Those who have seen the new Post Affiliate Pro 4 as we have it set up are super impressed.
One of the big network marketing leaders we have (200,000+ downline) describes it as the best system he has seen anywhere.
George Notaras, www.leisurenwealth.com
Learn More About The Post Affiliate Pro System
What Does it Do?
Post Affiliate Pro runs your entire affiliate program from top to bottom, with the exception of processing the financial transactions. However most payment processors and shopping carts can be fully integrated with Post Affiliate Pro.
How Can it Help Your Business?
In order to run your own affiliate program, you will need to reward your affiliates for referred sales, leads, and clicks. Post Affiliate Pro is intuitive, fast, effective, and infinitely expandable, so it will grow with you.
Post Affiliate Pro will automate your entire affiliate program. It is a great tool to recruit and manage your affiliates. Each affiliate will be given a selection of marketing and promotional tools to promote your business. Also, it will track your affiliate's referrals, commissions, record payouts, and much more.
Who Can Use It?
Any merchant or business who wants to start a successful affiliate program can benefit from Post Affiliate Pro. Managing and tracking your affiliates in Post Affiliate Pro is effortless, because Post Affiliate Pro performs the majority of the tasks automatically.
How Does it Work?
The flow chart below displays the way Post Affiliate Pro software works.
Take a Tour to Learn About All of the Features
Why Affiliate Marketing?
An affiliate program is an essential marketing tool for every online business.
It is one of the most effective and least expensive ways to achieve higher targeted traffic, and increase sales.
Your affiliate program = More Traffic, More Sales and Greater Search Engine Optimization.
Affiliate marketing is an essential and fair sales tool, because you pay per performance. Instead of paying for advertising which will not guarantee any sales, merchants utilize an affiliate program pay commissions only when the promotion results in an actual sale.
More Traffic, More Sales
When your affiliates promote your site, your traffic will increase and more visitors interested in your products will click through to your website. Increased traffic from multiple sources generates higher SEO. Higher SEO equates to increased sales opportunities.
Increased Search Engine Optimization
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, improving your SEO. Incoming links are one of the most important factors in achieving higher rankings within search engines.
Our unique DirectLink technology provides the best possible linking method, enabling the affiliate link to your site without any additional parameters in the URL.
Boost your Online Presence
With Post Affiliate Pro, your products and services will be displayed, advertised, and reviewed on hundreds of your affiliates' pages. This will positively impact your online presence.
Why Choose Post Affiliate Pro 4?
Post Affiliate Pro 4 is our new generation affiliate software. Post Affiliate Pro 4, built on a new engine, sets the benchmark for affiliate software. It offers high scope tracking reliability, and endless extendibility with plugins and search engine friendly linking.
How Post Affiliate Pro Can Help Your Business
Post Affiliate Pro is built on proven, robust technology that is used by thousands of merchants world-wide. Post Affiliate Pro is program-specific for our affiliate software, so it offers features that are internally complex, and not comparable to the simplistic built-in scripts other programs offer. With Post Affiliate Pro, you can start your affiliate program in minutes, and feel confident that you are using the best tool available for your needs.
Key Merchant Features
Easy installation
Post Affiliate Pro software is easy to install and use. After you complete your purchase an email with your purchase confirmation containing the download information will be sent to you. To install, simply extract the files and upload the contents to your website and start the web based Installation Wizard. In 5 simple steps your installation will be complete and ready to use. If you need help, we can perform the installation for you, at no charge.
Flexibility
Post Affiliate Pro is the most flexible system on the marketallowing for elaborate customization:
- Design: Select your theme and customize your templates
- Commission structures: Define commission settings using an unlimited number of tiers. Additional commissions options can be added using plugins
- Configurable payouts: Choose the payment dates, payout minimums, and payout gateways, (e.g. PayPal, Wire Transfer, or Check.)
- Affiliate dashboard: Manage the content. The affiliate panel menu is entirely configurable. You can add new sections and even your own pages with content or links to external pages, videos, etc.
Extendibility
Post Affiliate Pro is incredibly expandable. If you need additional functions, you may add them using plugins. Creatively add new ways of tracking (Lifetime commissions, GeoIP tracking, Split Commissions) new banner types, commission settings (Subsequent Sales commissions) virtually anything. We are developing plugins for Post Affiliate Pro; we even honor requests when possible. If you are missing a specific function, consult with us on developing a solution.
We are continually developing plugins for Post Affiliate Pro; we honor requests, when possible. If you are missing a specific function, please contact us about developing a solution for your needs.
