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History of changes in affiliate system.

version 3.0.8    (26 January 2007)

• 0002450: [CHANGE REQUEST] settings for affiliates - cannot overwrite cookies of others
  


• 0002440: [CHANGE REQUEST] Add ability to sort banners/links (mbebjak)
  


• 0002449: [BUG] Problem with exporting transactions
  


• 0002444: [BUG] problem with apostrofes in names
  


• 0002432: [BUG] problem editing tracking parameter desturl
  


• 0001823: [BUG] missing lang definition
  


• 0002443: [BUG] scripts/postsignup.php displays blank page
  


• 0002442: [BUG] Text and HTML E-Mails Are Showing Up in the Banners Section
  


• 0002425: [BUG] Tree of affiliates is not displayed properly when there are many tiers
  


• 0002401: [BUG] Recurring commission is not working
  

version 3.0.7    (15 December 2006)

• 0002000: [BUG] Default category for new affiliate
  


• 0001870: [BUG] affiliates in campaigns show up twice
  


• 0002329: [BUG] Problem sending mail after approving campaign
  


• 0001895: [BUG] Changes of email in settings are not saved, just after 3-4 times repeating
  


• 0001979: [BUG] Campaigns > Show Banners > fixed
  


• 0001872: [BUG] payout fields are not validating
  


• 0001951: [BUG] Payout invoice
  


• 0002314: [BUG] Summary of total approved sales in statistics count also multitier sales
  


• 0002187: [BUG] Problem with referral commissions
  


• 0002016: [BUG] Monthly reports are not sent on correct date
  


• 0002242: [BUG] Problem with paypal
  


• 0001828: [BUG] Monthly report settings
  


• 0001851: [BUG] missing tier commissions details in 3.0 version
  


• 0001931: [BUG] Clicks are showing in Transaction
  


• 0001898: [BUG] private campaign clicks are registered to affiliate who's not in this campaign
  


• 0002119: [BUG] $CLICKURL and $CLICKURL_NOTDECODED parameters were not replaced by target url
  


• 0001966: [BUG] Settings.php file by upgrade from version 2.x
  


• 0002060: [BUG] Export Affiliates to CSV not working
  


• 0002171: [BUG] data1, data2, data3 are not saved after making transaction
  


• 0002059: [BUG] Affiliates automatically get joined to hidden campaigns
  


• 0002176: [BUG] Senders in email
  


• 0002061: [BUG] Affiliates can list all campaign, incl. the ones that they do not belong to.
  


• 0002110: [CHANGE REQUEST] some person arrive to the program without sponsor i need to asign my self
  


• 0001988: [BUG] Multiple subscription payments are detected as "FRAUD"
  


• 0001962: [BUG] IE vs FF - cookies
  


• 0001954: [BUG] Flash tracking corrected
  


• 0001965: [CHANGE REQUEST] HTML banner validation
  


• 0001893: [BUG] The lower drop down selector of # of listed items does not work
  


• 0001896: [BUG] Special commissions are not comming right
  


• 0001892: [BUG] Unable to upload logo from file
  


• 0001912: [BUG] Header logo is not displayd in Darkblue style
  


• 0001937: [BUG] banner rotator error
  


• 0001863: [BUG] When you disable commissions per click, clicks are showing always in reports statistics
  


• 0001897: [BUG] After editing affiliate is changing Joined date
  


• 0001857: [BUG] Affiliates are seeing declined transactions when they shouldn't
  

version 3.0.6    (10 October 2006)

• 0001822: [BUG] Affiliate can change his parent affiliate
  


• 0001833: [BUG] error message in login form should be centered
  


• 0001809: [BUG] language constants not defined (L_G_TEXTINTHEMIDDLE and L_G_DISPLAYTEXTINTHEMIDDLE)
  


• 0001826: [BUG] iframe + click registration doesn't work
  


• 0001825: [CHANGE REQUEST] Wrong URL in scripts/signup.php
  


• 0001813: [BUG] email body contians part of email header
  


• 0001804: [BUG] Validation of graphics banners
  


• 0001803: [BUG] Subaffiliate registration
  


• 0001807: [BUG] Custom dynamic link problem fixed
  


• 0001796: [BUG] Cannot add Products to Campaigns
  


• 0001801: [BUG] Reference validation
  


• 0001797: [BUG] big gap at the top in HTML emails
  


• 0001795: [BUG] quick report not showing refund/chargeback totals
  


• 0001771: [BUG] Pay Affiliates in IE throws a javascript error
  


• 0001770: [BUG] Can't change affiliate's info
  


• 0001787: [BUG] Affiliate Name column heading is "First name" in Merchant's panel
  


