Complete affiliate management solution
Post Affiliate Pro 4 is a new generation affiliate software to power your affiliate program. Easily set up and manage your affiliate program, recruite affiliates, give them promotial tools, track their referrals and much more.
Learn more about Post Affiliate Pro system
What does it do
In a nutshell PAP runs your affiliate program from top to bottom with the exception of the actual processing of the financial transactions (PAP can be integrated with most of the payment processors and shopping carts).
How can it help me
If you want to start your own affiliate program, and you want to reward your affiliates for referred sales, leads or clicks, PAP is the right tool for you. It is intuitive, fast and effective, and endlessly extendable, so it can grow with you.
PAP will automate your whole affiliate program. It will help you recruit and manage your affiliates, give them a selection of marketing and promotional tools to promote your business, track their referrals and commissions, keep track of payouts, and much more.
Who can use it
Any merchant or business who wants to start his/her own affiliate program. Managing and tracking your affiliates in PAP is easy and simple with PAP automatizing most of the tasks.
How it works
The diagram below shows typical flow of sales and the role of affiliate tracking software.
Take a tour to learn about all features.
Why affiliate marketing
Affiliate program is an essential marketing tool for every online business
It is one of the best and cheapest ways to achieve higher targeted traffic and increase sales.
Your affiliate program = More Traffic, More Sales and Better Search Engine Ranking.
Affiliate marketing is very effective solution, because you pay per performance. Instead of paying for advertising, merchants using affiliate program pay commissions only when promotion results in an actual sale.
More Traffic and Sales
When your affiliates start to promote your affiliate links, more visitors that are interested in your products will click on your website. This creates big amount of traffic, which results into more sales.
Better Search Engine Ranking
By building your network of affiliates, more and more affiliates will place your web site links on their web pages. This results in an increased number of links pointing to your web site, thus improving your position in search engines.
Our unique DirectLink technology gives you the best possible linking method - your affiliates link to your site without any additional parameters in the URL.
Boost to the Online Presence
With affiliate program, your products/services will be displayed, advertised and reviewed on tens and houndreds of pages of your affiliates. This will naturally have very good impact on your online presence. More people will know about you and more visitors will come to your website.
Why to choose Post Affiliate Pro 4
It is build on a new engine 4, which is the reason why we call it a new generation affiliate software. Post Affiliate Pro 4 is a technological leader and sets the new level for affiliate software. It brings the best possible tracking reliability, endless extendability with plugins and search engine friendly linking.
How can PAP help you
PAP is build on proven, robust technology that is used by thousands of merchants around the world. It’s main and only function is to power your affiliate program, so it has features that none of the simplistic build-in scripts can have. With PAP you can start your affiliate program in minutes, and you can be sure that you have the best tool for it.
Key features from merchant's point of view
Easy installation
Our software is easy to install and use. You will receive an email with download information immediately after purchase. To install it, you just have to upload the files on yur server and start our web based Installation Wizard. With only 5 simple steps, anybody can do it. Or, if you wish, we’ll install it for you for free.
Customizability
PAP is the most flexible system on the market, it allows you to change:
- Design (look & feel) - by choosing your theme or customizing the templates
- Commission structures - you can define any commission settings, with unlimited number of tiers. Additional commissions options can be added by plugins
- Payouts - they are fully configurable. You can choose the payment dates, payout minimums, payout gateways (for example PayPal, Wire Transfer, Cheque)
- Affiliate panel - manage the whole content. You can reorganize the affiliate panel menu, add new sections, and even add your own pages with content or links to external pages, videos, etc.
Extendability
PAP is almost endlessly extendable. If you are missing some functionality, you can add it by plugin. This way you can add new ways of tracking (Lifetime commissions, GeoIP tracking, Path to the sale, Site Heatmap), new banner types, commission settings (Subsequent Sales commissions), virtually anything.
We are continually developing plugins for you, and we do it also on request. If you are missing some functinality, just ask us to make a plugin.
Search Engine friendly links
With PAP, your affiliate links can be SEO friendly. You can customize the link format exactly how you like it, and choose from differect linking types:
Standard (redirect)
New style (URL parameters)
New style (Anchor links)
SEO links (with mod rewrite)
DirectLink (no parameters)
Our unique DirectLink technology gives you the best possible linking method - your affiliates link to your site without any additional parameters in the URL.
Advanced tracking technology
PAP uses a combination of Flash cookies, standard cookies and IP address for tracking the affiliate referrals. Technology pioneered by us, it is simply the most advanced tracking method available, and it gives you the maximum possible reliability. Your affiliates will be sure that their referrals are tracked correctly and that they can trust your program.
It can grow with you
PAP is made in a way that it can be easily upgraded or extended. If you'll need more functionality in the future, or you'll need to handle bigger traffic, you can upgrade to a higher version, install a plugin, or contact us to address the issue.
Real time reporting
All data (impressions, clicks, sales, commissions) are tracked, computed and displayed realtime with no delay. Hence, you will receive the most accurate picture of your affiliate program’s performance
Community of users
join the community of merchants on our forum and websites. You can find answers to your questions, share the ideas, request new features and even promote your affiliate program there.
