Affiliate Program Software, Tracking, Marketing

Zip banner is special type of content, which can be offered by merchant to affiliates registered in Post Affiliate Pro.

In case you want to deliver to your affiliates hundreds of customized files for each affiliate in easy way, zip banner is exactly feature you need.

In zip file you can store files of any type (images, binary documents, text documents, etc.), but just text files (html, txt, etc...) can be customized with affiliate values. Inside text files zipped in your zip banner you can use all affiliate variables (following are just example variables):

{$firstname} - First Name
{$lastname} - Last Name
{$username} - Username
{$password} - Password
{$ip} - IP
{$parentuserid} - Parent affiliate
{$refid} - Referral ID
{$data1} - Web Url
{$data2} - Company name
{$data3} - Street
{$data4} - City
{$data5} - State
{$data6} - Country
{$data7} - Zipcode
{$data8} - Phone
{$data9} - Fax
{$bannerid} - Banner Id
{$channelid} - Channel Id
{$targeturl} - Target URL
{$targeturl_encoded} - Encoded target URL
{$impression_track} - Impression track

Imagine following case study:

- you would like to distribute to your affiliates product list from your shop
- only work of your affiliates should be to copy content of HTML file you will give them and paste it into their website
- you need, that html file distributed in zip file will be customized for each affiliate (e.g. with correct affiliate link or name of affiliate)
- together with list of products in HTML you need to distribute also images of your products

In case you want to make it as easy as possible for your affiliates, you will use in such case Zip Banner feature, zip all images and html files into one big zip file and upload it in Post Affiliate Pro.
Your affiliates will login to Post Affiliate Pro, download prepared zip banner and unzip it on their server. They will get complete catalog of your products with images and what is most important, they will not need to customize html files with their affiliate links. Each product link will contain correct affiliate link of affiliate, which downloaded zip banner.

See our technical documentation in knowledge base for more details. Knowledge base explains how to activate this feature and use in your installation of Post Affiliate Pro.

You can watch detailed statistics about each banner created in Post Affiliate Pro. You can compare different types of banners side by side or analyze, which types of banners are more effective in your affiliate program.