• 0001736: [BUG] Dynamic link - clicks are registered for any target page
  


• 0001780: [BUG] Some typos
  


• 0001774: [BUG] Paypal payments go to wrong email address
  


• 0001778: [BUG] stormpay_subscr.php fixed
  


• 0001739: [BUG] invalid property value error when entering new skin colors
  


• 0001737: [BUG] trend graph for commission $$$ shows amounts to 10 digits
  


• 0001766: [BUG] [i] on affiliate doesnt work
  


• 0001733: [BUG] Banner&Links and Campaigns in affiliate panel disappear
  


• 0001731: [BUG] Disabled Admin level account still has access
  

version 3.0.5 - Patch 5    (4 September 2006)

• 0001655: [BUG] no icon in resources tab in blueStyle theme
  


• 0001719: [BUG] Hard-coded Text
  


• 0001722: [BUG] some constant not defined
  


• 0001723: [CHANGE REQUEST] link to banners from campaign section
  


• 0001721: [BUG] Classname QCore_EmailTemplates typo
  


• 0001714: [BUG] 'Transactions Stats' window on 'Transactions' page after deleting some transactions in merchant panel
  


• 0001708: [BUG] Campaign special per click commisions rounds to the nearest hundredth
  


• 0001648: [BUG] in Top referring URLs in affiliate panel it does not filter by affiliate
  


• 0001675: [BUG] PayPal image stops to appear in PayPal buttons after integrating with new code in special cases
  


• 0001561: [BUG] Calendar in other languages
  


• 0001643: [BUG] https installation has "This page contains both secure and unsecure data" error...
  


• 0001682: [BUG] Refund transaction error...
  


• 0001646: [BUG] campaign edit tabs not visible
  


• 0001621: [BUG] PAP: missing email templates after upgrade from 2.X
  


• 0001580: [BUG] zend-cart sale integration doesnt work because new line is missing in javascript code
  


• 0001631: [BUG] Email notifications: Invalid sale status showing in daily and weekly reports
  


• 0001627: [BUG] Rotator banners default to first elemt with rank 100
  


• 0001572: [BUG] PAP 3.0.4 db error near wd_g_messages
  


• 0001629: [BUG] Resources pages fail silently if the page is not found
  


• 0001653: [BUG] PAP: warning when clicking "Go to banners" button
  


• 0001652: [BUG] Mail Daily report
  


• 0001678: [BUG] JS error on 'Campaigns' screen in merchant panel
  


• 0001630: [BUG] SECURITY - Resources page directory traversal vulnerability
  


• 0001640: [BUG] IE-specific value for used for CSS property 'cursor'
  


• 0001634: [BUG] Affiliates referrer id issue
  


• 0001560: [BUG] Bank/Wire transfer text in Affiliate's Profile
  


• 0001642: [BUG] Rotator banners change apostrophes into quotation marks
  


• 0001579: [BUG] Headers in Resources Menu don't work as described in PDF documentation
  


• 0001645: [BUG] Invalid SQL in Top Campaigns report - also possible security issue
  


• 0001626: [BUG] Can't Change Campaign setting
  


• 0001623: [BUG] tracking improvements
  


• 0001568: [BUG] old style click tracking + new style sale tracking with paypal ipn doesnt work (mbebjak)
  


• 0001550: [BUG] Whitespace outside of closing PHP tag in included file
  

version 3.0.4 - Patch 4    (15 August 2006)
few minor bug fixes

• Affiliate Summaries report improvement
  


• Affiliate "contant us" from address fixed
  


• Daily, weekly, monthly reports fixed
  


• Declining commissions for PayPal Subscriptions fixed
  


• $Affiliate_refid replacement fixed
  


• refund/chargeback transaction fixed
  


• Multiple sale integrations on one site fixed
  

version 3.0.3 - Patch 3    (10 August 2006)
few bug fixes

• cron job error fixed
  


• mysql 3.23 minor issues
  


• some minor issues fixed
  

version 3.0.2 - Patch 2    (8 August 2006)
few bug fixes

• fixed problem with banners counting
  


• fixed problem with db errors
  


• fixed problem with commission displaying
  


• fixed problem with payouts
  


• fixed minor tracking problems
  

version 3.0.1 - Patch 1    (14 July 2006)
few bug fixes

• fixed problem with missing file paramNames.php during install
  


• fixed problem with affiliate profile editation
  


• fixed problem with using popup banners in rotators
  removed confusion and incorrect tracking, popup banners can now be rotated by rotator banner


• fixed problem asking for signup URL when merchant chosen not to display this section to affiliate
  


