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The user interface here is indeed much faster than the release candidate. Very well done! Overall, I'm finding MORE features than I expected to find in an "express" version. In fact, I'm quite surprised to see how many features are included in this "stripped down" version of PAP. I found a bug when adding commissions. When trying to add ".25" to the per-click commissions setting, I got a long string of error messages, basically saying my entry was not a number. I had to add a zero "0.25" to get the commission added. Minor thing, but you should probably be aware of it. In the "Send Email" screen, there is a link to define a new "affiliate filter", yet when clicked, it brings up the affiliate management window, which has no clear option to define a new filter. Otherwise, I'm VERY impressed!
AlanT: one of the reason why we rewrite all from scratch is that we are able to add new features quickly with perfect code quality (and therefore less buggy). We plan to add additional features to PAX, but keep it simple...
I have a question about the Viral PDFs. As far as I have seen it works like this: You write something in the editor, and PAX automatically makes a pdf out of the text. I guess that PAX includes the ref-link. How does it, with a variable? However, my expectations to a viral-pdf would be different. I would make really good pdfs, which can´t be done with just a HTML-Editor. PDFs, that are based on good DTP and are optimized well, done by some grafic-experts and so on. And THIS PDF I would like to offer my affiliates. There is just a need to put the ref-link inside of that pdf. Well, sure, this is much more then a light-version could do. And I also would not expect it from the professional-version, it could be for example a module which is charged extra. Is there any way to do it like this: The PDF is made with Adobe. I put in a variable there and PAX/PAP/the module searches for this variable and places the link there. An example: In the pdf I include a link www.mydomain.com?aid=[xxxxxx] and another link called www.mydomain.com/product_detail?aid=[xxxxxx]. I put the pdf in PAX as a viral pdf. When an affiliate subscribes to this campaign / downloads this pdf, pax just searches for the string ?aid=[xxxxxx] and puts in there the ref-id from the affiliate. This means: Even the link can be the same, the variable is only for the ref-id. Could something like this work? If it would work and you are not going to implement it ... what would you charge if I want to have it developed as a module? Best wishes, Julian!
Julian, I feel the same way regarding viral PDFs -- it's important to product professional documents with page headers and footers and so forth. What I use at this time is a product called ViralPDF, which was created to run on Windows systems. I would also love to see this built into PAP so affiliates could simply download and go. One alternative would be to create an affiliate link to the PDF stored on your server, so the affiliate only has to post a link to the PDF. While this doesn't provide the viral advantages for the affiliate, it's even easier than uploading a PDF to their own server. For those affiliates willing to do the work of uploading the PDF to their server, branding a PDF isn't much extra work. However, the same truth remains - the easier we can make things for our affiliates, the better. This could be a plugin. As such, I'd gladly pay $50 for the plugin.
Well ... the download-Option isn´t "Viral". The real "Viral" thing happenes when the PDF can be shared with eMails. This for the individual Link in the PDF is needet. But as I said, I don´t expect that function in a software for a few hundred Dollars. PAP/PAX is great, and so I join you and put another 50$ in the bowl for this module. Whoever wants to join us please feel free! Could this be extendet as a "Viral Media Module"? I am not sure if it is possible, how many media-types can be marked with a link? Files containing movies, a format with youtube-connections, Power-Point-Presentations and so on? Would be nice to have a whole "Media-Management-Software", where the Merchant can upload different kinds of media, even whole html-webpages or php-webpages, that affiliates can simply download and use ... the ref-link is attached automatically. Nice little dream. ;-) Best wishes, Julian!
--> What I use at this time is a product called ViralPDF, which was created --> to run on Windows systems. I just had a look on that software. Nice. Imagine, this software as a plugin for pax. Would be nice. ;-) Best wishes, Julian!
Great! Could you please improve the generated HTML and XHTML code for banners, text links, tracking images? 1. Don't use border="0", use <style="border:0" instead. 2. Don't use <img src="" WIDTH="" HEIGHT=""/>, use <img src="" width="" height="" /> instead. 3. Don't use <br/>, use <br /> instead.