Search Engine Friendly Links
With Post Affiliate Pro, your affiliate links can be SEO friendly. Customize the link format exactly the way you like it; choose from different linking formats:
Standard (redirect)
New style (URL parameters)
New style (Anchor links)
SEO links (with mod rewrite)
DirectLink (no parameters)
Post Affiliate Pro's extraordinary DirectLink technology offers the best possible linking method - your affiliates link to your site without any additional parameters in the URL.
Advanced Tracking Technology
Post Affiliate Pro uses a combination of Flash cookies, standard cookies, and IP address for tracking affiliate referrals. This technology, pioneered by Quality Unit, is by far, the most advanced tracking method available. Offering absolute reliability, Post Affiliate Pro tracking will ensure that your affiliates referrals are tracked accurately, generating trust in your program.
Post Affiliate Pro Will Grow With You
Post Affiliate Pro was designed in such a way that it can be easily upgraded or extended. If more functions are needed in the future, or your traffic increases, you can upgrade to a higher version, install a plugin, or contact us to create a custom solution for your needs.
Real Time Reporting
All data (impressions, clicks, sales, commissions) are tracked, computed, and displayed in real time, with zero delay. You will always be able to obtain an accurate snapshot of your affiliate program’s performance.
Community of Users
Join our community of merchants on our forum, Facebook and website. You can find answers to your questions, exchange ideas, share valuable tips, request new features, and even promote your affiliate program.
Full Integration (optional service)
Our knowledge base and documentation contains a step-by-step description of the integration process. However, if you are not a technical ace, need to save time, or use a non-standard payment system, we offer professional integration services.
Key Features: The Affiliate's Viewpoint
Easy to Use Control Panel
Affiliates can check their stats, sales, or get promotional and training materials.
Integrated Affiliate Link Cloaker
Post Affiliate Pro uses a combination of Flash cookies, standard cookies, and IP address for tracking affiliate referrals. This technology, pioneered by Quality Unit, is by far, the most advanced tracking method available. Offering absolute reliability, PAPro tracking will ensure that affiliates referrals are tracked accurately.
Channels and Sub-Id Tracking
This powerful feature allows affiliates to create advertising channels, and determine which channels bring the best results for the same banner. This helps the affiliate accurately and easily find their best performing channels.
Rich Selection of Banners
Aside from standard banners and text links, PAPro supports Flash banners, HTML banners, promotional emails, and also supports viral PDF e-books.
DirectLink Linking
How can you get web surfers to click on your affiliate links? An affiliate link in a blog or review site can set off alarms for visitors; they are afraid to go to an advertising link for many reasons. There are even browser plugins to automatically remove affiliate links. How can you alleviate their fear to click on the affiliate links? By using DirectLinks the affiliate links will not be recognized as being promotional in nature.
Lifetime Commissions (optional plugin)
Lifetime commissions guarantee your affiliates that they will receive commissions for every future purchase from a customer they once referred. This is a rare offering and a big motivational tool for any affiliate.
Compatibility and Requirements
Server Requirements
Post Affiliate Pro will run on any 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
- php sessions enabled
PHP4 is not supported anymore ! - MySql 4.1.x or higher
Recommended is Mysql 5.1 – In the case of high loads in a database, it’s 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, Linux, 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 MOST merchant accounts, payment gateways, shopping carts, and membership systems.
A complete list of all integration methods can be found directly in the merchant panel in your installation (Menu Tools -> Integration -> Sale/Lead Integration) or on our Addons web page.
Below are examples of the most common payment systems compatible with Post Affiliate Pro:
What is Shopping Cart Integration?
Integration is a way to connect the affiliate system to your current website, shopping cart, or payment gateway, in a way that the affiliate system will be notified about purchases. When notified, the affiliate system registers the sale, finds the referring affiliate (if any,) and credits the appropriate commission for them.
Integration usually means adding only a few lines of code into your pages. Everything you need to do for integration is described in detail in the documentation and Integration Wizard inside the application.
You can find a description of all integration methods here.
Post Affiliate Pro Alert addon
New! Post Affiliate Pro Alert is an add-on for Post Affiliate Pro - a Windows systray application notifies you and your affiliates about new incoming commissions, new affiliate signups, and news generated by your affiliate program.
Post Affiliate Pro Alert is a valuable tool for both merchants and affiliates, displaying updates on transactions and activity in real time, and offering a link to log in to check your affiliate control panel with one mouse click.