Post Affiliate FREE
Post Affiliate FREE is free affiliate system written in PHP. It is simple and easy to use and contains the basic necessary functionality that allows you to set up and maintain your own affiliate program.
Post Affiliate is based on PHP-Affiliate, but rewritten and improved with some features, and several bug and security hole fixes. It is also easy to customize but customizations will require some PHP knowledge.
Why use an affiliate program? Having an affiliate program is one of the best and cheapest ways to increase sales and achieve higher targeted traffic. Affiliate marketing is a very effective solution, because it allows you to base advertising on a pay-per-performance model.
Features
- Per sale commissions
- Affiliate signup form
- Affiliate management - delete, reward, reset data
- Unlimited image banners
- Sales report
- Clickthroughs report
- Affiliate control panel
- Merchant control panel
Requirements
- MySQL database
- PHP version 4.1 or upper
Changelog
Changes in Post Affiliate 1.3:
- added configuration option for cookie expiration, path and domain
- corrected check1.php to not exit if no referrer is present
- added debug message option to check for errors when registering sales
- added support for more languages:
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- swedish (sve.php) by Therese S
- french (fr.php) by RW Media
- bahasa indonesia (id.php) including complete control panel by El Nino available here for download
Changes in Post Affiliate 1.2:
- corrected bug that caused that the country was not changed in user profile
- corrected small bugs when displaying text in clicks and sales page
Changes in Post Affiliate 1.1:
- corrected small bugs
- added support for more languages:
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- italian (it.php) thanks to Luca S.
- chinese (big5.php) thanks to Peter Kuo
- german (deu.php) thanks to Völlig Unerwartet
email addresses to authors of language files are in the readme.txt in program archive.
History of Post Affiliate
When I was looking for free PHP scripts for an affiliate system, I found PHP-Affiliate (version 1.2). First I wanted to just customize it and use it, but soon I realized it was a poorly written script. It was based on good ideas which can be reused, but the code had to be rewritten pretty much from scratch.
So I improved the code and corrected major security holes and other problems. It took me 2 days to come out with the first version of Post Affiliate, and this is the result.
It has the same set of features as PHP-Affiliate along with some advantages:
- it can work if register_variables is Off
- some security fixes (many of them serious)
- better basic architecture
- better logic and action flow
Post Affiliate uses exactly the same database structure as PHP-Affiliate 1.2, so you should be able to update from PHP-Affiliate to Post Affiliate only by replacing the scripts. In fact, I found few serious security holes in PHP-Affiliate v.1.2, so I highly highly recommend you upgrade.
Online Demo
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Comparison - Professional version - Post Affiliate Pro
Have you reached the limits of Post Affiliate FREE? Post Affiliate Pro is a professional version with a lot of advanced features that simplify the management of affiliate systems and give you more possibilities. It contains the functionality that makes it one of the best affiliate management systems available.
The Professional (Post Affiliate Pro) version was developed because I reached the limitations of the architecture of free version when trying to add new major features. For really serious improvements it was necessary to build a completely new system from scratch. Post Affiliate Pro is a completely new system, which does not share any code from the free version.
The Free version contains all of the basic functionality necessary to run an affiliate system, but it only has about 10-20% of the Pro version features.
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Commissions | ||
CPM commissions | - | yes |
Click commissions | - | yes |
Sale/lead commission | yes | yes |
Recurring commissions | - | yes |
multi tier commissions | - | yes |
% commissions | limited | yes |
Unlimited product categories | limited | yes |
Dynamic configuration of commission amounts | - | yes |
Full history of all transactions | - | yes |
Approvals & fraud protection | ||
Manual / automatic approval of affiliates | - | yes |
Manual / automatic approval of transactions | - | yes |
Management of transactions | - | yes |
Automatized fraud protection | - | yes |
Payouts & exports | ||
Predefined payouts by bank transfer | - | yes |
Predefined payouts by regular check | - | yes |
Predefined payouts by PayPal | - | yes |
Predefined payouts by MoneyBookers | - | yes |
Other payout options | - | yes |
Accounting view | - | yes |
Export of data | - | yes |
Communication | ||
Email notifications | - | yes |
Email to affiliate after signup | - | yes |
Customizable email templates | - | yes |
Mass emails to affiliates | - | yes |
Banners | ||
Graphical banners | yes | yes |
Text banners | - | yes |
HTML banners | - | yes |
Deep linking (banner to product page) | limited | yes |
Customizations | ||
Customizable affiliate signup page | yes | yes |
Customizable affiliate control panel | yes | yes |
Full multi-language support | yes | yes |
Reports | ||
Trends report | - | yes |
Quick report | - | yes |
Transactions | yes | yes |
Traffic & Sales | - | yes |
Top 20 affiliates | - | yes |
Total number of affiliates | - | yes |
Other | ||
Performance rewards | - | yes |
Cookie lifetime control | - | yes |
Forced affiliate matrix | - | yes |
Free installation with purchase | - | yes |
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Price | Free | |
Standalone Affiliate Software
We are sorry, but the old version 1.3 of Post Affiliate Free is no longer available for download. We stopped maintaining this version due to its old tracking technology. If you are searching for a stand-alone affiliate software, please visit the home page of Post Affiliate Pro 4 - this is our state of the art affiliate software.
Please click here to visit the Post Affiliate Pro 4 home page.
Hosted Affiliate Software
Select your hosted plan below and within 1 minute you can have your own affiliate program installed.
Free Plan
- - 10 affiliates
- - up to 1.000 tracking requests per month *
- - no extra features **
Basic
- - UNLIMITED affiliates
- - up to 500.000 tracking requests per month *
- - no extra features **
Proffesional
- - UNLIMITED affiliates
- - up to 1.000.000 tracking requests per month *
- - Some extra features included in monthly fee. Review list of features.
High Performance
- - UNLIMITED affiliates
- - up to 10.000.000 tracking requests per month *
- - All extra features included in monthly fee. Review list of features.