, not your site. PAP will be hosted on your domain and all links from your affiliates will point from their site directly to yours. Post Affiliate Pro also allows your affiliates to display their affiliate links in many different ways.

Standard (redirect)		http://www.yoursite.com/affiliate/scripts/t.php?a_aid=1&a_bid=2
New style (URL parameters)		http://www.yoursite.com/?a_aid=1&a_bid=2
SEO links (with mod rewrite)		http://www.yoursite.com/1/2.html
DirectLink (no parameters)		http://www.yoursite.com/

Did you notice the DirectLink…. there’s no parameter or test after the .com/. How can Post Affiliate Pro do this? Their technology detects the domain that the incoming came from and marks the visit as that from an affiliate, thus giving them credit from the sale. Any potential affiliate will look at this as gold, as it will give their referrals the feeling that they are not being “sold” on your product.

This is the basic process that your affiliates’ clients will go through.

Post Affiliate Pro cannot be easier to install. Once you download it, simply upload the files and refer to the installation guide. If that’s not easy enough… they also offer to install it for FREE!!

• 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
• …We dont have enough room to add every benefit.

You will be able to provide your affiliates all of the promotion material through your control panel. This can be image ads, test links or any other promotional information.

• Unlimited campaigns and commission settings
• Unlimited banners and 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

Create invoices and commission reports.

• 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

All data can be tracked in real time, which includes impressions, clicks, sales and commissions so you will always have the most up-to-date information.

• 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

All of the information and affiliate tracking is made possible by flash cookie, standard cookies and IP tracking. IP tracking is the most secure way to insure the proper affiliate get paid for the sale. PAP integrates with nearly every major payment processing engine including PayPal, WorldPay, Pay Systems, SecureNetShop, PSGate, SunShop, SWREG, Xcart, osCommerce, ZenCart, MIVA, ccBill, 2co, CartManager, VirtuMart, Sphere, ClickCartPro, mambo-PHP Shop, ShopSite, StormPay, YahooStore, 1ShoppingCart and aMember. This list is continuously being updated see the most recent list by clicking the image below.

• 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)

Communicate with your affiliates.

• 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)

They also offer PAP Alert Add-On which is a desktop application that alerts you when you have a signup, sale, commission payout etc. Here is a full list of all available Quality Unit product plugins.

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