• removed incorrect check for banner destination URL correctness
  


• fixed bug that caused PHP warnings in Not performing affiliates report
  


• corrected problem not displaying some recurring transactions
  


• added Test message to communication settings
  YOu can now send test email to yourself to check that email settings really work


• fixed security problem caused by displaying details of referring affiliate
  in affiliate details it is now impossible to display his password


• fixed bug causing Dynamic links failure to redirect to given dynamic URL
  


• fixed problem with missing table wd_g_jobs when upgrading from version 2
  


• fixed minor security problem with SQL injection
  the description of the problem can be found here. According to our analysis, it is only a minor security risk, because to be able to do any SQL injection, user must be logged in as a merchant - and if he is a merchant, he can delete any data he want anyway.

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version 3.0.0   (29 June 2006)

General changes

• Improved UI, more help and suggestions texts added
  PAP 3 should be more user friendly and more intuitive to use


• Almost every filter, form and list was improved
  to display more information and improve data manipulation


• Optimization of old records storage
  part of DB Maintenance, allows you to highly reduce the number of transactions records without loosing the summaries.


• Improved tracking
  PAP now uses worlds-unique method of tracking using combination of 1st party, 3rd party and Flash cookies for best possible reliability. It will work even if normal cookies are blocked.


• Support for popup/popunder banners
  now you can define popup/popunder banners


• Banner rotators
  rotators are special "banners" that allow you to rotate your normal banners in random order. You can specify sub-banner weight and optimization, so it can even display most clicked banners more often.


• Added banner categories  
  Categories allow you to organize banners into groups, for example Graphics, Text links, Articles, etc.


• Two types of signup form to choose from  
  You can choose between old style signup form and automatically generated signup form


• Two skins to choose from  
  Keep the default left-menu skin or choose new cool top menu


• Improved periodic newsletters
  added new Weekly report, improved planning and sending of affiliate newsletters


• Added more information when sale/lead is registered
  you can see date of first click that led to this sale, tracking method, original referrer, etc.



Merchant panel

• New Integration Wizard  
  with Automatic Updates feature.


• Added First Steps section  
  that will guide you through configuration of your affiliate system after purchase


• Added new 'amount of total cost' condition to performance rules
  allows you to base performance rules on the sum of total cost in given period


• Refund / Chargeback management
  you can automatically create refund or chargeback commission with negative value


• Affiliates & Transactions details  
  in every place where you list affiliate or transaction there is a Details [i] button that displays detailed information about the item


• New Top campaigns report  
  displays performance of your campaigns for all types of transactions


• Improved Top affiliates report
  displays the results in much better way using 3d pie graph


• New Affiliate summaries report  
  displays summaries of impressions, clicks, sales, etc. for every affiliate. Easily sort affiliates by number of their transactions


• Improved Traffic & Sales report  
  possibility to choose between 3 types of graph (3d, column, line) All affiliates are clickable.


• Non performing affiliates  
  quickly filter out affiliates who don't perform well


• Possibility to hide banner from affiliates
  When you don't want the banner to be published, you can hide it and affiliate will not see it in his panel


• Virtual affiliates
  this type of affiliates can be used for tracking other services like Google, Yahoo, etc. Virtual affiliates can be excluded from reports to get more accurate information.



Affiliate panel

• Customizable FAQ section in affiliate panel  
  that will guide you through configuration of your affiliate system after purchase


• Affiliate link and balance
  affiliate can see his general link and balance on the top of his panel

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version 2.0.6 - Patch 6    (29 March 2006)
probably the last patch before releasing new major version

• added compatibility with MySql 5 and PHP5
  


• fixed minor security problem with SQL injection
  the description of the problem can be found here. According to our analysis, it is only a minor security risk, because to be able to do any SQL injection, user must be logged in as a merchant - and if he is a merchant, he can delete any data he want anyway.

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version 2.0.5 - Patch 5    (5 February 2006)
few minor bug fixes improvements, PHP bug workaround

• Correction of minor bug in displaying affiliate date
  


• Correction of bug which caused incorrect computation of yearly recurring commission
  


• Correction of not properly displaying mltiple commissions in aff panel
  


• Correction of not always crediting signup bonus for joining campaign
  


• PHP bug workaround which made combo boxes with list of affiliates empty in some cases
  

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version 2.0.4 - Patch 4    (6 October 2005)
few minor user interface improvements

• Corrected bug with missing $Affiliate_refid constant in Broadcast emails function
  


• Added functionality to display referring affiliate details on your page
  Full description and quick tutorial on this feature can be found here

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version 2.0.3 - Patch 3    (6 October 2005)
few minor user interface improvements

• Improved affiliates selection in all forms
  Affiliates are now sorted by status (approved, pending, declined), their surname and name. This enables to quicky find an affiliate.