Full integration (optional service)
Our knowledgebase and documentation contains step-by-step description of integration process. However, if you are not technically proficient, or you want to save your time, or you use some non-standard payment system, you can order professional integration from us.
Key features from affiliate's point of view
Easy to use control panel
where affiliates can check their stats, sales, get promotion and training materials.
Integrated affiliate link cloaker
PAP uses a combination of Flash cookies, standard cookies and IP address for tracking the affiliate referrals. Technology pioneered by us, it is simply the most advanced tracking method available, and it gives you the maximum possible reliability. Your affiliates will be sure that their referrals are tracked correctly and that they can trust your program.
Channels and SubId tracking
this is powerful feature that allows affiliates to create advertising channels, and watch which channels bring the best results for the same banner. Thus, they can improve their promotion efforts.
Rich selection of banners
except standard banners and text links, PAP supports Flash banners, HTML banners, promotional emails, and it has also support for viral PDF e-books.
DirectLink linking
many people are not so keen clicking on a link they recognize as affiliate link. If affiliates use affiliate links in their blog or review site, visitors will know that they earn commissions for the promoted products, and they would less likely believe in the review and click on the link.
If they'll use DirectLinks nobody will be able to recognize they are promoting your products.
Lifetime commissions (optional plugin)
lifetime commissions guarantee your affiliates that they will receive commissions for every future purchase of customer they once referred. It is a big motivation point for any affiliate.
I can honestly say that I am thrilled that I purchased this software
I own one of the most popular and successful hypnosis web sites on the Internet. So over the years I’ve purchased a lot of software that was supposed to make my life easier. Unfortunately in most cases, the software just didn’t work as advertised, and the tech support ranged between poor and non-existent.
When I decided to add an affiliate program to my site, I did a lot of research on the software available and I found Post Affiliate Pro. I read a lot of the comments on this forum. And quite frankly, I was a little concerned because a lot of them were quite negative. But having been highly involved with computers and software for the past 26 years, my hunch was that the real problem was that these people who were complaining so loudly were simply NOT following directions. So I purchased PAP.
I can honestly say that I am thrilled that I purchased this software, because the only problems that I’ve had were caused my my own failure to set things up correctly.
PAP’s tech support has done a great job! They’ve gone out of their way repeatedly to help me get PAP up and running correctly. Even after the 30 day return period expired, PAP’s tech support has continued to be there in a timely manner to answer questions and help me in any way that I’ve asked.
I highly recommend PAP, both because it is a great piece of software, but even more because their tech support is fantastic.
Alan B. Densky, CH, Neuro-VISION Appetite & Smoking Control Centers
Compatibility & requirements
Server requirements
PAP will run on every web hosting that supports PHP 5 and MySql.
- PHP5 (min version 5.2.0)
- with extensions mysql, gd2, iconv, mbstring,
- recommended memory limit minimum 16MB,
- recommended max execution time minimum 30 seconds
- switched on php session
PHP4 is not supported anymore ! - MySql 4.1.x or higher
Recommended is Mysql 5.1 - in case of high loads in database is possible to add partitioning of tables in version 5.1 or higher - Web server Apache, IIS or any other, which supports PHP
- Operating system any Unix like, Windows or Mac (basically all operating systems are supported if operating system supports installation of web servers)
- Disk space - 200 MB (recommended)
- SSL - it is supported so if you own SSL certificate you can use https://
Compatibility with shopping carts and payment systems
Post Affiliate Pro integrates with nearly ALL merchant accounts, payment gateways, shopping carts and membership systems.
Complete list of all integration methods you can find directly in merchant panel of your installation (Menu Tools -> Integration -> Sale/Lead Integration) or on our Addons web.
Below are examples of most common payment systems compatible with PAP:
What shopping cart integration means
Integration is a way to connect the affiliate system to your current website, shopping cart or payment gateway in a way that affiliate system will be notified about purchases. When notified, affiliate system registers the sale, finds referring affiliate (if any) and creates appropriate commission for him.
Integration usually means adding only few lines of code into your pages. Everything you need to do is described in details in the documentation and Integration Wizard inside the application.
You can find description of all integration methods here.
The products deliver more than what is promised
I have been using Quality unit products for the past 3 years now. I have licensed Post Affiliate Pro, Support Centre, Live Agent and Post Member Pro. All these products are of very high value for me for the reason that the products deliver more than what is promised. USP of Quality Unit products are the regular upgrade. I had in fact purchased PAP 3 and I got a free upgrade to PAP 4. PAP 4 is a great and unique tool. API feature of PAP has let me write a plugin for Wordpress for my need. Support center is a great tool to manage customers.
I have also written reviews on my blog www.kisaso.com/best-affiliate-management-software/ last year.
Name : Kishore Asokan
free.homejob.in/free-home-jobs-affiliate-program/
PAP Alert addon
New! PAP Alert is addon for Post Affiliate Pro - a Windows systray application notifies you and your affiliates about the new commissions, affiliate signups and news generated by your affiliate program.
It is useful for both merchants and affiliates, displaying new commissions with all the details, and allowing you to log in to your affiliate control panel with one mouse click.
Cost $50
PAP Alert details page
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