Actually, the {$width} {$height} variables in the templates should return the numbers only, leaving the actual HTML code to the merchant. The same should be true with ANY HTML - don't hard-code it into the software, but expose it in a template for the webmaster to adjust as desired.
If the HTML/XHTML code is valid, then it isn't a problem that it is hardcoded. But right now the code could be improved (very easily).
Hi all, I changed XHTML generation according to Bence requirements. You should see it when we'll update the demo. As for viral PDFs - unfortunately in PHP we don't have all the possibilities of desktop program like ViralPDF. But I'll think about how to improve it or integrade ViralPDF into PAX/PAP. As for the link for affiliate to download PDF instead of saving it to his own server, we'll add it.
Thanks Mark, you're a champ! Actually, the primary thing that needs to be available to produce what I would call a professional PDF, would be some way to control pagination within the document, and some way to add headers and footers to the pages. If headers and footers could be defined separately, and a code implemented to mark page breaks, that would be enough for me in this case. If I need anything more, I can always create a PDF for use with ViralPDF and give my affiliates the source file and brander and have them brand it themselves. However, if it's possible to insert codes into a PDF and have PAP/PAX replace the codes with the affiliate's information, that would be extremely cool! And while I wasn't asking for a new feature (only referring to the dynamic link generator in PAP3), the fact you're still responding to such things is awesome.
> As for viral PDFs - unfortunately in PHP we don’t have all the > possibilities of desktop program like ViralPDF. But I’ll think about how > to improve it or integrade ViralPDF into PAX/PAP. I guess this is nececcary. And ... I would NOT implement the actual Viral-PDF-functionality. It is just not your usual Level of quality. I was so hot on it, when I saw the function, and so dissapointed, when I saw, that it isjust a very simple "HTML to PDF converter". Isn´t there a way, where the PDF can be created with another software and you would simply change the Ref-ID of the pdf? In that case I can use any PDF-Creator, and you would only have to search the string with the ref-code and exchange it? That is all I would need, and this would be an unbelievable great Feature, that I have never seen in any Affiliate-System. Any of the Affiliates would then love to just share the pdf, ´cause they know, even when the pdf was sent around through lots of other eMail-Accounts, it still carries theire Ref-Code. There is no need for me as the merchant, to have all the functionality. My most wanted thing is "Make it easy for the affiliates, ´cause they bring the money". With the viral-pdf which can put in the ref-code, any user, who has an eMail-Account, has a great way of marketing, even without a website. Imagine, how many PDFs are being sent around, like the words of the Dalai Lama or all the photo-pdfs ... mostly comming from users with no Internet-experiance and no website. When they can simply log in, then download a PDF and earning money by sharing that ... great !!! This could be also work with other software-parts: Power-Point-Presentations, Movies (Sorenson Squeese has a way to have a "redirect to an URL" at the end of a movie), all kind of things to share. Even with sofware like little exe-files, like shareware-versions and so on. Thes could be a complete module and be charged with up to 500 Dollars ... I would pay it! Best wishes, Ju lian!
>Isn´t there a way, where the PDF can be created with another software and you >would simply change the Ref-ID of the pdf? Exactly, it is relative easy to add this feature. I'm reporting this as planed feature, later we can add additional media parsers/replacers. thanks for feedback
Why release a new version of PAP, when you don't give adequate support for the current PAP version? We've requested 4 times to get a User Manual that included instructions on how to use the Site Replication feature of PAP, but we NEVER get a response from you!
Hi Theresa, I guess that the support has lots to do with the new pax and also that pap is nearly "outdated", because the new version is just about to be released in one month. Just as an information: The Support I got from QualityUnit is about the best support I ever had from any software-developing-company. I also experiance in the moment "a little" lag, really just a little, in my support-issues. But I take it very relaxed, ´cause they normaly do much more then I expect. Most of the informations you can get from the Knowledge-Base and in the Forum there should be a lot of users who also can assist you. The official user-manual which is in the package contains most of the features. Possibly not all ... but would you expect an "all-containing User-Manual" for Word? I think pap is just too big to have an all-including user-manual, that´s what the Knowledge-base and the Forums are great for! Best wishes, Julian!