• Corrected ratios in Traffic report
  Corrected computation of Sales / Clicks, Clicks / Impressions, etc. ratios.


• Only first level leads/sales used for ratios computation
  System does not display multi tier transactions in Trend graphs in Profile page and in Traffic report. This is more exact, because multi tier transactions are "virtual", derived from one basic real transaction.


• Corrected minor error in product category details
  Error caused wrong displayment of commission setting in details of product category under some special conditions.


• Corrected error with untranslated status code in sale notification email
  


• Added new constants $Affiliate_firstname, $Affiliate_lastname to email templates
  You can now use these constant for first and last name in the emails, as addition to $Affiliate_name which contain name + surname.


• Added support for constants in affiliate's Resources pages
  Allows you to use constants $Date, $Time, $Affiliate_id, $Affiliate_name, $Affiliate_firstname, $Affiliate_lastname, $Affiliate_username, $Affiliate_password, $Affiliate_company, $Affiliate_weburl, $Affiliate_street, $Affiliate_city, $Affiliate_state, $Affiliate_country, $Affiliate_zipcode, $Affiliate_phone, $Affiliate_fax, $Affiliate_taxssn in your Resources pages.
  The constants will be replaced with data of logged affiliate.


• Corrected fraud protection for leads
  Fraud protection was applied only to sales, not to leads before.


• Removed problems with quotations in banner/link format
  Now it is possible to use ', " in banner/link format.

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version 2.0.2 - Patch 2    (6 May 2005)
Update contains several error fixes in email management, product categories and reports.

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version 2.0.1 - Patch 1    (19 April 2005)
Update contains few bugfixes + license restriction and Zend encoder dependency is removed.

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version 2.0
many new features, performance improvements

• Signup bonus and referral commission
  now you can reward your affiliates for referring subaffiliates, or give them signup bonus for either joining the program or also joining the specific campaign


• New commission types
  added CPM and per lead commissions (diferentiated from per sale commission)


• Fully customizable payout options
  you can define your own payout option, with export format and format of the payment button.
  This enables you to define any payment option that exists


• Spillover forced matrix support
  allows you to organize the affiliates in the matrix to improve the marketing performance


• Multiple merchants & permissions support
  now you can create multiple merchants, and define exact permissions to every one of them. It can be used for example when you employ Affiliate manager, and you'll give him access only to some areas of the system.


• News displayed in afiliate panel
  you can communicate with your affiliates also by displaying news in their affiliate panel. Statistics on when the affiliate saw the news.


• Full history of communication
  history of all email sent (also automatic emails sent by system) and news entered.


• Customizable resources area in affiliate panel
  now you can define your own documents with tutorials, resources, promotional materials and display them on affiliate's page.


• Edit transaction option
  allows you to edit existing transactions


• If no affiliate referred, save commission to „default“ affiliate (optional)
  this function allows you to track sales that were not referred by any affiliate


• Fixed costs computation
  allows you to deduct fixed costs (like postage) from total sale before you apply percentage commission


• Saving of user defined data in transactions
  you can use them to enter additional information about the click, sale or impression


• Contact Us form in affiliate panel
  gives your affiliates a way to contact you directly


• Information about logged merchant
  on the top of the page, with conveniend editation of his profile


• Option to enable/disable click registration
  will enable you to turn off click registration, which is sometimes not important for per sale campaigns


• Customizable format of text link
  you can define your own format of text link


• Performance rewards
  allow you to move affiliate to higher (or lower) commisison category upon reaching preset number of sales, or amount of commissions.


• Improved mainpage statistics
  showing trend of the program


• General affiliate link
  is now displayed on the affiliate page. This link can be used if your affiliates don't want to use banners, or want to put links into emails, etc.


• Permanent redirects support
  you can choose between temporary (by default) or permanent redirects. Permanent redirects give major benefit for search engine optimisation


• Mass actions support
  now you can approve/decline/delete multiple affiliates or transactions at once. Greatly improves the work with teh system


• Fully customizable views for affiliates and transactions
  allow you to define your own views with only columns you want to see


• Many new settings
  
  • Number of decimal numbers displayed in reports
  • Disable overwriting the cookie (optional)


• IP address of affiliate tracked during signup

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version 1.4
contains new features, performance improvements, few bugfixes

• PayPal recurring (subscriptions) support
  support for native PayPal recurring handling


• New ratios displayed in statistics
  impressions/clicks, impressions/sales and clicks/sales


• Tracking visitors by IP address or sessions
  as a complement to cookie tracking used now


• Database backup & restore option
  it provides action to make full database backup and restore


• Dynamic links
  possibility to specify dynamic links for affiliates. It is usable for shops with many products, where affiliates can create links directly to exact product page.


