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
  

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

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.

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

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

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

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...

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.
  
  

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
  

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)
  

version 1.2.1

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

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