• Paging in all lists
  it allows choosing records displayed per page, and move by pages


• P3P compact policy support
  P3P compact policy is policy that affects acceptance of cookies. Internet explorer with high security settings does not accept cookies from third party images (that are used on sale registration) when they don't have compact policy.
  There is be support for simple definition of compact policy for affiliate system scripts.
  


• signup sub affiliate menu disabled
  in case sub affiliates are not rewarded or not possible don't show this menu in affiliate control panel


• multi tier stats
  Don't show multi tier stats in case multi tier commissions are not used...

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version 1.3.1

• performance fix, improved impressions saving. It will greatly reduce the number of records in pa_impressions table.
  
  
• added unique impressions registration (cookie based) and statistics.
  
  
• added function to purge History log.
  
  

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version 1.3

• All settings are now configurable in the Merchant Control Panel
  
  
• Multi tier commissions functionality added
  
  • up to 10 - tier levels of commissions
    
  • affiliate can see his subaffiliates
    
  • easy to get link to signup page for recruiting new affiliates in affiliate control panel
    
  • control and restrict cross linking of affiliates in tiers (example: A -> B & B -> A)
    
  • affiliate cannot change or delete his parent affiliate after he confirmed him
    
  
  
• New types of recurring commissions
  
  • weekly
    
  • monthly
    
  • quarterly
    
  • biannually
    
  • yearly
    
  
  
• Step-by-step installation program
  
  
• Improved payout options
  
  • support for MoneyBookers MassPay payout option
    
  • improved export of payout data
    
  • added Accounting view with full history of payouts
    
  
  
• Added graphical reports
  
  • Traffic & Sales
  • Top 20 Affiliates
  • Number of affiliates in the program
  
  
• Improved email notifications
  • Added 4 new email notifications
    • after sale
    • after affiliate signup
    • after generating recurring commission
    • daily report
  • Email notifications also for affiliates
  • Improved email templates
  
  
• History & error log - support for history and logging of errors, new module that shows you all notices and errors. Improved error messages.
  
  
• Debug transactions mode allows you to debug the transactions and see what is wrong during the integration
  
  
• Support for banner/link style using two styles
  
  • new style (www.yoursite.com/?ref=XXX)
    
  • old style (www.yoursite.com/affiliate/scripts/t.php?ref=XXX)
    
  The new style can give you higher ranking in search engines
  
  
• Corrected bugs
  
  • corrected minor bugs that caused logging out from the control panel before
    
  • corrected bug when given absolute path to the export file
    
  • corrected cmputation of clickthrugh ratio when affiliate has more clicks than impressions
    
  
  
• Enhanced text reports
  
  
• Improved affiliate signup referring for affiliates
  
  
• remembering of last used filter settings
  
  
• configurable minimum payout field + merchant can switch off minimum payout option
  
  
• support for specifying list of product IDs for each product category, and option to force system to choose commissions according to the product ID
  
  
• code of banners is now displayed under the banner, not in the popup window
  
  
• display commission amounts in product category list in the merchant control panel
  
  
• possibility to create manual comission
  
  
• user can dynamically switch language during log-on
  
  
• easier to use commission settings
  

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version 1.2.2

• added support for second tier recurring commissions
  
  
• added second tier affiliate tracking even if affiliate doesn't fill ID of referring affiliate during signup.
  Now the system checks whether newly signed affiliate came to the site using banner of existing affiliate, and if yes, it will create tier relation between them
  
  
• added regular Check payout option (Payable To field + export to Excel format)
  

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version 1.2.1

• added new banner type - HTML banners
  
  
• added support for uploading image banners

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version 1.2.0

• added support for click&sale campaigns, allowing you to have commissions for both clicks and sales at the same time
  
  
• added unlimited product categories. Now you can specify different commissions for your different products or set of products.
  
  Together with unlimited affiliate commision categories for every product you can create special commissions for every combination of affiliate and product.
  
  
• added support for recurring commissions allows you to automatically reward your affiliates on a weekly or monthly basis. You can specify the date of payment either by day of month, or day of initial order.
  
  There is easy to use interface to review and manage your current recurring commissions.
  
  
• improved affiliate control panel allowing affiliates to see actual product categories with commission amounts for every category.
  
  
• improved reports for affiliates and merchants, allowing both to see all transactions summaries, paid, approved, declined and waiting for approval transactions.
  
  
• support for easier design changes (header and footer) for affiliate panel